• Charlie Pierce of Esquire’s Politics Blog calls in at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about how ineffective Paul Ryan is to the Romney campaign

• Col. Wayne Powell joins us in the Los Angeles Bureau at 11am ET / 8am PT to talk about his efforts to unseat Eric Cantor in Virginia’s 7th District

• Already scrambling to steady a struggling campaign, Mitt Romney confronted a new headache Monday after a video surfaced showing him telling wealthy donors that almost half of all Americans “believe they are victims” entitled to extensive government support.

• Teachers across the nation’s third-largest city will be poring over the details of a tentative contract settlement today as the clock ticks down to an afternoon meeting in which they are expected to vote whether to end a seven-day strike that has kept 350,000 students out of class.

• Mitt Romney on Monday launched a fall courtship of Hispanic voters, an increasingly important segment of the electorate, with a promise he would reform immigration laws in his first term.

• Occupy Wall Street protesters celebrated the movement’s anniversary Monday by clogging intersections in the city’s financial district, marching to the beat of drums that were a familiar refrain last year.