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"The less power you shut-off, the more narrowly targeted the shut-offs are, the higher the fire risk is... It's going to take a lot of time and money to fix that problem," said Tod Nordhaus, the founder of the Breakthrough Institute.

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"My grandmother survived the Holocaust and I don't think there was anything offensive [about the film]," one caller told us. They said it's a good opportunity to educate viewers.

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"People want to know where their products are coming from. You can point to a farm where the grain is coming from," Brian Christensen of Artisan Spirit Magazine told us.

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The Justice Department is reportedly investigating itself. Major fires burn in California. And the Washington Nationals play the Houston Astros.

Around the world, Justin Trudeau survives re-election. This week was the first ever Russia-Africa Summit. And Carrie Lam and Benjamin Netanyahu are on their way out.

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"As I go out and talk to women, there's this thought that we must hate President Trump because we're women and look at all of the horrible and awful things that he said of fill-in-the-blank. But Republican women don't appreciate being forced into a box," said Jennifer Baysinger, vice president of political affairs at the Kansas Chamber of Commerce.

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"There used to be a line between political speech and personal speech... that line is now very much blurred," NPR's Nina Totenberg told us.

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"Missy's not an artist. She's a movement," music journalist and author Kathy Iandoli told us.

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"The Cline case demonstrates just how unprepared the legal system is for this," reporter and co-host Lauren Bavis told us. She said in several states there is no law against doctors inseminating their patients.

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The impeachment inquiry continues, Senator Elizabeth Warren came under fire. And auto workers reached a tentative deal with General Motors.

Around the world, there are questions of a ceasefire in northern Syria. The International Space Station saw its first all-female spacewalk. And LeBron James joins the China controversy.

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"I wanted to be in front of people and I wanted to make them feel good," Rippon told us.

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