“Haters gonna hate and hipsters gonna spend too much money on mustache wax and Pabst Blue Ribbon on their way to the beanie factory in Williamsburg. But I’m here to tell you that Paul McCartney, at age 71, is a walking, talking, rocking, bass-electric-acoustic guitar—and keyboard—playing septuagenarian billionaire ad for a vegetarian diet who is cooler than you and can kick your hipster ass.”—John Fugelsang.

“We’re not going to get to zero while president Obama is in office, but he could set the course. He could put the motion in process to get to zero. …There are three stages. The U.S. and Russia have to get their arsenals down—they have 95% of the weapons. Then we’ve got to get a critical mass of the leading nuclear powers. For example, the permanent five members of the security counsel who are the original nuclear powers: United States, Russia, China, France and Britain. Get those leading nuclear powers to the table. Start the process, start the negotiations, start setting up the verification system—which is critical. Then we can build from that—political pressure, international pressure, that makes it increasingly difficult for the outlying countries that haven’t joined into the process to come to the table so we start working our numbers down to zero,” says Brown.

Fugelsang asks if the support of the younger generation will make a difference in giving Rowhani the power he needs to negotiate nuclear strategy for the country. Doherty doesn’t think so: “Once he steps out of line, (the Ayatollah) will drag him home and say, ‘Good night,’” says Doherty.

“‘Dhimmitude’ isn’t a real word, but ‘dhimmi’ is a very old term coined before the rise of the modern nation state that refers to non-Muslims who live on Muslim lands, under protection of Muslims. That’s right: being nice to religious minorities — or as right-wingers call it, ‘appeasement.’” —John Fugelsang

“It’s not just PRISM — there are four programs together that are doing intelligence gathering. …We really need to focus on what [Snowden] has revealed and the unprecedented level of secrecy from our government engaging in patently illegal activity. No matter what the president or Congress says, it’s not up to the lawbreaker to decide whether or not they’ve committed a crime,” says Radack.

Vice President Joe Biden will hold a gun control forum Tuesday at the White House, the Associated Press reports, the first forum since the Manchin-Toomey amendment failed to garner 60 votes in April.

Fiore, who believes a lot has changed since the American public responded with “such vitriol” to the first Senate vote, described what she thinks it will take for gun control legislation to pass: “It is absolutely about the people power. It’s all about people at home picking up the phone and calling their members of Congress, and not just today or once every now and again —on a routine basis. Because that’s what the gun lobbies’ activists do. They call five to 10 times more often than we do because we’re busy people and it’s not something that’s been top of mind for us. And it probably has to become that for this to change.”

“In the end, John, here’s what I’m concerned about: 11 million undocumented workers who are exploited every day. And the Obama administration is ripping them at $1,200 a day — today, tomorrow and every day. And every day that goes by, that’s hundreds of children left without a mom or dad. … I’m going to tell you, John, … they are going to pay (the fine) happily,” Gutierrez says, explaining that the end result of having that sense of safety and certainty that they can raise their kids is worth it. He adds, “There will be millions of people who are going to be happy and content. … We’re going to allow them to protect themselves as American workers, and that has a value …  you can’t put a price tag on.”

John Fugelsang comments on the latest developments in the Steubenville rape case.

“Unfortunately, this may be the information age, but it’s also the pro-male, blame the victim, slut-shaming age as well. Twenty-six-year-old corporate cyber security expert Deric Lostutter, also known as KYAnonymous, whose work played a key role in exposing this crime, could face up to 10 years in prison if he’s convicted of hacking. That sentence is five times longer than the ones given to the actual rapists themselves. … What a great message! ‘Hey — rape a woman and we’ll throw the book at you. Help catch and convict the rapist and we’ll throw a whole library at your face,’” says Fugelsang.

Patel thinks that the ACLU has the standing to sue: “Standing is the most difficult barrier to bringing a lawsuit on surveillance. It turns out the ACLU was a Verizon business customer, so it knows its records have been collected. It is able to allege that its privacy, in terms of communications with potential clients, whistleblowers, others who want to have a private conversation, has been compromised by this. So if anybody has a standing at this point in time, the ACLU has a pretty strong case,” says Patel.