Bob Stefanowski wonders why an infrastructure plan is so important to Ned and the Democrats when the state's most urgent problem isn't infrastructure - although that is something that needs to be dealt with - it's debt.

Was Abe Lincoln's biggest disaster leading us into and through the Civil War or was it his biggest credit? After the question was discussed on After Six last week, producer Mike received some angry emails over the question. Mike and Todd discuss.

Sandy Hook and the law with Steve Gilles, con-law professor at Quinnippiac.

We review statements made by Len Fasano in an interview with Will this morning. Todd thinks the GOP shouldn't be helping save the Democrats from their defeat on tolls.

We dicuss plagues, impeachment, if Trump threatens the future of the GOP brand, whether China is a capitalist country, the media as a problem, and whether professionalism has given way to cheezy opportunism in our weekly hour with Michael Harrison.

Richard Grossman, Wesleyan University economics professor, joins us once again After 6. We discuss Liz Warren and the viability of her healthcare plan. The conversation transistions into one about the role of Federal government vs. State and local government. Debate ensues!

State Rep. Liz Linehan from Cheshire is excited that Dems and the GOP are working together on infrastructure spending. But why, since that only means that spending hikes are being negotiated in a bankrupt state?

Now that it appears tolls have been turned back from inclusion in Ned's infrastructure plan, silly GOP leader Len Fasano goes running in to save the Democrats from the defeat. How did Connecticut politics get so weird? We talk first to Pat Sasser from NoTollsCT.org, then take calls on why spending cuts, not tax hikes, are what the state needs.

Ned presented his latest toll proposal to wary Democrats in the senate today. Neil Tolhurst, and other NoTollsCT.org protesters, were there.

Anti-toll Democrat Frank Farricker is outraged that his party, and his governor, are pushing a plan that includes a toll on New Yorkers who have the misfortune of visiting Connecticut for about a mile on Interstate 684.