Original air date
(Links to video) | Interviewee(s) | Comments |
| December 12, 2004 | David Levin | This was the first program in the Q&A series, and it was aired one week after the final Booknotes interview, in the time slot that had been reserved for Booknotes. It featured discussion of the Knowledge Is Power Program. |
| December 19, 2004 | Roger Ailes | This interview took place at the studios of the Fox News Channel, on the sets of The O'Reilly Factor and Fox and Friends. |
| December 26, 2004 | Brian Williams | This interview took place in Williams's office at 30 Rockefeller Center. |
| January 2, 2005 | Shirley Ann Jackson | Featured discussion of Jackson's role as president of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. |
| January 9, 2005 | Ronald Peterson | Featured discussion of Johns Hopkins Hospital. |
| January 16, 2005 | William and Jill Ruckelshaus | |
| January 23, 2005 | Eric Liu | |
| January 30, 2005 | George W. Bush | The first 30 minutes of this program was a discussion with President Bush in the Map Room of the White House; The second 30 minutes was a round table discussion with Richard Norton Smith and Douglas Brinkley. |
| February 6, 2005 | Russ Feingold | |
| February 13, 2005 | Mike Huckabee | |
| February 20, 2005 | Rep. Mel Watt | |
| February 27, 2005 | Michael Steele | |
| March 6, 2005 | April Witt | Featured discussion of West Virginia Powerball Lottery winner Jack Whittaker. |
| March 13, 2005 | Barbara Slavin | Featured discussion of Iran–United States relations. |
| March 20, 2005 | David Walker | Featured discussion of Walker's role as Comptroller General of the United States. |
| March 27, 2005 | Paul Weyrich | |
| April 3, 2005 | Peter Beinart | |
| April 10, 2005 | Markos Moulitsas | Featured discussion of The Daily Kos. |
| April 17, 2005 | Thomas Sowell | |
| April 24, 2005 | Dexter Filkins | Featured discussion of journalism in the Iraq War. |
| May 1, 2005 | Charles Krauthammer | |
| May 8, 2005 | Jason Kamras | Featured discussion of Kamras's role as National Teacher of the Year. |
| May 15, 2005 | Linda Chavez-Thompson | Featured discussion of Chavez-Thompson's role as executive vice-president of the AFL-CIO. |
| May 22, 2005 | Josh Bolten | Featured discussion of Bolten's role as director of the Office of Management and Budget. |
| May 29, 2005 | Bob Herbert | |
| June 5, 2005 | Wesley Pruden | |
| June 12, 2005 | Richard Baker | |
| June 19, 2005 | Bethany McLean | Featured discussion of McLean's book Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron. |
| June 26, 2005 | Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman | Featured discussion of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. |
| July 3, 2005 | Sarah Bakhiet and Janet Lipson | Featured discussion of C-SPAN's Middle and High School Teacher Fellowship Program. (Bakhiet represented La Jolla Country Day School, La Jolla, California; Lipson represented Long Beach Polytechnic High School, Long Beach, California.) |
| July 10, 2005 | Kenneth Feinberg | Featured discussion of Feinberg's role as Special Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. |
| July 17, 2005 | Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein | Featured discussion of the Los Angeles Times investigation of the Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center. |
| July 24, 2005 | Kenneth Tomlinson | Featured discussion of Tomlinson's role as chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. |
| July 31, 2005 | Eliot Cohen | Featured discussion of Cohen's op-ed piece in The Washington Post, "A Hawk Questions Himself as His Son Goes to War." |
| August 7, 2005 | David McCullough | The interview was conducted at the General Henry Knox Museum in Thomaston, Maine, and featured discussion of McCullough's book 1776. |
| August 14, 2005 | Robert Kahn | |
| August 21, 2005 | Seeno Merobshoev and Moses Reddy | Merobshoev and Reddy are both C-SPAN employees who emigrated to the United States (Merobshoev from Tajikistan, Reddy from India). |
| August 28, 2005 | Ken Paulson | |
| September 4, 2005 | Sen. Arlen Specter | |
| September 11, 2005 | David O'Brien | Featured discussion of William Rehnquist, John Roberts, and the United States Supreme Court. |
| September 18, 2005 | Allen Weinstein | Featured discussion of Weinstein's role as Archivist of the United States. |
| September 25, 2005 | Jimmy Wales | Featured discussion of Wikipedia. |
| October 2, 2005 | Rep. Artur Davis | |
| October 9, 2005 | Pamela Hess | Featured discussion of Hess's time embedded with American, British, and Italian troops in Iraq. |
| October 16, 2005 | Andrew Card | |
| October 23, 2005 | Rep. Grace Napolitano | |
| October 30, 2005 | Rep. Shelley Moore Capito | |
| November 6, 2005 | Gov. Mark Warner | |
| November 13, 2005 | Chuck Hagel | |
| November 20, 2005 | Bruce Gordon | Featured discussion of Gordon's role as president and CEO of the NAACP. |
| November 27, 2005 | Douglas Holtz-Eakin | Featured discussion of Holtz-Eakin's role as director of the Congressional Budget Office. |
| December 4, 2005 | Stephen Breyer | |
| December 11, 2005 | Laura Ingraham | |
| December 18, 2005 | Randi Rhodes | |
| December 25, 2005 | Sam Brownback | |
