House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) headlines this Sunday’s television talk shows, fresh off a stand-off with the White House on a Colombia trade deal and eyeing the next congressional debate over war funding.
Pelosi sits down for an extensive interview with Bob Schieffer on CBS’s "Face the Nation."
Will she tip her hand about the Democrats’ plans for the upcoming supplemental wartime funding bill?
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And with the war in Iraq again leading the news in the past week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates stops by CBS to offer his views in the waning months of the Bush administration.
ABC’s "This Week" also leads with the war and other international issues, featuring President Bush’s national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, and former President Jimmy Carter.
Carter created an international stir when reports surfaced the other day that he was planning to meet with Hamas leaders in Syria on an upcoming trip to the Middle East.
Will he clarify his mission on Sunday, or not?
ABC host George Stephanopoulos also dissects the week’s political news with Time magazine’s Mark Halperin and ABC’s Donna Brazile, Torie Clarke and George Will.
Hadley also appears on “Fox News Sunday,” where he’ll likely face more questions on whether the president should boycott the opening ceremonies of this summer’s Olympics in Beijing, as some other world leaders have vowed to do. Olympic speed skater Joey Cheek offers his views on the controversy as well.
Turning to presidential politics, Fox host Chris Wallace interviews a pair of high-profile campaign surrogates — Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, a Democrat supporting New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Dachsle (D-S.D.), one of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama’s key advisers.
NBC’s “Meet the Press” devotes its entire show to breaking down the presidential race with a roundtable discussion with the ubiquitous, bipartisan political power couple of James Carville and Mary Matalin, as well as GOP strategist Mike Murphy and Democratic strategist Bob Shrum.
The war in Iraq also takes center stage on CNN’s “Late Edition,” with interviews with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden (D-Del.) and Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar, the committee’s ranking Republican.
Senate Armed Services Committee member Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) also discusses the war and his chosen presidential contender, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), in an interview with host Wolf Blitzer.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari also appears to offer his country’s perspective.
And with the April 22 Pennsylvania Democratic presidential primary approaching, Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. (D-Pa.) stops by to tout Obama.
Bloomberg’s "Political Capital” also stays on the war, with an interview with Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Host Al Hunt also grills former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on the war, China and the 2008 presidential campaign.
And with the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement in the headlines, C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” features an interview with U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab, one of the deal’s biggest backers.
She’ll be questioned by Martin Crutsinger of The Associated Press and Greg Hitt of The Wall Street Journal.
Finally, with the Washington Capitals making their long awaited return to the NHL playoffs this weekend, Fox features an interview with the Caps’ Russian sensation, Alex Ovechkin, the network’s “power player of the week
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