Punting the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition

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The Sunday Talking Heads:

Up with Steve Kornacki: Joining Steve Kornacki at the table will be:

Hakeem Jeffries, (D) New York; Paul Butler, former Prosecutor, law professor, Georgetown University;  Phil Johnston, former Secretary of Health & Human Services in Massachusetts; Basil Smikle, Jr., political strategist, professor, Columbia University; Perry Bacon, Jr., MSNBC contributor,  political editor, TheGrio.com; Jonathan Miller, co-founder, No Labels; Eleanor Clift, contributing editor, Newsweek/The Daily Beast; Walter Mears, Pulitzer Prize-Winning reporter, Associated Press; and Bob Franken, political reporter.

This Week with George Stephanopolis: Sunday on “This Week” the guests are  Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN); House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY); New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly; and RNC Chair Reince Priebus.

The roundtable debates all the week’s politics, with Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN); former White House senior adviser and Bloomberg TV contributor David Plouffe; former Hewlett-Packard CEO and Good360 chair Carly Fiorina; and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol.

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: Mr. Schieffer;s guests are Rep. Jackie Speier D-CA); New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly; House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA); and Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA).

Joining him to look at the political news are Cook Political Report‘s Amy Walter; TIME Magazine’s Bobby Ghosh; and Republican Strategist Kevin Madden.

Meet the Press with David Gregory: The guest on MTP this week are New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly; Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI); Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH); NBC’s Richard Engel; and  Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, Robin Wright.

On a special panel discussing the roll of race in NYC’s Stop and Frisk program are  Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton; the family’s lawyer Benjamin Crump; and President and CEO of the NAACP, Ben Jealous.

On the political roundtable the guests are former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs; Editor of the National Review Rich Lowry; Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD); and NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd.

State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Ms Crowley’s guests are Senator John McCain (R-AZ); U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Ned Walker; Middle East analyst Jon Alterman;  Rep. Justin Amash and Rep. Chris Van Hollen.

On joining her political panel are  political panel of Grover Norquist, Donna Brazile, Mo Elleithee and Cheri Jacobus