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Sunday June 28, 2009 in NY, DC, SF, LA.

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Combined Simulcasts:  
 "Tehran Regime Pariah" Special.   

705P Eastern Time:  John Bolton AEI, re Ayatollah Khatami's uncompromising message at Friday prayers comes as G8 ministers demand immediate end to violence: Mousavi Vows to Continue Election Protests  
 
720P Eastern Time: Marc Morano, Climate Change Depot, A landmark climate bill narrowly passed a procedural hurdle in the House, a sign that leadership may barely have enough votes for final passage later in the day. 
 
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735P Eastern Time: Roundtable, John Tamny, RealClearMarkets.com, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, Simon Constable, DowJones, Jom McTague, Barron's, re The 10 large banks that have been cleared to repay TARP funds would need to submit "a determination of fair market value" to Treasury by the end of next week if they wish to repurchase warrants.

750P Eastern Time: Continued  N.Y. Fed to Trim AIG Debt, Receive $25 Billion Stake in Two Subsidiaries The Fed is now in the insurance business ... 

805P Eastern Time: Fred Burton, Stratfor.com Iran's leaders are successfully pushing back threats to their authority, crushing street protests, pressing challengers to withdraw or to limit their objections to the disputed presidential election and restricting the main opposition leader's ability to do much more than issue statements of outrage.

820P Eastern Time: Elizabeth Williamson, Wasll Street Journal, re Scrutiny Grows Over Student Loan Perk 

835P Eastern Time:  Andrew Rice, author, "My Teeth Are Smiling But My Heart Is Sad."  Re the tradic legacy of the tyranny of Idi Amin in Uganda 1972-1979. 

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850P Eastern Time: Banafshe Zand-Bonazzi, Planet Iran, update on the suppression of the protests of the Ahmadinejad re-election. 
  
905P Eastern Time: Annette Lu, former Vice President Republic of Taiwan, re Taiwan relations with Mainland, re Taiwan the the US.

920P Eastern Time: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, collapse of relations between Tehran and the G8, breakdown in backchannel communications between Washington and Tehran, Tehran and Venezuela, what of Damascus? 

935P Eastern Time:  Roundtable.  Jodi Schneider, CQ, Margaret Hoover, FNC, Mon Charen, NRO, re   
 
950P Eastern Time: Continued, re Mark Sanford meets John Ensign mystery. 

1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution, re the suppression of dissent in Tehran and the fall of the Islamic Republic. 

1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Brian Benstock, The official name of the program is C.A.R.S. - "Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Program and our information website  is the bills name: www.ConsumerAssistanceToRecycleAndSaveProgram.org,
 
1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Diane West, DianeWest.net,. Laura Meckler, Wall Street Journal,  Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, re hralthcare legislation advances, re the climate change bill passes in the House.

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1050P: (750P Pacific Time) continued re the strange case of Mark Sanford the presidential candidate.

1105P: (805P Pacific Time):  Ardeshir Arian, Media-Without-Walls, John AVlon, DailyBeast.com, Larry Johnson, re the murder of Neda Agha-Soltan and the cover-up of the murder, re Dr. Jehazi spesak in London re the Basij shooter.

1120P: (820P Pacific Time):Continued the White House speaks more stridently all week long; holds a luau and cancels the barbecue invitation, and praises Mousavi at week's end

1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Larry Tye, author, "Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend."  

1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re NASA Delays Space Shuttle Launch. 
 
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1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Aaron Klein, re the Tehran crisis and the cut-off of funds to the terror gangs from Tehran, re hard times in Gaza and the West Bank without the Tehran dollar. 
  
1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Mary Kissel, Asia Wall Street Journal, Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, re North Korea threatens to attack the US, China cracks down on the web and dissent.

1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Amir Taheri, author, "Persian Nights: Iran Under the Khameinist Regime." 

1255P:  (950P Pacific Time): Joseph Sternberg, Europe Wall Street Journal, from Brussels, re trade retatliation between the US and China and the EU.
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Sunday June 21, 2009 in NY, DC, SF, LA.

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Combined Simulcasts:   "Whole World Is Watching Tehran" Special.  

705P Eastern Time:  Michael Ledeen, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, re the Twelver reign of terror in Tehran and the Obama administration policy  
 
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735P Eastern Time: Roundtable, John Tamny, RealClearMarkets.com, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, Ed Hayes, Dawn Kotecki, Bloomberg Record Unemployment Rates in Eight States 

750P Eastern Time: Continued  DataQuick: California Bay Area Home Sales Increase  

805P Eastern Time: Banafshe Zand-Bonnazi, Plaet Iran, Ahmad Batebi, activist, re the reign of terror in Tehran.  

820P Eastern Time: Continued with Larry Footer, re Twitter, Facebook and Google translator rearranged for Tehran protesters.; 

835P Eastern Time:  Andrew Rice, author, "My Teeth Are Smiling But My Heart Is 

850P Eastern Time: Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re NASA Delays Space Shuttle Launch. 
  
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905P Eastern Time:  Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, re Twelver reign of terror, re how the Ummah regards the Twelvers and the Iran struggles.

920P Eastern Time: Henry Miller, Hoover Institution, re WHO alert to Phase Six global pandemic H1N1, re H1N1 mutation in Sao Paolo and what it means for the fall 09?

935P Eastern Time:  Roundtable.  Jodi Schneider, CQ, James Taranto, Wall Street Journal, Diane West, DianeWest.net, re healthcare tussle in Congress, re Obama tangle with Senate coats and House costs, re Obama policy on Iran and the Hill condemnation of Twelver regime 
950P Eastern Time: Continued, re John Ensign mystery. 

1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Russ Brit, Marketwatch, at LA, re the Boeing prospects at the Paris Air Show and the C-17 plants at Long Beach, re unemployment in SoCal and California.

1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Renata Espinosa, DailyBeast.com, re Sarah Palin's large and rambunctious family, Shopping with Levi Johnston

1035P: (735P Pacific Time): John Fund, Wall Street Journal. Laura Meckler, Wall Street Journal, Jom McTague, Barron's, re the president's polling numbers, re healthcare costs balloon, re unemployment skyrockets ahead., 

1050P: (750P Pacific Time) continued re the Obama administration Tehran policy so far, re "the whole world is watching" remark by POTUS. 

1105P: (805P Pacific Time):  Ardeshir Arian, Media-Without-Walls, re reign of terror in Tehran, re the Iran expat community in Westwood, Los Angeles, re Radio Farsi 670 in LA, re the latest reports from the resistance in Tehran, Isfahan, Mashad.  

1120P: (820P Pacific Time):Continued with Larry Johnson, No Quarter, and Craig Unger, Vanity Fair re the Obama administration policy steps with reragd Tehran reign of terror. 

1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Larry Tye, author, "Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend."  

1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Daniel Taub, Bloomberg, re housing prices in Southern California rise for the first time in two years, why, what does it mean ahead? 
 
1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Stuart Woo, Wall Street Journal, California Schools' Tough Choices

U.S. Fortifies Hawaii Amid Threat

  

1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Ethan Smith, Wall Street Journal, re Michael Jackson's "Neverland," in foreclosure, now renovated for resale, and the elephants are gone.  

1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Amir Taheri, author, "Persian Nights: Iran Under the Khameinist Regime." 

1255P:  (950P Pacific Time): Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, re the Kim regime threat to launch a new ICBM at the Eastern Pacific, re SecDef Gates dispatches missile defense to Hawaii.



Sunday June 14, 2009 in NY, DC, SF, LA.

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Combined Simulcasts:   "Rx America" and "Loose Nukes" Special.  

705P Eastern Time:  Laura Meckler, Wall Street Journal, re Obama Stumps for a Public Insurance Option - Obama reiterated his support for a public health-insurance option, and said he will soon detail plans for new savings that could fund part of the expensive overhaul.

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720P Eastern Time: Laura Litvan, Bloomberg, House Democrats are weighing health care overhaul legislation that would require Americans to have health insurance, with some exceptions, according to an outline circulating in Washington.  Democrats Will Discuss Health-Care Plan as Republicans Step Up Resistance

 

735P Eastern Time: Roundtable, John Tamny, RealClearMarkets.com, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, Tom Donlon, Barron's, re Bernanke Success May Come at Cost of Congress Curbing Fed Power:  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's success in stabilizing the financial system through unprecedented use of the central bank's powers may come at the cost of Congress limiting some of that authority in the future. 

Citigroup Bailout Pays Taxpayers Three Times as Much as S&P 500:  U.S. taxpayers have reaped a 7.5 percent return on the $45 billion used to rescue Citigroup Inc., more than three times as much as if the money had been invested in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. 

750P Eastern Time:  Lehman Spars With Barclays in $6 Million Dispute Over Desks, Chairs:  Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., nine months after selling its brokerage to Barclays Plc  while in bankruptcy, is still in disputes with the British bank over who owns what, including the investment bank's own furniture.

805P Eastern Time:  Fred Burton, author, "Ghost: Confessions of a Couterterrorism Agent," re the trial of Mohammed Ghailani in New York City. 

820P Eastern Time; John Anderson, author, "Follow the Money,"  re the Torture Memos at the DOJ, re the ongoing legal maze with regard the GITMO detainees.

835P Eastern Time: Martin Anderson, Annelise Anderson, authors, "Reagan's Secret War," re the Regan search for nuclear disarmament and the end of the Cold War, June 1, 1988a. 

850P Eastern Time: Lou Ann Hammond, re Chrysler panics at the arrival of Fiat, re GM prexy from outer space.
  
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905P Eastern Time:  Evan Perez, Wall Street Journal, re Miranda Issues Cloud Gitmo Cases

A Pentagon decision to not advise Guantanamo Bay prisoners of their rights during questioning could prove a big legal obstacle.  Gitmo Detainee Pleads Not Guilty

920P Eastern Time:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re the West Bank settlements and the Obama administration, re Netanyahu's speech answering the Obama administration, re Iran Poremkin poll, re Israeli Minister Calls Iran a Threat.

935P Eastern Time:  Roundtable.  Jodi Schneider, CQ, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Mona Charen, NRO, War-Funding Bill Set for Vote After Obama Intervenes on Abuse Photo Issue:  U.S. lawmakers are set to approve a $106 billion war-spending bill after President Barack Obama said he would use "every legal and administrative remedy available" to block the release of photos of troops abusing detainees. "Negotiators from the House and Senate yesterday agreed on the compromise legislation after Obama intervened in a dispute over a Republican-backed proposal to add provisions to the bill to bar release of the photos. He wrote a letter, read aloud to negotiators considering the war bill, promising to make every effort to thwart an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit seeking to force the release of the pictures."

950P Eastern Time: Continued, re Baucus health care tax benefits unions, re Health Cost Cuts Obama outlined another $313 billion in cuts to health care spending over 10 years, largely impacting hospitals, as he hunts additional dollars to pay for expanded coverage for the uninsured

1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Jimmy Rogers, author, "A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lesson's for Life and Investing," re the financial crisis and the future of the American taxpayer.

1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Henry Miller, Hoover Institution, re WHO alert to Phase Six global pandemic H1N1, re is WHO dangerous to global health?

1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Stephen F. Cohen, author, "Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War."  Chapter 1: Bukharin's Fate. 

1050P: (750P Pacific Time) Continued, Chapter 2 and 3: The Victim's Return: Gulag Survivors Since Stalin; The Tragedy of Soviet Conservatism.

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1105P: (805P Pacific Time):  Roundtable re POTUS week,  re Iran elections.  Ahmadinejad Win a Blow to U.S.-Arab Allies  Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, Gordon Chang, Forbes.com,  Larry Johnson, No Quarter,  re North Korea provocations.  North Korea Succession.  N Korea responds to UN with nuclear threats  Will 'weaponise all plutonium'

1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Continued Mary Kissel, Asia Wall Street Journal, re President Lee of South Korea. 

1135P: (835P Pacific Time): John F. Ross, author, "War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert ROgers and the COnquest of the American Frontier," re Rogers creation of the special operations rangers during the French and Indian Wars, the battles from Lake George to Lake Champlain, the loggerheads with George Washington, the betrayal of Nathan Hale. 

1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re NASA Delays Space Shuttle Launch  A potentially dangerous hydrogen gas leak cropped up during the fueling of space shuttle Endeavour on Saturday and forced NASA to postpone the launch by at least four days.
 
1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Aaron Klein, author, "The Late Great State of Israel," re the West Bank settlements and the Obama dispute with Netanyahu.

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1220P: (920 Pacific Time):  Exeunt Evan Ramstad, Wall Street Journal, from Seoul Korea, re the Kim regime turmoil continues.

1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Tom Holland, author, "The Forge of Christendom," re the apocalyptic anxiety of the year 1000 and the Norse King Canute, Ciaro Caliph Al Hakim, and their dual imperial visions now one thousand years later still in the news. 

1255P:  (950P Pacific Time): Steve Gregory, KFI, re the turmoil at the LA Staples Center after the Laker victory in Orlando, Florida.

Sunday June 7, 2009 in NY, DC, SF, LA.

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Combined Simulcasts: "POTUS in the Great Pyramid Special."  
  

705P Eastern Time:  Louise Radnofsky, WSJ, House Lifts the Lid 
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720P Eastern Time:  Jeff Green, Bloomberg, GM Bonds Signal Market Value Topping Ford's on Federal Bailout:  General Motors Corp. bond trading shows investors are betting its government-backed bankruptcy will create a company with a higher market value than Ford Motor Co., the only major U.S. automaker to shun a federal rescue.


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735P Eastern Time: Roundtable, John Tamny, RealClearMarkets.com, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, John Anderson, author, "Follow the Money."  re Sotomayor nomination, re GM bankruptcy, re Chrysler deal, re FDIC cracks down after the fact on 19 big banks.


750P Eastern Time:  Continued, re What really happened to Bear and Lehman? re state of banks and fate of TARP money, re is Wall Street in a rally mode? Do we go positive for the year next week?

805P Eastern Time: Keith Perine CQ re Sotomayor Senators meetings, re Sotomayor Hearings Likely in July Democrats want the Senate to vote on Sotomayor before the August recess, scheduled to begin on Aug. 7. Republicans have said they want more time to prepare for her confirmation hearing.

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820P Eastern Time; Gordon Cucullu is a retired army colonel and the author of Separated at Birth: How North Korea Became the Evil Twin, re the Kim regime and the provocations.  Re GITMO: Gordon Cucullu, a retired army colonel, was so appalled by these reports that he decided to see for himself. In a series of visits he inspected every corner of the camp and interviewed dozens of personnel, from guards and interrogators to cooks and nurses. The result--coming just as the Obama administration wants to close the facility--is a riveting description of daily life for both prisoners and guards. Cucullu describes the six camps reserved for different levels of compliance, details the treatment of prisoners, and examines their experiences in detail, including the techniques used to interrogate them, the food they eat, their medical care, how they communicate with one another, and the many ingenious ways they contrive to assault and injure their guards

835P Eastern Time: Wesley Gray, author "Embedded: A Marine Corps Adviser Inside the Iraqi Army," re the author's assignment to advise an Iraqi battalion in the turmoil of Anbar Province in 2006.  

850P Eastern Time:  Continued with Wesley Gray, re the risks and lessons of the US Marines in Anbar Province during 2006 along the Euphrates River, re confronting the Sunni Arab tribes and clans with a Shia-based Iraqi army of amateurs.  

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905P Eastern Time: Melik Kaylan, Forbes,com and Wall Street Journal, re the POTUS embassy to Arabia and to Cairo, re the ambitions of the Ummah and the search for "respegnity."  Re the POTUS speech at Cairo. 

920P Eastern Time:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re POTUS confab with Faisal of Arabia, re POTUS speech and visit in Cairo, re the Obama administration policy  demand that the Netanyahu government cease development of settlements on the West Bank.

935P Eastern Time:  Roundtable.  Jodi Schneider, CQ, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Mona Charen, NRO, re the Sotomayor week of meetings with senators, re POTUS Cairo speech, re the next big adventure of Democratic healthcare.

950P Eastern Time: Continued, re Sarah Palin's unusual campaign style language.

1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Tiffany Kary, Bloomberg, Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (R), Livonia, re Chrysler's deal with Fiat paused by courts, re what does Chrusler's sale to Fiat mean for GM and unemployment in Michigan?

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1020P: (720P Pacific Time):  Laura Litvan, Bloomberg, House Democrats are weighing health care overhaul legislation that would require Americans to have health insurance, with some exceptions, according to an outline circulating in Washington.

1035P: (735P Pacific Time):  Roundtable re Afpakia and North Korea.  Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, MAry Kissel, Wall Street Journal Asia, Larry Johnson, No Quarter, re the Pakistan army offensive in Swat Valley, re North Korea provocations.  North Korea Succession. re China Tiannamen Square.

1050P: (750P Pacific Time) Continued re Robert Joseph of Bush administration recommends dumping Six-Party and appeasement and getting rough on China re cut-offs to Kim.

1105P: (805P Pacific Time):  Roundtable.  John Avlon, DailyBeast.com, Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, Jim McTague, Barron's, re POTUS in Cairo, re FDIC gets tough on Citi, re what really happened when Bear and Lehman failed, do we know?

1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Continued re the Obamicans, the GOP joins the Obama administration, re Obama worries about GITMO.

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1135P: (835P Pacific Time):  Gerald Martin, "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life," re the new biography of the now 82-year-ol Nobel Lauerate, from rural Colombia, re the rise of the LAtin American Boom writers, re "One Hundred Years of Solitude," re GCM's grandfather and grandmother as the well of magical realism.

1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," There's going to be a wedding in zero-g: re the founder of Cirque du Soleil is going to be a space tourist:  Also, Virgin Galactic has begun engine tests of SpaceShip Two's engines:

 

1205P: (905 Pacific Time): John Bolton, AEI, re North Korea and the Kim regime succession, and what it means for the provocations, re Robert Joseph recommends discarding the Six PArty Talks and pressuring China to cut off aid to the Kim regime, re the threat of the Pyongyang-Tehran axis.

1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Evan Ramstad, Wall Street Journal, from Seoul Korea, re the Kim regime succession, re the trial of the two American journalists and rumors of Al Gore to the region to negotiate the relase of Laura Ling and Euna Lee.  

1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Kate Kelly, author, "Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear  Stearns, The Toughest Firm on Wall Street," re the first failure of a New York player in the housing bubble game of 2002-2008, re the self-pity, blame-shifting, recklessness, sloppy greed, ordinary stupidity, and over-bearing self-election of men who paid themselves fortunes for trading risk and lost their sense of proportion when the music stopped.  Systemic failure is a non-confrontational way of saying that the lords of Wall Street were naked fools long enough to wreck all of us.

1255P:  (950P Pacific Time):  Exeunt re Saturn to Penske, Hummer to China.

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Sunday May 31, 2009 in NY, DC, SF, LA.

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Combined Simulcasts.    

705P Eastern Time:  Ken Jost, Congressional Quarterly, re Sotomayor nomination.

720P Eastern Time:  Michael Crittenden, Wall Street Journal, re the state of banking, thr TARP banks, the FDIC oppinion of the troubled banks.

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735P Eastern Time: Roundtable.  Laurie Meckler, Wall Street Journal, Jonathan Allen, CQ, John Tamny, RealClearMarkets.com, re Sotomayor nomination, re GM bankruptcy, re POTUS trip to Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

750P Eastern Time:  Continued, re POTUS speech in Cairo, re state of banks and fate of TARP money.

805P Eastern Time:  Ed Hayes, attorney, James Rowley, Bloomberg, re Sotomayor nomination, her Sotomayor experience in Manhattan DA, as a criminal trial judge.

820P Eastern Time: Jeff Green, Bloomberg, Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (R), Livonia, re GM bankruptcy, re unemployment and dislocation in Detroit and Michigan.

835P Eastern Time: Anne Nelson, author, "The Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler," re the artists, actors, married couples, colleagues who worked actively against the Nazi apparatus from 1933 until their dectruction by the Gestapo in 1942.

850P Eastern Time:  Continued with Anne Nelson, re John Sieg, American born German citizen who resisted Hitler while working for the Nazi machine and passing information to the British and the Russians by radio.

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905P Eastern Time:  Jeff Rosen, The New Republic, re Sotomayor nomination and the expectation of future Supreme Court decisions based upon her addition the mix.

920P Eastern Time:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re Abbas visit to POTUS at Oval Office, re Tehran sends warships to Gulf of Aden, re Tehran plot against Israeli embassy in Baku.

935P Eastern Time:  Roundtable.  Jodi Schneider, CQ, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Diana West, DianaWest.net, re Sotomayor nomination, re Republican response to Sotomayor.

950P Eastern Time: Continued, re GM bankruptcy, re Congress and the politics of the bankruptcy.

1005P: (705 P Pacific Time): Colin Levy, Wall Street Journal, re Sotomayor nominations of the Senate Judiciary Committee, re Joe Biden and his obstreperous flavor on the Senate Judiciary Committee since the 1980s. 

1020P: (720P Pacific Time):  Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan, re the GM bankruptcy and the severe unemployment in Michigan, now at 12.9 moving to as high as 20%.

1035P: (735P Pacific Time):  Roundtable re Afpakia and North Korea.  Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, Ann Marlowe, Forbes.com, Larry Johnson, No Quarter, re the Pakistan army offensive in Swat Valley, re North Korea provocations.

1050P: (750P Pacific Time) Continued re SecDef Robert Gates statement that the US will not permit North Korea to become a nuclear weapon power.

1105P: (805P Pacific Time):  Roundtable.  John Avlon, DailyBeast.com, Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, Jim McTague, Barron's, re Sotomayor and the response of the Republicans, re the Obama administration and the Sotomayor process.

1120P: (820P Pacific Time): Continued re the Republican self-destruction re the Sotomayor nomination, re the banking crisis and the obfuscations of the Treasury and FDIC.

1135P: (835P Pacific Time):  Christopher McDougall, author, "Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen," re the Aztec descendants in the Copper Canyons of Chihuahua Province, Mexico, utltra-marathons, running medecine and racing 50 miles in sandals.

1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re the Hubble rescue mission de-brief, the the Soyuz docking at ISS, re the next shuttle to ISS.

1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Aaron Klein, WND, from Jerusalem, re the dispute between the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government and the West Bank settlements, re the upcoming Obama speech in Cairo.

1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Lou Ann Hammond, Carlist.com, re GM bankrutpcy and what caused GM failure, re Chrysler failure, re Ford future.

1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Martin Wolf, Financial Times, re the financial crisis and the weak European recovery, re the reasons for prolonged Euro GDP weakness.

1250P:  (950P Pacific Time):  Evan Ramstad, Wall Street Journal, from Seoul Korea, re the North Korean threat, re the Seoul government response, re Robert Gates statement.