| Pro | | | Lost in Transition |
| | Chris | Christie | New Jersey governor/Head Trump presidential transition team. |
| | Donald | Trump | One of the 2016 US presidential candidates. |
| | John | Kasich | One of the 2016 US presidential candidates. |
| | Ted | Cruz | One of the 2016 US presidential candidates. |
| | Hillary | Clinton | One of the 2016 US presidential candidates. |
| | Bernie | Sanders | One of the 2016 US presidential candidates. |
| | Corey | Lewandowski | Trump's campaign manager. |
| | Paul | Manafort | Trump adviser. |
| | Jared | Kushner | Trump's son-in-law. |
| | Charles | Kushner | Kushner's father. |
| | Melania | Trump | Trump's wife. |
| | Ivanka | Trump | Trump's daughter. |
| | Donald | Trump Jr. | One of the members of Trump's executive committee. |
| | Eric | Trump | One of the members of Trump's executive committee. |
| | Paul | Manafort | One of the members of Trump's executive committee. |
| | Steve | Mnuchin | One of the members of Trump's executive committee. |
| | Jeff | Sessions | One of the members of Trump's executive committee. |
| | Steve | Bannon | Chief executive of Trump's campaign. |
| | Max | Stier | President and CEO, Partnership for Public Service. |
| | Sam | Heyman | American businessman. |
| | Frazer | Lockhart | Work's at the Energy Department. |
| | Eileen | Harrington | Work's at the Federal Trade Commission. |
| | Steven | Rosenberg | National Institutes of Health researcher. |
| | George W. | Bush | Former US President. |
| | Barack | Obama | Former US President. |
| | Mike | Pence | Trump's Vice President. |
| | Karen | | Mike's wife. |
| | Andrew | Puzder | Head of CKE Restaurants. |
| | Michael | Flynn | Retired army lieutenant general. |
| | Nancy | Cook | White House reporter for POLITICO. |
| 1 | | | Tail Risk |
| | Elizabeth S. | Randall | Deputy secretary of the DOE at that time. |
| | Thomas | Pyle | President of the American Energy Alliance. |
| | Kevin | Knobloch | DOE chief of staff at that time. |
| | Ernest | Moniz | Energy Secretary. |
| | Tarak | Shah | Chief of staff for the DOE's $6 billion basic-science program. |
| | Joe | Hezir | Former Department of Energy CFO. |
| | Madelyn | Creedon | Second-in-command of the nuclear-weapons wing of the DOE. |
| | Frank | Klotz | DOE in charge of the nuclear-weapons program. |
| | Rick | Perry | Former Texas governor. |
| | John | MacWilliams | DOE Associate Deputy Secretary. |
| | Ali | Zaidi | Obama's senior adviser on energy policy. |
| | Enrico | Fermi | Physicist. |
| | Tom | Carpenter | Executive director of the Hanford Challenges. |
| | | | ARPA-E - Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy |
| | Arun | Majumdar | The man who ran ARPA-E. |
| 2 | | | People Risk
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| | Colin | Powell | Former United States National Security Advisor. |
| | Alma | Powell | Colin's wife. |
| | Michael | Sandel | Philosopher. |
| | Greg | Mankiw | Economist. |
| | Joel | Leftwich | Lobbyist for PepsiCo. |
| | Brian | Klippenstein | The man who ran Protect the Harvest. |
| | Forrest | Lucas | Protect the Harvest founder. |
| | Rachael | Bale | National Geographic wildlife investigative reporter. |
| | Jenny | Hopkinson | POLITICO reporter. |
| | Sonny | Perdue | Former Georgia governor. |
| | Robert | Bonnie | Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment. |
| | Kevin | Concannon | Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Sciences. |
| | Tom | Vilsack | Secretary of Agriculture. |
| | Neil | Goldschmidt | Former Governor of Oregon. |
| | Tom | Vilsack | Governor of Iowa at that time. |
| | Cathie | Woteki | Under Secretary for the Department of Agriculture. |
| | Sam | Clovis | Senior White House Adviser to the USDA. |
| | Lillian | Salerno | Congressional candidate. |
| 3 | | | All the President's Data |
| | Kathy | Sullivan | Head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. |
| | George | Abbey | Former director of the Johnson Space Center. |
| | Dave | Leestma | American astronaut. |
| | DJ | Patil | Mathematician. |
| | James | Yorke | University Research Professor of Mathematics and Physics. |
| | Penny | Pritzker | Secretary of Commerce at that time. |
| | Rebecca | Blank | Former acting commerce secretary. |
| | Wilbur | Ross | Wall Street billionaire. |
| | Dan | Alexander | Forbes reporter. |
| | Barry | Myers | CEO of AccuWeather. |
| | Joel | Myers | Barry's brother. |
| | Holly | | Barry's wife. |
| | Dan | Satterfield | Meteorologist. |
| | David | Kenny | CEO of the Weather Company. |
| | Eric | Floehr | Founder of ForecastAdvisor. |
| | Rick | Santorum | Former senator. |
| | | | NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| | Conrad | Lautenbacher | Under Secretary for NOAA. |
| | Walter | Shaub | Former head of the Office of Government Ethics. |
| | David | Friedberg | Founder of WeatherBill. |
| | Ed | Kearns | Chief data officer at NOAA. |
| | Mick | Mulvaney | Acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. |
| | Clare | Malone | Senior political writer for FiveThirtyEight. |
| | Jeff | Asher | Political writer for FiveThirtyEight. |
| | Kim | Klockow | UCAR Researcher and Policy Advisor at the NOAA. |
| | Mike | Morgan | TV weatherman. |
| | Lonnie | Risenhoover | Emergency Management Director. |
| | Hank | Jenkins-Smith | One of Kim's friends. |
| | Carol | Silva | One of Kim's friends. |