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Show Notes for Thursday, June 20, 2013

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Karl Frisch of Bullfight Strategies calls in at 9am ET / 6am PT to talk about another GOP senator coming out for marriage equality

• Actor-vist Melissa Fitzgerald (“The West Wing”) joins us in the Los Angeles Bureau at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about the news of the day

cho• Actress and comedian Margaret Cho calls in at 111:30am ET / 8:30am PT to talk about the new season of “Drop Dead Diva” on Lifetime

• President Obama followed in the footsteps of past U.S. leaders with a speech on Wednesday in Berlin, where he said he would ask Russia to join the United States in slashing its supply of strategic nuclear warheads.

FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged that the bureau uses unmanned drones for surveillance on U.S. soil during testimony before a Senate Committee on Wednesday, adding that it is done in a “very, very minimal way, and very seldom.”

• A bipartisan group of Senate negotiators is expected announce today it has reached an agreement designed to bolster border security mandates in the pending immigration reform bill.

• James Gandolfini, the actor who most famously portrayed Tony Soprano on the series “The Sopranos,” has died of a suspected heart attack in Italy at age 51.