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Today's show both opens and closes with a ton of breaking news, including: A school shooting that appears to be a murder-suicide in San Bernardino, CA (near where 14 were killed in a mass shooting in late 2015); The white supremacist Charleston church shooter is sentenced to 9 life sentences in state court after being sentenced to execution in federal court; Stolen U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is sworn in, as President Trump thanks Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell for the theft; War planes take off from the same air base reportedly bombed by Trump last Friday; U.S. war ships head toward the Korean Peninsula for a possible confrontation with nuclear-armed North Korea; and Trump huddles with the Koch Brothers as special elections for the U.S. House to fill Republican vacancies left by Administration appointees get underway in Kansas, Georgia and Montana (and in Los Angeles, where there is a Democratic vacancy). We're joined by the great Howie Klein, progressive champion and founder of DownWithTyranny.com, to discuss all four races and the surprising possibilities of Democratic pickups in the three otherwise very Republican districts. Klein explains the likelihood for each district, the candidates who are running, and why it is that both the Republican and Democratic parties seem to be underestimating the possibility of several of those seats 'going blue' in the first federal elections of the Trump Era.\xa0 And, finally, as we close today, breaking news about the resignation and criminal booking of Alabama's Republican Gov. Robert Bentley in the face of impeachment charges...