Peter Roff, U.S. News & World Report & Shelby Emmett, Project 21 & TJ Helmstetter, Progressive Change Campaign Committee joins Thom Hartmann. Republicans in Texas have introduced legislation that would restrict a person's ability to film the police. What's the motivation behind that legislation - and don't we have a right to observe police in our communities?

Peter Roff, U.S. News & World Report & Shelby Emmett, Project 21 & TJ Helmstetter, Progressive Change Campaign Committee joins Thom Hartmann. A group of unions - led by AFL-CIO - United Steelworkers - and the International Association of machinists - is suing the state of Wisconsin over its new right-to-work-for-less law. As the Guardian reports "The lawsuit argues that the new law is an unconstitutional taking of property without just compensation by, in effect, obligating unions to provide services to those who do not pay for them."

My guest for tonight's Conversations with Great Minds is one of the world's leading political scientists. Currently the Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University - Robert D. Putnam, who has been called "the most influential academic in the world." He has advised three U.S. presidents - and has won a number of distinguished awards. Professor Putnam's 2000 book Bowling Alone is considered a classic of its kind - an was a national besteller. His new book - "Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis" - is a fascinating and challenging look at our nation's deep crisis of opportunity.

My guest for tonight's Conversations with Great Minds is one of the world's leading political scientists. Currently the Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University - Robert D. Putnam, who has been called "the most influential academic in the world." He has advised three U.S. presidents - and has won a number of distinguished awards. Professor Putnam's 2000 book Bowling Alone is considered a classic of its kind - an was a national besteller. His new book - "Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis" - is a fascinating and challenging look at our nation's deep crisis of opportunity.