Jason Ditz, news editor for Antiwar.com, discusses the top headlines of the day on Yemen, Syria, Gaza, Israel and ISIS.

Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), discusses the 42-month prison sentence for whistleblowing former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling, and the new details about the CIA's Operation Merlin inadvertently revealed at the trial.

Adam Morrow, a journalist based in Cairo, discusses how the secret tapes of the 2013 Egypt coup plot pose a problem for Obama.

Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and author, discusses his article "The Killing of Osama bin Laden," detailing the Obama administration's lies about the 2011 assassination of bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Avner Gvaryahu, the Director of Public Outreach at BreakingTheSilence.org, discusses his organization's gathering of candid testimony from Israeli soldiers who witnessed the mass destruction and killing of Palestinian civilians in Israel's Operation "Protective Edge" in 2014.

Patrick Smith, author of Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century, discusses the New York Times' biased coverage of US troops operating on Ukrainian soil, and the risk of getting into a war with Russia.

Zoe Russell, the Assistant Executive Director for RAMP (Republican Against Marijuana Prohibition), discusses the surprising legislative progress Texas is making toward legalizing marijuana, and RAMP's attempt to get cops and conservatives behind House Bill 2165.