Overheard with Evan Smith

Jonathan Alter is an author and commentator, who was at Newsweek for close to three decades. He has written three New York Times best-sellers about American presidents. Alter's most recent book is The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies.

Eugene Robinson is a Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist for The Washington Post. He won the Pulitzer in 2009 for Commentary for his writing about the 2008 campaign and the historical significance of the election of the first African-American president. Robinson is also an author and often joins the roundtable of NBC's Meet the Press.

Aimee Mann lead the 80's new-wave group 'Til Tuesday before embarking on a solo career. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her song "Save Me," from the film Magnolia. Her most recent album Charmer was released in 2012.

Lawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. His most recent book is Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief.

Jeffrey Toobin is a New Yorker staff writer and CNN legal analyst whose second book on the nation’s nine most important robed jurists has just been published. It’s called The Oath: The Obama White House and The Supreme Court.

Richard M. Daley is the longest-serving mayor in the history of Chicago, following his father. Daley served in the Illinois State Senate and as the Cook County State's Attorney. He left office in 2011.

Joyce Banda is Malawi’s first female president. She served as Minister of Foreign of Affairs and Vice President. Banda is an advocate for women’s and children’s rights. Forbes magazine named her one of Africa’s most powerful women.

Annette O'Toole is a TV and stage actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song with her husband Michael McKean in the film A Mighty Wind in 2004. O'Toole is best known to TV audiences for playing Martha Kent in Smallville. She is in Austin being honored by the Texas Film Hall of Fame.

Tony Hale is an actor and comedian best known for playing Buster Bluth on Arrested Development. He was recently nominated for an Emmy for playing Gary Walsh, the bumbling Body Man to Julia Louis-Dreyfus on HBO's "Veep."