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Diane and her guests describe the events that have led up to the current controversy over Karl Rove, political aide to President Bush. They'll talk about his role in the disclosure of a covert CIA agent's identity and the resulting legal and political fallout.
John Podesta, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress and former chief of staff to President Clinton
David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union and managing associate with Carmen Group, a D.C.-based governmental-affairs firm
In 1980 an eccentric millionaire established a sperm bank whose donors were made up of scientists, inventors and thinkers. It went out of business in 1999. A journalist shares what he learned about the sperm bank's founder, why the bank closed its doors, and what happened to the children born with help from the bank.
David Plotz, deputy editor of the online magazine "Slate."