Sunday Morning "Talking Heads" Cheat Sheet

George Wenschhof

A busy Sunday morning is shaping up with plenty of topics to discuss.

The Supreme court rulings on same sex marriage and the the Votering Rights Act will receive much of the focus of discussion on Sunday. 

The Senate passed Immigration reform this week and the bill now heads to the House where it is unlikely to pass.  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calf.) appears on NBC "Meet the Press", where she will discuss this as well as the action by the Supreme Court in regard to the Voting Rights Act.

Also, be sure to watch wikileaks founder Julian Assange who will appear on ABC "This Week".  He is currently living in Ecuador to avoid extradition is rumored to be helping NSA snooping whistleblower Eric Snowden find refuge. 

Texas state Senator Wendy Davis, who became an instant nationwide hero with the "right-to-choose" supporters with her heroic filibuster to stop the Texas state legislature from imposing bans on late term abortions will appear on CBS "Face The Nation and ABC "This Week".

The scheduled guests follow below.

NBC "Meet The Press" - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calf.) and Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS)

Roundtable discussion with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow; chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, Ralph Reed; author and professor at Georgetown University, Michael Eric Dyson; President of the Heritage Foundation, Fmr. Sen. Jim DeMint; and NBC’s Pete Williams.

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CBS "Face The Nation" - Ted Olson, Texas state senator Wendy Davis (D), Retired Gen. Michael Hayden, former CIA and NSA director, and Tony Perkins

Roundtable discussion with The Washington Post's Michael Gerson, NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous, Lehigh University's James Peterson, Univision's Fernando Espuelas and CBS News Chief Legal Correspondent Jan Crawford



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ABC "This Week" - Julian Assange, Texas state senator Wendy Davis (D),  Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin and National Organization for Marriage President Brian Brown

Roundtable discussion with ABC News Political Analyst and Special Correspondent Matthew Dowd; ABC News Anchor and Chief Foreign Correspondent Terry Moran, who covers the Supreme Court for ABC News; Rep. Donna F. Edwards, D-Md.; and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan.

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CNN "State of The Union" - David Boise, co-counsel in the Supreme Court case against Proposition 8, House Judiciary Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus’ Immigration Task Force Luis Gutierrez (D-IL).

Roundtable discussion with New York Times Magazine Chief Political Correspondent Matt Bai:, The Root Contributing Editor Corey Dade; Fmr. Sen. George Allen (R-VA) and democratic strategist Hilary Rosen.

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Fox News Sunday - Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Rep. Mario Siaz-Balart (R-Fla.), and Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.)

Roundtable discussion with Kimberely Strassell, Jennifer Rubin, Juan Williams, and Mara Liasson

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Sunday Morning "Talking Heads" Cheat Sheet

George Wenschhof

Expect lots of discussion on the senate Immigration Reform bill following the announcement of a breakthrough on border security.  The senate is expected to vote on the bill this week.

More on the snooping by the NSA when NSA director General Keith Alexander appears on ABC "This Week".

As, one would expect, with one week to go to the election, Fox News Sunday will have on Gabriel Gomez, the Republican candidate, who is trailing Democrat Bob Markey in the Massachusetts race for the vacant John Kerry seat.

The scheduled guests follow below.

NBC "Meet The Press" - Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Tom Coburn (R-OK.), Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and Loretta Sanchez (D-Calf.)

Roundtable with NBC News Political Contributor Robert Gibbs; Republican Strategist Mike Murphy; Democratic Mayor of Atlanta Kasim Reed; Fmr. Chair and CEO of Hewlett Packard, Carly Fiorina; and NBC News Political Director and Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd.

CBS "Face The Nation" - Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calf.), Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Jeff Sessions (R-AL.)

Roundtable discussion on Syria and Afghanistan with Clarissa Ward, John Dickerson of CBS News, Gerald Seib of the Wall Street Journal, Susan Page of USA Today and Bobby Ghosh of Time Magazine.

ABC "This Week" - NSA Director General Keith Alexander

A foreign policy roundtable debates the latest on the NSA surveillance programs and the conflicts in Syria and Afghanistan, with ABC News Global Affairs Anchor Christiane Amanpour, Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass, and co-founder of the Foreign Policy Initiative Dan Senor.

And the powerhouse roundtable debates all the week’s politics, including the battle over immigration reform and the state of the economy, with Rep. Joaquín Castro, D-Texas; Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Penn., ABC News Chief Business and Economics Correspondent Rebecca Jarvis; former Lead Auto Adviser and Counselor to the Treasury Secretary Steven Rattner, now chair of Willett Advisors; and Amity Shlaes, director of The 4% Growth Project at The George W. Bush Institute.

CNN "State of The Union" - Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rand Paul (R-KY)

Roundtable with Dan Balz of The Washington Post, Dana Bash, Chief Congressional Correspondent for CNN, and CNN contributors Stephanie Cutter and Kevin Madden.

Fox News Sunday - Gabriel Gomez, Republican candidate for John Kerry's vacant Senate seat.

Roundtable with Bill Kristol, Brit Hume, Bob Woodward and Julie Pace

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Obama Weekly Address 8-21-2010

Today, the president talks about the bill blocked in the Senate by Republicans that would reign in corporate spending in elections. The campaign finance reform bill narrowly passed the House after revisions were made allowing exemptions for the NRA and other large interest groups.

Senate Republicans has been successful in blocking the bill from coming to a vote in the Senate. The bill pushed by Representative Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Senator Chuck Shumer (D-NY) s in response to the 5-4 Supreme Court "Citizens United" decision which open the floodgates to corporate spending in political elections.



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