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May 28, 2021

  • House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York 
  • Rep. French Hill, Republican of Arkansas 
  • Austan Goolsbee, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago president and CEO
  • CBS News cybersecurity expert Christopher Krebs 

May 21, 2021

  • Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, Republican of Pennsylvania, and Josh Gottheimer, Democrat of New Jersey
  • New York City Mayor Eric Adams
  • Miami Mayor Francis Suarez
  • Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates 
  • Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb

May 14, 2021

  • Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, Republican presidential candidate
  • Rep. Tony Gonzales, Republican of Texas  
  • El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser  
  • Laredo, Texas, Mayor Victor Trevino
  • Rep. Lauren Underwood, Democrat of Illinois
  • National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard   

May 7, 2023

  • Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas 
  • Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, Independent of Arizona 
  • Rep. Patrick McHenry, Republican of North Carolina 
  • North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat 

April 30, 2023

  • Rep. Ro Khanna, Democrat of California 
  • Rep. Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina
  • Rep. Tony Gonzales, Republican of Texas
  • Gary Cohn, former top economic adviser in the Trump White House and now vice chairman of IBM

April 23, 2023

  • Sen. Chris Coons, Democrat of Delaware
  • Former Vice President Mike Pence 
  • Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas 
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

April 16, 2023

  • 2024 Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson 
  • Sen. Mark Kelly, Democrat of Arizona
  • New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat
  • U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, Republican of Ohio
  • European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde

April 2

  • Sen. Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut
  • Preet Bharara, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York 
  • John Bolton, former national security adviser 
  • Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Emma Tucker

March 26

  • Rep. Tony Gonzales, Republican of Texas
  • Sen. Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia
  • National Security Council spokesperon John Kirby
  • Rikki KliemanBill Bratton and Robert Costa 
  • Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

March 19

  • Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts
  • Rep. Patrick McHenry, Republican of North Carolina
  • Gary Cohn, former top economic adviser in the Trump White House and now vice chairman of IBM
  • Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway, co-hosts of "Pivot" podcast
  • H.R. McMaster, former national security adviser in the Trump White House and a CBS News contributor

March 12

  • Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen
  • Rep. Ro Khanna, Democrat of California
  • Rep. Michael McCaul, Republican of Texas
  • Christopher Krebs, cybersecurity expert and analyst
  • New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy

March 5

  • Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan speaks to Robert Costa 
  • Sen. Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia 
  • Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois
  • Rep. Brad Wenstrup, Republican of Ohio
  • Former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb

Feb. 26

  • CIA director William Burns
  • Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
  • Reps. Mike Gallagher, Republican of Wisconsin, and  Raja Krishnamoorthi, Democrat of Illinois
  • Drew Findling and Jennifer Little, attorneys for former President Donald Trump in the Fulton County, Georgia, investigation  

Feb. 19

  • Secretary of State Antony Blinken
  • Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont
  • Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland
  • Fiona Hill, the former senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council, and John Sullivan, the former U.S. ambassador to Russia
  • Dr. Joshua Gordon, the director of the National Institute of Mental Health

Feb. 12

  • Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana
  • Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas
  • Govs. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, Doug Burgum of North Dakota and Wes Moore of Maryland

Feb. 5

  • Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas
  • Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey
  • Gary Cohn, former top economic adviser in the Trump White House and current vice chairman of IBM
  • Reps. Robert GarciaMike LawlerSummer Lee and Zach Nunn

Jan. 29

  • House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
  • Sens. Mark Warner of Virginia and Marco Rubio of Florida
  • Democratic Rep. Val Demings of Florida

Jan. 22

  • Rep. Mike Turner, Republican of Ohio

  • Sen. Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia

  • Mayors Francis Suarez of Miami, LaToya Cantrell of New Orleans, Andre Dickens of Atlanta and John Giles of Mesa, Arizona

Jan. 15

  • Democratic Rep. Daniel Goldman of New York
  • GOP Rep. Chris Stewart of Utah
  • Lucius Outlaw III, associate professor of law at Howard University School of Law
  • Chris Whipple, author of "The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House"
  • Director of the Hayden Center at George Mason University Larry Pfeiffer
  • Former CIA deputy director Michael Morell, CBS News national security contributor

Jan. 8

  • GOP Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina
  • GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas
  • Democratic Rep. Victoria Escobar of Texas
  • Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine
  • Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova

Jan. 1

  • Michael Gapen, chief economist for Bank of America
  • Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund
  • Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan, CBS News national security contributor Michael Morell, former Obama administration undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy, and former Trump administration National Security Adviser General H.R. McMaster
  • Ben Tracy, CBS News senior national and environmental correspondent, and Kevin Book, an energy analyst and currently the managing director of ClearView Energy Partners  
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