Today's show is going to be a little different.  We are going to spend the entire first hour talking about the Minneapolis bridge that collapsed last night.  This issue-- public safety and American infrastructure-- is one that Rachel has been particularly dedicated to and one that seems to get lost in the aftermath of tragic episodes such as this.  But not here.

So today we are going to the experts-- the people we feel are three of the best advocates for improving the infrastructure of this country, the people who know how important it is that America not merely be able to forcefully attack, but also be able to take a punch when hurricanes and terrorist attacks and the like occur.

Rachel will be talking with Rick Perlstein, a senior fellow at the Campaign for America's Future.  You may remember him from a few weeks ago when we talked to him about the steam pipe explosion in Manhattan.

And then Rachel will be joined by Stephen Flynn, the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of the book "Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation"

And then in the second hour of the show we will talk to Nick Coleman, a columnist at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, who has written a passionate, scathing column today on what happened to his city yesterday and why we should all be outraged.

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