David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and best-selling author whose latest book is The Making of Donald Trump.  The Washington Monthly calls him  “one of the country’s most important journalists,”  while the Oregonian newspaper says his work equals the original muckrakers: Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens and Upton Sinclair.

Johnston's  New York Times reporting shut down tax dodges worth hundreds of billions of dollars and the convictions of more than a dozen tax cheats, prompting a leading tax law professor to call him the “de facto chief tax enforcement officer of the United States.” He also writes press criticism and is the only journalist whose reporting forced a broadcast chain to close.  Johnston is also cofounder of a successful lodging management company.  He now writes columns for USA Today, The Daily Beast, Investopedia and Tax Notes and his next book, The Prosperity Tax, will propose an entirely new federal tax code.

Julie Mason is the host of SiriusXM Radio's Press Pool with Julie Mason, heard nationwide weekdays from 3-6 p.m. ET.

Before joining SiriusXM, Juile was a White House reporter at POLITICO, the Washington Examiner and the Houston Chronicle.

Julie has nearly 30 years of experience covering local, state, and national politics, including four presidential campaigns.

She is a former elected board member of the White House Correspondents Association and appears on CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, NPR, and more. She was a 2014 recipient of the Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media for outstanding achievement as a radio talk show host.

Mimi Swartz, the author, with Sherron Watkins, of Power Failure, The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron,is an executive editor of Texas Monthly. Previously, she was a staff writer at Talk, from April 1999 to April 2001, and a staff writer at the New Yorker from 1997 to 2001. Prior to joining the New Yorker, she worked at Texas Monthly for thirteen years.

Ms. Swartz has twice been a finalist for, and twice won, the National Magazine Award. She is also a winner of the John Bartlow Martin Award, a public service award given by Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Ms. Swartz’s work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Esquire, Slate, National Geographic, Vogue, and The New York Times’s Op-Ed page and Sunday magazine. It has also been collected in Best American Political Writing and Best American Sportswriting.