Evan Thomas, Being Nixon: A Man Divided joins Thom. its been over 40 years since he stepped down - and Richard Nixon is perhaps best known as a "Tricky" politician who was forced out of office after a year of investigations into the Watergate scandal. But how did a Quaker from California become one of the most controversial - and reviled - presidents in American history? I'll ask author Evan Thomas - in tonight's Conversations with Great Minds.

Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies/99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do about It, joins Thom. America's extreme income and wealth inequality has been a center point of Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential bid. And a new report shows that it's even more unequal than we had ever thought.

The Good. The Good! Imam Ibrahim Saidy. The Muslim cleric for Norway took his environmental symposiums and his monthly fasting to Paris for the COP 21 climate talks. His hope is to call attention to the problems and injustice of global warming - and he calls it a "green jihad" When he uses the word - he's using the word to mean "a struggle to do good" - which is very different than the way the word is commonly used in Western media.

Marc Morano, CFACT/Climate Depot joins Thom. One of the world's largest oil companies has been getting a lot of unwanted attention amidst revelations that the company knew about carbon's role in climate change almost 40 years ago - and did nothing. Now - Exxon is going after journalists and universities to try to silence it's critics and clean-up it's image.