Last week saw two high-profile confirmation hearings, and this week brings the State of the Union - and the GOP response from Marco Rubio. Karen Tumulty, national political correspondent for the Washington Post, discusses the news from Washington.

Joshua Stacher, Egypt expert at the Wilson Center assistant professor of Political Science at Kent State and the author of Adaptable Autocrats: Regime Power in Egypt and Syria, discusses the situation in Egypt two years after the fall of Mubarak.

Gavin Newsom former mayor of San Francisco, current Lt. Gov. of California discusses his book Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government

Andrew Davis, Rome Bureau Chief for Bloomberg, joins to discuss the announcement that Pope Benedict XVI will voluntarily step down at the end of the month.

Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, co-directors of the new documentary "5 Broken Cameras," discuss the difficulties of making a film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Independent journalist Jillian Jonas' recent piece on Animal Care & Control ran in City Limits. She joins us to talk about criticisms of conditions in Animal Care & Control shelters for dogs and cats, a new report out about reforming the system, and what to know about animal rescues and adoptions in New York City.