Punting the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition

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The Sunday Talking Heads:

Up with Chris Hayes: Joining Chris MSNBC will be: Paul Krugman, (@NYTimeskrugman), New York Times Op-Ed columnist and blogger, professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University. Krugman won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2008 for his extensive work surrounding international trade and two-way trade theory; Jeremy Scahill (@jeremyscahill), national security correspondent for The Nation magazine, author of “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army,” and the upcoming “Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield;” Richard Epstein (@RichardAEpstein), senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, professor of law at New York University Law School; Greg Johnsen, author of “The Last Refuge: Yemen, Al-Qaeda, and America’s War in Arabia;” Heather McGhee (@hmcghee), vice-president of Demos; Hina Shamsi (@HinaShamsi), director of the National Security Project for the ACLU; Dean Baker (@DeanBaker13), co-director Center for Economic & Policy Research, author of “The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive;”and Alexis Goldstein (@alexisgoldstein), a former vice president of information technology at Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank, now an Occupy Wall Street activist

This Week with George Stephanopolis:Guest on “This Week” are Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla.; Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.; Republican strategist and ABC News political analyst and contributor Nicolle Wallace; and Obama 2012 deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter debate all the week’s politics, with the latest reporting from ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl and ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz.

In  this week’s Sunday Spotlight, author George Saunders discusses his critically praised short story collection, “Tenth of December.”

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer Mr. Schieffer’s guests are Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI); and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI).

Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars President Jane Harman, Center for Strategic and International Studies expert Jim Lewis and CBS News’ Justice and Homeland Security Correspondent Bob Orr join Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., to discuss the threat of cyber attacks and drones outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said could be the “next Pearl Harbor.”

The Chris Matthews Show: Mr. Matthews’ guests this week are Joe Klein, TIME Columnist; David Ignatius, The Washington Post Columnist; Elisabeth Bumiller, The New York Times Pentagon Correspondent; and Gloria Borger. CNN Senior Political Analyst.

Meet the Press with David Gregory:This week on MTP the guests are House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA); and Assistant Democratic Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL).

Joining the roundtable discussion are NBC’s Michael Isikoff; Democratic Mayor of Atlanta Kasim Reed; former speechwriter for President George W. Bush now columnist for the Washington Post, Michael Gerson; GOP strategist Mike Murphy and the BBC’s Katty Kay.

State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Ms. Crowley’s guests are Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY); Sen. Angus King (I-ME) and; former Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

Her guests for a roundtable discussion are  Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Democrat from Illinois; Kay Bailey Hutchison, the Former Republican Senator from Texas; Amy Walter, the National Editor of the Cook Political Report, and CNN National Political Correspondent Jim Acosta.