Kathleen J. Frydl - historian studying US state power, policies, and the institutions that shape American life (starts at 3:25)

Eric Boehlert - Senior fellow at Media Matters for America (starts at 20:15)

Todd Ruger, legal affairs staff writer for CQ News (starts at 20:15)

Tina Dupuy - nationally syndicated op-ed columnist, freelance investigative journalist, comedian and on-air commentator. Her new podcast, Cultish, launched this past week with its first two episodes. (Starts at 7:05)

William K. Black - Editor-in-Chief and Contributor of New Economic Perspectives. (Starts at 20:15)

T. Greg Douchette - Durham North Carolina criminal defense and small business attorney whose Twitter rant with a new perspective on the reality of police bad behavior went viral this week. (Starts at 6:05)

Dawn Porter, Director and producer of the new documentary Trapped, which focuses on the hundreds of regulations that were passed in recent years, restricting access to abortion in America. (Starts at 20:15)

Tracey Ross, Associate Director of the Poverty to Prosperity Program at American Progress (starts at 20:15)

Rick Perlstein, author of The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

Monique Morrissey, economist with the Economic Policy Institute.

Ryan Grim, author and the Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post.

Rashad Robinson, Executive Director of ColorOfChange.

Jessica Mason Pieklo - Vice President, Law and the Courts, RH Reality Check and a writer and adjunct law professor in Boulder, Colorado.

Helaine Olen, author of Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry

Marshall Steinbaum, Research Economist at the Center for Equitable Growth

Jim Fusilli, founder and editor of ReNewMusic.net