Posted on 08/02/2020 4:41:05 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
August 2nd, 2020
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Jason Miller, Trump campaign; Sen. Tammy Duckworth, (D-Ill.); Rep. Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles). Panel: Ben Domenech, the Federalist (Married to The Views Meghan McCain); Donna Brazile-nut; Lanhee Chen, policy director for the 2012 Romney-Ryan Campaign and 2016 Rubio Campaign, NEVER-TRUMPER.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): To be announced (theyre trying to line up the correct arrangement of liars for this weeks propaganda. Second week in a row!) Panel:
FACE THE NATION (CBS): White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows; Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.); Former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb; Neel Kashkari, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; Vanita Gupta, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; Anthony Salvanto, CBS Election pollster.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco); Sec. of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin; Dr. Jennifer Ashton, chief medical correspondent for ABC News; Tom Bossert, former Homeland Security Advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump. Panel: Mary Bruce, Congressional correspondent for ABC News; Rachel Scott, ABC News; Perry Bacon, political editor for FiveThirtyEight; Jonathan Swan, Axios.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): White House Coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx; Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.); Failed democrat nominee for Georgia governor Stacey Abrams; Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-Ark.). Anchor: Dana Bash.
SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): Sec. of State Mike Pompeo. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.). Sen. Ron Johnson, (R-Wis.). Rep. Doug Collins, (R-Ga.).
In case this post to ALL didn’t reach you AB: I take delight.
Chuck Todd has lost his 5 p.m. show on MSNBC amid much hand wringing at the network, Page Six is told.
Todd is giving way to Nicolle Wallaces 4 p.m. show, Deadline: White House, which will expand to two hours, taking over the slot previously held by Todds MTP Daily, which moves to 1 p.m.
A source told us: Nicolles star is on the rise, but Chuck was worried about how it would look for his brand if the Meet the Press host and the top political guy in the organization lost this time slot. His numbers have been soft for some time, and there was much hand- wringing from him and execs as to how to position this move, which is why it took awhile for the new move to be announced.
The insider added, Chuck can be very difficult hes very opinionated and that has strained some of the relationships internally.
His relationship with execs at 30 Rock is often strained, were told, since Todds based in Washington, DC.
Another source revealed that he would not accept a pay cut if MTP was axed, although an NBC source denied this.
Todd has moderated NBC News Meet The Press since 2014 the dominant Sunday political show for five years in ratings and hosted a weekday version on MSNBC since 2015.
An NBC source insisted: It just made much more sense to position the weekday show in the middle of the newsday.
He will now expand the series to streaming video, MSNBC announced on Monday.
Starting in September, Todd will launch a weekly political program on both live-streaming outlet NBC News Now as well as NBCUniversals Peacock streaming video hub in the run-up to the November election.
This show will follow Andrea Mitchell Reports. The NBC source said that ahead of the election it helps to position both Washington-centric shows together.
Todd will also start anchoring pre- and post-event programming around big political news nights, starting with the Democratic and Republican conventions this month, and, in coming weeks, around debates and Election Night.
Wallaces program has become a favorite of executives at the network, who, as Variety reported, have worked to bring a host with a Republican or center-right background into its programming mix.
An NBC source said: The huge focus for execs right now is on making Peacock a success, so Chuck being one of the first from the network to expand to streaming is a huge vote of confidence.
Todd did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Todd did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
On Monday Todd replied:
I barely knew Epstein.
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