# Full Ginsburg

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. 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.

## 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 |
| 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 | Swine flu | May 3, 2009 |
| Dr. Richard Besser | Acting director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | Swine flu | May 3, 2009 |
| Former President Bill Clinton | Former President of the United States | Haiti earthquake | January 17, 2010 |
| Former President George W. Bush | Former President of the United States | Haiti earthquake | January 17, 2010 |
| Dr. Rajiv Shah | Administrator of United States Agency for International Development | Haiti earthquake | January 17, 2010 |
| Lieutenant General P.K. "Ken" Keen | Deputy commander of United States Southern Command | Haiti earthquake | January 17, 2010 |
| Rep. Michele Bachmann | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives | Her presidential bid | August 14, 2011 |
| Jack Lew | White House Chief of Staff | 2012 federal budget | February 12, 2012 |
| 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 | December 2, 2012 |
| Jeb Bush | Former Governor of Florida | Promoting his book Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution | 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 | Addressing possible military action against Syria by the United States | 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 | February 14, 2016 |
| Marco Rubio | United States Senator from Florida | His presidential bid | February 21, 2016 |
| Ted Cruz | United States Senator from Texas | His presidential bid | February 28, 2016 |
| Tim Kaine | United States Senator and former Governor of Virginia | His vice presidential bid | September 18, 2016 |
| Rudy Giuliani | Former Mayor of New York City | 2016 presidential election on behalf of Donald Trump presidential campaign | October 9, 2016 |
| Jay Sekulow | Member of President Donald Trump's legal team Chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice | Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner's meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya | July 16, 2017 |
| Mike Pompeo | United States Secretary of State | President Trump canceling secret talks with the Taliban | September 8, 2019 |
| Mike Pompeo | United States Secretary of State | President Trump ordering the killing of Qasem Soleimani, the highest military commander in Iran | January 5, 2020 |
| Pete Buttigieg | Former mayor of South Bend, Indiana | His presidential campaign | February 9, 2020 |
| Anthony Fauci | Head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases | COVID-19 pandemic in the United States | March 15, 2020 |
| Senator Joe Manchin | United States Senator from West Virginia | Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 | July 31, 2022 |
| 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 | 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 | 2 | September 1, 2013 July 20, 2014 |
| Denis McDonough | 2 | September 8, 2013 January 25, 2015 |
| Mike Pompeo | 2 | September 8, 2019 January 5, 2020 |

## Variations

On September 20, 2009, President Barack Obama, to promote his health care reform proposals, did what 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.
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. He appeared with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room, with ABC's Diane Sawyer on ABC World News, with NBC's Savannah Guthrie on NBC Nightly News, with CBS's Scott Pelley on CBS Evening News and with Fox's Chris Wallace on Fox News's Special Report with Bret Baier, in addition to PBS's Gwen Ifill on PBS NewsHour.
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.
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.