Guest: Peter Nickles, Interim Attorney General for the District of Columbia

Guest: Michael Grynbaum, The New York Times

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is following through with a runoff election despite mounting international appeals to call it off. The Takeaway asks veteran journalist Andrew Meldrum for his read on the election and Zimbabwe’s future. He’ll have no end of insight: He lived there for 23 years until he was exiled.

Guests: Maggie Wellington and John Vivo, Clinton supporters, and Mike Obarto, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors in Unity Township, Pa.

The Screen Actors Guild's contract with the studios expires Monday and there are reasons to fear a repeat of the crippling 14-week writers strike that ended in February. Some observers say Hollywood is already in a de facto strike, with productions rushing to wrap up ahead of next week.

Guest: Todd Zwillich, Capitol News Connection's Power Breakfast

Guest: Tony Arnold, WBEZ in Chicago, Ill.

Guest: Sanford Levinson, professor of government, the University of Texas at Austin's School of Law