Turn on the news these days and you're bound to hear some kind of fretting about millennials and their views on the world. Usually - the conversation revolves around questions like "why are millennials so lazy?" or "why do they spend so much time on social media?" - and while questions like that are kind of trite - they have a point. Millennials ARE different from other generations. Very - different in fact - especially when it comes to politics. My guest for tonight's Conversations with Great Minds has tried to find out why. Joining me now now is David Cahn. David is a journalist - an activist - a national leader of the Junior State of America - and an experienced campaign organizer. He also writes for the Huffington Post and along with his brother Jack - is the co-author of "When Millennials Rule: The Reshaping of America."

Thom discusses how Obama’s push of the TPP is hurting Clinton and helping Trump with the Center for Economic and Policy Research’s Mark Weisbrot, how Aetna is threatening to pullout of Obamacare if the feds oppose their merger with Humana with Physicians For a National Health Program’s Robert Zarr, and what the continued decline of pollinators will mean for our planet with actor and activist Dominic Monaghan. And in tonight’s Daily Take Thom discusses the biggest trade deal you’ve never heard of.

Dr. Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research (C.E.P.R.)/Just Foreign Policy/FAILED: What the "Experts" Got Wrong about the Global Economy, joins Thom. As Politico reports - “The White House is making an all-out push to win passage of the deal in the lame-duck session of Congress, organizing 30 events over the congressional recess to gin up support for the [TPP] The strategy is to offer support and cover to the small flock of Democrats who supported legislation to fast-track the deal and to remind wavering Republicans that they oppose it at their own peril.” So - what is Obama thinking? Does he know he’s sabotaging Clinton? Or is he so committed to the TPP that he just doesn’t care?

Sam Sacks, The District Sentinel, joins Thom. The Justice Department has announced that it will soon phase out all contracts with private prisons. This is great news - but does it go far enough to reform our broken criminal justice system?