• DCCC Chairman Steve Israel calls in at 10am ET / 7am PT to talk about the dysfunctional and chaotic House GOP
• Sexy Liberal John Fugelsang joins us in from the NYC Bureau at 11am ET / 8am PT for another edition of Fridays With Fugelsang
• Former prosecutor Marcia Clark calls in at 11:30am ET / 8:30am PT to talk about the Zimmerman trial and her new book, KILLER AMBITION
• When jurors begin deliberating in the racially charged murder trial of George Zimmerman, they will also be able to consider a lesser charge of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin.
• House approval of a scaled-back farm bill is setting up what could be an even bigger fight over food stamps and the role of domestic food aid in the United States.
• Pilots twice called to abort the landing of Asiana Flight 214 in the last few seconds before it crashed at the San Francisco airport last weekend, federal investigators said Thursday.
• Incensed by what they call unfair blocking of executive branch nominees, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yesterday dared Republicans to keep up their objections and warning that he could change Senate rules to prohibit future nominee filibusters if necessary.