My conversation with Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan & Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan.

My conversation with Timothy Geithner, U.S. Treasury Secretary.

David Axelrod, Senior Advisor to President Obama on how long it will take to fix the economy.

My conversation with Rahm Emanuel, incoming White House Chief of Staff. The full interview airs Friday January 16, 2009.

Henry Paulson is the public face of the government's response to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. His actions and decisions played a major role in the fate of institutions such as Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and AIG. Recently, he summoned top bank...

I recently had a conversation with Oliver Stone and Josh Brolin about their new movie, "W." The movie examines the life of President George W. Bush. Stone said the he did the movie because there is no better character than our president. "There's just nobody like him," Stone said. "That's...

The global financial crisis has many Americans scared and confused. Many believe congress is bailing out the very people that got us into this mess. "People are very angry at how the system was exploited and we can review that, but what we have to spend our energy on is...

Many say they never saw this financial turmoil coming, but that's not the case for Nouriel Roubini. The professor of economics and international business at New York University was profiled in The New York Times Magazine as one of the people who had warned us that trouble for the financial...

Barney Frank is one of the leading voices in Congress on the economy and government regulation. As chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, he will play a major role in the Bush Administrations proposed $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. I recently spoke with him about the rescue plan...

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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