Sunday Talk Shows

NBC's ''Meet the Press'' Arizona Sen. John McCain, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Sebastian Junger, author of "WAR"; army combat veteran Wes Moore; Tom Ricks, Contributing Editor of Foreign Policy magazine and author of "The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008"; and NBC Military Analyst Gen. Barry McCaffrey (Ret.), the Former Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Southern Command.

CBS' ''Face the Nation'' Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Armed Services Committee; and Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and its ranking Republican, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions. Their Judiciary Committee begins hearings on Monday on the confirmation of Solicitor General Elan Kagan for the Supreme Court.

ABC's ''This Week'' CIA Director Leon Panetta. ABC chief White House correspondent
George Will, David Sanger of the New York Times , Robin Wright of the U.S. Institute of Peace and Washington Post Senior Correspondent Rajiv Chandrasekaran weigh in on the General McChrystal controversy.

CNN's ''State of the Union''- Texas Sen. John Cornyn, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Other guests include Sens. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.).

''Fox News Sunday''- Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), along with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee

Washington Journal
7:15am – Martin Crutsinger, Associated Press, Chief Economics Writer
7:45am – Tony Fratto, Fmr. Deputy Press Secretary & Ross Eisenbrey, Economic Policy Institute
8:30am – Russell Pearce (R-AZ), Arizona State Senator
9:15am – Winston Porter, Waste Policy Center, President

GPS with Fareed Zakaria: - Fareed's take: replacing Gen. McChrystal with Gen. Petraeus was a 'masterstroke.' But huge challenges lie ahead for Petraeus - to try to mold his surge success in Iraq to a very different situation in Afghanistan.
Then NY Times columnist Tom Friedman gives his own take on Afghanistan, the Middle East, and the President's missed opportunity on the BP catastrophe.
Next up, a GPS all-star panel: former N.Y. Governor Eliot Spitzer, Huffingtonpost.com's Arianna Huffington, Ross Douthat of the NY Times and The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel. How is the president doing as he juggles all these crises? And why are even his own party faithful attacking him?
And finally the British just passed a "tax and axe" budget. It's a big bet -- are they on the correct side of it? Or is President Obama?

Sunday Breakfast Menu
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/sunday-breakfast-menu-june-27/

Representatives Sheila Jackson-Lee, Democrat of Texas, and Andre Carson, Democrat of Indiana, appear on TV One’s “Washington Watch.”

Bloomberg TV’s “Political Capital” has Kenneth Feinberg, the federal claims administrator for the $20 billion victims compensation fund set up for those affected by the BP oil spill.

Representative John Spratt, the South Caroline Democrat in charge of the House Budget Committee, takes questions on C-Span’s “Newsmakers.”

CNN’s “Reliable Sources.”
The man of the hour, Michael Hastings, whose Rolling Stone profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal led to the general being relieved of his command of the war in Afghanistan, headlines this Sunday’s television talk shows - on CNN’s “Reliable Sources.”

60 Minutes
Preview Blackwater 61
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml?source=vanityurl
The widow of one of the soldiers killed in a Blackwater plane crash says the firm was negligent in the way it operated the flight. Steve Kroft reports, Sunday, June 27 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

Plus
More Americans are suffering from epilepsy than Parkinson's, cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis combined. Katie Couric reports on a disease that may not be getting the attention it deserves.

Morley Safer gets the first look at how "Titanic" Director James Cameron created his $400 million 3-D fantasy "Avatar."

Looks like a great line-up, though there's less on the Gulf disaster than I expected. A couple of highlights for me (with my comments in italics):

Washington Journal
8:30am – Russell Pearce (R-AZ), Arizona State Senator

Pearce is the author of AZ's "Papers, please" law. He's likely to address that, as well as new proposals for an "anchor baby" law and Gov. Brewer's comments that most undocumented immigrants are drug mules for the cartels. Brewer was lambasted on the Saturday cable news shows, and it will be interesting to see if Pearce, a Brewer ally, will be willing to go through contortions to defend her.

CNN’s “Reliable Sources.”
The man of the hour, Michael Hastings, whose Rolling Stone profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal led to the general being relieved of his command....

This promises to have good inside info on the RS story from the horse's mouth, plus Hastings' response to Pentagon charges that he broke the interview ground rules.