It was an exciting night on The Agenda with Joe Solmonese as we moved to a new channel and opened up the phone lines for your calls. From now on, you can hear us live at our usual time every Monday night from 6 – 8 pm eastern now on XM’s Take Five channel 155. And to join in the conversation during the live show, call toll-free 877-9-AGENDA (that’s 877-924-3632).

Leading off the show we heard from Rep. Mark Udall who is running for the U.S. Senate from Colorado. He talked about trying to replace Sen. Wayne Allard – the lead Senate sponsor of the Federal Marriage Amendment – and his thoughts on the 2008 race in general. Listen in.

To give us our political overview this week we turned to NPR’s Juan Williams. He’s their news analyst as well as a contributing political analyst for Fox news. He previewed today’s important contests in Indiana and North Carolina and helped us figure out how much longer the Democratic horserace will continue. Listen in parts one and two.

To go a little lighter we welcomed a familiar face on late night television and a friend of Joe’s – Ross Mathews. You know him better as “Ross the Intern” from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He was our guest to talk celebrity gossip and how he went from intern to TV personality. Listen in.

We always mix it up on The Agenda so we moved from entertainment to religion with BeliefNet Politics Editor Dan Gilgoff. This returning guest writes the God-O-Meter blog and had a lot to say about Catholic voters, Rev. Wright and McCain endorsee Rev. John Hagee. Listen in.

Finally, we looked at HIV and AIDS with two activists who were in Washington last week to lobby Congress on the issue with AIDS Action. Craig Thompson is the executive director of AIDS Programs, Los Angeles and Reggie Davis is an HIV positive activist from Chicago. Listen in.

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