May 18, 2008
Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez was commander of coalition forces in Iraq at the time of the abuses took place at Abu Ghraib. After the scandal broke, Sanchez resigned from the army without a promised promotion. Here is what he told me about his accountability:
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Charlie Rose | Posted May 15, 2008 | Politics
John Harwood and Gerald Seib have been covering this historic race for the presidency for two of the country's best newspapers. Howard writes for the New York Times and serves as CNBC`s chief Washington correspondent while Seib is the executive Washington editor of the Wall Street Journal. I recently spoke...
Charlie Rose | Posted May 12, 2008 | Business
Trade has become a hot and much discussed political topic. Both Democratic candidates have criticized NAFTA and other free trade agreements for hurting U.S. workers. Last month the Bush administration's proposed Colombia free trade agreement was blocked in the House of Representatives. Other proposed trade deals with South Korea and...
Charlie Rose | Posted May 9, 2008 | Media
I recently interviewed my long time friend and mentor, Bill Moyers, who, after serving as a member of the Lyndon Johnson administration, became one of the most respected journalists on American television. He has spent his life engaging with central issues of American democracy. We talked about whether Barack Obama...
Charlie Rose | Posted May 6, 2008 | Media
Chuck Todd has followed this presidential race as closely as anyone. As NBC News' political director, he regularly analyzes the race for the network's top news programs. I recently spoke to him about Sen. Barack Obama's pursuit of superdelegates and Bill Clinton's impact on the race.
Charlie Rose | Posted May 1, 2008 | Politics
Former President Jimmy Carter continues to travel around the world on behalf of the Carter Center. His contributions toward global health, peace and human rights earned him a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. I recently spoke with him about the issue of moral equivalency in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and about...
Charlie Rose | Posted April 29, 2008 | Politics
John Negroponte has been a diplomat for over four decades. He's been an ambassador to Iraq, Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, and the United Nations and he now serves as Deputy Secretary of State. I recently spoke with him about the search for Osama bin Laden and Israel's attack on a...
Charlie Rose | Posted April 24, 2008 | Politics
Congressman Rahm Emanuel of Illinois is one of the powerful voices in the Democratic party today. As the Democratic Caucus Chair, he is the fourth-highest ranking member in the House Democratic leadership. He is also close to Senators Obama and Clinton but has not made an endorsement. I spoke with...
Charlie Rose | Posted April 21, 2008 | Politics
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger have been nationally recognized for their bipartisan approach to governing and bold efforts to combat problems like global warming. The two are also friends and political allies. Here is an excerpt from my conversation with them last week:
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Charlie Rose | Posted April 10, 2008 | Politics
John Burns and Dexter Filkins of The New York Times
have covered the war in Iraq at some of its most critical
times. They told me about key moments that have shaped
their perspectives on the situation today.
Here's a look at that...
AP | HILLEL ITALIE | April 10, 2008
Charlie Rose | Posted April 3, 2008 | Business
Pete Peterson, co-founder and senior chairman of The Blackstone Group, will give $1 billion to his new foundation, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, to help solve some of the country's biggest economic problems. In my recent conversation with him, we also talked about how he sees the current economic crisis,...
Charlie Rose | Posted April 1, 2008 | Business
John Snow is in a unique position to assess the recent economic downturn. As former Treasury Secretary and now a top executive at Cerberus Capital Management, one of the world's largest private investment firms, he spoke to me about the extent and the causes of the recent market turmoil. ...
Charlie Rose | Posted March 27, 2008 | Politics
Gov. Ed Rendell is a dominant political figure in Pennsylvania. He's recently been campaigning with Sen. Hillary Clinton across his home state, which is crucial to her efforts to catch up to Senator Barack Obama in the delegate count. Gov. Rendell spoke to me about Clinton's popularity in Pennsylvania and...
Dan Brown | Posted March 27, 2008 | Business
Earlier this week, I attended Charlie Rose's conversation with world-renowned economist and author Jeffrey D. Sachs at the 92nd Street Y, and I came away from the event torn with alternating currents of outrage and hope -- precisely the reaction I think Dr. Sachs intended.
After riffing about the current...
Charlie Rose | Posted March 26, 2008 | Business
John Hofmeister is president of Shell Oil Company, the U.S. division of Royal Dutch Shell. Shell reported global earnings of $27.6 billion last year and is the second largest public oil company in the world. He's also been highly vocal about the environment and proclaimed his support for the global...
Michelle Haimoff | Posted March 26, 2008 | Business
As I mentioned on ThePanelist.com, I attended Charlie Rose's interview of Jeffrey Sachs at the 92nd Street Y on Tuesday night. Jeffrey Sachs, who is the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and has been an economic advisor to governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former...
MarketWatch | Jon Friedman | March 24, 2008 08:17 AM
Charlie Rose | Posted March 19, 2008 | Business
The Federal Reserve has taken extraordinary emergency measures in response to the current financial turmoil. Tonight, I spoke with Paul Volcker, former Fed chairman and one of the most respected figures on the economy, in an exclusive interview. Here is what he had to say about the collapse of Bear...
Charlie Rose | Posted March 18, 2008 | Politics
I spoke recently with Washington Post Diplomatic correspondent, Robin Wright, about her new book, Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East. She talked about what the future struggle for democracy in the region might look like, and what the US can do to support it. Here is a...
From the AP: Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a...
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The AP reports on Obama's swift and forceful response to Bush and McCain's criticism of...
The Tennessee GOP hasn't yet had their fill of Obama dirty tricks. A few months ago,...
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The Democratic Party has finally decided who's going to break it to Hillary that it's time...
Sixteen tips for getting good sleep. There's a lot of advice out there about getting good...
Charlie Rose | Posted May 17, 2008 | Politics