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Updated on: June 21, 2026 / 3:04 PM EDT / CBS News

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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina
Democratic Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado
Anthony Salvanto, CBS News director of elections and surveys
A panel with Amos Hochstein, former White House adviser on global infrastructure and energy security, and Kevin Book, managing director of ClearView Energy Partners

Rep. Ro Khanna, Democrat of California
Rep. Jim Himes, Democrat of Connecticut
Rep. Don Bacon, Republican of Nebraska
Chris Krebs, CBS News cybersecurity contributor, and Ben Buchanan, Biden adviser and now a professor at Johns Hopkins and an adviser to Anthropic
Rye Barcott, Marine veteran and With Honor founder

Kevin Hassett, director of White House National Economic Council
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland
Reps. Josh Gottheimer, Democrat of Maine, and Mike Lawler, Republican of New York
Dr. Deborah Birx, former White House coronavirus response coordinator
Lt. Col. William Swenson (Ret.) and Master Sgt. Matthew Williams (Ret.), Medal of Honor recipients

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer
Ambassador Alexander Yui, Taiwan's Representative to the U.S.
Anthony Salvanto, CBS News executive director of elections and surveys
Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, Republican of Pennsylvania, and Tom Suozzi, Democrat of New York
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche
CBS News White House correspondent and White House Correspondents Association President Weijia Jiang
CBS News national security contributor Sam Vinograd and former deputy director of the Secret Service and now a CBS law enforcement analyst AT Smith
Rep. Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland
Sir Christian Turner. U.K ambassador to the U.S.

U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz
Amos Hochstein, Biden administration senior energy adviser and Middle East negotiator
Former U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder

Retired Gen. Frank McKenzie, former commander of U.S. Central Command
Democratic Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who heads the Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA
A panel with Amy Walter, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Cook Political Report; David Sanger, a White House and national security correspondent at The New York Times; and Jeff Mason, a White House correspondent at Bloomberg
Jared Isaacman, NASA administrator

Tom Homan, Trump administration border czar
Rep. Jim Himes, Democrat of Connecticut
Jerome Adams, former U.S. Surgeon General
Iran policy analyst Karim Sadjadpour and former CENTCOM commander and CBS News contributor and retired Gen. Frank McKenzie

Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi
Sen. Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, Republican of Texas
Former CIA executive and operative Jonathan Gannon, CBS News national security contributor and Biden administration top counterterrorism official Sam Vinograd and energy policy expert and analyst Kevin Book

Sen. Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas
Sen. Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut
Rep. Mike Turner, Republican of Ohio
Sen. Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas
Karim Sadjadpour from the Carnegie Endownment for international peace and former CENTCOM commander and CBS News contributor Ret. Gen. Frank McKenzie

Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer
Christine Lagarde, European Central Bank president
Govs. Laura Kelly of Kansas, Andy Beshear of Kentucky, Mike Braun of Indiana and Mike DeWine of Ohio

Sen. Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia
Rep. Tony Gonzales, Republican of Texas
David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research and a CBS News election law contributor
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado
Rep. Michael McCaul, Republican of Texas
Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn
Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt; Mesa, Arizona Mayor Mark Freeman; Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Quinton Lucas; and Miami Mayor Eileen Higgins