Monday Morning Politics; Texas Floods; The Menendez Trial Begins With National Implications; Miniskirts and U.S. Military Intervention in Afghanistan

Coming up on today's show:

• McKay Coppins, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House (Little Brown, 2015), and Ana Marie Cox, host of the podcast With Friends Like These and contributor to The New York Times Magazine, look ahead to the return of Congress and offer analysis of current political news. 
• Alan Binder, who covers the South for the New York Times, and Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post Senior Correspondent, talk about what they're seeing on the ground from Houston in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Harvey. 
• Ryan Hutchins, New Jersey Bureau Chief for POLITICO, previews New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez's federal corruption trial and discusses its national implications. 
• Shumita Basu, WNYC host, reporter and producer, and Wazhmah Osman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Studies and Production at Temple University, talk about the 190702 Kabul photo of women in miniskirts that may have swayed President Trump's opinion on intervention in Afghanistan.