Punting the Pundits: Sunday Morning Quarterbacking

Meet the Press

This is “Take Two” which is only available on the web. Rachel Maddow discusses her recent trip to Afghanistan and the Republican women and what they have to offer American women. (Sorry, no transcript is available.)

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The Round Table with David Brooks (New York Times), Former Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. (D-TN), Former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie  and Rachel Maddow (MSNBC).

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Just four months from the 2010 midterm elections, and President Obama and the Democrats are dealing with a packed agenda. How will they fix the oil spill and the multitude of problems it has created? Can they revive the economy, reform immigration & win the war in Afghanistan? And how will all those issues impact the leadership position of the president and his party? We get answers exclusively from White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. Then our political roundtable of journalists and strategists weighs in on it all and how it could play out in the 2010 midterms: New York Times columnist David Brooks; Fmr. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-TN); Republican Strategist and Fmr. Counselor to President George W. Bush, Ed Gillespie; and msnbc’s Rachel Maddow, who just returned from Afghanistan.

On Face the Nation, Attorney General Eric Holder discusses how politics has delayed the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

(CBS)   In an exclusive interview with CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Attorney General Eric Holder said that political posturing has delayed some of the administration’s top priorities — bringing self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to trial and closing the prison and Guantanamo Bay.

Holder said the administration will make a decision as to where [the KSM] trial will occur “as soon as we can.”

“But we are bound and determined to hold Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and those who worked with him… responsible for happened on September 11,” he told Schieffer during the interview, which took place at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colo.

Reporting from England, Fareed Zakaria on GPS

Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne is the brains behind the U.K.’s recent “bloodbath budget” and he sits down one-on-one with Fareed. Watch as they discuss this bold and risky strategy to save Britain’s economy.

Then, prepare to meet a jihadist. Fareed interviews one of Britain’s own homegrown radical Muslim leaders.

Next up we have a look at the British Royal Navy — a navy that once ruled the seven seas and now is shrinking with the rest of Britain’s budget.

And finally, from the birthplace of soccer we have a look at how fans across the globe are watching the World Cup.

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