John Fugelsang, host of “Tell Me Everything” on SiriusXM Insight 121, calls in at 9am EST / 6am PST for “Fridays With Fugelsang.”

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) calls in at 10am ET / 7am PT.

Alison Palmer from the band, Betty-10:30 EST / 7:30 EST.

Comedian and actor Rick Overton joins us in the Los Angeles Bureau at 11am ET / 8am PT to hang with us for the hour.

• Donald Trump just took his most commanding lead yet in a new poll-Real-estate mogul Donald Trump has opened up his lead among Republican primary voters to nearly 20 points, according to a new New York Times/CBS poll out Thursday., at 9%.

• The Citadel military college in South Carolina said on Thursday it was suspending eight cadets after photographs were posted on social media showing many of them wearing pointed white pillowcases that resembled hoods worn by the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan.

• Donald Trump continues to intimate that if he’s not treated fairly by his Republican counterparts he will run as an Independent.

• President Barack Obama’s advisers are finalizing a proposal that would expand background checks on gun sales without congressional approval.

• Connecticut would become the first U.S. state to ban the sale of guns to people on government watch lists under an executive order that Governor Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, said on Thursday he will sign.