Jamie Weinstein, Daily Caller & Daniel Halper, Weekly Standard join Thom Hartmann.

Thom discusses the political games Speaker John Boehner is playing in dealing with the debt ceiling negotiations and whether or not President Obama will crack under pressure and agree to a short time deadline.

CERN, Mike Lee and Bill O'Reilly.

There's a race controversy breaking out in Arkansas. It centers on what happened at a high school in the city of McGehee. McGehee Secondary School is facing a lawsuit from the parents of 18-year-old Kymberly Wimberly - after Wimberly - who had the highest GPA in her class - was denied sole valedictorian honors simply because she's an African American. Fearing that naming an African-American student valedictorian at a predominately white school could cause a "big mess" - Principal Darrell Thompson went ahead and named another student - a white student with a lower GPA - as co-valedictorian. Now - Principal Thompson - and the rest of the Arkansas school board in the area - will have some explaining to do in a court of law. Still don't think racism is alive in America? But beyond the overt racism on display in Arkansas - there's the quiet, underlying racism beneath the socioeconomics of America. According to new numbers from the Pew Research Center - the wealth gap between whites and our nation's two largest minorities -African Americans and Hispanics - has grown to disturbingly high levels. Today - white households control 20 times more wealth than African American households - and 18 times more wealth than Hispanic households. This is the greatest wealth inequality between races ever recorded in the history of this nation. So why is this happening? And what can we do about it? Joining Thom Hartmann to weigh in on these issues is Don Rojas - Executive Director of Free ...