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A panel of journalists joins Diane for review and analysis of the week's top news stories.
E.J. Dionne, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, Washington Post columnist, and author of "Stand Up Fight Back."
Susan Page, Washington bureau chief for "USA Today"
Tony Blankley, editorial page editor of "The Washington Times." He is author of "The West's Last Chance."
President Lyndon Johnson and clergyman Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led the fight for civil rights. Their relationship was finally severed by King's opposition to the Vietnam war. Journalist Nick Kotz explains how previously unreleased documents shed new light on the relationship between these two towering figures of the 1960s.
Nick Kotz, author of five books on American history and public policy, is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.