Full Ginsburg

The "full Ginsburg" is a buzzword that refers to an appearance by one person on all five American major Sunday morning talk shows on the same day: This Week on ABC, Fox News Sunday, Face the Nation on CBS, Meet the Press on NBC, and Late Edition 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
NameOfficeReason for appearanceDate

William H. Ginsburg		 Attorney for Monica Lewinsky Allegations that his client had a sexual relationship with President Bill Clinton 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[10] 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

Special cases

People who have completed multiple Full Ginsburgs
NameNumber 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

Notes

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.[22]

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.[23] He appeared with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room,[24] with ABC's Diane Sawyer on ABC World News,[25] with NBC's Savannah Guthrie on NBC Nightly News,[26] with CBS's Scott Pelley on CBS Evening News[27] and with Fox's Chris Wallace on Fox News's Special Report with Bret Baier,[28] in addition to PBS's Gwen Ifill on PBS NewsHour.[29]

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.[30]

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.[31][32]

Following the South Carolina Republican primary in 2016, Senator Rubio became the first person to complete the Full Ginsburg on two consecutive Sundays.[10] Thanks to a prior Full Ginsburg in 2013, he is to date the only person to have accomplished this feat three times.

References
  1. Newton-Small, Jay (September 27, 2007). "Lexicon". Time. Retrieved 2007-09-25. the full Ginsburg DEFINITION The ful gins-burg n. The appearance on all five political TV talk shows on the same Sunday morning. CONTEXT On Sept. 23, Senator Hillary Clinton filmed segments from her home in Chappaqua, N.Y., for ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, NBC's Meet the Press, CNN's Late Edition, Fox News' Sunday with Chris Wallace and CBS's Face the Nation. USAGE Ironically, the term was coined by Washington insiders after Monica Lewinsky's attorney William Ginsburg shuffled between studios to make the full circuit in February 1998.
  2. Puzzanghera, Jim (September 24, 2007). "Clinton makes the Sunday talk-show rounds". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2007-09-25. Appearing on all five major Sunday talk shows -- the political equivalent of hitting for the cycle in baseball -- is known among TV producers and political operatives as a "full Ginsburg," after the first person to pull it off, Southern California attorney William H. Ginsburg. He made the circuit on Feb. 1, 1998, in defense of his client Monica S. Lewinsky, the onetime White House intern at the center of a Bill Clinton sex scandal.
  3. "Lazio's Coming Out Party" Slate. May 22, 2000. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/pundit_central/2000/05/lazios_coming_out_party.html
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  9. Rubin, Jennifer (February 14, 2016). "Eight Rubio take-aways". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2016-02-14. The Rubio team showed tremendous confidence in booking the candidate on all the Sunday shows.
  10. "Alex Conant on Twitter: ".@MarcoRubio going on all 5 Sunday shows tomorrow to celebrate 2nd place comeback in SC. 2nd week in a row he'll do full Ginsburg. #history"". Twitter.com. 2016-02-20. Retrieved 2016-10-09.
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  21. Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows from the Associated Press, March 14, 2020
  22. Javers, Eamon. "Obama's Risky Full Ginsburg". The Politico. Retrieved 2009-09-18.
  23. Byers, Dylan. "The Syria Six". The Politico. Retrieved 2014-06-08.
  24. "CNN's Wolf Blitzer to sit down with Pres. Obama on Monday, Sept. 9". CNN. 2013-09-07. Retrieved 2014-06-08.
  25. "ABC World News With Diane Sawyer". Internet Archive. September 9, 2013. Retrieved 2014-06-08.
  26. "Savannah Guthrie's full interview with President Obama". NBC News. 2013-09-09. Retrieved 2014-06-08.
  27. Espo, David; Pace, Julie. "Obama: I might lose congressional vote on Syria". Associated Press. Retrieved 2014-06-08.
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  32. Denver Post staff (15 April 2013). "Rubio pitches immigration deal on seven television shows". Denver Post. Retrieved 15 April 2013. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., appeared on seven television shows Sunday to defend the immigration bill being written by four Republican and four Democratic senators, including Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado.
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