Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, joins us to talk about Baker’s close and competitive friendship with George H.W. Bush – and about his diplomatic work that reshaped the world in the last quarter of the 20th Century.
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Former CIA Director John Brennan joins us to talk about rising through the ranks of the agency after answering a newspaper ad – and his views on the many presidents he served.
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Former diplomat William J Burns joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the continued importance of “soft power” in the wake of President Trump’s call for 23 percent cut in the State Department funding.
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Wendy Sherman joins us to talk about negotiating deals with North Korea and Iran – and about how we can apply the tools of diplomacy to our own lives.
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Ronan Farrow joins us to talk about why U.S. foreign policy is too heavily weighted to military force over negotiation.
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Greg Barker joins us to talk about traveling the world with John Kerry, Samantha Power and other U.S. diplomats, which he captures in his “The Final Year.”
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We’ll talk to for U.S. Ambassador Robert Jordan about the role he played in building relationships in the Middle East, which he writes about in Desert Diplomat: Inside Saudi Arabia Following 9/11.
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