July 2: Repeat Worst Person in the World, Missouri State Representative Cynthia Davis earned a tip of the hat from Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert for her callousness toward hungry American children.(Countdown)

July 2: The Department of Justice will not look further into the FBI's investigation of Dick Cheney's role in the outing of Valerie Plame as a CIA agent because it doesn't want to discourage officials from being forthcoming in future investigations, which, following the logic, would also discourage cooperation so they probably shouldn't happen either. Newsweek investigative journalist Michael Isikoff explains.(Countdown)

July 2: Newsweek's Richard Wolffe describes for Countdown guest host David Shuster to the newly revealed tensions within the Sarah Palin campaign during the 2008 election season.(Countdown)

July 2: Psycho Talk: Newt Gingrich is holding on to the Republican playbook on health care. In a recent interview, he argued for private insurers, saying, 71 percent of Americans are relatively satisfied with their health insurance." What about the 46 million uninsured?(Other)

July 2: One of 26 surviving copies of the original printed copies of the U.S. Declaration of Independence was discovered gathering dust in an archive in West London. NBC's Brian Williams reports.(Nightly News)