Weekend Talk Shows/Jan. 17-18

THE REUTERS TV WEEKEND DAYBOOK

Saturday and Sunday

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Saturday

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

ProPublica immigration and labor reporter Nicole Foy discusses "ICE enforcement in cities."

Punchbowl News senior reporter Brendan Pedersen discusses "President Trump's call for a credit card interest rate cap."

Jeffrey Engel, director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, discusses "the 35th anniversary of Operation Desert Storm."

7 a.m. -- THE WEEKEND (MS NOW):

An interview with Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.).

An interview with Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-Va.).

An interview with Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.).

10 a.m. -- VELSHI (MS NOW):

An interview with Tennessee state representative Justin Jones (D).

1 p.m. -- ALEX WITT REPORTS (MS NOW):

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

An interview with Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.).

5 p.m. -- POLITICS NATION (MS NOW):

An interview with Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.).

An interview with Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott (D).

An interview with former attorney general Eric Holder.

6 p.m. -- THE WEEKEND: PRIMETIME (MS NOW):

An interview with Rep. Kelly Morrison (D-Minn.).

An interview with Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.).

An interview with Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.).

Sunday

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

Republican strategist Chet Love and Joe Walsh's 2020 campaign manager Lucy Caldwell discuss "campaign 2026."

Roben Farzad, host of National Public Radio's "Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad," discusses "the latest data on the U.S. economy."

7 a.m. -- THE WEEKEND (MS NOW):

An interview with Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.).

An interview with former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb.

An interview with Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.).

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

An interview with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

A political roundtable with New York Times White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs; CNN White House correspondent Alayna Treene; and CNN senior political reporter Aaron Blake.

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

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

An interview with Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.).

A political roundtable with Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign manager Faiz Shakir, founder of More Perfect Union; Washington Free Beacon editor-in-chief Eliana Johnson; SCOTUSblog editor Sarah Isgur, former director of public affairs at the Justice Department; and former DNC chair Donna Brazile.

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

An interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

An interview with Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas).

An interview with Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.

A political roundtable Matt Gorman, former senior adviser to Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.); OutKick columnist Mary Katharine Ham, co-host of the Getting Hammered podcast; former State Department spokesperson Marie Harf; Josh Kraushaar, editor-in-chief at Jewish Insider.

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

An interview with Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.).

An interview with former Vice President Mike Pence.

A political roundtable with former Democratic National Committee (DNC) communications director Xochitl Hinojosa, former director of public affairs at the Justice Department; Bryan Lanza, former communications director for President Trump's Transition Team; Republican pollster and strategist Kristen Soltis Anderson; and Karen Finney, former senior adviser and spokesperson for the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.

10 a.m. -- NEWSNATION'S THE HILL SUNDAY (NEWS NATION):

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

An interview with Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas).

A political roundtable with Seth Mandel, senior editor at Commentary magazine; Semafor senior Washington editor Elana Schor; and Margaret Talev, director of Syracuse University's Institute for Democracy, Journalism & Citizenship.

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

An interview with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

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

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

Am interview with former deputy national security adviser Victoria Coates, vice president for national security at the Heritage Foundation.

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

An interview with Narges Bajoghli, co-director of the Rethinking Iran Initiative and author of "Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic."

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

An interview with Anne-Marie Slaughter, former director of policy planning at the State Department.

An interview with former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.

10 a.m. -- VELSHI (MS NOW):

An interview with Rep. Kelly Morrison (D-Minn.).

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

An interview with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

A joint interview with Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.).

A political roundtable with former DHS secretary Jeh Johnson; Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan; and NBC News national security managing editor Carol Lee.

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

An interview with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

An interview with Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

An interview with Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

An interview with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D).

CBS News elections and surveys executive director Anthony Salvanto discusses new CBS News political polling.

11 a.m. -- THE SUNDAY BRIEFING (FOX NEWS):

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

An interview with Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.).

An interview with Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.).

An interview with retired Army Gen. Jack Keane, former Army vice chief of staff.

An interview with Minnesota state senator Steve Drazkowski (R).

An interview with Dirk Cedergren, a Minnesota resident and small business owner.

1 p.m. -- ALEX WITT REPORTS (MS NOW):

An interview with Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.).

5 p.m. -- POLITICS NATION (MS NOW):

An interview with Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.).

An interview with David Huerta, president of the SEIU California State Council and SEIU-United Service Workers West.

An interview with Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King.

6 p.m. -- THE WEEKEND: PRIMETIME (MS NOW):

An interview with former Washington Post Tehran bureau chief Jason Rezaian, author of "Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison―Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out."

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

An interview with University of Texas history professor Peniel Joseph, author of "Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution."

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The Reuters Weekend TV Daybook

Saturday and Sunday/January 17-18, 2026

REUTERS