Guests 9102 Guests
October 2009
- Stephen Biddle Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
- Peter Baker Chief White House Correspondent, The New York Times
- Max Cleland Author; Secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission
- Brian Druker Physician and Scientist, Oregon Health and Science Univeristy
- Richard Engel Chief Foreign Correspondent, NBC News
- Brian Glyn Williams Professor of Islamic History, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
- Roger Goodell Commissioner, NFL
- Bob Gibson Former Baseball Pitcher
- John Gurdon Professor, University of Cambridge
- David Ignatius Foreign Affairs Columnist
- Reggie Jackson Hall of Fame baseball player
- David Kilcullen Non-Executive Chairman, Caerus Associates
- Lara Logan CBS News
- Jude Law Actor
- Nicholas Lydon Founder, Granite Biopharma
- Michael Moore Filmmaker
- Nancy Pelosi Minority Leader, House of Representatives
- Mehmood Qureshi Foreign Minister of Pakistan
- James Rubin Former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
- Martha Raddatz Journalist, ABC
- Charles Sawyers Physician amd Scientist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Shinya Yamanaka Investigator, Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at the Gladstone Institutes
September 2009
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad President, Islamic Republic of Iran
- Guillermo Arriaga Director
- Marc Andreessen Co-Founder, Netscape
- Ken Burns Filmmaker
- Kristopher Belman Filmmaker
- Frank Bruni Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times
- Jeff Bingaman Senator, (D) New Mexico
- Mark Boal Screenwriter
- Kathryn Bigelow Director
- Juliette Binoche Actor
- David Brooks Columnist, Author
- Rich Cohen Author; Television Writer
- Rajiv Chandrasekaran National Editor, The Washington Post; Author
- Jane Campion Director
- Joseph A. Califano, Jr. Author; Former Domestic Affairs Advisor
- Juan Martin Del Potro Professional Tennis Player
- Donald Dell Sports Agent; Author
- E. L. Doctorow Novelist
- Kathy Dahlkemper Representative, (D) Pennsylvania
- Rahm Emanuel Mayor of Chicago
- Haleh Esfandiari Professor, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- Ann Fontaine Writer; Director
- Salam Fayyad Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority
- Paul Goldberger Biographer; Architectural Critic, Vanity Fair
- Robert Gates Former Director, CIA
- Giancarlo Giammetti Co-Founder, Valentino
- Bill Gates Co-Chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Co-Founder, The Giving Pledge
- William Gates, Sr. Co-Chair, The Gates Foundation; Author
- John Harwood Journalist, CNBC; The New York Times
- Daniel Hesse C.E.O., Sprint Nextel
- Al Hunt Journalist, Bloomberg News
- Werner Herzog Filmmaker
- LeBron James Basketball Player
- Howard Kurtz Media Critic, The Washington Post; Host, CNN
- Raymond Kelly Former Commissioner, NYPD
- Hamid Karzai President of Afghanistan
- Carl Levin Senator, (D) Michigan
- Rich Lowry Editor, National Review; Contributor, Fox News
- Thaddeus McCotter Representative, (R) Michigan
- Mike Mullen Admiral (Ret.); Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of Israel
- Joseph O'Neill Author
- Chris Paul Basketball Player
- John Podesta Former Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton
- Jay Rockefeller Senator, (D) West Virginia; Senate Finance Committee
- David Sanger National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
- Alan Schroeder Professor of Journalism, Northwestern University
- Jennifer Senior Journalist, New York Magazine
- James B. Stewart Journalist; Author
- Andrew Ross Sorkin Guest Host
- Eric Schmidt Executive Chairman, Alphabet
- Audrey Tautou Actor
- Ray Takeyh Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
- Charlize Theron Actor
- Jake Tapper Guest Host
- Jill Bolte Taylor Author; Neuroscientist
- Gay Talese Author; Journalist, The New York Times
- Matt Tyrnauer Director
- Paul Volcker Chairman, Volcker Alliance
- Valentino Fashion Designer
- Anthony Weiner Representative, (D) New York
- Jimmy Wales Co-Founder, Wikipedia
- Anthony Zinni General (Ret.), United States Marine Corps; Author
- Asif Ali Zardari President of Pakistan
August 2009
- Ferran Adrià Chef, elBulli
- José Andrés Chef, elBulli
- Leon Botstein President, Bard College
- Peter Balakian Writer; Academic
- George Clooney Actor
- Tom Colicchio Chef; Restaurateur; Head Judge, "Top Chef"
- David Chang Chef; Restaurateur
- Jim Collins Author
- Steven Cook Senior Fellow, Council of Foreign Relations
- Leonardo DiCaprio Actor
- Ross Douthat Journalist, The New York Times
- Michele Dune Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Michele Dunne Analyst, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Freeman Dyson Physicist, Institute for Advanced Study
- Rahm Emanuel Mayor of Chicago
- David Fincher Director
- Doris Kearns Goodwin Presidential Historian
- Al Hunt Journalist, Bloomberg News
- Arianna Huffington Co-founder and President, The Huffington Post
- Don Hewitt Journalist, Executive Producer, "60 Minutes"
- Yusuf Islam Singer-songwriter
- Ben Kingsley Actor
- Wadah Khanfar Director General, Al Jazeera Network
- Jon Meacham Historian; Author
- Helen Mirren Actor
- Hosni Mubarak President, Arab Republic of Egypt
- Hugh Masekela Jazz Musician
- Sari Nusseibeh President, Al-Quds University
- Frances Osborne Author
- Brad Pitt Actor
- Dolly Parton Singer; Songwriter
- Mickey Rourke Actor
- Joe Scarborough Host, "Morning Joe"
- Julian Schnabel Director; Artist
- Meryl Streep Actor
- Quentin Tarantino Director
- Harold Varmus Former Director, NIH; Former Director, National Cancer Institute
- Kate Winslet Actor
- Evan Williams Entrepreneur; Co-Founder, Twitter
- Robert Wright Author
- Zhou Wenzhong Former Chinese ambassador to the U.S.; Secretary-General, Boao Forum for Asia
- Neil Young Singer-Songwriter