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The Sunday Talking Heads:
Up with Chris Hayes: Joining Chris this morning are Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation magazine; Hussein Ibish, senior fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine and executive director of the Hala Salaam Maksoud Foundation for Arab-American Leadership; MSNBC contributor Rula Jebreal, also a contributor to Newsweek magazine; Tarek Masoud, associate professor of public policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government; Reza Aslan, author of “No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam,” and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; Eli Lake, senior national security reporter for Newsweek and The Daily Beast; and Heather Hurlburt, executive director of the National Security Network, a progressive think tank, and a former speechwriter and member of the policy planning team in the State Department under the Clinton administration.
This Week with George Stephanopolis: Guests on “This Week” are Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL); actor and director Ben Affleck, founder of the Eastern Congo Initiative, and Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA).
The roundtable guests are ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, TIME Magazine’s Joe Klein, Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, and The New York Times‘ David Sanger, author of “Confront and Conceal.”
Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: This Sunday Mr. Schieffer has a conversation with fiction writers “Gone Girl” author Gillian Flynn; writer of “The Expats,” Chris Pavone; thriller novelist David Baldacci and “Fooling Houdini” writer Alex Stone discuss their books and their craft.
The Chris Matthews Show: This Sunday’s guests are Sam Donaldson, ABC Reporter; Jodi Kantor, New York Times; Katty Kay, BBC Washington Correspondent; and Dan Rather, HDNet Global Correspondent.
Meet the Press with David Gregory: MTP guests on a special panel to discuss Pres. Obama’s 2nd term are Documentary filmmaker and historian Ken Burns; Vice Chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Carly Fiorina; MSNBC’s Al Sharpton; New York Times columnist David Brooks; and NBC’s Andrea Mitchell.
Other guests are Chairman of the Armed Services Committee Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), and Chair of the Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Peter King (R-NY).
State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Ms. Crowley’s guests are retiring Senators Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) who will reflect on their careers, their accomplishments, and their disappointments; and they offer advice to members of the 113th Congress.
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