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Guest host: Frank Sesno
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday at a campaign rally in Rawalpindi. We'll have an update on events on the ground, plus a look at the life and legacy of the slain leader and what it means for upcoming elections in January and stability in the region.
Simon Robinson, Time Magazine South Asia Bureau Chief
Shuja Nawaz, Pakistani journalist and author of the forthcoming book, "Crossed Swords: Pakistan, its Army, and the Wars Within"
Dr. Marvin Weinbaum, Afghanistan and Pakistan analyst and scholar at Middle East Institute
Anthony Cordesman, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Journalist Thomas DeFrank spent more than three decades having candid, off-the-record conversations with Gerald Ford. The only proviso was that DeFrank could not report on what was said until after Ford's death. DeFrank reports on Ford's real feelings about pardoning Richard Nixon, his anger at Ronald Reagan for challenging him in 1976, and what he thought about the all of the presidents that followed him.
Thomas DeFrank, Washington bureau chief for the "New York Daily News" and coauthor of "Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms," "The Politics of Diplomacy," and "Quest for the Presidency 1992"
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