Weekend Talk Shows/Feb 8-9

THE REUTERS TV WEEKEND DAYBOOK

Saturday and Sunday

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Saturday

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

Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI); and Robert Kim, executive director of the Education Law Center, discuss "Trump administration's plans to shutter the Education Department."

Attorney Mark Zaid, co-founder of Whistleblower Aid, discusses "the Trump administration's efforts to reduce federal workforce."

8 a.m. -- THE WEEKEND (MSNBC):

An interview with Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.).

An interview with Connecticut Attorney General William Tong (D).

10 a.m. -- VELSHI (MSNBC):

Guests include: Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), and Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas); and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D).

5 p.m. -- POLITICS NATION (MSNBC):

Guests include: Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.; Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha (D); Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers; and Arne Duncan, former secretary of education.

6 p.m. -- THE SATURDAY SHOW (MSNBC):

Guests include: Reps. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.), Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.), Robert Garcia (D-Calif) and Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.).

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Sunday

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

Tom Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste, discusses "the Trump administration's DOGE efforts."

Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, discusses "legal efforts to challenge the Trump Administration's agenda."

8 a.m. -- INSIDE POLITICS SUNDAY WITH MANU RAJU (CNN):

An interview with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee

A panel discussion with Puck chief Washington correspondent Leigh Ann Caldwell; Molly Ball, senior political correspondent at The Wall Street Journal; and CNN senior reporter Stephen Collinson.

A discussion with USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan.

8 a.m. -- THE WEEKEND (MSNBC):

An interview with Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.).

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

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

An interview with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.).

An interview with Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio).

A political roundtable with National Public Radio White House correspondent Asma Khalid; former Trump Justice Department spokesperson Sarah Isgur; Susan Glasser, a staff writer at The New Yorker; and ABC News senior national correspondent Terry Moran.

ABC News senior political correspondent Rachel Scott discusses "Elon Musk's moves to reshape the federal government" and how "voters react to President Trump's first weeks in office."

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

An interview with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).

An interview with Sharon Landry, wife of Gov. Jeff Landry (R-La.).

A discussion with Will Cain, host of FNC's "The Will Cain Show" and OutKick founder Clay Travis.

A discussion with "FOX NFL Sunday" host Terry Bradshaw and "FOX NFL Sunday" analysts Jimmy Johnson and Howie Long.

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

An interview with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

An interview with Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.).

A discussion with former Democratic National Committee (DNC) communications director Xochitl Hinojosa, former head of public affairs at the Justice Department during the Biden Administration; Scott Jennings, former special assistant to the president for political affairs during the George W. Bush Administration and a former senior adviser to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.); Shermichael Singleton, a former aide to the Mitt Romney and Ben Carson presidential campaigns; and former Biden White House communications director Kate Bedingfield.

10 a.m. -- THE HILL SUNDAY WITH CHRIS STIREWALT (NEWS NATION):

An interview with Gov. Matt Meyer (D-Del.).

An interview with UC-Berkeley law professor and former deputy assistant attorney general John Yoo discusses "the move to end DEI programs and what the law says about it."

A political roundtable with Washington Post columnist and NewsNation senior political contributor George Will; Semafor Congressional Bureau chief Burgess Everett; and Julie Mason, radio host of SiriusXM's "The Julie Mason Show."

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

An interview with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

An interview with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

An interview with former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.), President Trump's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Israel.

An interview with House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain (R-Mich.).

An interview with New York Jets owner Woody Johnson, former U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom.

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

An interview with Richard Haass, president emeritus at the Council on Foreign Relations.

An interview with former British foreign secretary David Miliband, president & CEO of the International Rescue Committee.

An interview with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Dopfner.

An interview with Alia Malek, director of the International Reporting Program at CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism and author of "The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria."

An interview with Brian Winter, editor-in-chief at Americas Quarterly.

10 a.m. -- VELSHI (MSNBC)

An interview with Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.).

An interview with Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was released from a prison in Siberia last summer as part of a U.S.-Russia prisoner swap.

An interview with Arne Duncan, former secretary of education.

10:30 a.m. -- MEET THE PRESS WITH KRISTEN WELKER (NBC):

An interview with national security adviser Mike Waltz.

An interview with Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.).

A discussion with poet Amanda Gorman, author of "Girls on the Rise."

A political roundtable with Republican strategist Sara Fagen; NBC News senior White House correspondent Gabe Gutierrez; NBC News chief Washington correspondent and chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell; and MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend, former chief spokesperson for Vice President Harris.

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

An interview with Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.).

An interview with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).

An interview with Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas).

An interview with former DHS assistant secretary for counterterrorism, threat prevention, and law enforcement policy, department of homeland security Samantha Vinograd.

An interview with Chris Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

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

The guests are: National Review staff writer Caroline Downey; Bari Weiss, founder of The Free Press; and Lucy Caldwell, director of Renew Democracy and former Joe Walsh 2020 presidential campaign manager.

12Noon -- INSIDE WITH JEN PSAKI (MSNBC):

An interview with Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.).

An interview with Gov. Wes Moore (D-Md.).

5 p.m. -- POLITICS NATION (MSNBC):

An interview with Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.).

6 p.m. -- THE SUNDAY SHOW (MSNBC):

An interview with Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.).

An interview with Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford (D).

6:30 p.m. -- SUPER BOWL LIX (FOX):

Live from the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles face off in Super Bowl LIX. [During the pregame show, at 3pm ET, FOX airs an interview with President Trump who will attend the game.]

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

Author and poet Reginald Dwayne Betts discusses reading Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from the Birmingham Jail," while in prison and "the life he has led since getting out - including founding Freedom Reads, an organization that builds libraries in prisons."

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