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Pete Buttigieg served from 2021 to 2025 as U.S. Secretary of Transportation. 
 
During his tenure, he worked to launch over sixty thousand infrastructure projects across the country, improve transportation safety and technology, expand airline passenger protections, and resolve pandemic-related supply chain disruptions. He was the first openly gay person in U.S. history to be confirmed to serve in a president’s Cabinet.

Previously, Buttigieg served two terms as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, where he was elected at the age of 29 and led the city to its strongest period of economic and population growth in decades. He also served for seven years as an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve, taking a leave of absence from his role as mayor in 2014 to deploy to Afghanistan. A candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 2020, his historic campaign won the Iowa caucuses and finished second in the New Hampshire primary.

He holds degrees in history and literature from Harvard and in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He lives in northern Michigan with his husband Chasten, their two children, Gus and Penelope, and their dog, Buddy. 

Martha Teichner is a correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning." Since 1993, she has reported on a wide range of issues, including politics, the arts, culture, science, and social issues impacting our world.
 
Teichner joined CBS News in 1977. Her groundbreaking career has spanned the gamut of the human experience. She has witnessed and reported on some of the modern era's most significant national and international stories.

At "CBS News Sunday Morning," Teichner has reported on everything from the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the death of Princess Diana, the life of Nelson Mandela, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the protests following the murder of George Floyd, a workshop designed to bring together those with opposing political views to find common ground; the history of crisis in Haiti; and an exploration of an exhibit of items left behind in the NOVA Music Festival attack that launched the Israel-Hamas War.

She's also interviewed notables such as author Margaret Atwood, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, architect Jeanne Gang, chef Erin French of The Lost Kitchen, and actor Nathan Lane.

Her reporting has earned multiple national awards, including 16 Emmy Awards, six James Beard Foundation Awards, and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.

Born in Traverse City, Michigan, Teichner is a graduate of Wellesley College. Her New York Times bestselling memoir, "When Harry Met Minnie," about two dogs and the power of friendship, was released in February 2021. Teichner, in partnership with the Leelanau Conservancy, created the Teichner Preserve, saving more than 40 acres of forest and lakefront that once belonged to her family from development and insuring it will always be protected for the benefit of the environment and the community.