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Saturday February 02, 2013

Issues in the News

Moderator Barbara Slavin, Washington Correspondent for Al-Monitor.com, Abderrahim Foukara, Washington Bureau Chief for Al Jazeera Arabic Satellite TV, and Tim Mak, Defense Reporter for POLITICO discuss former Senator Chuck Hagel’s confirmation hearing for defense secretary on the Capitol Hill, the immigration reform debate, the dire situation in Syria, and Egypt – two years after the beginning of the Arab Spring.


Saturday January 26, 2013

Issues in the News

Moderator Barbara Slavin, Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and Washington Correspondent for Al-Monitor.com, Hilary Krieger, Washington Bureau Chief of The Jerusalem Post, and Jim O’Sullivan, Chief Analyst at National Journal discuss the outgoing US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's legacy, President Obama's Inaugural Message, the outcome of the election in Israel, and women in the military new policy announcement.


Monday January 21, 2013

Issues in the News

Moderator Fred Barnes, Executive Editor of the Weekly Standard, David Rennie, Lexington Columnist for The Economist, and Tom DeFrank, Political Analyst for the New York Daily News discuss the hostage crisis in Algeria and France’s intervention in Mali, President Obama’s second term agenda, and his new cast of appointees.


Monday January 14, 2013

Issues in the News

Moderator Fred Barnes, Executive Editor of the Weekly Standard, Barbara Slavin, Washington Correspondent for Al-Monitor.com, and Tom DeFrank of the New York Daily News discuss the partisan fight over Senator Chuck Hagel and John Brennan nominations, the defiant Governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie and GOP, the inauguration of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, and the situation in Syria.


Sunday January 06, 2013

Issues in the News

Moderator Fred Barnes, Executive Editor of the Weekly Standard, Olivier Knox, White House Correspondent for Yahoo! News, and Tim Mak, Defense Reporter for Politico discuss the ramifications of averting the fiscal cliff, the controversy over the hurricane Sandy aid package vote, the upcoming visit to Washington of Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s health.


Saturday December 29, 2012

Issues in the News

Moderator Fred Barnes, Executive Editor of the Weekly Standard, Barbara Slavin, Washington Correspondent for al Monitor.com and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and Tom DeFrank of the New York Daily News discuss President Obama’s second term, the nomination of Senator John Kerry to be Secretary of State and how that will affect the tone and substance of US foreign policy, the fate of Syrian President Bashar al Assad, US policy toward Iran and the politics behind Russian President Vladimir Putin’s endorsement of a bill that bars Americans from adopting Russian children.


Saturday December 22, 2012

Issues in the News

Moderator Fred Barnes, Executive Editor of the Weekly Standard, Barbara Slavin, Washington Correspondent for al Monitor.com and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and Tom DeFrank of the New York Daily News discuss the implications of the mass school shooting in Connecticut, the scathing independent report on the September 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi which concluded that security was “grossly inadequate,” Senator John Kerry as the President Obama’s nominee as the next Secretary of State, and the continuing dispute between the White House and GOP-controlled House of Representatives over the automatic spending cuts and tax hikes that will take effect January 1, 2013 unless an urgent deal is reached.

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US Secretary of State John Kerry & Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Moscow, May 7, 2013
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Moderator Fred Barnes, Executive Editor of The Weekly Standard, Hilary Krieger, an editor with the Washington Post’s Opinions Section, and Abderrahim Foukara, Washington Bureau Chief of Al Jazeera Satellite Channel discuss the latest efforts by the top US and Russian diplomats to forge a solution to the Syrian conflict while deaths continue to mount there, and the continued controversy over the September 11, 2012 Benghazi attack on the US Consulate in Libya after the Congressional hearing that reflected the weighty political stakes of both parties.


 

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About Issues in the News

Each week Anna Zalewski invites three prominent Washington journalists from print, wire services, and broadcast media to discuss the week's top stories.

The moderator and panelists comment on the week’s most salient domestic and international events. Drawing on contacts and sources at the White House and Capitol Hill, the journalists provide unique insights and analysis that go beyond the headlines.  They also discuss little-known but important developments, and add their personal insights to give listeners the "inside" story on what they see and hear in the news.

Meet Our Moderators

Fred Barnes

Fred Barnes is executive editor of "The Weekly Standard." From 1985 to 1995, he served as senior editor and White House correspondent for the "New Republic." He covered the Supreme Court and the White House for the "Washington Star" before moving on to the "Baltimore Sun" in 1979. He served as the national political correspondent for the "Sun" and wrote the Presswatch media column for the "American Spectator."

Barbara Slavin is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center and Washington correspondent for Al-Monitor.com, a website devoted to news from and about the Middle East. The author of a 2007 book, "Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S. and the Twisted Path to Confrontation," she is a regular commentator on U.S. foreign policy and Iran on NPR, PBS and C-SPAN.
 

Barbara Slavin

Tom DeFrank


Tom DeFrank is a contributing editor at "National Journal." He was "Newsweek’s" White House correspondent for 25 years before serving as Washington bureau chief of the "New York Daily News." Tom, who has a reputation as being one of the best-sourced journalists in Washington, is the author of "Write it When I'm Gone," a book about former President Gerald Ford based on 30 years of private conversations with him. He has covered eight Presidents: Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama.
Frequent Panelists

Abderrahim Foukara:  Al Jazeera, Olivier Knox: Yahoo! News, Hilary Krieger: The Jerusalem Post, Tim Mak: POLITICO, David Rennie: The Economist, Jim O’Sullivan: National Journal

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