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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.