President Trump has decided to drop the effort to get a citizenship question on the 2020 Census and will instead issue an executive order requiring all federal agencies to submit information on citizenship data to the U.S. Department of Commerce.  The president is insisting that he is not backing down and will still find out how many citizens and non-citizens are in the country.  Nicole Narea, immigration reporter for Law360, joins us to explain it all.

Next, the FBI is investigating a secret gang-like group within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The federal probe comes after there were allegations of beatings and harassment by members of the Banditos, a groups of deputies in the East LA Sheriff’s station.  The members of the group all share a tattoo of a skeleton with a sombrero, bandolier and pistol.  Maya Lau, reporter for the LA Times, joins us for more.

Finally, a skull fragment found in the roof of a cave in Greece is now considered the oldest fossil of Homo sapiens ever discovered in Europe. Believed to be 210,000 years old the discovery can potentially rewrite the history of humans and Neanderthals in Europe.  Ed Yong, writer at the Atlantic, joins us for what this might mean for the history of our species.

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