Capital Gang

Capital Gang
Starring	Pat Buchanan Robert Novak Al Hunt Mark Shields Mona Charen Margaret Warner Margaret Carlson Kate O'Beirne
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Release
Original network	CNN

Capital Gang was a weekly political talk show on CNN. It aired on Saturday evenings at 7 p.m. ET. The show debuted in the fall of 1988 and ran until CNN cancelled it in 2005.^[1]

The original panel was Pat Buchanan, Robert Novak, Al Hunt, and Mark Shields. Mona Charen and Margaret Warner joined the panel in 1992, when Buchanan left the show to run for president in 1992. In 1993, Warner left the program to join PBS and was replaced by Margaret Carlson, and Kate O'Beirne replaced Charen when she moved to Capital Gang Sunday in 1995. Typically four of the commentators were featured along with a prominent public official from either party. Buchanan, O'Beirne, Charen and Novak were the conservative panelists, while Shields, Hunt, Warner and Carlson were the liberal commentators.

Capital Gang Sunday was hosted by James Glassman in the mid-1990s. It featured panelists Juan Williams, Howard Fineman, Ruth Conniff, James Warren, and Mona Charen. The show did not feature any guests and was more cerebral than combative, in contrast to the Saturday version. In 1998, it, too, was canceled, along with CNN's Sunday edition of Crossfire.

In 2005, after overall declining ratings at the network, CNN attempted to shake up its programming by cancelling several of its politically oriented shows, including the Capital Gang and Crossfire.

The Capital Gang panellists appeared together again on NBC's Meet the Press with Tim Russert on February 17, 2008. With the Democratic nomination race still very much undecided, and the role of the so-called "superdelegates" in question, Hunt, Carlson, Shields, Novak and O'Beirne gathered to discuss the issues.

Notes

↑ "CNN Disbands 'Capital Gang' As Part of Schedule Shakeup." By John Maynard. The Washington Post. Friday, June 24, 2005; Page C07.

External links

Video of the Capital Gang on Meet the Press

CNN programming

Weekday	Early Start with John Berman and Christine Romans New Day CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello At This Hour with Berman and Bolduan Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield Wolf CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin The Lead with Jake Tapper The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer This Is Life with Lisa Ling Erin Burnett OutFront Anderson Cooper 360° CNN Tonight with Don Lemon Somebody's Gotta Do It

Weekend	New Day Weekend Smerconish CNN Newsroom with Victor Blackwell and Christi Paul CNN Newsroom with Fredricka Whitfield CNN Newsroom with Poppy Harlow CNN Special Investigations Unit Inside Politics with John King State of the Union Fareed Zakaria GPS Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown The Hunt with John Walsh

Special	CNN Presents CNN Heroes Chicagoland

Former	American Morning Around the World Business Morning Campbell Brown Capital Gang CNN Daybreak CNN Live Today CNN Money CNN NewsStand Connie Chung Tonight Crossfire D. L. Hughley Breaks the News Evans, Novak, Hunt & Shields In the Arena Larry King Live NewsNight with Aaron Brown The Next List Paula Zahn Now (Get to) The Point People in the News Sports Tonight Starting Point Style with Elsa Klensch TalkBack Live The Real Football Factories International (was shown on CNNI) Wolf Blitzer Reports Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer Your World Today (shown on CNNI, now cancelled) This Week in Politics Lou Dobbs This Week Lou Dobbs Tonight Rick's List John King, USA Your Bottom Line Piers Morgan Live Sanjay Gupta MD

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