Chicago Humanities Spring Festival - George Stephanopoulos

George Stephanopoulos: Inside White House Situation Room

The White House Situation Room: no room defines American power and its global role better. For more than 20 years, George Stephanopoulos, on shows from This Week to Good Morning America, has reported on the most important crises that have been confronted from within this famed nerve center. In a live taping of the CNN podcast The Axe Files with David Axelrod, Stephanopoulos takes us inside this secretive room to learn the truth about presidential crisis management and some of the critical decisions to come out of the Situation Room.

George Stephanopoulos
George Stephanopoulos is the host of ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos and co-anchor of Good Morning America. Stephanopoulos joined ABC News in 1997 as an analyst for This Week. Prior to joining ABC News, he served in the Clinton administration as the senior advisor to the president for policy and strategy. He is the author of All Too Human, a New York Times bestseller.

David Axelrod
David Axelrod is a preeminent American political strategist and commentator and the former chief strategist and senior advisor to President Barack Obama. Axelrod currently serves as the founding director of the University of Chicago's non-partisan Institute of Politics and as a senior political commentator for CNN. He is the host of The Axe Files, a top-rated podcast featuring in-depth conversations with public figures across the political spectrum. A former political writer for the Chicago Tribune, Axelrod produced media strategy and advertising for 150 campaigns across the U.S., culminating in President Obama’s historic elections. Axelrod is also the author of The New York Times best-selling memoir, Believer: My Forty Years in Politics.