Comedian Carlos Alazraqui joins us in the Los Angeles Bureau at 6am to hang with us and talk about the news of the day

Graeme Zielinski, communications director for the Wisconsin Democratic Party, calls in at 6:30am to talk about the results of yesterday’s primaries to defeat Gov. Walker

Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) calls in at 7:30am to talk about the budget and the GOP’s non-stop obstructionism

A majority of North Carolina voters on Tuesday approved a controversial amendment that will write a ban on same-sex marriage as well as civil unions for both gay and straight couples into the state Constitution.

Sen. Richard Lugar – the longest-serving senator in Indiana history – has lost his Republican Senate primary on Tuesday to state Treasurer and Tea Party darling Richard Mourdock.

Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett defeated three other Dems and is set to face Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker in next month’s recall election that has become a nationally watched battle over union rights.

An insider who worked with the United States and an allied security service to thwart an al-Qaida bomb plot hatched in Yemen was the man picked to carry out the suicide attack on a U.S.-bound airliner. He’d been working for Western intelligence from day one.