'This Week' Transcript Archive
Steve S. Bottorff
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| December 30, 2012 |
Guests: Sens. Charles Schumer and Jon Kyl
Roundtable: Former Vermont governor and founder of Democracy for America, Howard Dean; former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, president and CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable; Politico senior political reporter Maggie Haberman; and Vanity Fair national editor Todd Purdum.
ABC News
| December 23, 2012 |
Guests: Asa Hutchinson, Sen. Johnny Isakson and Sen. Amy Klobuchar
Roundtable: Newark Mayor Cory Booker; Americans for Tax Reform President and NRA board member Grover Norquist; political strategist and ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd; Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan; and WashingtonPost.com columnist and Editor and Publisher of The Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel.
ABC News
| December 16, 2012 |
Guests: Gov. Dan Malloy, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Sen.-Elect Chris Murphy, and Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra
Roundtable: Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md., Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, TIME Magazine political columnist Joe Klein, ABC News' George Will, and Democratic strategist and ABC News contributor Donna Brazile.
ABC News
| December 9, 2012 |
Guests: Sen. Tom Coburn, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, and Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva
Roundtable: Democratic strategist James Carville, Republican strategist Mary Matalin, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, and ABC News' George Will and Matthew Dowd.
ABC news
| December 2, 2012 |
Guests: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
Roundtable: Deputy Majority Whip Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla.; Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus; former Romney campaign senior adviser Dan Senor; former Counselor to the Treasury Secretary and Lead Auto Adviser Steven Rattner; and ABC News' Cokie Roberts.
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| November 25, 2012 |
Guests: Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. Dick Durbin and Ben Affleck
Roundtable: ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, TIME Magazine's Joe Klein, Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, and The New York Times' David Sanger, author of "Confront and Conceal."
ABC News
| November 18, 2012 |
Guests: House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Peter King and Sen. Carl Levin
Roundtable: House Democratic Caucus Vice Chairman Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and ABC News' George Will, Donna Brazile and Jonathan Karl.
ABC News
| November 11, 2012 |
Guests: Sens. Patty Murray, Saxby Chambliss
Roundtable: Fox News anchor Greta van Susteren, Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md., The Wall Street Journal's Paul Gigot, and The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel.
ABC News
| November 4, 2012 |
Guests: David Plouffe and Ed Gillespie
Roundtable: ABC News' George Will, Cokie Roberts, Donna Brazile, Matthew Dowd, and Ronald Brownstein of National Journal.
ABC News
| October 28, 2012 |
Guests: Stephanie Cutter and Newt Gingrich
Roundtable: ABC News' George Will; PBS' "Washington Week" moderator and managing editor Gwen Ifill; Andrew Sullivan, editor of "The Dish" at The Daily Beast; former Obama economic adviser and ABC News consultant Austan Goolsbee; and Republican strategist and ABC News political analyst and contributor Nicolle Wallace.
ABC News
| October 21, 2012 |
Guests: Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Sen. Marco Rubio
Roundtable: Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz; Faith and Freedom Coalition founder and chair Ralph Reed; former Obama White House environmental adviser Van Jones, co-founder of Rebuild the Dream; Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren; and political strategist and ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd.
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| October 14, 2012 |
Guests: Sen. Rob Portman and Beau Biden
Roundtable: 2012 Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich; former Senator and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Chris Dodd; Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz, moderator of this week's vice presidential debate; presidential historian Richard Norton Smith; ABC News' George Will; and Democratic strategist and ABC News Contributor Donna Brazile.
ABC News
| October 7, 2012 |
Guests: Robert Gibbs, Ed Gillespie and Bill O'Reilly
Roundtable: Democratic strategist James Carville; Republican strategist Mary Matalin; Nobel Prize-winning New York Times columnist Paul Krugman; Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan; and ABC News senior political correspondent Jonathan Karl.
ABC News
| September 30, 2012 |
Guests: Gov. Chris Christie and David Plouffe
Roundtable: Mississippi governor and RNC chair Haley Barbour; former Vermont governor and DNC chair Howard Dean, founder of Democracy for America; Democratic strategist and ABC News contributor Donna Brazile; political strategist and ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd; and POLITICO senior political reporter Maggie Haberman.
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| September 23, 2012 |
Guests: David Axelrod and Reince Priebus
Roundtable: Republican strategist and ABC News political analyst and contributor Nicolle Wallace; former Obama domestic policy adviser Melody Barnes; conservative commentator Ann Coulter, author of the new book "Mugged"; Univision anchor Jorge Ramos; and University of California, Berkeley professor and former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich.
ABC News
| September 16, 2012 |
Guest: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice
Roundtable: ABC News global affairs anchor Christiane Amanpour, ABC News senior foreign affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz, ABC News chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross, ABC News' George Will; Fox News contributor and former State Department official Liz Cheney, co-founder of Keep America Safe; Ret. General Wesley Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe; PBS' "Washington Week" moderator and managing editor Gwen Ifill; and ABC News senior political correspondent Jonathan Karl.
ABC News
| September 09, 2012 |
Guest: GOP Vice Presidential Nominee Paul Ryan
Roundtable: Newark Mayor Cory Booker, co-chair of the Democratic platform committee; Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., author of the new book "Government Bullies"; ABC News' George Will; ABC News' Cokie Roberts; and Nobel Prize-winning New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.
ABC News
| September 02, 2012 |
Guest: Obama Senior Adviser David Plouffe
Roundtable: ABC News' George Will; Priorities USA co-founder Bill Burton; Romney campaign senior adviser and former Massachusetts Lt. Governor Kerry Healey; Democratic strategist and ABC News contributor Donna Brazile; and political strategist and ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd.
City of Los Angeles/State of Virginia
| August 26, 2012 |
Guests: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Gov. Bob McDonnell
Roundtable: ABC News' George Will; Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md.; former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, host of Current TV's "The War Room"; Republican strategist Mary Matalin; and FOX News anchor Greta Van Susteren.
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| August 19, 2012 |
Guests: Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter and Romney Campaign Senior Adviser Kevin Madden
Roundtable: Senate Budget Committee member Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa.; House Budget Committee ranking member Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; former TARP Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky; former Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee; Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist; and Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel.
ABC News
| August 12, 2012 |
Guests: Obama Campaign Senior Adviser David Axelrod and Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty
Roundtable: ABC News' Cokie Roberts, former Vermont Governor and founder of Democracy for America Howard Dean, Wall Street Journal Editorial Page Editor Paul Gigot, California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, host of Current TV's "The Gavin Newsom Show," and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan.
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| August 5, 2012 |
Guests: Democratic National Committee chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus
Roundtable: ABC News' George Will, ABC News senior political correspondent Jonathan Karl, conservative commentator Ann Coulter, former Obama White House environmental adviser Van Jones, and former Counselor to the Treasury Secretary and Lead Auto Adviser Steven Rattner.
ABC News
| July 29, 2012 |
Guests: Obama Campaign Senior Adviser Robert Gibbs and Romney Campaign Senior Adviser Kevin Madden
Roundtable: ABC News' George Will; Democratic strategist and ABC News contributor Donna Brazile; Yahoo! News Washington bureau chief David Chalian, radio host and Brietbart.com contributing editor Dana Loesch, and Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus.
ABC News
| July 22, 2012 |
Guests: Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan and Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey
Roundtable: Former Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, author of the new book "A Nation of Wusses," ABC News' George Will, ABC News' Cokie Roberts, TIME Magazine political columnist Joe Klein, and The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin.
ABC News
| July 15, 2012 |
Guests: Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Sen. Kelly Ayotte
Roundtable: ABC News' George Will; Democratic strategist James Carville, co-author of the new book "It's the Middle Class, Stupid!"; Republican strategist Mary Matalin; Democratic strategist and ABC News contributor Donna Brazile; and political strategist and ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd.
ABC News
| July 8, 2012 |
Guests: Gov. Bobby Jindal and Gov. Martin O'Malley
Roundtable: ABC News' George Will; Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, author of the new book "Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent;" PBS' "Washington Week" moderator and managing editor Gwen Ifill; former Counselor to the Treasury Secretary and Obama administration Lead Auto Adviser Steven Rattner; and Mort Zuckerman, editor in chief of U.S. News & World Report.
ABC News
| July 1, 2012 |
Guests: Vicki Kennedy, Rep. Paul Ryan and Obama Chief of Staff Jack Lew
Roundtable: Keith Olbermann, ABC News' George Will, Democratic strategist and ABC News contributor Donna Brazile, former Rep. Artur Davis, and "Nightline" co-anchor Terry Moran, who covers the Supreme Court for ABC News.
ABC News
| June 24, 2012 |
Guest: Rep. Darrell Issa
Roundtable: Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., ABC News' George Will, National Journal White House correspondent Major Garrett, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, and Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen.
ABC news
| June 17, 2012 |
Guest: Obama Senior Adviser David Plouffe
Roundtable: Romney national campaign co-chair and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, ABC News' George Will, political strategist and ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, former Obama economic adviser and ABC News consultant Austan Goolsbee, and editor and publisher of The Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel.
ABC News
| June 10, 2012 |
Guests: Obama Campaign Senior Adviser David Axelrod and former Sen. Rick Santorum
Roundtable: Former Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, author of the new book "A Nation of Wusses," and Fox News host and former Republican Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee join the "This Week" powerhouse roundtable to debate all the week's politics, with conservative commentator Ann Coulter and former Obama White House environmental adviser Van Jones.
ABC News
| June 3, 2012 |
Guests: Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter and Romney Campaign Senior Advisor Eric Fehrnstrom
Roundtable: Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter faces off with Romney campaign senior advisor Eric Fehrnstrom on the "This Week" powerhouse roundtable, with ABC News' George Will, Democratic strategist and ABC News contributor Donna Brazile, and Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, author of the new book "End This Depression Now!"
ABC News
| May 27, 2012 |
Guest: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
Roundtable: ABC News' George Will, former Michigan governor and host of Current TV's "The War Room" Jennifer Granholm, Fox Business Network anchor Liz Claman, Washington Post national political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson, and National Journal editorial director Ron Brownstein.
ABC News
| May 20, 2012 |
Guests: House Speaker John Boehner and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi
Roundtable: ABC News' George Will, political strategist and ABC News contributor Donna Brazile, political strategist and ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, radio host Laura Ingraham, and California Lieutenant Governor and Current TV host Gavin Newsom.
ABC News
| May 13, 2012 |
Guests: Rep. Barney Frank and Rep. Marsha Blackburn
Roundtable: Republican strategist Mary Matalin, former New York governor and host of Current TV's "Viewpoint" Eliot Spitzer, Faith and Freedom Coalition founder and chairman Ralph Reed, Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen, and Politico senior political reporter Maggie Haberman.
ABC News
| May 6, 2012 |
Guests: Obama Campaign Senior Adviser David Axelrod and Sen. John McCain
Roundtable: ABC News' George Will, former Obama economic adviser and ABC News consultant Austan Goolsbee, Romney campaign adviser and president of The American Cause Bay Buchanan, radio and television host Tavis Smiley, and Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren.
ABC News
| April 29, 2012 |
Guest: White House Counterterrorism Adviser John Brennan
Roundtable: Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and co-chair of Mitt Romney's California campaign, Jennifer Granholm, former Michigan governor and host of Current TV's "The War Room," Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist, Eric Schmidt, executive chairman and former CEO of Google, David Walker, former Comptroller General and Founder and CEO of the Comeback America Initiative.
ABC News
| April 22, 2012 |
Guests: Sen. Susan Collins and Rep. Carolyn Maloney
Roundtable: Keith Olbermann, ABC News' George Will, political strategist and ABC News contributor Donna Brazile, political strategist and ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan.
ABC News
| April 15, 2012 |
Guest: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
Roundtable: ABC News' Cokie Roberts; former Obama domestic policy adviser Melody Barnes; Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Paul Gigot; advisor to the Romney campaign Kevin Madden; and Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation.
ABC News
| April 8, 2012 |
Guest: Pastor Rick Warren
Roundtable: ABC News' George Will, Yahoo News Washington bureau chief David Chalian, author and Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson, Thomson Reuters Digital editor Chrystia Freeland, and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan.
ABC
| April 1, 2012 |
Guests: Rep. Paul Ryan and Rep. Chris Van Hollen
Roundtable: George Will, conservative commentator Ann Coulter, former White House environmental advisor Van Jones, author of "Rebuild the Dream," Matt Bai of The New York Times Magazine, and "Nightline" co-anchor Terry Moran.
ABC News
| March 25, 2012 |
Guests: Obama Senior Adviser David Plouffe and Rep. Michele Bachmann
Roundtable: ABC's George Will and Cokie Roberts, Democratic strategist and ABC News contributor Donna Brazile, political strategist and ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, and "Nightline" co-anchor Terry Moran.
ABC News
| March 18, 2012 |
Guest: Former Sen. Rick Santorum
Roundtable: ABC's George Will, former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, Priorities USA co-founder Bill Burton, Washington Post national political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson, and Washington Post columnist and associate editor David Ignatius.
ABC News
| March 11, 2012 |
Guests: Sen. Charles Schumer and Sen. Lindsey Graham
Roundtable: Senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper, former Obama economic adviser and ABC News consultant Austan Goolsbee, Republican strategist Mary Matalin, former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, and Nicolle Wallace, Republican strategist and senior adviser to the McCain-Palin 2008 campaign.
ABC News
| March 4, 2012 |
Guests: Former Speaker Newt Gingrich and Obama Campaign Senior Adviser David Axelrod
Roundtable: ABC's Christiane Amanpour and George Will, political strategist and ABC News contributor Donna Brazile, political strategist and ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, former Vermont Governor and founder of Democracy for America Howard Dean, and The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg.
ABC News
| February 26, 2012 |
Guests: Former Sen. Rick Santorum, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick
Roundtable: ABC's George Will and Cokie Roberts, plus former Democratic Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, host of Current TV's "The War Room," and former Republican Michigan Gov. John Engler, president of the Business Roundtable, debate the state of play in the Wolverine State.
ABC News
| February 19, 2012 |
Guests: Sen. John McCain and Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
Roundtable: ABC's George Will, ABC News senior political correspondent Jonathan Karl, FOX Business Network host Lou Dobbs, Vanity Fair contributing editor and former Clinton White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers, and Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page.
ABC News
| February 12, 2012 |
Guests: Former sen. Rick Santorum, White House Cheif of Staff Jack Lew, and Rep. Paul Ryan
Roundtable: ABC's George Will, political strategist and ABC News contributor Donna Brazile, Fox News contributor and co-founder of Keep America Safe Liz Cheney, and Washington Post columnist David Ignatius.
ABC
| February 5, 2012 |
Guests: Rep. Ron Paul, Former Obama Adviser Lawrence Summers, Top Romney Economic Advisor Glenn Hubbard, and Diane Swonk of Mesirow Financial.
Roundtable: ABC's George Will, political strategist and ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, AOL Huffington Post Media Group president Arianna Huffington, and radio host and Bigjournalism.com editor Dana Loesch.
ABC
| January 29, 2012 |
Guests: Former Speaker Newt Gingrich, House Speaker John Boehner
Roundtable: George Will, Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, former Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee, and radio host and Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham.
ABC
| January 22, 2012 |
Guests: Former Sen. Rick Santorum
Roundtable: ABC's George Will, political strategist and ABC News analyst Matthew Dowd, National Journal's Ron Brownstein, and The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel.
ABC
| January 15, 2012 |
Guests: Gov. Rick Perry and Stephen Colbert
Roundtable: ABC's George Will and Cokie Roberts, ABC News senior political correspondent Jonathan Karl, the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan, and New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.
ABC
| January 8, 2012 |
Guests: Obama Campaign Senior Adviser David Axelrod and Former Gov. Mike Huckabee
Roundtable: ABC's George Will, Republican strategist Mary Matalin, ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, Democratic strategist Donna Brazile and ABC News senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper.
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