• Hal Sparks joins us in the Los Angeles studio at 9am ET / 6am PT for another edition of “Humpdays With Hal”
• Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to talk about the budget and President Obama’s speech tonight
• Rep. Robert Andrews (D-NJ) calls in at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about the budget and the President’s speech tonight
• Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood, calls in at 10:45am ET / 7:45am PT to talk about the GOP’s assault on women’s health
• President Obama tonight will deliver a speech outlining his proposal to reduce spending in Medicare and Medicaid, raise taxes on the wealthy and cut defense costs. In a pre-emptive response Tuesday, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, called any proposed tax increase “a nonstarter.”
• According to the CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey, Donald Trump and Mike Huckabee are the first choice of 19% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin coming in at third with 12%.
• The Obamas and the Bidens highlighted the sacrifices military families make daily to serve a nation that has been at war for nearly a decade as they launched a program aimed at urging communities to do more to support them.
