Guest host Sam Sacks is in for Thom Hartmann tonight and discusses the state of medical marijuana in America with The Marijuana Times’ Chloe Sommers and in tonight’s Daily Take Thom details the arctic carbon bomb that could lead to a planetary mass extinction event. Tonight’s Progressive Roundtable discusses Matt Lauer’s dismal performance at last night’s Presidential Forum, Jill Stein being charged for participating in the pipeline protest, and why never Trumpers are constantly stuck in elevators.

Tara Houska, Honor the Earth/Indian Country Media Network/Huffington Post/The Guardian joins Thom. Picture the scene... peaceful protesters are practicing their constitutionally guaranteed right to organize and protest when they're set upon by thugs with pepper spray and dogs who snarl at them and bite them. No - this didn't happen 50 years ago in Birmingham - Alabama. It happened over the weekend near Cannon Ball, North Dakota - where thousands of activists remain camped out in one of the largest Native American political actions in decades. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe and its allies from other indigenous nations are protesting the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. Once finished - the pipeline will bring oil almost 1200 miles from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota all the way to Illinois. The brutal scenes we saw this weekend occurred when some protesters tried to protect their sacred burial grounds and were instead attacked by oil company mercenaries. And those protestors aren't just up against the oil companies - they're also up against the courts. On Tuesday - a federal district court halted construction on some parts of the Dakota Access pipeline project - but not the areas that the Standing Rock Sioux hold sacred. The fight goes on.

Bryan Pruitt, RedState & Danielle Blevins, Freelance Reporter & Charles Sauer, The Market Institute all join Thom. Another bill to fund the fight against Zika failed in the Senate yesterday - after Republicans attached riders to fly confederate flags in VA cemeteries. So what will it take for Republicans to stop playing games with this public health crisis?

Tonight’s Rumble discusses how the media continues to be soft on Trump, Trump throwing Florida AG Pam Bondi a big party (not expecting anything in return of course), and a new study linking an increase in child asthma attacks to ozone smog resulting from oil and gas pollution. Thom discusses the latest on the North Dakota pipeline that’s destroying Native American land with Honor the Earth’s Tara Houska and in tonight’s Daily Take Thom details how the TPP will not improve our security.