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All Episodes

Polioptics — 159 episodes

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Episode 159, with guests Michael Shear and Stephen Grand

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Episode 158, with guest Joe Plumeri

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Episode 157, with guests Sam Hall, Ashley Parker, & Jay Barth

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Episode 156, with Gene Sperling, Peter Carlin and Kevin Morris

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Episode 155, with guests Mo Elleithee and Ralph Alswang

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Episode 154, with guests Michael Waldman and Geoff Dyer

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Episode 153, with guest Todd Purdum (encore show with a new open)

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Episode 152, with guests Kostya Kennedy of Sports Illustrated and Sandy Montag of IMG

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Episode 151, with guests Michael Kirk and Terry Lenzner

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Episode 150, with guests Ryan Lizza & Kate Zernike

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Episode 149, with guests Ezekiel Emanuel and Mike Pesca

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Episode 148, with guests Barry Josephson and Arun Chaudhary

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Episode 147, with guests Kathleeen Behrens, David Cornwell and Sam Marchiano

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Episode 146, with guests Carter Eskew and Harvey Kaye

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Episode 145, with guest Todd Purdum

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Episode 144, with guests Matt Canter and Kirsten Powers

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Episode 143, with guest Dan Pfeiffer

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Episode 142, with guests Amy Chozick and Glenn Thrush

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Episode 141, with guests Jeffrey Goldberg and Mark Leibovich

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Episode 140, with guest Joe Pompeo and Joe Hagan

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Episode 139, with guests Nick Confessore and Ken Vogel

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Episode 138, with guests David Shipley and Doug Mills

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Episode 137, with guests Jacob Weisberg and Howard Wolfson

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Episode 136, with guests John King and Michael Waldman

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Episode 135, with guests Brad Meltzer and Paul Mecurio

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Episode 134, with guests Ashley Parker and Stephen Ives

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Episode 133, with guests Andrew White and Morgan Pehme

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Episode 132, with guests Mark Halperin, John Heilemann and Parker Liautaud

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Episode 131, with guests Doris Kearns-Goodwin, Bob McNeely and Chuck Todd

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Episode 130, with guests Bill Schneider and Reid Cherlin

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Episode 129, with guests Eri Hotta and John Skipper

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Episode 128, with guests Josh Sapan, Gordon England and Susan Glasser

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Episode 127, with guests Peter Baker, James Hawes and Rocky Collins

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Episode 126, with guest Wolfson Liautaud

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Episode 125, with guest Chris Matthews

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Episode 124, with guests Molly Ball and David Bennett

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Episode 123, with guests Ron Fournier and Brad Stone

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Episode 122, with guests Robert Costa and Steve Fainaru

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Episode 121, with guests Ben White, Matt Zeitlin and Tim Carney

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Episode 120, with guest A. Scott Berg, author of 'Wilson'

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Episode 119, with guests Neal Wolin and Richard Wolffe

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Episode 118, with guests Peter Hamby, Scott Conroy and Blake Zeff

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Episode 117, with guests Sam Katz and Doug Mills

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Episode 116, with guests Wil Haygood and Danny Strong

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Episode 115, with guests Jennifer Palmieri and Charlie Pearce

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Episode 114, with guests Peter Baker, Bruce Katz and Ned Lamont

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Episode 113, with guest Austan Goolsbee

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Episode 112, with guests Ron Brownstein and Shelly Porges

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Episode 111, with guest Mark Leibovich, author of This Town

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Episode 110, with guests John Skipper and Richard Haass

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Episode 109, with guest Allen Guelzo, author of "Gettysburg: The Last Invasion"

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Episode 108, with guests Chris Grewe, Peter Hamby and Dave Cantanese

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Episode 107, with guests Jessica Yellin, Jefrey Pollock and Norman Aladjem

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Episode 106, with guests Dawn Ostroff and Ben Smith

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Episode 105, with guests Jonathan Alter and Christie Hefner

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Episode 104, with guests Stuart Connelly and General Richard Klumpp (USAF) and guest host Matt Bennett, founder of Third Way

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Episode 103, with guest Beau Willimon of HOUSE OF CARDS

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Episode 102, with guests Chris Lehane and Matt Bennett

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Episode 101, with guests Jim Popkin and Jeffrey Frank

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Episode 100, with guests Brian Stelter and Charles Shapiro

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Episode 99, with guests Ari Fleischer, Karen Hughes and Mark Langdale

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Episode 98, with guests David Zaslav, David Leavy & Jason Gay

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Episode 97, with guests Jim Margolis and Ron Klain

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Episode 96, with guests Nancy Benac and Jeff Smith

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Episode 95, with guests Bob Barnett and Jessica Mindich

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Episode 94, with guests Chuck Todd and Jeremy Gaines

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Episode 93, with guests Jenni LeCompote and Beau Willimon (with a special drop-by from former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner)

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Episode 92, with guests Beau Willimon and R.J. Cutler

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Episode 91, with guests Matt Mackowiak, Chris Frates and Anne Edwards

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Episode 90, with guests Arun Chaudhary of Revolution Messaging, Christopher Brown of QGA Public Affairs and Scott Treibitz of Tricom Associates

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Episode 89, with guests David Morehouse of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Dan Meader of John McInnis Auctioneers

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Episode 88, with guests Bob Wheelock of AJE – Al Jazeera English and George Gigicos of Telion Corp.

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Episode 87, with guests Michael Hastings and George Little

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Episode 86, with guests Will Ritter, Max A. Schindler and Max Schindler

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Episode 85, with guests Ted Widmer, editor of LISTENING IN, and Bill Nichols, managing editor of POLITICO

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Episode 84, with guests John Feehery and Jim Long

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Episode 83, with guests Mark Updegrove and Michael Beschloss

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Episode 82, with guests Russ Schriefer and Tom DeFrank

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Episode 81, with guests Kathryn Roth-Douquet and Evan Thomas

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Episode 80, with guests Shelley Z Ross and Ajay Patil

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Episode 79, with guests Arun Chaudhary, Craig Minassian and Kevin Sullivan

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Episode 78, with guests Cindi Leive, Editor-in-Chief of GLAMOUR and John Ekdahl, Florida volunteer for Romney-Ryan 2012

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Episode 77, with guests Mark Leibovich, Adam Rosman and Walter Stahr

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Episode 76, with guests Mark Bowden, Nathaniel Stein & Kevin Sullivan

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Episode 75, with guests Mike McCurry and David Beaubaire (and guest co-host Kevin Sullivan)

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Episode 74, with guests Robert Draper and Craig Shirley (and guest co-host Matt Mackowiak)

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Episode 73, with guests James Bennet, Editor of The Atlantic, Abassador Capricia Marshall, U.S. Chief of Protocol and Chef Peter Betz, Executive Sous-Chef of The Waldorf Astoria

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Episode 72, with guests Bob Woodward, John Emerson and Eli Attie (Re-post)

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Episode 71, with guests Jonathan Martin, Brad Lichtenstein and Nicholas Burns

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Episode 70, with guests Joe Lockhart and Josh Gottheimer

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Episode 69, with guests Phil Alongi and Adam Belmar

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Episode 68, with guests Alan Schroeder and Kevin Doyle

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Episode 67, with guests Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, George Caudill, Dan Rosenthal and the legendary Matt Cooper

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Episode 66, with guests Don Baer and Jeffrey Goldberg

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Episode 65, with guests former CNN correspondent Frank Sesno and and former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert (and guest co-host Craig Minassian)

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Episode 64, with guests Ashley Parker of the New York Times, former Maine Governor Angus King and ESPN's Paul Lukas, founder of Uni-Watch (and guest co-host Kevin Sullivan)

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Episode 63, with guests Theo LeCompte and Robert Merry (and guest co-host Matt Mackowiak)

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Episode 62, with guests David Maraniss, Michael Quinn and Alexander Lamis (and guest co-host Nicolle Wallace)

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Episode 61, with guests Brian Stelter, Jamie Rubin and Jonathan Prince (and cameo by Liam Prince)

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Episode 60, with guests Howard Wolfson, Gordon Johndroe and Joshua Green (and guest co-host Kevin Sullvian)

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Episode 59, with guests David Wallechinsky and Jerry Weintraub (and guest co-host Kevin Sullivan)

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Episode 58, with guests Jake Tapper and Benjamin Wallace-Wells

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Episode 57, with guests Mark McKinnon and Charlie Dharapak

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Episode 56, with guests Nancy Gibbs and Dan Gerstein

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Episode 55, with guests Michael Feldman, Chip Smith, Ben LaBolt and Arnette Heintze

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Episode 54, with guests Tammy Haddad, Mark Katz and Mary Phillips-Sandy

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Episode 53, with guests David Almacy of Edelman, Former USSS Agent Dan Emmett and Michael Shaw of Bag News Notes

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Episode 52, with guests Ned Martel of the Washington Post, Ashley Parker of the New York Times, and Stephen Goodin, former personal aide to President Bill Clinton

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Episdode 51, with guest Dan Emmett, retired Special Agent of the U.S. Secret Service

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Episode 50, with guest Pete Souza, Chief Official Obama White House Photographer

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Episode 49, with guests Mark Penn, Karen Hughes and Steve Schmidt

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Episode 48, with guests Jen Psaki, Former Obama Deputy Communications Director and Tony Fratto, Former Bush Deputy Press Secretary

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Episode 47, with guests Sebastian Junger, author of WAR and director of RESTREPO, and Ashley Parker, correspondent for the New York Times

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Episode 46, with guests Anita McBride, former Chief of Staff to First Lady Laura Bush, and Arun Chaudhary, White House videographer for President Obama

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Episode 45, with guests Steve Scully of C-SPAN and Michael Shaw, founder of BagNewsNotes.

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Episode 44, with guests James Fallows of The Atlantic and Car Czar Steve Rattner

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Episode 43, with guests Jason Recher of NorthStar Strategies and NFL Digital Chief Jeff Berman.

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Episode 42, with guests Rich Galen and Filmmaker Barak Goodman

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Episode 41, with NYT's Jodi Kantor, author of THE OBAMAS, and GOP Strategist Tucker Eskew

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Episode 40, with guest Chuck Todd of NBC News

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Episode 39, with guests Mayor Setti Warren of Newton, Mass. and Juli Weiner of Vanity Fair

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Episode 38, with guests NBC's Antoine Sanfuentes and Google's Rob Saliterman and Andrew Roos

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Episode 37, with guests Evan Thomas, co-author of "Playbook 2012: The Right Fights Back" and Spencer Geissinger, Director of Operations and Advance in the George W Bush Administration

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Episode 36, with guests David Rubenstein, co-founder of The Carlyle Group, and Diana Walker, legendary photojournalist

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Episode 35, with guests Chris Lehane and Bill Heyman

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Episode 34, with guests Fred Davis, President of Strategic Perceptions Inc. and Rosiland Jordan of Al Jazeera English

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Episode 33, with guests Roger Simon, POLITICO's Chief Political Columnist, and Nick Schaper, Executive Director for Digital Strategic Communications at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

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Episode 32, with guests Neera Tanden and Jennifer Palmieri of the Center for American Progress, and James Davis of RNC Tampa 2012

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Episode 31, with guests Brooke Brower, Senior Producer of MSNBC's 'The Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd' and Mark Pfeifle, Deputy National Security Advisor to President Bush

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Episode 30, with guests Mike Barnicle of MORNING JOE and Nicolle Wallace, author of IT'S CLASSIFIED

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Episode 29, with guests MSNBC's Jeremy Gaines and law journalism expert Edward Adams

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Episode 28, with guests former White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolton and PROHIBITION filmmaker Lynn Novick

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Episode 27, with guests Don Baer, Director of Communications in the Clinton White House, and "THE PRODUCERS" (Part 2)

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Episode 26, "THE PRODUCERS" (Part 1), Scott Sforza and Steve Rabinowitz, directors of productions for Presidents Clinton and Bush

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Episode 25, with guests Ann Compton of ABC News and Arun Chaudhary, former White House Videographer

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Episode 24, with guests New York Times photographer Doug Mills and former State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley

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Episode 23, with guests Time Magazine's Mark Halperin and Advance Legend Mort Engelberg

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Episode 22, with guests filmmaker Peter Schnall and C-SPAN's Howard Mortman

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Episode 21, with guests Jack Quinn, former White House Counsel, and Nancy Cordes of CBS News

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Episode 20, with guests George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, and Matt Bennett and Matt Mackowiak on the debt debacle

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Episode 19, with guests Sarah Lyall of the New York Times, and John Harris, Editor-in-Chief of Politico

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Episode 18, with guests John Feehery, Jim Manley and Paul Conway, president Generation Opportunity

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Episode 17, with guests Antony Blinken, National Security Advisor to the Vice President and Brian Stelter, media reporter for The New York Times

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Episode 16, with guests Betsy Fischer, Executive Producer of "Meet The Press" and Prof. Alan Schroeder, Debate Macher from Northeastern U.

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Episode 15, with guests Mark Leibovich of The New York Times, Mike Allen of POLITICO and Geoff Morrell of The Pentagon

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Episode 14, with guests John Heilemann of GAME CHANGE, Jeanie Mamo, Michael Shaw of BagNewsNotes and Eric Welch and Josh Gatlin of Passcode Creative

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Episode 13, with guests Jon Karl of ABC News, Scot Lehigh of The Boston Globe, Josh Rogers of New Hampshire Public Radio

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Episode 12, with guests Jake Siewert, Former White House Press Secretary and Daniel Cruise, Former Director of Public Affairs, National Security Council

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Episode 11, with guest Dee Dee Myers, Former White House Press Secretary

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Episode 10, with guest Anne Edwards, Former White House Director of Press Advance

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Episode 9, with guests Howard Wolfson, Deputy Mayor of NYC, and Kevin Sullivan, Former Communications Director for President George W. Bush

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Episode 8, with guest David Hume Kennerly, Pulitzer Prize-winning legendary photojournalist

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Episode 7, with guest Mark Katz of the Soundbite Institute

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Episode 6, with guest Ed Gillespie, GOP Major Domo, on the Beginning of Campaign 2012

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Episode 5, with guest TV Legend Sam Donaldson of ABC News

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Episode 4, with guests Joe Curl of The Washington Times and Ed Henry of CNN

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Episode 3, with guests Joe Lockhart and Ari Fleischer, Former White House Press Secretaries

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Episode 2, with guests Jeannie Mamo and John Hlinko on the State of The Union Speech

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Episode 1, with guest Jonathan Prince, Democratic Strategist, previewing the State of The Union