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Guest host: Katty Kay
An update on the U.S. financial crisis, the Federal government’s efforts to work out a massive rescue plan, and what it could mean for taxpayers
Michael Greenberger, professor, University of Maryland Law School, director, Center for Health and Homeland Security, and former senior regulator, Commodities Futures Trading Commission
Alan S. Blinder, Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, co-director of Princeton's Center for Economic Policy Studies, vice chairman of the Promontory Interfinancial Network
Greg Ip, U.S economics editor, The Economist
Guest host: Katty Kay
A former British intelligence officer explains why she decided to leak a memo from the U.S. National Security Agency in the run-up to the Iraq War.
Marcia Mitchell, a former senior executive for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and co-author (with Thomas Mitchell) of "The Spy Who Seduced America: Lies and Betrayal in the Heat of the Cold War."
Thomas Mitchell, a former FBI special agent
Katharine Gun, former British intelligence officer.