News editor, columnist, political commentator, pundit, reporter and author, Eleanor Clift is a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine. Her column, Capitol Letter is posted each week on Newsweek.com and MSNBC. She is a regular political panelist on The McLaughlin Group and is a political contributor for the Fox News Channel.

Re-elected to the US Senate with 81% vote, Sen. George Mitchell was also elected Majority Leader of the Senate. A former US Attorney and Federal Judge, for six consecutive years Sen. Mitchell has been voted the Most Respected Member of the Senate. While in the Senate, he has served on the Finance, Environment and Public Works and Veterans Affairs Committees.

Geraldine A. Ferraro is an attorney, journalist, author, business women, a Democratic politician and a former member of the United States House of Representatives. She was the first female Vice-Presidential candidate representing a major American political party and served in the 2008 presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Helen Thomas has been a fixture of the White House press corps since 1961 when, as a member of the UPI team, she began covering President John F. Kennedy. She has traveled around the world several times with Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush, during the course of which she covered every economic summit.

Thirty-ninth President of the United States and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, while serving as President Jimmy Carter created two new cabinet-level departments: the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. He founded The Carter Center, a non-profit organization that works to advance human rights and is heavily involved in Habitat for Humanity.

Walter Mondale was elected vice president of the United States in 1976 in Jimmy Carter's administration. On the president's behalf, Mondale traveled extensively throughout the nation and the world advocating U.S. policy, and was the first vice president to have an office in the White House.

Author of numerous NYT bestselling books, Dinesh D'Souza is a noted conservation and defines conservatism in the American sense as "conserving the principles of the American Revolution". He is currently the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

A specialist in American foreign policy, European security, and national security affairs, Ivo H. Daalder is a special adviser on national security at the Center for American Progress and is also senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He has authored over 10 books with his most recent being the American Homeland (2002).

A Baptist minister, political and civil rights and social justice activist, and radio talk show host of Keepin It Real, Al Sharpton fights injustice wherever he finds it. He makes regular guest appearances on The O'Reilly Factor and MSNBC and is praised as "a man who is willing to tell it like it is".

Three-time Emmy award winning journalist and anchor of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°, Anderson Cooper has covered nearly all of major news events around the world including the 2008 Presidential elections, the economic crisis, Hurricane Katrina, and the bombings in London.