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11:34

Politics Panel - GOP Still Fighting for Inequality

Jennifer Kerns, Washington Times/The Blaze & Scott Greer, The Daily Caller & Lee Camp, Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp joins Thom. It’s now been four days since the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage but some conservatives are still holding on strong to their lost cause of hatred and homophobia. Like George Wallace standing in the school doorway - they’re making a last ditch effort to block marriage equality any way they can.

57:15

Full Show 6/30/15: 41% of Americans Believe Humans Lived with Dinosaurs

Tonight’s Politics Panel discusses the GOP’s reaction to the Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage, Obama’s plan to require employers to pay more of their salaried workers overtime, and how a near majority of Americans believe we lived among the dinosaurs. In tonight’s Daily Take Thom details how investing in politicians is the most sound investment you can make.

11:26

Greece vs. Europe...Day of Destiny Approaches

Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future/The Zero Hour, joins Thom. The Greek people - who ran to their ATM machines over the weekend - will vote on Sunday whether they will accept another round of austerity. But Greece's lenders say it's a vote on whether to stay in the Eurozone.

06:44

How Scott Walker Gave $124 MILLION to His Friends

Brendan Fischer, The Center for Media & Democracy/ALEC Exposed joins Thom. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is trying to beef up his image as a governor who can get things done. But that image is now under fire after a report has implicated his administration in what could become a massive scandal. It all has to do with something called the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation - or WEDC - which was created by the Walker administration as a way a way to help boost the state's economy. The WEDC gives out contracts to companies that bring jobs to Wisconsin - but according to a new internal analysis of its practices - the WEDC awarded almost $124 million in contracts without even bothering to review them to see if they would pan out as planned. And if that wasn't bad enough - many of these contracts were apparently given to some of Scott Walker's most well-known donors - raising questions about just what the WEDC was designed to do.

07:19

Will Former A.G. Ashcroft Finally Face Justice?

Rachel Meeropol, Center for Constitutional Rights, joins Thom. A groundbreaking new ruling has - for the first time - put Bush administration officials like John Ashcroft on the hook for how they treated detainees after 9/11. The Bush administration never had to come to terms with it's war crimes. But a new court case might change all of that. Thom talks to one of the attorneys involved in this case.