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Joe Klein joins the panel to discuss Haley's Trump support, Alito's freak flags, and polls showing Americans are deeply misinformed about the state of the economy.

highlights / lowlights

Damon: Is the Biden Campaign Running on False Hope? (Isaac Chotiner, NYer)

Linda: Three Books to Help You Understand Nations in Transit 2024 (Freedom House)

Joseph: The U.S. assembles the pieces of a possible Gaza war endgame (David Ignatius, WaPo)

Mona: The Birth of a MAGA Conspiracy Theory (Andrew Egger, The Bulwark)

Bill: If Trump wins, what would hold him back? (Andrew Prokop, Vox)

Sarah Longwell, Chris Cillizza, Will Saletan join Mona and Bill to discuss the upcoming debates, the polls (and Biden's response to them) and how to spend a record $61 million on a Senate primary and still get trounced.

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Mona: Thousands sign petition urging canceled concerts by Israeli ensemble to go ahead in Amsterdam (Times of Israel)

Sarah: GOP Sen. Mitt Romney says Biden should have pardoned Trump (NBC)
Biden killing the presidential debate commission.

Chris: The beauty of no audience at the Presidential debate.

Bill: Can the Declaration of Independence’s Ideals Hold America Together? (Colin Woodard, Washington Monthly)

Lowlight: The reports from the battlefield in Ukraine, after the GOP delayed aid for so long.

Will: RFK Jr.’s Rich Running Mate Just Added $8 Million to His Effort. 
The hypocrisy of Congressional Republicans who voted against aid to Ukraine and Israel but lectured Biden over withholding 2,000 pound bombs for Rafah.

Gregg Nunziata joins to discuss the NY and other cases against Trump; Biden's pivot on weapons to Israel, and RFK, Jr's brain worm.

FT's Ed Luce joins the group to discuss campus protests and whether Biden is losing.

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Mona: Country Music, a film by Ken Burns

Ed: The Colombia student asking that the protestors be brought food in their encampment.

Linda: MTG's bizarre defense of her anti-Semitism vote.

Bill: Netanyahu: Israel will invade Rafah — regardless of hostage deal

Damon: The new Steve Martin documentary.

Anne Applebaum joins the panel (with Philip Bump) to discuss Ukraine's war effort, Russian disinformation, campus protests, and a change of pace for final segment.

What would you have put on the Voyager Spacecraft?

Mona: Images of human love: parents interacting with babies (joy), a dog reacting to being reunited, humans taking care of other humans with a handicap (compassion).

Damon: Holy texts of major religions, Plato's Republic, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, and the Beatles.

Philip: The vessel itself is a message, and a Haiku by Issa.

Linda:, a reproduction of Aphrodite of Knidos Sculpture by Praxiteles, Michelangelo's David, Gorecki and Beethoven.

Ben Wittes joins to discuss Iran's attack on Israel, Congress's action on Ukraine, Trump's NY trial, and the Supreme Court.