Pierce2• Charlie Pierce of Esquire’s Politics Blog calls in at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about Scott Walker dropping out of the GOP race

• Podcaster Jody Hamilton joins us in the Los Angeles Bureau at 11am ET / 8am PT for “Total Trollop Tuesday”

• After a dramatic fall from the top tier of Republican presidential candidates over the last several weeks, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker ended his bid for the White House Monday. Walker’s run started on July 13 and lasted 71 days.

• Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, said she’s been called Hitler, a hypocrite and a homophobe, she told ABC News today in an interview in Morehead, Kentucky.

• After a lifetime of watching the world’s most affluent and powerful nation from afar, Pope Francis will walk on U.S. soil for the first time, at the age of 78, when he arrives in Washington from Cuba this afternoon. He’s assured of a warm welcome from millions of U.S. Catholics and the non-devout.

• As Jeb Bush expanded on his support for a path to citizenship for some immigrants in a speech before the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Houston yesterday, immigration protesters cut him off with chants of “No hope without our vote!”