Thom discusses the similarities between the 1968 presidential election and the 2016 race with former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, what Hillary’s picking of Tim Kaine means with former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, and the Koch Brothers role in last week’s Republican Convention with the Center for Media and Democracy’s Lisa Graves. Tonight’s Progressive Roundtable discusses the resigning and booing of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, how the DNC voted to keep superdelegates, and why Michael Bloomberg is speaking at the DNC Convention.

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. While Trump has run a campaign based on the promise that he'll put Americans back to work by ending or renegotiating all of our disastrous trade deals - Mike Pence has made a career in Washington supporting every single one of those trade deals! Seriously - he's shown so much support for our so-called free trade deals that the Chamber of Commerce recently wrote a piece called "Mike Pence Has a Great Track Record on Trade" celebrating his support of every single trade deal that Donald Trump opposes. Back in 2001 he pushed to give "trade promotion authority" - also known as fast track authority - to George W. Bush. So - will this ticket divided be able to stand?

Benjamin Dixon, The Benjamin Dixon Show joins Thom. Milo Yiannopoulos is complaining that his ban from Twitter somehow violates his free speech. But does "free speech" really cover sexist and racist harassment?

Sam Sacks, The District Sentinel, joins Thom. When it emerged from the drafting table last week - the 2016 Republican platform was among the most extreme Republican platforms in history. Among other things - it called on public schools to teach the Bible - demanded that lawmakers use religion when making decisions about bills in Congress - and even condemned pornography as a public menace. One week later - the Republican platform is still very much the Sarah Palin on steroids document it was when it first came together. But it also now includes something surprising, something straight out of the Bernie Sanders playbook: a call to reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933.