Molly Ball

Molly Ball is staff writer covering national politics at The Atlantic.

Margaret Carlson

Margaret Carlson is a panelist on CNN's The Capital Gang, which also features Robert Novak, Mark Shields, Kate O'Beirne and Al Hunt. She joined the 30-minute program on the eve of its fifth anniversary in October 1993.

Additionally, Carlson also contributes to GQ magazine and is on staff with TIME magazine. Previously, Carlson was a White House correspondent and deputy Washington bureau chief for the magazine. She covered President Bill Clinton and Bob Dole's presidential campaigns in 1996.

Carlson joined TIME in January 1988 from The New Republic, where she was managing editor. With the 1994 start of her former TIME column, Public Eye, she became the first woman columnist in the magazine's history.

Her journalism career includes time as Washington bureau chief for Esquire magazine, editor of Washington Weekly and editor of the Legal Times of Washington.

Jonathan Karl

Media speaker Jonathan Karl, ABC News' Senior Congressional Correspondent, covers Congress for World News Tonight, Nightline, and Good Morning America. Karl joined ABC News in January 2004 and has also served as the network's Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent and Senior National Security Correspondent.

Karl has covered political campaigns in virtually every state and has reported from more than 30 countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan, China, Pakistan, and Sudan. He traveled internationally with the President, Vice President, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Defense. He has interviewed countless public figures, including Dick Cheney, General David Petraeus, Hillary Clinton, and Robert Gates.

Prior to joining ABC News, Karl served as Congressional correspondent for CNN, and throughout his eight years with CNN he covered Capitol Hill, the White House, and the Pentagon. He has reported on three presidential elections, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the intelligence community, President Clinton's impeachment, and Congressional reaction to the September 11th terrorist attacks. He was the first to report on both Senator Trent Lott resigning from his position as Senate Majority Leader and Senator Jim Jeffords leaving the Republican Party.

Mark Leibovich

Juan Williams

Juan Williams is an Emmy Award-winning writer, radio, and television correspondent. Williams is currently serving as a senior national correspondent for National Public Radio. Prior to joining NPR, Williams spent 23 years working at the Washington Post as a columnist and White House correspondent. Author of "Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America - and What We Can Do About It."