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The Rachel Maddow Show Guest List

The Rachel Maddow Show guest list

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  • Senator Barbara Boxer
  • Glenn Greenwald, columnist, Salon.com
  • Jeremy Scahill, author, columnist, The Nation

From the Web

  • Congressman Anthony Weiner
  • Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
  • Senator Tom Udall
  • Robert Brandau, canine behaviorial expert
  • Chomper, a Lab who works in dog-bite prevention

From the Web

  • Ezra Klein, blogger, The Washington Post
  • Congressman Barney Frank
  • Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor of politics and African American studies at Princeton University and MSNBC contributor
  • Michael Isikoff, investigative correspondent with Newsweek Magazine and also an MSNBC contributor

From the Web

  • Matt Yglesias, Think Progress
  • Chris Hayes, Washington editor, The Nation
  • Max Kellerman, HBO sports broadcaster

From the Web

  • Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, Washington Post
  • Andrea Mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent, NBC News
  • Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius

From the Web

  • Senator Bernie Sanders
  • Chris Hayes, Washington editor, The Nation
  • Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow, writer and director, The Hurt Locker

From the Web

  • Tim Kaine, chairman of the Democratic Party
  • Gail Collins, columnist, New York Times
  • Malcolm Nance, author, terrorism expert

From the Web

  • Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, Washington Post
  • Dan Parker, chairman, Indiana Democratic Party
  • Chris Hayes, Washington editor, The Nation

From the Web

  • Ezra Klein, blogger, Washington Post
  • Cara Perlman, filmmaker, "Women on Top"

From the Web

  • Doctor Fred Feit, Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at New York University's Medical Center and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab
  • Howard Dean, former chairman of the Democratic Party, former Vermont Governor
  • Quentin Tarantino, award-winning director
  • Detective Greg Semendinger, who retired from the New York City Police department after 35 years, including 20 with the aviation unit

From the Web

  • Bill Nye, science guy
  • Chris Hayes, Washington editor, The Nation
  • Gavin Newsom, mayor, San Francisco
  • Spencer Ackerman, reporter, The Washington Independent
  • Bill Wolff, sports expert and executive producer, TRMS

From the Web

  • Senator Ron Wyden
  • Ezra Klein, blogger, The Washington Post
  • Congressman Ron Paul

From the Web

  • Charles Ogletree, law professor, Harvard University
  • David Weigel, politics reporter for The Washington Independent.  He attended this weekend's Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.
  • Steve Benen, reporter, Washington Monthly
  • Congressman Anthony Weiner

From the Web

  • Dr. Norman Francis, the president of Xavier University of Louisiana, chairman of the Louisiana Recovery Authority and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient - the highest civilian award in the United States.
  • Melissa Harris-Lacewell, MSNBC contributor
  • John Barry, author, in 2007 was asked by Louisiana's congressional delegation to chair a bipartisan working group on flood control in southeast Louisiana.
  • Ti Martin, one of the proprietors of Commander's Palace in New Orleans and the co-author of "In the Land of Cocktails: Recipes and Adventures from the Cocktail Chicks."
  • Terence Blanchard,  New Orleans native and four-time Grammy Award-winner (and David Pulphus on the bass)

From the Web

  • Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and an associate editor for The Washington Post. He`s also an MSNBC political analyst.
  • Bishop Gene Robinson, the only openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church and he helped organize the American Prayer Hour--the alternative to the National Prayer Breakfast.
  • Dave Zirin, correspondent for The Nation, host of Sirius XM's Edge of Sports Radio and author of, "Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports"

From the Web

  • Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio
  • Chris Hayes, Washington editor of the Nation
  • Pennsylvania Congressman Patrick Murphy, an Iraq war veteran who has taken the lead in the House in the effort to repeal the "Don`t ask, don`t tell" policy.
  • Dave Zirin, columnist for Sports Illustrated and author of "Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports"

From the Web

  • Chris Matthews, host, Hardball
  • Lieutenant Colonel Victor Fehrenbach
  • Congressman Anthony Weiner

From the Web

  • Congressman Barney Frank
  • Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master for Executive Compensation - and Pay Czar
  • New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who has led the effort in the Senate to get a hearing on the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy.
  • Melanie Sloan, executive director of CREW

From the Web

  • Rachel is joined by Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews for a two-hour replay of President Obama's Q&A with House Republicans.

From the Web

  • Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey
  • Tracey Ullman, star of "Tracey Ullman's State of the Union"
  • Jonathan Turley, professor of Constitutional law at George Washington University

From the Web

  • White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett
  • Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio
  • Chris Matthews, host, Hardball
  • Lieutenant Colonel Victor Fehrenbach
  • David Shuster, msnbc

From the Web

  • Live coverage
  • Allen Raymond, author, "How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative" - He spent three months in jail for jamming Democratic phone lines during the 2002 New Hampshire Senate Race.
  • James K. Galbraith, economist, professor, University of Texas
  • Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico
  • Chris Hayes, Washington editor, The Nation

From the Web

  • Jared Bernstein, White House economic advisor
  • Mark McKinnon,  Republican strategist who has advised the campaigns of John McCain and George W. Bush. He`s vice chairman of the public relations group Public Strategies and also a contributor to "The Daily Beast."
  • Maj. Jason Amerine, U.S. Army, Led Green Berets into Afghanistan
  • Eric Blehm, author, “The Only Thing Worth Dying For”

From the Web

  • Ezra Klein, blogger, The Washington Post
  • Tim Noah, senior writer, Slate.com
  • Devin Friedman, GQ Magazine

From the Web

  • Congressman Barney Frank
  • Elizabeth Warren, chair, TARP Congressional Oversight Panel
  • Erroll Southers, former Obama TSA nominee

From the Web

  • Senator Debbie Stabenow
  • Howard Fineman, Newsweek, MSNBC political analyst
  • Governor Ed Rendell, Pennsylvania
  • Jeremy Scahill, author, "Blackwater, the Rise of the World's most powerful mercenary army"

From the Web

  • Norah O'Donnell, chief Washington correspondent, NBC News (at Brown headquarters)
  • Jonathan Hall, reporter, WHDH (at Coakley headquarters)
  • Howard Dean, former Vermont Governor, former Chairman of the Democratic Party
  • Peter Canellos, Washington bureau chief, columnist, The Boston Globe
  • Dr. Nancy Snyderman, chief medical editor, NBC News
  • Chris Matthews, host, Hardball

From the Web

  • Live election coverage
  • Dr. Nancy Snyderman, chief medical editor, NBC News
  • Commander Mike Glander, Commanding Officer, USCGC Oak
  • Joan Vennochi, columnist, Boston Globe
  • Neil Watkins, executive director, Jubilee USA Network

From the Web

  • Brigadier General David H Berger, Director of Operations at U.S. Marine Corps Headquarters. He served in Haiti in 2004 during a period of civil unrest in that country and he's overseeing the 2200-member Marine Corps unit that's headed to Haiti.
  • Edwige Danticat, award-winning author, most recently of "Brother, I'm Dying"
  • Olivia Wilde, actress, "House" and activist, ArtistsForPeaceAndJustice.com

From the Web

  • Tracy Kidder, Partners In Health
  • Michele Wucker, author, "Why the cocks fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola"
  • Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack
  • Tony Aiello, chief executive of mGive

From the Web

  • Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News
  • Kerry Sanders, NBC News correspondent
  • Ann Curry, NBC's Today show
  • Al Roker, Weather Channel and NBC's Today show
  • Raymond Joseph, Haitian ambassador to the United States
  • Nan Buzard, senior director of international response and programs with the American Red Cross
  • Steve Clemons, The Washington Note

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  • Sophie Delaunay, executive director, Doctors Without Borders
  • Gordon Duguid, deputy spokesman, U.S. Department of State

From the Web

  • David Applegate, the senior science advisor for earthquake and geologic hazards at the U.S. Geological Survey
  • Michael Beschloss, presidential historian, NBC News
  • David Boies and Ted Olson, the attorneys challenging Prop 8

-------------------------------11 p.m. special coverage of Haiti earthquake

  • UNICEF President and CEO Caryl Stern
  • Marie Michel, a nurse from New York, was in Montagne Noir, a mountain suburb south of Port-au-Prince, for a funeral, on the phone with us from Haiti
  • Gordon Duguid, the U.S. Dept. of State, Deputy Spokesman
  • Luke Renner, Humanitarian worker, on the phone from Cap-Haitien
  • Amb. Raymond Joseph, of Haiti
  • David Applegate, the senior science advisor for earthquake and geologic hazards at the U.S. Geological Survey

From the Web

  • Tricia Rose, Professor and Chair, African American Cultural Politics and Gender Studies, Brown University
  • Chris Hayes, Washington editor, The Nation
  • Zach Roth, reporter, Talking Points Memo
  • John Dean, former White House legal counsel to President Nixon during the Watergate scandal

From the Web

  • John Stanton, reporter, Roll Call
  • Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor of politics and African American studies at Princeton University
  • Mark Leibovich, reporter, New York Times

From the Web

  • Evan Kohlmann, NBC terrorism analyst
  • David Corn, Washington Bureau Chief of Mother Jones magazine and columnist for PoliticsDaily.com
  • Jeremy Scahill, author, "Blackwater, the Rise of the World's most powerful mercenary army"
  • Jeff Sharlet, contributing editor to Harper's Magazine and author of "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power"

From the Web

  • Congressman Ron Paul
  • Bob Barker, the namesake of the anti-whaling ship and legendary game show host
  • Elizabeth Warren, TARP Congressional overisight panel chair, Harvard Law School professor
  • David Wilson, founder, TheGrio.com

From the Web

  • Jonathan Alter, analyst, MSNBC and columnist, Newsweek
  • Bob Hunter. longtime member of The Family. He served as a federal insurance administrator in both the Carter and Ford Administrations. He's now the Director of Insurance for the Consumer Federation of America, though he appears on The Rachel Maddow Show in a personal capacity.

From the Web

  • E.J. Dionne, columnist, Washington Post
  • Jonathan Cohn, Senior editor, The New Republic
  • Jeremy Scahill, reporter, The Nation and author, "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercernary Army"

From the Web