Kevin Martin, Project 21 & Chuck Rocha, Solidarity Strategies & Ashe Schow, Washington Examiner joins Thom. The truth about Nixon’s drug war is finally revealed.

Kevin Martin, Project 21 & Chuck Rocha, Solidarity Strategies & Ashe Schow, Washington Examiner joins Thom. Late Wednesday night - that state's Republican Governor Pat McCrory signed into law a nasty piece of legislation known as HB2 - which the state legislature had passed in a special session late in the evening when the news cameras had turned off and gone home. HB2 is one of - if not the most - extreme anti-LGBT laws passed yet. It actually makes it illegal for local governments to ban discrimination against LGBT citizens.

Zaid Jilani, The Intercept, joins Thom. President Obama says that calls by Republican presidential candidates to monitor Muslim communities in the U.S. are "un-American." But considering the fact that America's largest city surveilled its Muslims citizens for more than a decade after 9/11 - just how far outside the mainstream are these proposals?

Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear joins Thom. Pepco and Exelon are about to merge and create the biggest utility company in the country. But is this merger - which is being sold as a pro-consumer - actually just a glorified bailout for the nuclear industry?