Weekend Talk Shows

THE REUTERS TV WEEKEND DAYBOOK

Saturday and Sunday

-----

The daybook editor is Timothy Ryan (reachable at 202-843-6282 or Tim.Ryan@TR.com or DCDaybook@yahoo.com).

Subscribers: For any problems in receiving daybook content, call: 1-833-282-6915 and press 1.

-----

-----

************************

Saturday

************************

7 a.m. -- WASHINGTON JOURNAL (C-SPAN):

8 a.m.: Jeanna Smialek of the New York Times discusses "the February jobs report and testimony on Capitol Hill this week from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen."

9:15 a.m.: Lincoln Project co-founder Ron Steslow discusses his podcast called "Politicology"; and "the week in politics."

************************

Sunday

************************

7 a.m. -- WASHINGTON JOURNAL (C-SPAN):

8 a.m.: Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution discusses "key worldwide threats against the United States."

9:15 a.m.: Vanderbilt University infectious disease professor Dr. William Schaffner discusses "the 3rd anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic."

9 a.m. -- THIS WEEK WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (ABC):

An interview with Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

An interview with Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

An interview with National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy.

A political roundtable with ABC News political director Rick Klein; PBS NewsHour White House Correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez; Washington Post columnist Charles Lane; and Time magazine national political correspondent Molly Ball.

Former acting CDC director Dr. Richard Besser discusses "three years of the COVID-19 pandemic."

Note: The transcript for the show is available every Sunday after 10:30 A.M. at: http://abcnews.go.com/thisweek

9 a.m. -- FOX NEWS SUNDAY WITH SHANNON BREAM (FOX):

An interview with Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.).

An interview with Sauli Niinisto, president of Finland.

An interview with FOX News State Department correspondent Benjamin Hall, author of "Saved: A War Reporter’s Mission to Make It Home."

A political roundtable with Marie Harf, former State Department spokesperson; Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason; Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation; and Michele Tafoya, former sportscaster and host of the "Sideline Sanity" podcast.

9 a.m. -- STATE OF THE UNION WITH JAKE TAPPER AND DANA BASH (CNN):

An interview with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Shalanda Young.

An interview with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.).

An interview with Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.

A political roundtable with Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson; Democratic strategist Paul Begala, former chief strategist for the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign; Scott Jennings, former special assistant to President George W. Bush; and Ashley Allison, former Biden-Harris campaign senior staffer and former Obama White House senior policy adviser.

10 a.m. -- SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES WITH MARIA BARTIROMO (FOX NEWS):

An interview with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).

An interview with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.).

An interview with Gov. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.).

An interview with Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.

10 a.m. -- AL PUNTO (UNIVISION):

An interview with Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) who discusses whether the Biden administration will "implement the Trump administration's immigration policy of detaining migrant families who cross the border illegally."

10 a.m. -- FAREED ZAKARIA GPS (CNN):

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and former Israeli deputy prime minister Tzipi Livni, discuss "Netanyahu and the Judiciary: how is the Israeli Prime Minister trying to alter how government works in his country...And why is there such outrage over it?"

Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd discusses "A historic low in U.S. – Sino relations: How did the situation get this bad...How can it be fixed?"

10:30 a.m. -- MEET THE PRESS WITH CHUCK TODD (NBC):

An interview with Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

An interview with Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.).

An interview with Sheila Bair, former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).

A political roundtable with Washington Post congressional reporter Marianna Sotomayor; Brendan Buck, former aide to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio); Jonathan Martin, politics bureau chief and senior political correspondent at Politico; and Maria Teresa Kumar, president of Voto Latino.

10:30 a.m. -- FACE THE NATION WITH MARGARET BRENNAN (CBS):

An interview with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

An interview with Gov. Phil Murphy (D-N.J.).

An interview with Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

An interview with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.).

Other guests include: National Public Radio media correspondent David Folkenflik, author of "Murdoch's World: The Last of the Old Media Empires"; and Washington Post staff writer Sarah Ellison.

11 a.m. -- MEDIA BUZZ (FOX NEWS):

The guests are: Democratic strategist Ameshia Cross; former Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. (D-Tenn.); Robby Soave, senior editor at Reason magazine; and Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief at The Federalist.

7 p.m. -- 60 MINUTES (CBS):

A report on "links between dog and human evolution" and "how dogs diverged from wolves and developed what one geneticist calls 'friendliness mutations.'"

A report on Comparative Oncology, where "scientists, physicians, and veterinarians team up to study and treat similar cancers in pet dogs and people."

A visit to the Wyoming Honor Farm, "a state-run minimum-security prison in the middle of horse country doing its part to help with the wild horse population through a program where inmates train the horses."

8 p.m. -- Q&A (C-SPAN):

An interview with Newsmax chief White House correspondent James Rosen, author of "Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936-1986," the first of his two-part biography of late Supreme Court associate justice Antonin Scalia.

-----

-----

The Reuters Weekend TV Daybook

Saturday and Sunday

REUTERS