On today’s show Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas, explained why demographics and cultural trends favor progressive politics.

Michael Hastings, explained the disconnect between the intelligence that led to Ben Laden and torture why Zero Dark Thirty embraced the pro torture narrative,the CIA’s role in the film production and Michael discussed his new book on the 2012 campaign, “Panic 2012” how Obama won his second term, ...

BuzzFeed’s Michael Hastings explained the full sordid details of the Petraeus affair, how the spying on David Petraeus is typical of today’s surveillance state, The hypocrisy of the Washington Press, how Petraeus helped us scrub our record of disaster in Iraq, how he started to believe his own pr...

Dave Weigel from Slate on Mitt’s Michigan victory, the media’s control of the contest message and the fracturing of GOP.  Author Michael Hastingson Department of Homeland Security monitoring of Occupy Wall Street.  In the better half, Sam on woes of Schiff brothers.  Your calls and IMs.

Embedded author Michael Hastings on General McChrystal, the war in Afghanistan and what really effected war policy.  Also, two “threatening” British travelers on holiday – detained and refused entry to the United States.  And oh yeah, our internet crash.