Weekend Talk Shows

THE REUTERS TV WEEKEND DAYBOOK

Saturday and Sunday

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Saturday

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

Brandan Buck, research fellow in foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, discusses "President Trump's recent proposal to send the U.S. military to Mexico to help combat drug cartels.

E&E News climate impacts reporter Tom Frank discusses "the future FEMA and federal disaster response."

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

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

An interview with Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.).

An interview with former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder.

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

An interview with Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.).

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Sunday

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

Breitbart News Washington Bureau chief Matthew Boyle discusses "media coverage of the Trump administration and news of the day."

MomsRising co-founder Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner discusses "public policy challenges facing mothers and families."

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

An interview with Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.).

A political roundtable with Semafor national politics reporter David Weigel; Wall Street Journal congressional reporter Olivia Beavers; Bloomberg national politics team leader Mario Parker; and Margaret Talev, director of Syracuse University's Institute for Democracy, Journalism, and Citizenship.

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

An interview with Gov. Andy Beshear (D-Ky.).

An interview with Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.).

An interview with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D).

An interview with former Biden White House senior adviser Mitch Landrieu, co-chair of American Bridge 21st Century.

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

Rev. Peter Donohue, president of Villanova University, discusses the election of Pope Leo XIV, an alumnus of the Pennsylvania school.

Chicago WLS-TV reporter Liz Nagy; Rev. James Martin, editor of America Magazine; and ABC News senior national correspondent Terry Moran discuss the election of Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV.

ABC News chief international correspondent James Longman discusses Pope Leo's inaugural Sunday Mass.

ABC News correspondent Matt Rivers reports from Peru where the new pope once served as a bishop.

An interview with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

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

An interview with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

An interview with Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton (R-Ark.).

An interview with Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.).

A political roundtable with USA Today White House correspondent Francesca Chambers; Josh Kraushaar, editor-in-chief of Jewish Insider; Washington Post columnist and former Bush White House speechwriter Marc Thiessen; FOX News senior political analyst Juan Williams.

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

An interview with former Gov. Chris Sununu (R-N.H.).

An interview with former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel (D), former U.S. ambassador to Japan.

A political roundtable with Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.); former Democratic National Committee communications director Xochitl Hinojosa, former director of public affairs at the Justice Department; Republican strategist Brad Todd; and Republican pollster and strategist Kristen Soltis Anderson.

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

An interview with House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.).

An interview with former Biden White House senior adviser Mitch Landrieu, co-chair of American Bridge 21st Century.

AEI senior fellow Tim Carney discusses "the politics surrounding the new Pope and the political shift of Catholic voters in America."

A political roundtable with National Public Radio White House correspondent Tamara Keith; Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle; Margaret Talev, director of Syracuse University's Institute for Democracy, Journalism, and Citizenship; and Ian Swanson, managing editor at The Hill.

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

An interview with Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council.

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

An interview with Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.).

An interview with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.

An interview with Frank Bisignano, commissioner of the Social Security Administration.

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

An interview with former U.S. senior Middle East envoy Amos Hochstein.

An interview with Kim Ghattas, author of "Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East."

An interview with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, co-founder of the Gates Foundation.

An interview with Ravi Agrawal, editor in chief at Foreign Policy magazine.

10 a.m. -- VELSHI (MSNBC)

An interview with Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.).

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

An interview with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.

An interview with Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyo.).

An interview with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.).

A political roundtable with Neera Tanden, former director of the Biden White House Domestic Policy Council; Republican strategist Matt Gorman; NBC News senior national political reporter Sahil Kapur; and NBC News Washington managing editor Carol Lee.

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

An interview with Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-N.M.).

An interview with British Ambassador Peter Mandelson.

An interview with United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby.

Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich discusses the election of Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV.

An interview with Sam Rose, acting director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Gaza.

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

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

An interview with State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce.

Other guests are: former Biden 2020 presidential campaign surrogate Kevin Walling; Outkick columnist Mary Katharine Ham, co-host of the "Getting Hammered" podcast; and Mark Halperin, editor-in-chief at 2WAY.

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

An interview with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D).

6 p.m. -- THE WEEKEND: PRIMETIME (MSNBC):

An interview with Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas).

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

A report on the "rampant fraud in government programs like unemployment, food stamps, disaster aid and more" and how taxpayers are "falling victim to complex schemes carried out by scammers, hackers and transnational criminal organizations, costing the government hundreds of billions of dollars each year."

A visit to the NeuroRestore research lab in Lausanne, Switzerland where an innovative technology is helping spinal cord-injured patients "stand up and walk or move their arms – by thinking about it."

An interview with actress Jamie Lee Curtis.

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

An interview with former Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio), author of "The Good Work Done by Faith Communities in America."

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The Reuters Weekend TV Daybook

Saturday and Sunday/May 10-11, 2025

REUTERS