Federal judge rules NSA's collection of phone records is unconstitutional

Federal judge rules NSA's collection of phone records is unconstitutional

Guest:

Faiza Patel @FaizaPatelBCJ  
Co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law (@BrennanCenter).

Read more about the ruling, via Al Jazeera America.

Report: Redacted pages from 9/11 report show link between Saudi Arabia and 9/11 hijackers

Guests:

Jamie Reno @JamieReno
International Business Times correspondent who wrote this month about the redacted 9/11 Report pages.

Craig Unger
Contributing editor of Vanity Fair, who in 2003 wrote how about 140 people from Saudi Arabia were flown out of the U.S. in the days immediately following the 9/11 attacks. Unger is also the author of "House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World’s Two Most Powerful Dynasties."

South Africa buries Nelson Mandela

Guest:

Morgan Radford @MorganRadford
Correspondent for Al Jazeera America, who attended Mandela's memorial service at the invitation of his family.

Read more about Mandela's funeral service, via Al Jazeera America.

Anti-apartheid activist remembers Mandela

Guest:

Denis Goldberg
South African anti-apartheid activist Denis Goldberg knew Nelson Mandela well. Goldberg and Mandela were both sentenced during the Rivonia Trial and Goldberg served 22 years in prison in South Africa.

How has the NRA made any national gun control laws impossible?

Guest:

Robert Draper @DraperRobert
Contributor to The New York Times Magazine.

Read Draper's article on the NRA's influence in Washington, via The New York Times.

Startup with Silicon Valley backing seeks to "replace" eggs

Guest:

Josh Tetrick
Founder of the San Francisco food-technology startup Hampton Creek Foods (@hcfoods). 

Read more about Hampton Creek Foods, via The Wall Street Journal.