Saturday, June 24, 2006

THIS WEEK ON THE SUNDAY CHAT SHOWS

ABC / This Week with George Stephanopoulos: PLEASE NOTE that This Week will be rescheduled or preempted in several markets during ABC Sports' coverage of the FIFA World Cup. Check your local listings. (Will be preempted in Tampa/St. Petersburg and Orlando) Where it will be seen, U.S. Senators Mitch McConnell (R - KY / Majority Whip) and Richard "Dick" Durbin (D - IL) will discuss the renewed debate over Iraq. Also, outgoing Harvard University president Lawrence H. Summers will discuss the comments and controversy surrounding his leadership. And the roundtable will feature Newsweek International Editor Fareed Zakaria, ABC News White House Correspondent Martha Raddatz, and CNN anchor Lou Dobbs. You meed no George Will??? OMG!

CBS / Face The Nation with Bob Schieffer: Iraq and the North Korean nuclear threat will be discussed with U.S. Senators Richard Lugar (R - IN) and Barbara Boxer (D - CA) along with Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau Chief Doyle McManus.

CNN / Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer: The Taliban and their possible return to Afghanistan will be discussed with that nation's president, Hamid Karzai. U.S. Senators Joseph Biden, Jr. (D - DE) and Chuck Hagel (R - NE) will talk about a variety of current events. Also appearing: Former Secretaries of State Madeline Albright and Dr. Henry Kissinger, and Iraqi Oil Minister Dr. Hussein Shahristani.

FOX / Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace: U.S. Senators John Warner (R - VA) and Carl Levin (D - MI) will debate a timetable for a withdrawal from Iraq, while Senator Arlen Specter (R - PA) and Representative Peter King (D - NY)will the deadlock over immigration reform.

NBC / Meet the Press with Tim Russert: U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D - WI) will talk about Iraq and the possibility that he will offer himself for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. Then, a roundtable about how our occupation in Iraq will affect elections this year and in 2008 with Washington Post columnist David Broder, Ron Brownstein of the Los Angeles Times, NBC News Chief White House Correspondent David Gregory, and Anne Kornblut of the New York Times.

Syndicated / The Chris Matthews Show: The roundtable will consist of NBC News' White House Correspondent Kelly O'Donnell, Joe Klein of Time magazine, Elisabeth Bumiller of the New York Times, and Andrew Sullivan of Time and The New Republic. Discussion will focus on wheather American operations in Iraq will mobilize Democrats as Vietnam did, and is Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice rescuing President Bush from political peril.

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