• The Rude Pundit calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to tell George W. Bush that he needs to shut up now
• Eric Boehlert of Media Matters for America calls in at 10am ET / 7am PT to talk about what Ebola coverage did to networks’ ratings
• Showing no signs of backing down, President Obama strongly pushed back against critics questioning his authority to bypass Congress and act unilaterally to reform the nation’s immigration system. Obama urged Congress to act on the issue so that he wouldn’t have to act unilaterally.
• Newly surfaced surveillance videos and dispatch calls from the day a Ferguson, Mo., police officer shot an unarmed 18-year-old contradict the police officer’s version of events, attorneys representing Michael Brown’s family said yesterday.
• President Obama offered “prayers and condolences” to the family of Peter Kassig, an American aid worker killed by ISIS, which posted a new video online boasting of the killing. The former Army Ranger was abducted in October 2013 while traveling to a town in eastern Syria.
• A surgeon who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone is in extremely critical condition at a Nebraska hospital, his doctors said. Dr. Martin Salia arrived in Omaha on Saturday to be treated at a biocontainment unit that has successfully treated two other Ebola patients.
