THE REUTERS TV WEEKEND DAYBOOK

Saturday and Sunday

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Saturday

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

Middle East Institute senior fellow Brian Katulis discusses "President Trump's Middle East trip."

Politico food and agriculture policy reporter Grace Yarrow discusses "the House Republicans' budget and potential impact on food assistance programs."

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

An interview with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.).

An interview with Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas).

An interview with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka $(D)$.

An interview with National Urban League CEO Marc Morial.

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

An interview with Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.).

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

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

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

An interview with former deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman.

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Sunday

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

Online content creators and political commentators Brad Polumbo, co-founder of BASEDPolitics and Steven Bonnell, known by his online alias 'Destiny', discuss "the role non-traditional media plays in political discourse."

Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz discusses his new book titled, "The Preventive State."

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

An interview with Gov. Ned Lamont (D-Conn.).

An interview with Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.).

An interview with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D).

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

An interview with Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah).

A political panel with Associated Press White House reporter Seung Min Kim; Washington Post congressional reporter Paul Kane; CNN reporter Isaac Dovere; and CNN chief national affairs correspondent Jeff Zeleny.

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

An interview with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).

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

A political roundtable with former DNC chair Donna Brazile; former RNC chairman Reince Priebus, former White House chief of staff; Sarah Isgur, editor at SCOTUSBlog; and Faiz Shakir, former campaign manager of the 2020 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign.

A report on "the latest fallout over President Trump's willingness to accept a luxury jet from the Qatari royal family."

A report on Pope Leo XIV's inaugural Mass on Sunday morning Vatican City.

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

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

An interview with Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.).

A legal panel with Ilya Shapiro, director of Constitutional Studies at the Manhattan Institute; and former principal deputy assistant U.S. attorney general Tom Dupree.

A political roundtable with USA Today Washington Bureau chief Susan Page; Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation; and former Washington state U.S. Senate Republican nominee Tiffany Smiley, founder of Endeavor PAC.

A look at Modern Warrior Live, an "immersive experience which shines a light on the experiences of veterans."

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

An interview with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

An interview with Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.).

A discussion with former Obama presidential campaigns chief strategist David Axelrod, former Obama White House senior adviser; and former Obama White House green jobs czar Van Jones.

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

An interview with Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.).

An interview with Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-Va.).

A political roundtable with Washington Post columnist George Will, senior political contributor at NewsNation; National Public Radio $(NPR.AU)$ correspondent Sarah McCammon; Julie Mason, radio host of SiriusXM's "The Julie Mason Show"; and Julia Manchester, national political reporter at The Hill.

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

A discussion with FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.

An interview with Trump Media CEO and former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

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

An interview with media mogul Barry Diller, chairman of IAC and Expedia Group and author of the memoir titled, "Who Knew."

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

An interview with Randa Slim, non-resident fellow at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced and International Studies (SAIS).

An interview with retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, former commander of the U.S. and International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) in Afghanistan.

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

A taped interview with former Vice President Mike Pence. [For a videoclip, go to: https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/pence-it-s-just-a-bad-idea-for-trump-to-accept-plane-from-qatar-239751237759.]

An interview with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

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

A political roundtable with Ashley Etienne, former communications director for Vice President Kamala Harris; Stephen Hayes, CEO at The Dispatch; "PBS NewsHour" co-anchor Amna Nawaz; and NBC News chief Washington correspondent and chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell.

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

A taped interview with former defense secretary and former CIA director Robert Gates. [For a videoclip, go to: https://x.com/FaceTheNation/status/1923483407482224756?]

An interview with retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, former commander of the U.S. and International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) in Afghanistan.

Other interview guests are TBA.

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

An interview with Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Whatley.

Other guests are: Meghan Hays, director of message planning for the Biden White House; James Carville, chief strategist for the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign; FOX News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst; and Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief at The Federalist.

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

An interview with Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D-Colo.).

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

An interview with Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas).

An interview with DNC Vice Chair David Hogg.

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

A report on "Chinese covert agents who monitor and influence events outside their own borders and surveil and intimidate Chinese dissidents right here in America."

A report on recent firings at the Internal Revenue Service $(IRS)$ and "the impact they could have on the agency's ability to collect taxes and crack down on tax fraud."

An interview with Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril, "a defense products company that makes autonomous weapons, some already in use by the U.S. military and in the war in Ukraine."

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

An interview with former Rep. Christopher Cox (R-Calif.), author of "Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn," a book which "takes a critical look at the 28th President of the United States and his attitudes towards racial equality and women's suffrage."

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The Reuters Weekend TV Daybook

Saturday and Sunday/May 17-18, 2025

REUTERS