The mainstream corporate media is delivering America right into Donald Trump's short-fingered hands and there is a reason….

David Hopkins, We Miss All the Great Parties/D Magazine joins Thom. How did the TV show Friends lead to the downfall of Western civilization? How does it celebrate anti-intellectualism?

Thom discusses the bombings in New York and New Jersey with Muslim Public Affairs Council’s Ilhan Cagri and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee’s Sue Udry and in tonight’s Daily Take Thom details how the corporate media is giving Trump the presidency. Tonight’s Progressive Roundtable discusses Clinton’s poor numbers with millennials, Obama’s suggesting sexism will hurt Clinton in November, and whether Democrats are finally coming around on the public option.

Hughey Newsome, BOLD.global/Move-On-Up & Zaid Jilani, The Intercept & Alex Pfeiffer, The Daily Caller all join Thom.President Obama is doing everything in his power to get the TPP passed before he leaves office - and he's even reached out to Ohio's Republican Governor - John Kasich. Kasich spoke at the White House daily press conference earlier today. Is Obama trying to get Trump elected?

Hughey Newsome, BOLD.global/Move-On-Up & Zaid Jilani, The Intercept & Alex Pfeiffer, The Daily Caller all join Thom. And our corporate mainstream media has allowed him to turn the 24 hour "news" networks into one big Trump Reality TV show.

If the 2016 presidential race has proven anything - it's that for Republicans - the facts simply don't matter. Since day one of his campaign - Donald Trump has been making stuff up - and he's now - according to some polls - beating Hillary Clinton - someone who's inarguably one of - if not the most - qualified person ever to run for president. This is shocking - but it should surprise absolutely no one. The Republican Paryt has been living in a world outside the bounds of reason for a long time now. What we're seeing now is just the culmination of a decades-long trend. Which raises the question - how did we get in the situation we're in right now - where one political party, the conservative one, lives in a fantasy world? Joining me now for tonight's Conversations with Great Minds is JP Bernbach - author of the new book "Beyond Reason: Debunking Conservative Lies, Delusions, and Falsehoods and What You Really Need to Know Before You Vote." JP is a board member of the Democratic Leadership for the 21st Century - a former spokesperson for the Democrats Abroad.

If the 2016 presidential race has proven anything - it's that for Republicans - the facts simply don't matter. Since day one of his campaign - Donald Trump has been making stuff up - and he's now - according to some polls - beating Hillary Clinton - someone who's inarguably one of - if not the most - qualified person ever to run for president. This is shocking - but it should surprise absolutely no one. The Republican Paryt has been living in a world outside the bounds of reason for a long time now. What we're seeing now is just the culmination of a decades-long trend. Which raises the question - how did we get in the situation we're in right now - where one political party, the conservative one, lives in a fantasy world? Joining me now for tonight's Conversations with Great Minds is JP Bernbach - author of the new book "Beyond Reason: Debunking Conservative Lies, Delusions, and Falsehoods and What You Really Need to Know Before You Vote." JP is a board member of the Democratic Leadership for the 21st Century - a former spokesperson for the Democrats Abroad.

In tonight’s Rumble Thom discusses how Trump trolled the corporate media with this birth announcement, Obama using John Kasich to sell the TPP, and the ongoing fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline. In tonight’s Conversations with Great Minds, Thom talks to Democratic strategist JP Bernbach about how Democrats can defeat the Republican lie machine.

Dr. Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research (C.E.P.R.)/Just Foreign Policy/FAILED: What the "Experts" Got Wrong about the Global Economy, joins Thom. The media has proclaimed new data about rising household income as proof that the economy is finally recovering from the great recession. But is this new data really all it's cracked up to be?

Bunny McDiarmid, Executive Director, Greenpeace International, joins Thom. Bunny McDiarmid, Executive Director, Greenpeace International, joins Thom. Earlier today President Barack Obama created the Atlantic Ocean's first United States marine monument - called the Northeast Cannons and Seamounts Marine national Monument. President Obama made the announcement at an ocean conservation meeting earlier today - shortly after he issued a proclamation protecting an area of ocean off the coast of Cape Cod with a total area roughly equal to the size of Connecticut. The move comes after a week of disturbing news about the world's oceans. One recent report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature shows that the oceans have absorbed much of the energy that's been added to Earth's atmosphere as a result of burning fossil fuels into the atmosphere. Another recent study published in "Global Biogeochemical Cycles" shows how all of the CO2 that we've dumped into the atmosphere is causing the oceans to acidify - which is having profound negative impacts on deep-sea shell-forming organisms like sea urchins and snails. And another study from Stanford University showed that larger marine animals are going extinct faster than smaller animals - marking "a pattern that is unprecedented in the history of life on Earth, and one that is likely driven by human fishing." How urgent are these threats to our oceans - and what type of efforts will it take to avoid an oceanic mass extinction event? And what will it take to go even further - to repair our ocean's ecosystems?

Bunny McDiarmid, Executive Director, Greenpeace International, joins Thom. Earlier today President Barack Obama created the Atlantic Ocean's first United States marine monument - called the Northeast Cannons and Seamounts Marine national Monument. President Obama made the announcement at an ocean conservation meeting earlier today - shortly after he issued a proclamation protecting an area of ocean off the coast of Cape Cod with a total area roughly equal to the size of Connecticut. The move comes after a week of disturbing news about the world's oceans. One recent report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature shows that the oceans have absorbed much of the energy that's been added to Earth's atmosphere as a result of burning fossil fuels into the atmosphere. Another recent study published in "Global Biogeochemical Cycles" shows how all of the CO2 that we've dumped into the atmosphere is causing the oceans to acidify - which is having profound negative impacts on deep-sea shell-forming organisms like sea urchins and snails. And another study from Stanford University showed that larger marine animals are going extinct faster than smaller animals - marking "a pattern that is unprecedented in the history of life on Earth, and one that is likely driven by human fishing." How urgent are these threats to our oceans - and what type of efforts will it take to avoid an oceanic mass extinction event? And what will it take to go even further - to repair our ocean's ecosystems?

America's Lawyer Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio/author of Law and Disorder joins Thom. The Obama administration has promised to veto a bill that would allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia. Could this prevent us from finally learning the truth about the Bush-Saudi connection?

Thom asks attorney and radio host Mike Papantonio why Obama plans to veto the 9/11 victims bill, if the positive numbers on median household income are really positive and whether Obama will pardon Edward Snowden with the Center for Economic and Policy Research’s Mark Weisbrot, and in tonight’s Conversations with Great Minds Thom discusses the sad state of our oceans with Greenpeace International’s Bunny McDiarmid.

Professor Vincent Hendricks, Center for Information and Bubble Studies (CIBS)/University of Copenhagen/INFOSTORMS joins Thom. The conventional wisdom is that social media will make our democracy freer and more informed. But is that really the case?

Larry Tye, Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon joins Thom. Almost 50 years after his death - Robert Kennedy remains an icon of American liberalism. For many people of a certain age and a certain political persuasion - he - along with his brothers John and Ted - represent everything good about about the Democratic Party and what it's meant to American society in the post World War II era. But who was the real Bobby Kennedy? Was he the man who spoke so eloquently about racial and economic justice during his tragically short 1968 presidential campaign? Or was he the guy who worked with Joseph McCarthy to go after rumored Communists? Is there a difference between the two? My next guest has tried to answer those questions - as well as others - in a fascinating new biography about Kennedy.