June 16th, 2010

• Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) calls in at 9:05am ET / 6:05am PT to talk about Obama’s BP speech and extending unemployment benefits.

• Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” calls in at 9:20am ET / 6:20am PT to talk about his new special, “The Rise of the New Right.”

• David Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent for “The New York Times” and author of “The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power,” calls in at 9:35am ET / 6:35am PT to talk about the BP Oil Spill and the economy

• Karl Frisch, contributor to Media Matters for America, calls in at 10:05am ET / 7:05am PT to co-host Right Wing World

• Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) calls in at 11:05am ET / 8:05am PT to talk about President Obama’s BP Oil Speech

• Fresh from admonishing BP before the world, President Barack Obama now gets his moment with the oil company’s leaders. It will be on his turf and, he vowed to an angry nation, on his terms.

• Scientists provided a new estimate for the amount of oil gushing from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday that indicates it could be leaking up to 2.52 million gallons of crude a day. The latest numbers reflect an increase in the flow that scientists believe happened after undersea robots earlier this month cut off a kinked pipe.