Punting the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition

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The Sunday Talking Heads:

This Week with George Stephanopolis: The guests on Sunday’s “This Week” are: St. Louis Alderman Antonio French; former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly; and New Yorker contributor Jelani Cobb.

The roundtable guests are: Democratic strategist Donna Brazile; Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol; ABC News’ Cokie Roberts, and Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens.

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: Mr. Schieffer’s guests are: Brown family attorney Benjamin Crump; Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic; Dr. James Peterson, Director of Lehigh University;  Sen.-elect Thom Tillis (R-NC); Sen.-elect Gary Peters (D-MI); and Archbishop Blase Cupich, Pope Francis’s first appointment in the United States.

His panel guests are John Heilemenn, Bloomberg Politics; Michael Crowley, Politico; and CBS News Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes.

Meet the Press with Chuck Todd: Some of this Sunday’s “MTP” guests are: Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D); Sen.-elect Tom Cotton (R-AE); and Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

H/T to The Hill

State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Ms. Crowley’s guests are  Michael Huerta, head of the FAA; convicted felon and  former NYPD Police commissioner Bernard Kerik; Malik Aziz, the Deputy Police Chief of Dallas; Chief Thomas Manger, Vice President of the Police Executive Research Forum; and Chief James Craig from Detroit.

Her panel guests are: two presidential historians: Richard Norton Smith and Douglas Brinkley; and veteran Washington reporters Karen Tumulty and Peter Baker.