Here are the big stories on the agenda today:
- Race, abortion, gun control – all on the table as Republicans fired question after question at Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Her answers were very careful ones. The Supreme Court nominee will likely get more of the same later today. We're looking at day two's heated exchanges – and what Sotomayor can expect in a few hours.
- Is the secretary of state being sidelined? She's supposed to be America’s top ambassador, but Hillary Clinton’s been out of the limelight since she broke her elbow last month. Now some inside the beltway say the president's inner circle is keeping Clinton out.
- Democrats on the hill have a few questions for former Vice President Dick Cheney. The former VP’s now connected to a secret CIA program and Democrats are clamoring for President Obama to launch new investigations into the Bush administration. But the White House is still saying it wants to look forward, not back.
- An update to a story we’ve been following here on AM. A day camp is now suing a Pennsylvania swim club over allegations of racism. Parents say kids were kicked out of the pool, after they overheard things like “what are all these black kids doing here?” The camp director joins us live. Why she says “the children are permanently scarred.”