Sunday Talk Shows

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Meet the Press
President Obama is poised for the general election fight having just made his fourth visit this year to battleground state Ohio. Can his message of fairness in the economy win the hearts and minds of independent voters across the country? Plus, in the wake of recent public relations disasters involving two government agencies, how will the president battle the possible perceptions that government has run amok? We’ll talk with the president’s chief re-election strategist David Axelrod this Sunday.

A scandal in the Secret Service combined with new reports of lavish spending by government employees caused a firestorm this week. We’ll get the latest on the investigations into these incidents with two top Republicans who head the committees charged with oversight responsibilities: Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa , and Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Peter King

New polling shows what looks to be a tightening race between President Obama and Mitt Romney as both candidates took jabs at each other this week. As the country begins to weigh their choices, what kind of president do the American people want and how do Obama and Romney size up? Our roundtable weighs in: the Washington Post’s EJ Dionne; the New York Times’ David Brooks and Helene Cooper; and NBC’s Chuck Todd

ABC This Week
As more details emerge in the explosive Secret Service scandal, Sen. Susan Collins and Rep. Carolyn Maloney

With two supervisors and an agent already ousted over the prostitution scandal in Colombia, how many more will face discipline? Was President Obama ever at risk because of the agents' behavior? And as the investigation continues, will there be any political fallout? George Stephanopoulos asks Sen. Susan Collins and Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Sunday on "This Week."

Then, the general election battle heats up, with President Obama and Mitt Romney neck-and-neck in the latest polls. But is the campaign already going to the dogs, with attacks over Romney and Obama's canine history? And will countless denials this week by possible vice presidential candidates change the Romney veepstakes speculation?

Our powerhouse roundtable weighs in on all the week's politics, with Keith Olbermann, ABC News' George Will, political strategist and ABC News contributor Donna Brazile, political strategist and ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan

CBS Face The Nation Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT);
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX); Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD); Tom Comburn (R-OK); Norah O’Donnell, CBS; Stephanie Cutter, deputy Obama campaign manager; Eric Fehrnstrom, senior adviser to Romney campaign; Melinda Henneberger, Washington Post; Major Garrett, National Journal; John Dickerson, CBS; Cornel West, Princeton University; Tavis Smiley, talk show host
W. Ralph Basham Jr., former director of the Secret Service.

Fox News Sunday
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT); Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN)

CNN State of The Union
David Axelrod is the president’s top campaign strategist, and he is our guest this Sunday on State of the Union. I’ll ask him if the Secret Service scandal will distract from the President’s re-election message, and what the latest economic warning signs mean for the President’s chances in November.

We also have an exclusive interview with Florida’s Republican Senator Marco Rubio. We’ll talk about his party’s outreach to the Hispanic community and speculation that he might be Mitt Romney’s pick for Vice President.

Rep. Elijah Cummings will be here to give us the latest developments in the Secret Service prostitution scandal. He’s the ranking democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform committee, and although they’re letting the Secret Service take the lead on the investigation, they DO want answers.

We’ll round out the show with CNN’s Senior Congressional Reporter Dana Bash and Jeff Zeleny of the New York Times

Fareed Zakaria GPS
French elections; Syria; India's missile test: Edward Luce; Emmanuel Saint-Martin; Anne-Marie Slaughter; Bret Stephens. Global economics: Ruchir Sharma. Immigration: Andrew Sullivan.

Reliable Sources
The Los Angeles Times' decision to publish graphic photos; reporting in North Korea: Bob Woodward. Politics; Ted Nugent remarks; Romney's religion: Bill Press; Ben Smith; Jennifer Rubin. Huffington Post Pulitzer: Arianna Huffington

The Chris Matthews Show
General election dynamics: Michael Duffy; David Leonhardt; Liz Marlantes; Patricia Murphy

Up with Chris Hayes
On Sunday at 8AM ET on MSNBC we'll take an in-depth look at foreign policy. Earlier this week the Los Angeles Times released controversial photos of U.S. soldiers posing with dead Afghanis, marking another public relations disaster for the military in Afghanistan. We'll discuss the ongoing war there, as well as tensions between Israel & Iran, and more. Joining us will be:

Peter Beinart (@peterbeinart), senior writer at Newsweek/The Daily Beast.

Sonali Kolhatkar (@sonalikolhatkar), co-director of the Afghan Women's Mission and author of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords & the Propaganda of Silence.

Rula Jebreal (@rulajebreal), Newsweek contributor.

Eli Lake (@elilake), senior national security reporter for Newsweek/Daily Beast.

Hooman Majd (@hmajd), author of The Ayatollah's Democracy: An Iranian Challenge and The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran.

Dimi Reider (@dimireider), Israeli journalist and blogger.

Melissa Harris-Perry
Majora Carter

CBS 60 Minutes
The Case Against Lehman - Steve Kroft talks to the bank examiner whose investigation reveals the how and why of the spectacular financial collapse of Lehman Brothers, the bankruptcy that triggered the world financial crisis.

Christians of the Holy Land - Bob Simon reports on the slow exodus from the Holy Land of Palestinian Christians, who say life in the middle of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become too difficult.

The Trouble with Treasure - Jay Miscovich says he found a cache of emeralds on the bottom of the ocean off of Florida, but it may be years before he can profit from the treasure. Armen Keteyian reports.

Washington Journal
7:00 Newspaper Articles & Phones

7:45 Anita McBride, Former Chief of Staff to First Lady Laura Bush, 2005-09 and American Univ. School of Public Affairs Executive in Residence; and Camille Johnston, Former Communications Director for First Lady Michelle Obama, 2009-10 and Mrs. Tipper Gore, 1999-2001

Topic: The roles that First Lady Michelle Obama and Ann Romney play in this year’s presidential election.

8:30 Danielle Brian, Project on Government Oversight, Executive Director

Topic: In the wake of hearings earlier this week looking into the General Services Administration’s $820,000 Las Vegas conference, guest will discuss the cost of government oversight. How much time and effort goes into an investigation, is there wasteful spending or do taxpayers see a return on their money, etc.

9:15 Robin Wright, U.S. Institute of Peace-Wilson Center, Distinguished Scholar and Editor, “The Islamists Are Coming: Who They Really Are”

Topic: Guest discussed the latest developments coming out of the Middle East, including Syria and Iran. She will also discuss her new book “The Islamists Are Coming, Who They Really Are." In it, she offers the first survey of the Arab world's more than 50 political Islamist groups that are redefining the Islamist political spectrum.

[bahrbearian]

1. I gave up on the Sunday shows

Then they had Chris Hayes,, and I watched, now Keith is on This Week , I will watch for Keith.

[MADem]

2. Is Olbermann a one-off, a try-out, or a hired regular? Anyone know? nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. I'm watching Nazis at the Center of the Earth this sunday

On line:



A group of researchers in Antarctica are abducted by a platoon of masked soldiers and dragged into a hidden continent in the center of the Earth. There, they discover that surviving Nazi soldiers are plotting an invasion of Earth to revive the Third Reich.



VS. Nazis in the center of the Sunday Morning Talkshows

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. I do appreciate these threads you provide for Sunday talkshows

they never fail to show the overwhelming right wing slant and the overpowering rethuglican representation.