Bryan Pruitt, RedState & Doug Christian, Political Commentator. Axios is reporting that as part of this plan 2018 budget plan Donald Trump wants to cut the Energy Department's renewable and energy efficiency program by nearly 70%. This is a strange proposal from a President who supposedly wants to create jobs. The Energy Department's renewables program generates the best bang for its buck of any federal R & D program and has played a key role in the current boom in clean energy. Renewable jobs now outnumber fossil fuel jobs 2.5 to 1 - with the solar and wind industries growing 12 times faster than the entire US economy. How is this America First?

On tonight’s Big Picture, Thom Hartmann talks with Mike Papantonio about his perspective of the administration’s possible new pick to head the FBI. They also discuss Trumps war on net-neutrality and new revelations between cancer and Monsanto’s “Roundup”.

On tonight’s Big Picture, Thom Hartmann talks with Thomas M Shapiro, Pokross Professor of Law and Social policy about income inequality, not just between the 1% and the 99, but income inequality between races. Then he sits down in a panel discussion with Charles Sauer and Julio Rivera. He talks with them about raising the 25th amendment against Donald Trump as well as a US congressman calling for the President’s impeachment. Then they talk about the ‘bots’ who have come in to defend the defenseless anti net neutrality position and New York’s attempt at a single payer health policy.

Big Picture Panel: Charles Sauer, The Market Institute & Julio Rivera, Reactionary Times/Newsmax/Right Wing News/Politichicks. With reports emerging that Donald Trump told James Comey to drop the investigation into Michael Flynn - is the president now in serious danger of being impeached?