Kissinger to Tea Leoni, Capital Download's highlights
WASHINGTON -- So are you running for president?
On Capital Download, that just might be the most often asked query of 2014 -- posed to more than a half-dozen of the newsmakers on Paste BN's weekly newsmaker series. For the record, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio were cagey while former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders were reasonably open about their ambitions.
And Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren?
"I'm not running for president," she said in an interview in April, in a less-than-Shermanesque mantra she has been repeating since then even as activists of the populist variety declare themselves members of "the Elizabeth Warren wing of the Democratic party."
On Capital Download this year, former president Jimmy Carter said Edward Snowden's leaks were probably a good thing, despite the damage they caused. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James became the first head of a branch of the U.S. military publicly to support allowing transgender troops to serve. And Howard Dean, once a Democratic insurgent, said he was supporting HIllary Rodham Clinton for president and had told her so.
What did she say in response? "Thank you."
In its second year, Capital Download asked former Treasury secretary Tim Geithner and former Defense secretary Leon Panetta to rate the boss, President Barack Obama. We talked about the Ebola crisis with Dr. Anthony Fauci of NIH. We interviewed the heads of the IRS, the EPA, the NEA, the Peace Corps.
Not to mention former secretary of state Henry Kissinger and faux secretary of state Tea Leoni, star of CBS' Madame Secretary.
Here are some highlights of 2014.