Neil Barofsky served both the Bush and Obama administrations as the watchdog of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). From December 2008 until March 2011, he was the Special Inspector General for TARP, working to ensure against fraud and abuse in the spending of the $700 billion allocated for the bailouts. In his book BAILOUT: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street, he presents a scathing indictment of how those funds were mishandled and reveals the extent to which government officials of both parties, across two administrations, served the interests of Wall Street at the expense of the public.

LARRY KING has been dubbed "the most remarkable talk-show host on TV ever" by TV Guide and "master of the mike" by TIME magazine. The Emmy Award-winning King hosted CNN's Larry King Live, the first worldwide phone-in television talk show and the network's highest rated program for 25 years. In December 2010, King temporarily hung up his suspenders but in July 2012, his collaboration with Carlos Slim debuted the on-line Ora.tv network with "Larry King Now", a daily new and different show featuring celebrities and newsmakers from around the world.

John King's career as a writer began when joined the Associated Press in 1985. In 1991, King was named chief political correspondent and headed the AP's political coverage of the 1992 and 1996 elections. Also in 1991, King won the top reporting prize from the Associated Press Managing Editors' Association for his coverage of the Gulf War in Kuwait. In 1997, King joined CNN where he served as the senior White House correspondent from 1999 to 2005. In 2005, King was named CNN's chief national correspondent, a position he still holds. He frequently appears on the nightly news programs The Situation Room and Anderson Cooper 360.

Leonard Pitts, Jr. is a columnist for the Miami Herald and won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, in addition to many other awards. He is also the author of several novels including Freeman, Before I Forget and Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood.

Norman Ornstein is a long-time observer of Congress and politics. He writes a weekly column for Roll Call called "Congress Inside Out" and is an election eve analyst for CBS News. He served as co-director of the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project and participates in AEI's Election Watch series. His many books include "The Permanent Campaign and It's Future," "The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track," and, most recently, the New York Times bestseller, "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism."

Patti Solis Doyle is a political organizer and strategist who has been part of several of the most important campaigns of the past 30 years, including Richard Daley's 1990 campaign for mayor of Chicago, Bill Clinton's successful bid for president in 1992, Hillary Clinton's election to the U.S. Senate in 2000 and Clinton's failed campaign for president, and Barack Obama's victory in 2008. Solis Doyle was also the first Hispanic woman to lead a U.S. presidential campaign.

Alan Colmes is an American radio/television host, liberal political commentator for the Fox News Channel, and blogger. He is the host of The Alan Colmes Show, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show distributed by Fox News Radio that also airs throughout the United States on Fox News Talk on Sirius and XM. From 1996 to 2009, Colmes served as the co-host of Hannity & Colmes, a nightly political debate show on Fox News Channel. In addition to broadcasting, Colmes runs the Liberaland blog and contributes to AOL News. He wrote Red, White & Liberal: How Left Is Right and Right Is Wrong.

Founder of the Zogby Poll, John Zogby is the hottest and most accurate pollster and analyst of America's political and cultural landscape. He correctly predicted the cliffhanger result of the 2000 presidential election for George W. Bush, in contrast to most other pollsters who had expected Bush to win easily. He correctly called the 2001 Israeli election for Ariel Sharon, the 2000 Mexican election for Vicente Fox and again in Mexico with the victory of Felipe Calderón in 2006. As author of The New York Times bestseller "The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream," Zogby continues to put his finger on the pulse of America, creating a portrait of the trends that drive our society today, and in the future. Currently, Zogby pens a weekly column for Forbes.com, a weekly report card on President Obama's performance for The Washington Times, and a monthly column for Politics magazine.