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Jim Acosta Top   |   Back

Christiane Amanpour Top   |   Back

• Christiane Amanpour (Kristiane Amanpur - born 12 January 1958) is a British-Iranian journalist and television host.
• Amanpour is also a Global Affairs Anchor of ABC News.
• In 2013, she moved from New York City to live permanently in London, England, with her husband, former US Assistant Secretary of State James Rubin, and their teenage son.
• In 1983, she was hired by CNN on the foreign desk in Atlanta, Georgia, as an entry-level desk assistant.
• During her early years as a correspondent, Amanpour was given her first major assignment covering the Iran–Iraq War, which led to her being transferred in 1986 to Eastern Europe to report on the fall of European communism.
• In 1989, she was assigned to work in Frankfurt, Germany, where she reported on the democratic revolutions sweeping Eastern Europe at the time.
• Through this position, she was able to move up in the company and by 1990 served as a correspondent for CNN's New York bureau.
• Following Iraq's occupation of Kuwait in 1990, Amanpour's reports of the Persian Gulf War brought her wide notice while also taking CNN to a new level of news coverage.
• Thereafter, she reported from the Bosnian war and other conflict zones.
• Because of her emotional delivery from Sarajevo during the Siege of Sarajevo, viewers and critics questioned her professional objectivity, claiming that many of her reports were unjustified and favoured the Bosnian Muslims, to which she replied, "There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice.
• Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing. "
• Amanpour gained a reputation for being fearless during the Gulf and Bosnian wars and for reporting from conflict areas.
• From 1992 to 2010, Amanpour was CNN's chief international correspondent as well as the anchor of Amanpour, a daily CNN interview program that aired 2009–2010.
• Amanpour has reported on major crises from many of the world's hotspots, including Iraq, Afghanistan, the Palestinian territories, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia, Rwanda, and the Balkans and from the United States during Hurricane Katrina.
• She has secured exclusive interviews with world leaders from the Middle East to Europe to Africa and beyond, including Iranian presidents Mohammad Khatami and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well as the presidents of Afghanistan, Sudan, and Syria, among others.
• After 9/11, she was the first international correspondent to interview British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac, and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.
• Additional interview partners are Hillary Clinton, Nicolás Maduro, Hassan Rouhani and Moammar Gadhafi.

See also: Christiane Amanpour (Wikipedia)
and: Christiane Amanpour (CNN)

Sara Azari Top   |   Back

Brooke Baldwin Top   |   Back

See also: Brooke Baldwin (Wikipedia)
and: Brooke Baldwin (CNN)

Ashleigh Banfield Top   |   Back

See also: Ashleigh Banfield (Wikipedia)
and: Ashleigh Banfield (CNN)

Dana Bash Top   |   Back

• Dana ("DAN-ah") Bash (born Dana Ruth Schwartz; June 15, 1971) is an American journalist, anchorwoman and political correspondent for CNN.
• Bash was born to a Reform Jewish family.
• in Manhattan, Her father was an ABC News producer who served as the senior broadcast producer for Good Morning America and her mother was an author and educator in Jewish studies.
• After college Bash joined CNN and produced the weekend programs, Late Edition, Evans & Novak, and Inside Politics.
• Later she began producing programming specializing in coverage of the U.S. Senate.
• Bash was one one of the women honored at Elle magazine's 2014 "Women in Washington Power List" event.

John Berman Top   |   Back

Victor Blackwell Top   |   Back

Wolf Blitzer Top   |   Back

• Wolf Isaac Blitzer (born March 22, 1948) is a German-born American journalist and television news anchor who has been a CNN reporter since 1990.
• He is the host of CNN's Wolf and The Situation Room.
• Blitzer also serves as the network's lead political anchor.

Kate Bolduan Top   |   Back

Gloria Borger Top   |   Back

Erin Burnett Top   |   Back

Anderson Cooper Top   |   Back

Carol Costello Top   |   Back

Chris Cuomo Top   |   Back

• Christopher Charles Cuomo (born August 9, 1970) is an American television journalist. He currently works at CNN, and has previously been the ABC News chief law and justice correspondent and the co-anchor for ABC's 20/20.
• A licensed attorney, Cuomo received his law degree from the Fordham University School of Law in New York City and his undergraduate degree from Yale University.

David Gergen Top   |   Back

• David Richmond Gergen (born May 9, 1942) is an American political commentator and former presidential advisor who served during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton.
• He is currently a Senior Political Analyst for CNN and a Professor of Public Service and Co-Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School.
• Gergen is also the former Editor-at-Large of U.S. News and World Report and a contributor to CNN.com and Parade Magazine.
• He has twice been a member of election coverage teams that won Peabody awards—in 1988 with MacNeil-Lehrer, and in 2008 with CNN.
• Gergen joined the Nixon White House in 1971, as a staff assistant on the speech writing team, becoming Director of Speechwriting two years later.
• He served as Director of Communications for both Ford and Reagan, and as a senior advisor to Clinton and Secretary of State Warren Christopher.
• As a commentator his admirers consider him an objective political voice because he has served in both Republican and Democratic administrations.
• He graduated with honors from Yale and Harvard Law School, and has been awarded 25 honorary degrees.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta Top   |   Back

Poppy Harlow Top   |   Back

See also: Poppy Harlow (Wikipedia)
and: Poppy Harlow (CNN)

Chris Hayes Top   |   Back

• Christopher Loffredo Hayes (born February 28, 1979) is an American political commentator, journalist, and author.
• Hayes hosts All In with Chris Hayes, a weekday news and opinion television show on MSNBC.
• Hayes formerly hosted a weekend MSNBC show, Up with Chris Hayes.
• He remains an editor at large of The Nation magazine.

See also: Chris Hayes (Wikipedia)

Nia-Malika Henderson Top   |   Back

• Nia-Malika Henderson born July 7, 1974, is a senior political reporter for CNN.
• She reports broadly on the 2016 campaign for CNN's digital and television platforms, with a special focus on identity politics — exploring the dynamics of demographics, race and religion, and reporting on the groups of people who help shape national elections.
• Henderson graduated from Lower Richland High School in Hopkins, South Carolina in 1992.
• She went on to graduate cum laude from Duke University with a bachelor's degree in literature and cultural anthropology; and earned master's degrees from Yale University in American studies and Columbia University in journalism.
• She began her career writing for the Baltimore Sun and then for Newsday's national staff where she was its lead reporter covering Obama's 2008 campaign, the Democratic primary race and the Democratic National Convention.
• She also covered the first two years of the Obama administration for Politico.
• From 2010 to 2015, she served as a reporter at the Washington Post.
• As national political reporter for The Washington Post, she covered the White House, the 2012 presidential campaign, the 2010 mid-term elections and anchored The Post's Election 2012 blog.
• In 2010 she joined CNN as senior political reporter.

See also: Nia-Malika Henderson (Wikipedia)
and: Nia-Malika Henderson (CNN)

George Howell Top   |   Back

Joe Johns Top   |   Back

Athena Jones Top   |   Back

• Athena Jones serves as a CNN national correspondent based in New York.

Van Jones Top   |   Back

• Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones (born September 20, 1968) is an American news commentator, author, and non-practicing attorney.
• He is a cofounder of several nonprofit organizations, including the Dream Corps, a "social justice accelerator".
• He is the author of The Green Collar Economy and Rebuild the Dream, both ranking as New York Times bestselling books.
• He is a regular CNN contributor and current presenter of the news feature documentary series and subsequent studio discussion series, The Messy Truth with Van Jones, also on CNN.
• He served as President Barack Obama's Special Advisor for Green Jobs, as a distinguished visiting fellow at Princeton University, and as a co-host of CNN's political debate show Crossfire.
• He is president of Dream Corps and is among activists featured in 13th, a 2016 documentary directed by Ava DuVernay about the US justice system and factors that have resulted in the over-incarceration of minorities and the highest incarceration rate in the world.

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Don Lemon Top   |   Back

• Don Lemon (born March 1, 1966) is an American news anchor and journalist.
• He is based in New York City and currently hosts CNN Tonight.
• Lemon joined CNN in September 2006.
• He has been outspoken in his work at CNN, criticizing the state of cable news and questioning the network publicly.
• He has also voiced strong opinions on ways that the African-American community can improve themselves, which has caused some controversy.
• Since 2014, he has hosted CNN's New Year's Eve special from New Orleans.
• During an on-air interview with members of Bishop Eddie Long's congregation in September 2010, Lemon said that he was a victim of sexual abuse as a child, and that it was not until he was thirty years old that he told his mother about it.
• In his memoir, Transparent, Lemon came out as gay and discusses colorism in the black community, and the sexual abuse he suffered as a child.
• He has Creole ancestry (his great-grandfather was of French descent) in addition to Nigerian, Cameroonian, and Congolese ancestry.
• In 2015, over 30,000 people signed a petition demanding that Lemon be fired from CNN following a controversial remark he made regarding police behavior.
• Lemon won an Emmy Award for a special report on the real estate market in Chicago.
• He received an Edward R. Murrow Award for his coverage of the capture of the D.C. area sniper, and a number of other awards for reports on Hurricane Katrina, and the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
• Lemon was voted as one of the 150 most influential African-Americans by Ebony magazine in 2009.
• However, in 2014 Lemon was named in a list of worst journalists by the Columbia Journalism Review.

Rachel Maddow ¬ Top   |   Back

• Rachel Anne Maddow (born April 1, 1973) is an American television host and political commentator.
• A liberal, Maddow hosts The Rachel Maddow Show, a nightly television show on MSNBC, and serves as the cable network's special event co-anchor alongside Brian Williams.
• Her syndicated talk radio program of the same name aired on Air America Radio.
• Maddow holds a doctorate in politics from the University of Oxford, and is the first openly lesbian anchor to host a major prime-time news program in the United States.
• Asked about her political views by the Valley Advocate, Maddow replied, "I'm undoubtedly a liberal, which means that I'm in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican party platform."

See also: Rachel Maddow (Wikipedia)

Rene Marsh Top   |   Back

• René Marsh is CNN's aviation and government regulation correspondent, based in the network's Washington bureau.
• In this position, Marsh reports on all issues related to aviation and transportation - from safety and security to passenger issues.
• In addition, Marsh covers government regulation.
• Marsh joined the network in 2012.
• Since joining CNN she has reported on several high profile assignments including the disappearance of commercial passenger plane, MH370.
• Marsh also covered the shoot down of MH17 over Ukraine.
• It was Marsh who broke the news with her exclusive report that Dutch crash investigators had determined a Russian Missile brought down the passenger plane and evidence suggested pro Russian rebels were responsible.
• During her tenure at CNN Marsh also reported on the ill-fated Asiana flight 214, the U.S Supreme Court Affordable Care Act and same sex marriage decisions.
• In addition, she covered several breaking news stories, including the death of 25 year old Baltimore man, Freddie Gray, who died in police custody.
• Prior to CNN, Marsh was a general assignment correspondent for WSVN in Miami, Florida, covering breaking news, local politics, education and sports.
• She also worked as an investigative reporter and weekend anchor at CBS 6 in Albany, New York.
• Marsh started her career as a reporter and anchor at KTAL in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Phil Mattingly Top   |   Back

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Philip Mudd Top   |   Back

• Philip Mudd joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1985 as an analyst specializing in South Asia and then the Middle East.
• At the establishment of the FBI's National Security Branch in 2005, FBI Director Robert Mueller appointed Mudd to serve as the Branch's first-ever deputy director.
• He later became the FBI's Senior Intelligence Adviser.
• Mudd resigned from government service in March 2010.
• The ex-deputy director of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center and the FBI'sNational Security Branch, appears regularly on FoxNews, CNN, and NPR and lectures around the world on methodologies for understanding difficultanalytic problems.
• His writing has appeared in Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and the Washington Post, and he is the author of Takedown, a detailed account of intelligence gathering in the hunt for al-Qa'ida.
• He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
• Ivanka Trump was jeered in Germany earlier in the day when she defended her father’s attitude toward women, and Mudd didn’t hold back his criticism when asked about the situation by Wolf Blitzer on CNN’s The Situation Room.
• CNN panelist Phil Mudd went off on Ivanka Trump declaring that she can’t defend President Trump when he has "dead white dudes" in his cabinet.
• "She’s gotta come up with a better answer," Mudd said.
• "The answer can’t be he champions women’s rights when he makes fun of a woman’s face, and makes fun of her menstrual cycle, and he’s got a bunch of dead white dudes in the cabinet."
• Mudd did give Ms. Trump some credit, explaining that as the president’s daughter, "blood’s thicker than politics."
• "What do you expect the daughter to do? Throw the president under the bus when she works in the White House? We gotta give her a break."
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• Mudd is the recipient of numerous CIA awards and commendations, including the Director's Award; the George H.W. Bush Award for excellence in counterterrorism; the CIA's Distinguished Intelligence Medal and the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal; the first-ever William Langer Award for excellence in analysis; and numerous Exceptional Performance Awards.

Chad Myers Top   |   Back

Malcolm Nance Top   |   Back

• Malcolm Wrightson Nance is an American author and media commentator on terrorism, intelligence, insurgency and torture.
• He is a former United States Navy senior chief petty officer specializing in naval cryptology.
• Nance is an intelligence and foreign policy analyst who frequently discusses the history, personalities, and organization of jihadi radicalization and al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL); Southwest Asian and African terror groups; as well as counterinsurgency and asymmetric warfare.
• Schooled in Arabic, he is active in the field of national security policy particularly, in anti- and counter-terrorism intelligence, terrorist strategy and tactics, torture and counter-ideology in combating Islamic extremism.
• In 2016, he published the book, Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe, and published The Plot to Hack America the same year.
• In 2014, he founded and became the executive director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideologies (TAPSTRI), a Hudson, New York–based think tank.

See also: Malcolm Nance (Wikipedia)

Ana Navarro Top   |   Back

• Ana Navarro Flores, B.A., J.D. (born December 28, 1971) is a Nicaraguan-American Republican strategist and political commentator for various news outlets, including CNN, CNN en Español, ABC News, Telemundo, and The View.
• Navarro was born in Nicaragua, in 1971.
• She and her family moved to the United States in 1980.
• A graduate of the University of Miami she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Latin American Studies and Political Science in 1993.
• In 1997, she obtained a Juris Doctor from St. Thomas University Law School.
• Navarro has served in a number of Republican administrations, including the transition team for Florida governor Jeb Bush in 1998.
• She also served as the National Co-Chair of the Hispanic Advisory Council for John McCain in 2008 and Jon Huntsman Jr. in 2012.
• She supported Jeb Bush's 2016 presidential campaign.
• In February 2014 she was hired as a political commentator for ABC News.
• She has also been a contributor to CNN and CNN en Español.
• In October 2016 she made headlines when she strongly criticized Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on CNN after Donald Trump and Billy Bush recording surfaced, and called for party leaders to disown Trump.
• On November 7, she revealed that she had voted for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
• Though Navarro is a lifelong Republican, she is vehemently anti-Trump, and said she decided to vote for Clinton after seeing how close the race in Florida had become.

Christi Paul Top   |   Back

Michaela Pereira Top   |   Back

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Mark Preston Top   |   Back

• Mark Preston (born July 21, 1971) is Executive Editor of CNN Politics, and a CNN Senior Political Analyst.
• His role is to oversee CNN’s election night coverage across its broadcasting and online platforms, organize CNN’s presidential debates and forums, and serve as CNN's main contact with political campaigns at both the state and national level, and to lead the conception and execution of CNN's political events.
• He also provides political analysis for CNN, CNN International and CNN.com, regularly appearing on CNN's major news analysis shows such as New Day, Erin Burnett OutFront, Anderson Cooper 360° and CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, and was promoted to Senior Political Analyst in January 2017.
• He was formerly CNN's Political Director, a post subsequently taken by David Chalian in 2014.
• He hosts "Full Stop with Mark Preston" on SiriusXM POTUS 124.

Richard Quest Top   |   Back

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April Ryan Top   |   Back

• April Danielle Ryan (born September 5, 1967) is an American journalist and author.
• Since 1997, she has served as a White House correspondent and is the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks.
• She is among the best known of the White House press corps.
• In 2017, she joined CNN as a political analyst.
• In May 2017, the National Association of Black Journalists named Ryan as the "Journalist of the Year".
• As a White House correspondent, Ryan has covered four presidential administrations.
• As one of the few African Americans in the White House press corps, Ryan is often the only journalist asking questions on issues concerning minorities, which she has come to resent.
• Following the election of President Donald Trump, Ryan gained notoriety in 2017 after notable exchanges with him and his press secretary Sean Spicer.
• At a February press conference, when Trump began talking about "inner city places" and urban crime, she asked him if he planned to meet with the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). He responded by telling her to set up the meeting with them before asking, "Are they friends of yours?" Ryan responded that she was only a reporter and not a member of the CBC.
• In March 2017, Spicer accused her of having an agenda when she asked about Trump's ties with Russia and then berated her for shaking her head.

Angela Rye Top   |   Back

• Angela Rye (born October 26, 1979) is an American attorney and the Principal and CEO of IMPACT Strategies, a political advocacy firm in Washington, DC.
• She is a political commentator on CNN and an NPR political analyst.
• She served as the executive director and general counsel to the Congressional Black Caucus for the 112th Congress.
• She currently is running the boards of the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, Congressional Black Caucus Political Action Committee, Seattle University School of Law Alumni, and Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network.
• She serves as a senior advisor to the Government Technology and Services Coalition and is a member of the Links, Incorporated .
• Upon moving to the Nation's Capital, Rye co-founded IMPACT, an organization that seeks to encourage young professionals in three core areas: economic empowerment, civic engagement, and political involvement.
• The organization has quickly become a powerful voice and advocate for today's young professionals of color nationwide.
• Under her leadership, IMPACT formed critical partnerships with the National Bar Association, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, National Urban League, Rainbow/PUSH, Congressional Black Caucus Political Education and Leadership Institute, Black Leadership Forum, and many others.
• Rye started off her career in legislative advocacy at the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, an umbrella association for America's 120 historically black colleges and universities.
• Here, she served as the Coordinator of Advocacy and Legislative Affairs.
• Prior to this, she worked in district office of Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) and she served as the Western Region Director of the National Black Law Students Association.
• In 2013, Rye founded IMPACT Strategies, a political advocacy firm.
• She also served as the Senior Advisor and Counsel to the House Committee on Homeland security, where she developed the general political strategy, focusing on modernizing government contracting practices and opening doors of opportunity for small businesses.
• She then served as the Executive Director and General Counsel to the Congressional Black Caucus for the 112th Congress.
• During her time as director, she was "tasked with developing the overall legislative and political strategy for the Caucus".
• Rye is currently a political commentator on CNN and is frequently featured as an on-air personality on several media outlets, including CNN, HuffPost Live, TV One and BET.
• She is known for her humor, wit, candidness and ability to create dialogue that ranges from political campaigns to complex legislation and social issues.
• She is currently dating rapper, Common.

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Tara Setmayer Top   |   Back

• Tara Olivia Setmayer (born September 9, 1975), is currently an ABC News Political Contributor and former GOP communications director on Capitol Hill.
• She has appeared on ABC's The View, Good Morning America and HBO's Real Time w/Bill Maher.
• Prior to joining ABC, Tara was a CNN political commentator from 2014 through the 2016 presidential election cycle.
• She currently writes for Cosmopolitan, and has contributed to The Daily Beast and CNN.com.
• She has also guest-hosted on SiriusXM's Patriot and POTUS channels.
• Setmayer analyses and commentates on political issues that impact America's future.
• During the 2016 presidential election cycle, she earned the reputation of being an outspoken conservative critic of Donald Trump and challenged his surrogates on the veracity of their claims.

Barbara Starr Top   |   Back

• Barbara Starr is an American television news journalist for CNN. She is the network's Pentagon correspondent, based in Washington, DC
• In 2001, Starr joined CNN as the lead Pentagon correspondent covering national security issues including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• Starr has received criticism for her reporting, having been called "a spokesperson for the Pentagon."
• In June 2013, MSNBC reporter Chris Hayes ran a segment in which he argued that Starr's publication of leaked information was at least as potentially harmful to national security as those published by Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian.
• In July 2015, Starr received criticism from Kenyans through a Twitter hashtag that trended for several hours on Internet when she called Kenya a 'terror hot bed' as Obama headed to the East African nation.
• She was referring to the security threat posed by Al-Shabaab militants operating from neighboring Somalia.

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Nischelle Turner Top   |   Back

• Nischelle Renee Turner is an entertainment correspondent for HLN's Showbiz Tonight and CNN.
• Previously she was an entertainment correspondent for KNBC in Los Angeles.
• She was a general assignment reporter for KTTV FOX 11 from 2004 and to October 2, 2008 and worked as a sideline reporter for FOX's Sunday NFL broadcasts, and did segments for a show called Dailies.
• Prior to KTTV, she worked for WEHT, the ABC affiliate in Evansville, Indiana and for WVUE, the FOX Affiliate in New Orleans.
• She is a native of Columbia, Missouri.
• She attended the University of Missouri, and graduated from its Journalism school in 1998.
• She used to work with either analyst Kurt Warner or Torry Holt and either play-by-play Chris Myers, Sam Rosen (sportscaster), or Chris Rose.
• She also works with Paul Sunderland on college basketball telecasts.

See also: Nischelle Turner (Wikipedia)
and: Nischelle Turner (CNN)

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• Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (born January 20, 1964) is an Indian-American journalist and author.
• He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post.
• He has been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek International, and an editor-at-large of Time.
• He is the author of five books, three of them international bestsellers, and the co-editor of one.
• The Global Public Square is where you can make sense of the world every day with insights and explanations from CNN's Fareed Zakaria.

See also: Fareed Zakaria (Wikipedia)
and: Fareed Zakaria (CNN)

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My List of Highly Respected Intellectual Thinkers      

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• Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (born January 20, 1964) is an Indian-American journalist and author.
• He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post.
• He has been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek International, and an editor-at-large of Time.
• He is the author of five books, three of them international bestsellers, and the co-editor of one.
• The Global Public Square is where you can make sense of the world every day with insights and explanations from CNN's Fareed Zakaria.

See also: Fareed Zakaria (Wikipedia)

Carl Bernstein Top   |   Back

• Carl Bernstein (born February 14, 1944) is an American investigative journalist and author.
• While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Bernstein was teamed up with Bob Woodward; the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal.
• These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon.
• The work of Woodward and Bernstein was called "maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time" by longtime journalism figure Gene Roberts.

See also: Carl Bernstein (Wikipedia)

Bob Woodward Top   |   Back

• Robert Upshur Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is an American investigative journalist.
• He has worked for The Washington Post since 1971 as a reporter and is now an associate editor there.
• While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Woodward teamed up with Carl Bernstein; the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal.
• These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon.
• The work of Woodward and Bernstein was called "maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time" by longtime journalism figure Gene Roberts.
• Woodward continued to work for The Washington Post after his reporting on Watergate.
• He has since written 18 books on American politics, 13 of which topped best-seller lists.

Fear: Trump in the White House

"A harrowing portrait of the Trump presidency . . . Again and again, Woodward recounts at length how Trump’s national security team was shaken by his lack of curiosity and knowledge about world affairs and his contempt for the mainstream perspectives of military and intelligence leaders."—Phillip Rucker and Robert Costa, The Washington Post

"A damning picture of the current presidency."—David Martin, CBS News

"An unprecedented inside-the-room look through the eyes of the President's inner circle. . . . stunning."—CNN

"A devastating reported account of the Trump Presidency that will be consulted as a first draft of the grim history it portrays . . . What Woodward has written is not just the story of a deeply flawed President but also, finally, an account of what those surrounding him have chosen to do about it."—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker

"Fear is Woodward at his best, the quintessential investigative reporter with an eye for detail and an uncanny ability to get key players to ensure that their perspective is etched into history. Its timing could not be more critical for a nation exhausted by tweets and spin, and trying to assess the danger to democracy posed by a presidency that shatters its norms and demeans its institutions."—John Diaz, San Francisco Chronicle

"In an age of ‘alternative facts’ and corrosive tweets about ‘fake news,’ Woodward is truth’s gold standard. . . . explosive . . . devastating . . . jaw-dropping."—Jill Abramson, The Washington Post

"Woodward's latest book shows the administration is broken, and yet what comes next could be even worse."—David A. Graham, The Atlantic

See also: Bob Woodward (Wikipedia)

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• Wendy Ruth Sherman (born 1949) is Senior Counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group and also Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
• She served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the fourth-ranking official in the U.S. Department of State, from September 2011 to October 2015.
• She has formerly worked as a social worker, the director of EMILY's list, the director of Maryland's office of child welfare, and the founding president of the Fannie Mae Foundation.
• During the Clinton Administration, she served as Counselor of the United States Department of State and Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State and North Korea Policy Coordinator.
• In the latter role, she was instrumental in negotiations related to North Korea's nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programs.
• She was also the lead negotiator for the Iran nuclear deal.

See also: Wendy Sherman (Wikipedia)

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My List of Special Notable Guest Commentators      

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• Akhil Reed Amar (born September 6, 1958) is an American legal scholar, an expert on constitutional law and criminal procedure.
• Formerly the Southmayd Professor of Law at Yale Law School, he was named Sterling Professor of Law in 2008 and Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia Law School in 2016.
• A Legal Affairs poll placed Amar among the top 20 contemporary US legal thinkers.
• Amar was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where his parents were medical students from India studying at the University of Michigan. His parents later became U.S. citizens. He graduated from Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, California in 1976. His brother, Vikram Amar, is dean of the University of Illinois College of Law.
• Amar is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale College (B.A., 1980) and a graduate of the Yale Law School (J.D. 1984), where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. Amar clerked for future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer when he was a judge on the First Circuit Court of Appeals.
• Amar is the author of numerous publications and books, most recently The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of our Era. The Supreme Court has cited his work in over three dozen cases.
• Amar was a consultant to the television show The West Wing, on which the character Josh Lyman refers to him in an episode in Season Five. His course on constitutional law is one of the most popular undergraduate offerings at Yale College.
• Amar has repeatedly served as a Visiting Professor of Law at Pepperdine School of Law and at Columbia Law School and was recently a visiting professor at University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has also lectured for One Day University. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.
• In 2008, U.S. presidential candidate Mike Gravel said that he would name Amar to the Supreme Court if elected President.
  • The Constitution and Criminal Procedure: First Principles (1997) ISBN 0-300-06678-3
  • For the People (with A. Hirsch) (1997) ISBN 0-684-87102-5
  • The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction (1998) ISBN 0-300-07379-8">0-300-07379-8
  • Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (ed. with P. Brest, S. Levinson, and J.M. Balkin), (2000) ISBN 0-7355-5062-X">0-7355-5062-X
  • America's Constitution: A Biography (2005) ISBN 1-4000-6262-4
  • America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By (2012) ISBN 978-0-465-02957-0
  • The Bill of Rights Primer: A Citizen's Guidebook to the American Bill of Rights (with L. Adams) (2013) ISBN 978-1-62087-572-8
  • The Law of the Land: A Grand Tour of Our Constitutional Republic (2015) ISBN 978-0-465-06590-5
  • The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era (2016) ISBN 978-0-465-09633-6

See also: Akhil Amar (Wikipedia)