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b"Donald Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, is the latest top Administration official to be fired or to resign during the first eight chaotic months of this Administration. Price, who claimed to be a fiscal conservative during his years in the U.S. House, had come under fire for spending hundreds of thousands of tax-payer dollars on chartered private and military plane travel since taking office. Other top Trump cabinet officials are also currently under investigation for the same thing, even though Price's corruption while in the U.S. House was an open secret completely ignored by the GOP Senate when he was confirmed to the post. Meanwhile, in Puerto Rico, the situation on the ground following Hurricane Maria continues to deteriorate, despite Trump and his Acting Secretary of the Dept. of Homeland Security declaring the recovery effort "a good news story", to date. The Mayor of San Juan urgently and desperately disagrees. Then, speaking of U.S. Senate Republicans rubber-stamping Presidential nominees no matter how extremist, crazy or corrupt they may be, we're joined by Slate's legal reporter Mark Joseph Stern to discuss what he describes as the Trump Administration's attempt to lay the groundwork for overturning marriage equality.\\xa0 Seriously. While it seems impossible to imagine, Stern makes his case -- a disturbing one. We also discuss whether a High School in Louisiana has the right, as has been threatened, to suspend student football players for taking a knee in peaceful protest during the national anthem. And, finally, Stern has a few choice thoughts on the chilling rightwing extremism of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, as the Court returns for its first full new term a stolen Republican majority..."