I recently sat down with Princeton economist Alan Blinder and business columnist Steven Pearlstein of The Washington Post. We discussed the crisis on Wall Street and the government's ongoing ongoing efforts to secure the strength of our economy. Here's a bit of what they had to say.

I discussed the Bush administration's takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with four people knowledgeable about the matter's significance: Nouriel Roubini, New York University professor of economics; Mohamed El-Erian, CEO of PIMCO; Gretchen Morgenson and Floyd Norris, both with the New York Times. Here's some of what they had...

The Democratic and Republican Parties officially nominated their candidates for the 2008 presidential election last week. The contest between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain now enters its most crucial period until Election Day. Last Friday, we looked backed at the two conventions and the dynamics of the race with...

John McCain has chosen Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his vice-presidential candidate on the Republican ticket for the White House. Here is an excerpt of my conversation with Palin from October 2007.

I was on vacation last week in France when the Iranian government said yes to a request for an interview with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I flew to Tehran and talked to the President in the garden outside his presidential office. We talked about Georgia, Afghanistan, the U.S. presidential election, the...

There has been significant debate about the United States' tactics in the fight against terrorism and how they have undermined America's moral authority. Recently, I spoke with two authors who have new books out on the subject. Jane Mayer is an investigative reporter for The New Yorker. Her book is...

As the crisis between Georgia and Russia continued this week, we gathered different perspectives on the issue. Here are my interviews with Russia's ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin and two top American experts on the country - Robert Kagan of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Stephen...

Imran Khan, the Pakistani opposition politician and former cricket star, was recently in New York. We talked about how he sees the political situation in Pakistan today and about a different strategy to fight the militants in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region.

With the Beijing Olympics set to open this week, China is again at the center of the news. The economic power's growing influence around the world is also the subject of a new documentary China Inside Out airing tonight on ABC. In the piece, Bob Woodruff reports from Angola, Brazil,...

Barbara Walters' new memoir, Audition, is a revealing account of an extraordinary life lived on the air, and off the air. I talked to her recently about some of the hardest moments and about what made her such a good interviewer. Here is a part of that conversation:
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Governor Tim Kaine has been at the center of the news this week after Tuesday's front page story in the Washington Post about his "very serious" conversations with Sen. Barack Obama about joining the Democratic presidential ticket. I had a wide ranging conversation with the Governor on Tuesday about the...

I spoke with retired Admiral William Fallon recently. He stepped down last March as U.S. Centcom Commander over perceptions that he was at odds with the administration's policies. We spoke about how he viewed Iran and the importance of U.S. engagement with the world. Here is a part of that...

This week, Senator Obama began the European leg of his much anticipated overseas trip. I spoke to Washington Post columnist Jim Hoagland, New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner and author Robin Wright about their observations after the Senator's first stop in Berlin, where he drew a crowd of...

Mohammed El Erian is one of the country's most successful money managers. He's the co-CEO of the Pacific Investment Management Company, better known as PIMCO. That firm oversees more than $829 billion. He previously led Harvard University's endowment to substantial returns on investment. I spoke to him recently about his...

I recently talked to Ken Pollack of the Brookings Institution about his new book, A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East. Here is a part of that conversation:

David Chang is chef/owner of Momofuku Noodle Bar, Momofuku Ko and Momofuku Ssäm Bar in New York City. Chang has taken the food world by surprise, he has already won two James Beard awards and both Bon Appeitie and GQ named him chef of the year in 2007. Here is...

Senator Jim Webb is one of the rising stars in the Democratic Party. Webb is a decorated Marine who served in Vietnam and was former Secretary of the Navy under the Reagan administration. In 2006, he was elected senator of Virginia after defeating the Republican incumbent George Allen in a...

Nelson Mandela celebrated his 90th birthday last Friday. To mark the occasion, we celebrated the South African leader's life and legacy with two people who have known him and his country well -- Time Magazine's Rick Stengel who helped Mandela with his autobiography and Chief Justice Margaret Marshall of the...

I talked with singer/songwriter Neil Young about his music, his marriage, and his faith. You can see excerpts on all three topics in the clip embedded below: