Term in American politics
The "Full Ginsburg" is a term used in American politics to refer to a person who appears on all five
American major
Sunday morning talk shows on the same day:
This Week on
ABC ,
Fox News Sunday on
Fox ,
Face the Nation on
CBS ,
Meet the Press on
NBC , and
State of the Union on
CNN .
[1] State of the Union replaced
Late Edition on CNN in January 2009.
The term is named for
William H. Ginsburg , the lawyer for
Monica Lewinsky during the
sexual conduct scandal involving President Bill Clinton. Ginsburg was the first person to accomplish this feat, on February 1, 1998.
[2]
Completed full Ginsburgs
Name
Office
Reason for appearance
Date
William H. Ginsburg
Attorney for
Monica Lewinsky
Representing his client,
Monica Lewinsky , as the
Lewinsky scandal erupted
February 1, 1998
Congressman
Rick Lazio
Nominee for
U.S. Senate in
New York's 2000 Senate election , U.S. Representative from the
State of New York
Announcement of candidacy in Senate election against
Hillary Clinton
May 21, 2000
[3]
Secretary
Dick Cheney
Republican nominee for
Vice President of the United States , former
Secretary of Defense and U.S. Representative from
Wyoming
2000 Republican National Convention
July 30, 2000
Senator
John Edwards
Democratic nominee for
Vice President of the United States ,
United States Senator from
North Carolina
Approaching presidential election
October 10, 2004
Secretary
Michael Chertoff
Secretary of Homeland Security
Hurricane Katrina
September 4, 2005
Senator
Hillary Clinton
Junior senator from
New York , candidate in
2008 presidential election
Her presidential bid
September 23, 2007
Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Swine flu
May 3, 2009
Secretary
Janet Napolitano
Secretary of Homeland Security
Dr.
Richard Besser
Acting director for the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Former President
Bill Clinton
Former
President of the United States
Haiti earthquake
January 17, 2010
[4]
Former President
George W. Bush
Former
President of the United States
Dr.
Rajiv Shah
Administrator of
United States Agency for International Development
Lieutenant General
P.K. "Ken" Keen
Deputy commander of
United States Southern Command
Rep.
Michele Bachmann
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
Her presidential bid
August 14, 2011
[5]
Jack Lew
White House Chief of Staff
2012 federal budget
February 12, 2012
[6]
Susan Rice
United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Reactions to Innocence of Muslims and the
attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi
September 16, 2012
Timothy Geithner
United States Secretary of the Treasury
Fiscal cliff
[7]
December 2, 2012
Jeb Bush
Former
Governor of Florida
Promoting his book Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution
[8]
March 10, 2013
Marco Rubio
United States Senator from
Florida
Immigration reform
April 14, 2013
Daniel Pfeiffer
Senior advisor to the president for strategy and communications
Addressing the
IRS Tea Party investigation ,
Associated Press records seizures, and investigation of response to the
2012 Benghazi attack
May 19, 2013
Secretary
John Kerry
United States Secretary of State
Addressing possible military action against
Syria by the United States
September 1, 2013
Denis McDonough
White House Chief of Staff
September 8, 2013
Jack Lew
United States Secretary of the Treasury
2013 United States government shutdown
October 6, 2013
Secretary
John Kerry
United States Secretary of State
Addressing
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and
Operation Protective Edge
July 20, 2014
Denis McDonough
White House Chief of Staff
Following up on the
2015 State of the Union Address
January 25, 2015
Robert Sumwalt
NTSB Board Member
Discussing the
2015 Philadelphia train derailment
May 17, 2015
Paul Ryan
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Discussion of his role as the new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
November 1, 2015
Marco Rubio
United States Senator from
Florida
His presidential bid
[9]
February 14, 2016
His presidential bid
February 21, 2016
Ted Cruz
United States Senator from
Texas
His presidential bid
[11]
February 28, 2016
Tim Kaine
United States Senator and former
Governor of Virginia
His vice presidential bid
[12]
September 18, 2016
Rudy Giuliani
Former
Mayor of New York City
2016 presidential election on behalf of
Donald Trump presidential campaign
[13]
October 9, 2016
Jay Sekulow
Member of
President Donald Trump 's legal team
Chief counsel for the
American Center for Law and Justice
[14]
[15]
Donald Trump Jr. and
Jared Kushner 's meeting with Russian lawyer
Natalia Veselnitskaya
[16]
[17]
July 16, 2017
Mike Pompeo
United States Secretary of State
President Trump canceling secret talks with the Taliban
[18]
September 8, 2019
President Trump ordering the
killing of
Qasem Soleimani , the highest
military commander in
Iran
[19]
January 5, 2020
Pete Buttigieg
Former
mayor of South Bend, Indiana
His presidential campaign
[20]
February 9, 2020
Anthony Fauci
Head of the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
[21]
March 15, 2020
Senator
Joe Manchin
United States Senator from West Virginia
Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
July 31, 2022
[a]
John Lauro
Attorney for former President
Donald Trump
Federal prosecution of Donald Trump (election obstruction case)
August 6, 2023
John Kirby
Biden administration White House National Security Communications Advisor
2024 Iranian strikes in Israel
[23]
[24]
[25]
14 April 2024
People who have completed multiple full Ginsburgs
Name
Number of full Ginsburgs
Dates
Marco Rubio
3
April 14, 2013 February 14, 2016 February 21, 2016
Jack Lew
2
February 12, 2012 October 6, 2013
John Kerry
September 1, 2013 July 20, 2014
Denis McDonough
September 8, 2013 January 25, 2015
Mike Pompeo
September 8, 2019 January 5, 2020
Variations
On September 20, 2009,
President
Barack Obama , to promote his health care reform proposals, did what
The Politico called a "modified Full Ginsburg" when he appeared on five programs, opting for
Univision 's Spanish-language
Al Punto to be his fifth program appearance instead of
Fox News Sunday .
[26]
Obama also appeared on Monday, September 9, 2013, with reporters from each of the five networks, plus an extra sixth, to discuss possible military intervention in Syria.
[27] He appeared with
CNN 's
Wolf Blitzer on
The Situation Room ,
[28] with
ABC 's
Diane Sawyer on
ABC World News ,
[29] with
NBC 's
Savannah Guthrie on
NBC Nightly News ,
[30] with
CBS 's
Scott Pelley on
CBS Evening News
[31] and with
Fox 's
Chris Wallace on
Fox News 's
Special Report with Bret Baier ,
[32] in addition to
PBS 's
Gwen Ifill on
PBS NewsHour .
[33]
The first person to appear on all six shows in the same week was former governor of Florida
Jeb Bush , who achieved the feat on March 10, 2013.
[34]
Florida Sen.
Marco Rubio became the first person to appear on seven Sunday talk shows the same day, on April 14, 2013: all English-language shows listed above, plus
Univision 's
Al Punto and
Telemundo 's Enfoque , both American
Spanish-language shows.
[35]
[36]
Notes
^ Appearances made using video teleconferencing rather than in person appearance in the studio.
[22]
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