Sunday Talk shows

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Meet the Press
MTP will not air Sun., June 9th, due to NBC’s Coverage of the French

ABC This Week
In a “This Week” Sunday exclusive, Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein and House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Mike Rogers answer questions about the newly disclosed government programs to collect data on phone calls and Internet activity.

This week’s leaks of classified documents revealed two sweeping surveillance programs that allow the U.S. government to compile information on every phone call made in America, as well as to tap into the data of leading Internet companies to track a vast swath of Internet activity overseas. Has the government gone too far, or are such programs necessary to detect and prevent terrorist threats? Are proper safeguards in place to protect Americans from unreasonable intrusions into private information, or should the programs be changed?

Plus, the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who broke the story on the NSA’s surveillance programs, discusses what we learned this week about the scope of U.S. surveillance. Senate Intelligence Committee member Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., who has raised warnings about the government’s surveillance capabilities, goes one-on-one with George Stephanopoulos about his concerns.

And the powerhouse roundtable debates all the week’s politics, with ABC News’ George Will; ABC News ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd; Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair Rep. Keith Ellison, New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman; and Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren

CNN State of The Union
Revelations about U.S. surveillance programs prompted President Barack Obama to say Friday "Nobody is listening to your telephone calls."

An exclusive interview with Patriot Act supporter Senator John McCain who wants to know if the current data-mining program has enough oversight. And then, Senator Mark Udall (D-CO), who says he did "everything short of leaking classified information" to stop what he considers government overreach.

Then, the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee, Elijah Cummings responds to charges from Rep. Darrell Issa on State of the Union that IRS targeting of conservative groups was ordered from Washington.

The political fallout of government snooping with our panel: Amy Walter, National Editor of The Cook Political Report, Former Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) and Former Congressman Tom Davis (R-VA).

CBS Face the Nation
After a Senate hearing Tuesday on sexual assault in the military forced the country's top brass to admit the issue's severity, the country waits to see if 25 years of the status quo will finally come to an end. We'll talk to three of the women leading the charge in Congress. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., both members of the Armed Services Committee, participated in the hearings this week. Gillibrand put forward one of seven legislative proposals currently before the committee attempting to remove the decision to prosecute these crimes from the typical military chain of command. We'll also hear from Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., who's proposing similar legislation in the House, called the STOP Act.

We'll also talk to two top House members to discuss the newest revelations of the nation's secret terrorist snooping programs and new instances of abuse within the IRS, plus the Benghazi investigation and immigration reform. Joining us will be Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee and Rep. Elijah Cummings the top democrat on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

We'll talk about all of that and the latest developments overseas with our foreign policy panel. This week France presented evidence that the Syrian regime has, in fact, used chemical weapons. At the same time, the United Nations released a report citing examples of both sides breaking international law. Will proposed peace talks actually happen? And coming up this weekend, President Obama meets with new Chinese President Xi Jinping. Will the meeting be a defining moment for the future of U.S./China relations? The New York Times' David Sanger, the Washington Post's Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Harvard University's Joseph Nye and CBS News State Department Correspondent Margaret Brennan will tackle all of that and more.

Finally, we'll talk to Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich, who became the longest-serving member of Congress in history on Friday. What does he see as his biggest accomplishment and biggest regret?

Fox News Sunday
Senator Rand Paul, Senator Ron Johnson and General Michael Hayden.

60 Minutes
The Cost of Admission - Steve Kroft investigates allegations from doctors that the hospital chain they worked for pressured them to admit patients regardless of their medical needs.

Justice Sotomayor - Justice Sonia Sotomayor talks to Scott Pelley about her life and career leading up to her appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, including the role affirmative action played.

God's Architect - Perhaps the world's most beautiful and unique church, the Sagrada Família in Barcelona has been under construction for more than 130 years, since genius architect Antoni Gaudí started working on it in 1883. Long after his death, builders are using modern technology to realize the master architect's vision.

Fareed Zakaria GPS
China; Syria: Former Sec. of State Henry Kissinger. China: Joseph Nye; Noah Feldman. Turkey: Mustafa Akyol. Iran: Hooman Majd; Karim Sadjadpour.

Melissa Harris Perry Show
A petition popped up on Change.org this week urging Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy to keep private graphic photos of the bodies of the Sandy Hook victims private. The petitioners, all parents of child victims in the Dec. 14 shooting, voiced their wishes for their children to be remembered as happy, beautiful, individuals.

As the gun control battle seems to have stalled on the national stage, Sunday’s Melissa Harris-Perry will look at the power that pictures have on policy changes. We have witnessed the affect that graphic images have had on the public and legislative reaction to violent events, from Emmett Till to Abu Ghraib. Host Melissa Harris-Perry’s conversation will center on the pictures of the Newtown victims and weigh the importance of privacy for grieving families against the power those pictures could wield in the gun debate.

In keeping with our conversation on our right to privacy, Harris-Perry will discuss this week’s admission from the White House that the NSA has been collecting records of phone calls by Verizon users as well as gaining information about Internet use through some major companies like Google and Facebook. At a time when terrorists hide in plain sight and communicate across the same fiber optics as everyone else, where do national security measures end and where does our right to privacy begin?

Sunday’s show will throw it in reverse and take you back to the 1980s, when a limited study conducted on infants born to crack addicted mothers gave rise to the term “crack baby.” The study concluded that these babies would suffer lifelong cognitive and physical disabilities and would most likely become “delinquents.” As it turns out, the study that ignited a media frenzy, was unsubstantiated and many of the symptoms exhibited by the so called “crack babies,” were the same attributed to premature infants. Harris-Perry will discuss a new study from the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine and will sit down with Dr. Carl Hart, author of “High Price”, a book that unearths the truth behind drugs and society.

Harris-Perry will also talk to our panel about this year’s terrific lineup of movies brought to you by black filmmakers, directors and actors–and will speak to Ava DuVernay, the first black woman to win the Best Director prize at the famed Sundance Film Festival for her 2012 film Middle of Nowhere (see a trailer here). And of course, be sure to check out this week’s installment of “Wow…Seriously?”

Up With Steve Komacki
Vice President Joe Biden will headline the Virginia Democratic Party’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner on June 29. Ashley Bauman, press secretary for the Virginia Democratic Party, confirmed the vice president’s appearance at the annual Democratic fund-raising dinner to Up with Steve Kornacki on Saturday.

This will be the third Jefferson-Jackson Dinner Vice President Biden has spoken at this spring. Last month he addressed the South Carolina Democratic Party’s gathering and in April he spoke at the Michigan Democratic Party’s J-J dinner.

Critics of the Jefferson-Jackson dinners have suggested that Democrats should no longer name their major fundraising celebrations after Andrew Jackson, a president who, as Salon’s Steven Yoder recently wrote, may have been “the most systematic violator of human rights for America’s nonwhites.”

Up with Steve Kornacki will discuss the subject with National Urban League President Marc Morial, Mississippi Democratic Party Chairman Rickey Cole and others on Sunday’s show.

C-SPAN's "Newsmakers,"
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), chairwoman, Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee

Bloomberg's Political Capital
Sen. Joe Manchin

Reliable Sources
Covering NSA's surveillance programs: Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian. NSA's surveillance programs; Obama's nominations: Ana Marie Cox, the Guardian. Ramesh Ponnuru; Charlie Savage, the New York Times. MSNBC: Joe Concha, Mediaite. Revival of "Arrested Development": Ken Tucker, NPR

C-Span's Washington Journal
7:00 AM
Telephone lines are open for comments on news of the day.

7:30
James Bamford talks about the history of government public surveillance programs, and recent revelations acknowledging the existence of on-going Foreign I

8:30
Women as Primary Providers
Guests talk about a recent Pew Research Report on "Breadwinner Moms" that showed mothers were the sole or primary provider in four out of 10 American households with children, and that the public has conflicted opinions about it.

9:15
Continued Conflict in Syria
Mona Yacoubain speaks about continuing conflict and civil unrest in Syria, U.S. policy toward Syria and rebel forces, and the potential impact of the conflict throughout the Middle East.

Sunday Breakfast Menu
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Senators from both parties will take to the Sunday shows this week to address the newly disclosed government initiatives to mine phone call and Internet data from the public. Are the measures too invasive or are they justified for preventing terrorist attacks?

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Univision’s Al Punto will focus on the immigration legislation that will soon be debated in the Senate. The majority, leader,Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, and Mr. McCain will all stop by to outline what lies ahead for the bill.

Mr. Reid and Mr. Rubio will also be on Telemundo’s “Enfoque” discussing the same thing.

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1. Thank you, cal04!

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2. Wow, what a lineup....Thanks for all your work.