Guest: Nomi Prins author of "It Takes a Pillage."Jim Hightower says, ""Having been at Goldman Sachs, Nomi Prins knows how to read spreadsheets, knows the people, and knows Wall Street's games. Nomi knows and now Nomi tells."

Guest: Kari Chisholm of Blue Oregon

Guest: Mike Lux, President and CEO of Progressive Strategies and author of "The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be."

Guest: Roger Hickey of the Campaign for America's Future. Hickey took UC Berkley health care expert Jacob Hacker's idea for "a new public insurance pool modeled after Medicare" and went around to the community of single-payer advocates, making the case that this limited "public option" was the best they could hope for. Hickey went to all the presidential candidates, acknowledging that politically, they couldn't support single-payer, but that the "public option" would attract a real progressive constituency.

Join Tom and Art and guest Bernie Horn of Campaign for America's Future and Brad DeLong, a professor of economics at UC Berkely as we attempt to make sense out of the banking mess.Bernie Horn has worked on politics and public policy for the past 30 years as a campaign manager, political consultant, lawyer, lobbyist, communications director, and policy director. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Campaign for America's Future working on message framing and delivery. For eight years, he was Senior Director for Policy and Communications at the Center for Policy Alternatives (CPA).DeLong is chair of the Berkeley International and Area Studies Political Economy major; a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

Join Tom and Art and guest Robyn Webb on TG employment issues.

Join Tom D'Antoni and Art Levine and guests David Moberg, a senior editor of In These Times, and T. A. Frank, an Irvine Fellow at the New America Foundation and an editor of the Washington Monthly, will debate the prospects for the Employee Free Choice Act and the future of labor in an Obama presidency. Frank's article is here: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2009/0901.frank.html

Join Tom and Art and guest Steve Braun, National Security Editor of the Associated Press and author of "Merchant of Death."

Join Tom and Art and guest Cliff Schecter , a political commentator, consultant and author. His first book, The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don’t Trust Him—And Why Independents Shouldn’t was published by Polipoint Press May 1. Schecter is also a political columnist for The Guardian and regular contributor to The Huffington Post and Young Turks radio program.

Join Tom and Art and guest Salameh Nematt, International Editor of The Beast. He is in Jordan. We'll be talking about Gaza, of course, and the prospects for peace in the region under Pres. Obama