- Producer Bill Wolff with what's on tonight's show
- Jeff Sharlet, contributing editor at Harper's Magazine, author of "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power"
- Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Magazine
- Reza Aslan, columnist, The Daily Beast, author, "How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror," and senior fellow, Orfalea Center on Global and International Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara
From the Web:
- Entire show rebooked for coverage of the passing of Walter Cronkite.
- Guests: Brian Williams, managing editor and anchor, NBC Nightly News; Dan Rather, former anchor of CBS Evening News; Tom Brokaw, former managing editor and anchor and current special correspondent for NBC Nightly News
- Producer Bill Wolff with what's on tonight's show
- Pat Buchanan, MSNBC analyst
- Jeff Sharlet, contributing editor at Harper's Magazine, author of "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power"
- Lisa Macaro, reporter, Las Vegas Sun
- James Oberg, NBC News space consultant
From the Web:
- Pat Buchanan: How to Handle Sonia
- Obama: ‘Pain of discrimination’ persists
- Harpers.org
- The Pickering complaint
- Ensign's peculiar "severance" correction
- Lisa Mascaro: Ensign’s $96,000 question: Severance pay or gift to Hamptons?
- Ensign's financial disclosure report (pdf)
- James Oberg: Shaking on space station rattles NASA
- Producer Bill Wolff with what's on tonight's show
- Jeff Sharlet, contributing editor at Harper's Magazine, author of "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power"
- Dahlia Lithwick, chief legal correspondent and senior editor for Slate.com
- Ezra Klein, blogger, Washington Post
- Mike DeGruy, shark attack survivor, filmmaker and volunteer with the Pew Environment Group
From the Web:
- Harper's Magazine
- Zach Wamp caught up in national controversy (includes audio)
- Largent says he encouraged Nevada Senator to end affair
- Pat Buchanan: How to Handle Sonia
- Slate's Dialogue on the Sotomayor Hearings
- Dahlia Lithwick: What a Waste
- CTG Athletics
- Ebbets Field Flannels
- Charities helping Iraq:
-ICRC - International Committee of the Red Cross
-IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
-Operation Give, which has its own iraqi baseball thing going on
-Doctors Without Borders | Donate - Sarah Palin: The 'Cap and Tax' Dead End
- Ezra Klein: Sarah Palin on the Water Cannon Threat
- Ezra Klein: Sarah Palin: One of Us
- Huge blob of Arctic goo floats past Slope communities
- Gawker.com: Sharkholm syndrome
- The Chap magazine
- Dahlia Lithwick, Slate.com
- Retired Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief-of-staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell
- Jon Ralston, host, Face to Face and Las Vegas Sun columnist
- Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law School professor who currently chairs the Congressional oversight panel for TARP funds
From the Web:
- Dahlia Lithwick: Honesty at Last!
- Slate's Dialogue on the Sotomayor Hearings
- Jon Ralston stands by to talk with Rachel Maddow about the John Ensign scandal.
- The State: Sanford’s office couldn't locate missing governor (includes pdf links to other Sanford docs)
- With one bat and no uniforms, Iraq's baseball team hits field
- Got a tip on how best to get equipment to the Iraqi baseball team? Rachel@msnbc.com
- Jon Ralston: Will Ensign do what’s best for his party?
- Jon Ralston on why the story is about Ensign — and his hypocrisy and lies
- Luncheon with Featured Speaker Elizabeth Warren
- The Proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency: Implications for Consumers and the FTC
- Quidditch in the rain
- Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
- Michael Isikoff, Newsweek investigative reporter and MSNBC contributor
- Dahlia Lithwick, Slate.com
From the Web:
- National Security Act of 1947 (See Sec. 118)
- Obama doesn't want to look back, but Attorney General Eric Holder may probe Bush-era torture anyway. (Referenced tonight by Michael Isikoff)
- KnoxNews: Wamp, housemates hurt by links to scandals
- Meet Jeff Sessions: clippings from his 1986 racism problem
- Dahlia Lithwick: She's come redone
- Dahlia Lithwick: Fire Proof
- Palin’s Long March to a Short-Notice Resignation (the article Rachel referred to as a "landmark of Palintology")