If journalists appearing on the major Sunday news shows seem a little slower than their guests, it will likely be because they were up late Saturday attending the annual four-day glitz-a-rama known as the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Even so, the guests scheduled to be interviewed is no less capable of making news. The lineup includes:
• NBC’s “Meet the Press” with host Chuck Todd: Same-sex marriage discussion with David Boise and former Bush administration Solicitor General Ted Olson, co-authors of Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality.
Also scheduled are Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, 2015 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner host and “Saturday Night Live” cast member Cecily Strong and cartoonist Garry Trudeau.
Sitting at the political roundtable will be Yahoo! News’ Matt Bai, the New York Times’ Helene Cooper, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and Hutchinson. 9 a.m. EST
• ABC’s “This Week” with host George Stephanapolous: Leading the lineup will be “Clinton Cash” author Peter Schweizer. Also appearing will be U.S. Rep. John Delaney, D-Md., and former White House counterterrorism adviser and ABC News contributor Richard Clarke.
Around the political roundtable will be Democratic strategist and ABC News contributor Donna Brazile, Bloomberg TV co-hosts and Bloomberg Politics managing editors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, and CNN political commentator and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, R-Ga. 9 a.m. EST.
• CBS’s “Face the Nation” with host Bob Schieffer: Scheduled to appear are U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton and New York City Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller.
Also in the queue will be Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio, Freedom to Marry founder and president Evan Wolfson and Family Research Council president Tony Perkins. Look for the New York Times’ Peter Baker, CBS News’ John Dickerson, Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus and Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel on the political roundtable. 10:30 a.m. EST.
• “Fox News Sunday” with host Chris Wallace: “Clinton Cash” author Peter Schweizer will square off with former Clinton White House Counsel Lanny Davis. The political roundtable will have Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume, the Associated Press’ Julie Pace, former Bush White House senior advisor and Fox News contributor Karl Rove and National Journal’s Ron Fournier. 9 a.m. EST.
• Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo: Former Bush administration U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Robert Jordan; Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and BlackRock chairman and CEO Larry Fink will be grilled.
Former Reagan White House advisor and Fox News political analyst Ed Rollins, author, journalist, Fox News contributor and the Manhattan Institute adjunct fellow Judith Miller and the Heritage Foundation’s visiting fellow Steve Moore will gather around the political roundtable. 10 a.m. EST.
• Fox News’ “MediaBuzz” with host Howard Kurtz: Luminaries scheduled include the Hill’s Bob Cusack, former Bush White House spokeswoman Mercedes Schlapp, Democratic strategist and Fox News contributor Joe Trippi, the Baltimore Sun’s David Zurawik, the Washington Times’ John Solomon, the Washington Post’s Anne Gearan and former Bush White House press secretary and Fox News co-host Dana Perino. 11 a.m. EST
• CNN’s “Inside Politics” with host John King: The roundtable will feature the Washington Post’s Robert Costa, the New York Times’ Julie Davis, CNN.com’s Nia-Malika Henderson and NPR’s Steve Inskeep. 8:30 a.m. EST.
• CNN’s “State of the Union” with substitute host Jim Sciutto: This will have Sen. John McCain, R-Az., Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio, and musician and Free America campaign co-founder John Legend.
At the political roundtable will be Democratic strategist Stephanie Cutter, Republican strategist Kristen Soltis Anderson, the Wall Street Journal’s Carol Lee and CNN’s Jeff Zeleny. 9 a.m. EST.
Mark Tapscott is executive editor of the Washington Examiner.
