- Guests:
- Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
- Congresswoman Rosa De Laura (D-CT, 3rd District).
- Dr. Rishi Manchanda, Founding Director Social Medicine and Health Equality, St. Johns Well Child & Family Centers, Los Angeles.
- Ben Jealous, President and Chief Executive Officer of the NAACP (Ben is the youngest person to hold the office in the NAACP's 100 year history).
- Ron Pollock, Executive Director and Vice President of Families USA.
- Topics:
- "Brunch With Bernie".
- "Anything Goes Friday".
- Health care.
- RX vote campaign.
- Families USA.
- Bumper Music:
- Are You In? Incubus.
- Pocket Full Of Sunshine, Natasha Bedingfield.
- Friday On My Mind, The Easybeats.
- Magick, Ryan Adams (video).
- Crazy, Gnarls Barkley.
- One Day, Matisyahu.
- What a Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong.
- Thom live from radio row at the Families USA 2010 Conference at the Hyatt Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
- Today's newsletter has details of today's guests and links to the major stories and alerts that Thom covered in the show, plus lots more. If you haven't signed up for the free newsletter yet, please do. If you missed today's newsletter, it is in the archive.
- Quote: "The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.". -- George Eliot.
- Site: The Chilcot Inquiry.
"Our terms of reference are very broad, but the essential points, as set out by the Prime Minister and agreed by the House of Commons, are that this is an Inquiry by a committee of Privy Counsellors. It will consider the period from the summer of 2001 to the end of July 2009, embracing the run-up to the conflict in Iraq, the military action and its aftermath. We will therefore be considering the UK's involvement in Iraq, including the way decisions were made and actions taken, to establish, as accurately as possible, what happened and to identify the lessons that can be learned. Those lessons will help ensure that, if we face similar situations in future, the government of the day is best equipped to respond to those situations in the most effective manner in the best interests of the country."
- Clip: "As a matter of fact, in interviews in 1999 with respected journalist, and long time Bush family friend, Micky [David] Herskowitz, then Governor George Bush stated: ‘One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade, if I had that much capital, I’m not going to waste it. I’m going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I’m going to have a successful presidency'." Cindy Sheehan, My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings, June 16 2005.
- Article: Senate backs Bernanke for second Fed term. By Tom Braithwaite and James Politi.
"Ben Bernanke won a confirmation vote in the US Senate for another four-year term as chairman of the Federal Reserve after a debate that underscored the political and economic challenges that lie ahead.
He received the biggest show of dissent for a Fed chairman since the Senate began voting on the position more than 30 years ago - with 30 senators, Democratic and Republican, voting No and 70 voting Yes.
However, the vote was not the knife-edge that had been widely expected. President Barack Obama campaigned to secure senators' support after several Democrats came out in opposition to Mr Bernanke last week."
