Osama bin Laden's driver has just been convicted of providing material support to terrorists following an illegal, secretive terrifying kangaroo court trial at Guantanamo. Joining Rachel tonight to talk about Hamdan's life, trial and conviction is the man who just wrote the definitive book on the subject, Jonathan Mahler. His new book is called: The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over Presidential Power.

Also, journalists only need the vaguest sign of friendship between one of the candidates and another politician to assume that a vice presidential choice is nigh. But, it does seem like Obama is spending an awful lot of time with Evan Bayh. So much so that we are nervous this is more than a coincidence. So we've asked John Nichols to join us today to talk about why Bayh would be a terrible, terrible running mate.