Horace Cooper, National Center for Public Policy Research & Alex Lawson, Social Security Works & Alex Pfeiffer, The Daily Caller all join Thom. Congresswoman Karen Bass has started a petition using the hashtag #DiagnoseTrump to have Donald Trump undergo a mental health evaluation. Bass - who was a physician assistant and a clinical instructor before she entered politics - writes in the change.org petition that “Donald Trump is dangerous for our country. His impulsiveness and lack of control over his own emotions are of concern. It is out patriotic duty to raise the question of his mental stability to be the commander in chief and leader of the free world.” And based on what we’ve seen this week - isn't it pretty clear that Congresswoman Bass has a legitimate concern?

Wendell Potter, Nation On the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It (w/Nick Penniman)/Center for Public Integrity/Center for Media and Democracy, joins Thom. The United States of America is now - for lack of a better word - the best democracy money can buy. Billionaire oligarchs like the Koch Brothers now outspend political parties - members of congress spend most of their day begging for donations instead of writing new laws - and lobbyists make millions and billions selling access to the commons. Needless to say - this is not the world our founding fathers envisioned when the declared a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people." We are now - as my guest for tonight's Conversations with Great Minds has titled his new book - A "Nation on the Take." So how did we get to this point? And how can we reform our campaign finance system to reclaim the democratic institutions our founders created?

Wendell Potter, Nation On the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It (w/Nick Penniman)/Center for Public Integrity/Center for Media and Democracy, joins Thom. The United States of America is now - for lack of a better word - the best democracy money can buy. Billionaire oligarchs like the Koch Brothers now outspend political parties - members of congress spend most of their day begging for donations instead of writing new laws - and lobbyists make millions and billions selling access to the commons. Needless to say - this is not the world our founding fathers envisioned when the declared a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people." We are now - as my guest for tonight's Conversations with Great Minds has titled his new book - A "Nation on the Take." So how did we get to this point? And how can we reform our campaign finance system to reclaim the democratic institutions our founders created?

Tony Greenhand of Albany - Oregon isn't just any old joint-rolling pot smoker. He's the world's greatest joint-rolling pot smoker!

America's Lawyer Mike Papantonio, The Ring of Fire/Law and Disorder joins Thom. The idea of a Donald Trump presidency was scary enough already - but it just got even scarier. Plus - Pap has a new book out. Law And Disorder - you can preorder now - http://amzn.to/2aUteOC

A very real threat to life on this planet is currently trapped deep under Arctic permafrost. And thanks to climate change - that permafrost is rapidly disappearing.

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. Donald Trump is a racist - a bully - and someone who appears to have very little critical knowledge about some of the most important issues facing the world these days. But he isn't wrong about everything. In fact - on some issues he's better than many Democrats. One such issue is infrastructure - something Trupm been talking about since day one of his campaign - literally.

Marianne Williamson, Tears to Triumph, joins Thom. The Pope told reporters "Terrorism grows when there is no other option, and as long as the world economy has at its center the god of money and not the person. This is fundamental terrorism, against all humanity." The Pope was responding question about the link between Islam and terrorism - which the Pope doesn't think is particular to Islam. He told the reporters - "It is not right and it is not just to say that Islam is terroristic. If I speak of Islamic violence, I should speak of Catholic violence. Not all Muslims are violent, not all Catholics are violent. In almost all religions there is always a small group of fundamentalists. One can kill with the tongue as well as the knife."

Sam Sacks, The District Sentinel, joins Thom. Recent email hacks at the DNC have raised serious security concerns and even though the federal government hasn't formally identified who was behind the hack - private security firms have jumped to blame Russia. There's not enough evidence for either side to prove either claim at this point - but Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnsons told reporters earlier today that Homeland Security is "actively thinking about election security" - and Sam Sacks at the District Sentinel reported earlier today that this could mean that voting machines around the country could soon be declared as "critical infrastructure"

Hint - The very, very ugly! Clint Eastwood. The man who played Dirty Harry has mostly laid low since his bizarre dialogue with an empty chair during the 2012 convention - but he made it clear that he's still trying to be America's racist grandpa - find out how…

Thom discusses Trump’s questioning of why the U.S. isn’t using their nuclear weapons with attorney and radio host Mike Papantonio, Trump’s $500 billion infrastructure plan with the Center for Economic and Policy Research’s Mark Weisbrot, and our country’s voting machines vulnerabilities with The District Sentinel’s Sam Sacks. In tonight’s Daily Take Thom details the arctic carbon bomb that could lead to a planetary mass extinction event.

Scott Greer, The Daily Caller & Sarah Badawi, Progressive Change Campaign Committee(PCCC) & Neil McCabe, Breitbart all join Thom. During a trip to Krakow Poland - Pope Francis had harsh words for the capitalist system - and for the people who worry with white knuckles about "RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM!" According to the Wall Street Journal - Pope Francis told reporters that "Terrorism grows when there is no other option, and as long as the world economy has at its center the god of money and not the person. This is fundamental terrorism, against all humanity." And he went on to say that "It is not right and it is not just to say that Islam is terroristic. If I speak of Islamic violence, I should speak of Catholic violence. Not all Muslims are violent, not all Catholics are violent. In almost all religions there is always a small group of fundamentalists. One can kill with the tongue as well as the knife." So - is it time to revamp our global capitalist system - or at least restore democratic socialism in the United States - so as to best fight the root causes of terrorism? And are Republicans willing to start talking about extremism in general - rather than focusing and discriminating against believers of one particular faith?

Scott Greer, The Daily Caller & Sarah Badawi, Progressive Change Campaign Committee(PCCC) & Neil McCabe, Breitbart all join Thom. It's been just 5 years since Sam Brownback took office and declared Kansas an experiment with the "Red State Model" - and voters just ousted 11 of the lawmakers who made that experiment possible. Isn't it time to admit that the Red State Model is a failure - and everyone knows it?

Dr. Charles Miller, NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory joins Thom. Over the past few weeks - 71 people have been hospitalized and one child has died following an outbreak of anthrax in Western Siberia above the arctic circle. Scientists now believe that outbreak began when a massive heat wave melted away at layers of permafrost and exposed the bodies of anthrax-infected reindeer who died 75 years ago.

Farron Cousins, Ring of Fire Radio/DeSmog Blog/Trial Lawyer Magazine joins Thom. Many progressives think that conservatives are unanimous in their denial of climate change. Well - they couldn't be more wrong