4:20 pm: Senator John Curtis joins the show to discuss the government shutdown and the Senate holdups in passing a government funding bill.

4:38 pm: Matt Margolis, author and columnist at PJ Media, joins the show for a conversation about President Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce.

6:05 pm: Michael Thielen, President and Executive Director of the Republican National Lawyers Association, joins the show for a conversation about his piece for Real Clear Politics on about President Trump’s success in the nation’s courts.

6:38 pm: Kelsey Piper, a contributor to The Argument Magazine, joins the show to discuss her piece about how illiteracy in American schools is a policy choice.