First, thanks for your efforts. This is a really good thread and I'm sure I'm not alone in enjoying the preview.
For FNS, the common thread is each guest is they are their party leader of the two committees that are being talked about on FNC. I would guess the topics will revolve around current events and their committee leadership positions.
Lugar, majority chair of the Foreign Relations Committee
Warner, majority chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee
Biden, ranking minority member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Levin, ranking minority member of the Armed Services Committee
Don't know why Branson is on other than comic relief.
It's the millions billions he committed to Clinton to help fix Global Warming and other noble causes.
From the "Coming On Fox News Sunday" essay
Finally, our Power Player this week is multi-billionaire businessman Richard Branson, who made his money in 200 businesses in 30 countries and is now looking to give much of it away to fight global warming, the spread of AIDS, and other social problems.
What he's actually done, at least on global warming, which is where the bulk of his $3 billion pledged through Clinton's publicity machine is going, is to have committed to invest in developing cleaner fuels for his jets. I've read some very interesting analysis of this effort. He's investing in technologies that should solve price and availability problems for his airline as well as improve the "greenhouse gas" issues. The best motivator of all, enlightened self interest. Oh, and it may end up royally screwing over Hugo Chavez as the oil his country extracts is apparently among the nastier type, environmentally.
I like Branson a lot, particularly since he's backing commercial space ventures big time. I'd love it if he's the Bill Gates of the next 20 years built off of that. How about he funds a commercial venture to go to the asteroid belt and find and exploit the materials there? That's well within his grasp in the next 20 years. Probably far less of an investment, relatively, and less daunting an undertaking than Ferdinand and Isabella funding Cristobol Colon way back in 1492. And the odds that Branson would make a profit are actually pretty good.