Jennifer Kerns, Washington Times/The Blaze & Rodell Mollineau, Rokk Solutions join Thom Hartmann. The Republican party was supposed to nominate their candidate to replace John Boehner as Speaker of the House. But the party was thrown deeper into disarray when the likely nominee declared that he doesn't think he's the right man for the job.

Thom talks Kevin McCarthy’s dropping out of the race for Speaker with conservative commentator Jennifer Kerns and progressive commentator Rodell Mollineau and the latest moves to get money out of politics with Move to Amend’s David Cobb. And Thom discusses how climate change lead to the Syrian civil war in tonight’s special edition of Conversations with Great Minds with Francesco Femia, Co-Founder & Director of the Center For Climate & Security.

Hughey P. Newsome, Project 21/Move-On-Up/The Objective Citizen & Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future/The Zero Hour & Charles Sauer, The Market Institute join Thom Hartmann. Last week - the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee held another hearing about lifting the ban on exports of American oil. The ban's been in place since Gerald Ford implemented it in 1975 to protect our nation's most important strategic energy resource - oil. But now - in 2015 - domestic fracking and drilling have flooded the markets with cheap gas and oil - which has oil companies looking to sell American oil abroad. Take a look at Elizabeth Warren's analysis of this plan...

Hughey P. Newsome, Project 21/Move-On-Up/The Objective Citizen & Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future/The Zero Hour & Charles Sauer, The Market Institute join Thom Hartmann. there's less than one week until democratic front runners Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton square off in the first of six presidential debates. But it might not be talk in the debates that wins the support of rank-and-file union members - it might be a new piece of legislation. We’ll be talking about Bernie Sanders' "Workplace Democracy Act" and more