Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 1 March 2026

Various driveby media television networks ^ | 1 March 2026 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

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The Talk Shows

March 1st, 2026

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi; Sen Tom Cotton (R-Ark); Sen Ted Cruz (R-Tex); Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.); Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio); former Surgeon General of the United States (Trump Admin first term) Jerome Adams; new CBS polling with Anthony Salvanto. Panel: retired Gen. Frank McKenzie (USMC), David Albright, founder of the non-governmental Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) and Karim Sadjadpour, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Sen. Tim co-Kaine (D-Va.); Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.); former RNC Chair and Republican Senator candidate for North Carolina Michael Whatley; retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg (US Army). Panel: Marie BHarf, Hans Nichols, Reince Priebus and Roger Zakheim.

MEET THE dePRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen Welker: Sen. Linda Graham (R-S.C.); Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz); Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.); MSNBC “big board” analyst Steve Kornacki (shocks democrats with latest polls). (MSDNC) Panel: Stephen Hayes, Jeh Johnson, Carol Lee and Jonathan Martin—EVERY one of these easily forgotten angry Leftists slinging anti-American balderdash are featured on MSNBC/Now!

THIS WEEK (ABC): Hosted by Little Georgie Steponallofus (or is it Martha Raddish?): Martha Raddatz, retired US Army Lt. Generals Lt. Gen. Doug Lute and Dan Karbler; Iranian-American academic and political scientist Vali Nasr (Thrown out of Iran in 1979 by the Iranian Islam revolutionaries). Panel: Donna BrazileNut, Sarah Isgur, Faiz Shakir and Doug Heye—the same Ugly, shameless, Left-wing Propagandists and Fat RINOs!

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Anchored by Jake Toe-Tapper (or is it Dana Bash?): Sen Ted Cruz (R-Tex); Sen Jack Reed (D-RI); Sen Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz); Sen Chris Coons (D-Del); Sen John Fetterman (D-Penn); Jack Schlossberg, Kennedy family member running for the seat being vacated by incumbent democrat Jerry Nadler; Brett McGurk, deputy assistant to President Joe Biden and National Security Council coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa; retired US Army Gen. David Petraeus. Panel: Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.), Ashley Allison, Scott Jennings and Xochitl Hinojosa—Except for Buddy Carter, Tapper’s totally and toxically biased group of democrap talking points parrots!

SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): The Show to watch! Hosted by Maria Bartiromo: Exiled Iranian Crown Prince HRH Reza Pahlavi; Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.); Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio); Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.); Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.); retired US Army Gen. David Petraeus; British-born American conservative political commentator, former political adviser, and contributor for Fox News Steve Hilton.

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As always, soliciting FReeper comments, observations, and opinions.

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From my AI discussion: Overnight American and Israeli strikes on Iran — and Iran’s retaliatory attacks across Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, and Bahrain — blew up the planned Sunday lineups, forcing every network into an emergency foreign‑policy posture built around Gulf diplomacy, Senate national‑security voices, and rapid‑response military analysis. Across the networks this Sunday, the butcher’s thumb shows up in how each show arranges its foreign‑policy voices, Senate contrasts, and national‑security framing. The Middle East, Iran, and great‑power posture dominate the bookings, with multiple shows pulling in military brass, foreign ministers, and senators with national‑security portfolios.

* CBS Face the Nation CBS is running a “Middle East diplomacy + Senate contrast + national‑security expertise” hour. The Omani foreign minister gives them a rare Gulf‑state diplomatic voice. Cotton, Cruz, Murphy, and Turner create a multi‑angle congressional block on foreign policy and intelligence. Jerome Adams adds a domestic‑health segment, likely tied to ongoing public‑health preparedness themes. The panel — McKenzie, Albright, Sadjadpour — is pure international‑security architecture, signaling CBS wants to frame the Middle East moment as a strategic‑order story rather than a partisan one. Salvanto’s polling gives CBS its data‑driven anchor.
What to watch:
Whether Brennan lets the foreign‑policy panel drive the hour’s narrative, or whether the senators pull it back toward domestic political framing.

* * Fox News Sunday: Fox is running a “bipartisan Senate contrast + party‑infrastructure + national‑security framing” hour. Tim Kaine and Dave McCormick give them a clean red‑blue pairing on foreign policy and defense. Michael Whatley — former RNC chair and Senate candidate — brings the party‑infrastructure angle Fox likes to explore early in the cycle. Kellogg adds military‑strategic weight. The panel (BHarf, Nichols, Priebus, Zakheim) is a classic Fox blend of ideological and institutional voices.
What to watch:
How Bream positions McCormick relative to Kaine — as a contrast on foreign policy, or as a preview of Senate‑cycle dynamics.

* NBC’s Meet the Press NBC is running a “Senate leadership + Democratic coalition + polling shock” hour. Lindsey Graham gives them the Republican foreign‑policy voice. Mark Kelly and Ro Khanna provide the Democratic spectrum — moderate‑national‑security and progressive‑economic. Kornacki’s polling segment is the centerpiece; NBC uses him when they want to reset expectations or highlight movement in the electorate. The panel (Hayes, Johnson, Lee, Martin) is NBC’s standard Left wing mix.
What to watch:
How Welker integrates Kornacki’s polling into the Graham–Kelly–Khanna contrasts — whether the numbers drive the conversation or merely decorate it.

* ABC’s This Week ABC is running a “military analysis + Iran expertise + strategist‑heavy panel” hour. Two retired Army lieutenant generals (Lute and Karbler) give them a pure military‑operations segment. Vali Nasr provides deep Iran‑region expertise. The panel — Brazile, Isgur, Shakir, Heye — is ideologically mixed but dominated by strategists, which means ABC is likely to pivot from military analysis to political implications.
What to watch:
Whether the generals get a full operational segment or are used as a setup for the panel’s political interpretation of the Middle East moment.

* CNN’s State of the Union CNN is running a “Democratic leadership + Republican counterweight + Middle East architecture” hour. Cruz is the conservative anchor guest. Reed, Gallego, Coons, and Fetterman give CNN a full Democratic bench across foreign policy, border issues, and Senate dynamics. Jack Schlossberg adds a political‑dynasty storyline. Brett McGurk and Gen. Petraeus provide the administration’s Middle East framing and strategic analysis. The panel (Carter, Allison, Jennings, Hinojosa) is small and analytical.
What to watch:
How Tapper/Bash handles the Cruz–Reed–Coons contrasts — whether the hour becomes a foreign‑policy debate or a broader Senate‑cycle narrative.

* Fox News Channel Sunday Morning Futures Futures is running its signature “geopolitics + congressional oversight + populist energy + strategic analysis” hour. Reza Pahlavi brings international gravitas and a unique Iranian‑diaspora perspective. Comer, Jordan, and Donalds provide the congressional‑oversight block. Rick Scott adds the Senate‑cycle angle. Petraeus gives the strategic‑military anchor. Steve Hilton is the populist‑policy closer. Bartiromo remains the only host consistently blending foreign policy, domestic oversight, and populist‑energy segments into a single hour.
What to watch:
How Pahlavi’s segment is positioned — as the foreign‑policy anchor of the hour or as a contrast to the congressional‑oversight block.

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C-SPAN Radio, available on the net also, click here, broadcasts all five Sunday talk shows starting at 12:00 noon Eastern, as follows:

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM NBC's "Meet the Press"

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ABC's "This Week"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM "Fox News Sunday"

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM CNN's "State of the Union"

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM CBS's "Face The Nation"

Listen at the link above WHILE you FReep! Also, Sharyl Attkinson’s Full Measure: Watch live at 9:30 EST.

Finally, each show has a YouTube presence, and you can easily watch them on YouTube any time after their live run!

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Next, here are the email addresses and Twitter/X pages--for commenting to the weekend talk shows:

Email: Meet the Press Meet the Press mailbox (web page for comments) Twitter/X: @MeetThePress @kwelkernbc

Email: Face the Nation facethenation@cbsnews.com Twitter/X: @FaceTheNation

Email: Fox News Sunday FNS@foxnews.com Twitter/X: @foxnewssunday

Email: ABC This Week thisweek@abc.com Twitter/X: @ThisWeekABC @GStephanopoulos

Email: CNN State of the Union CNN State of the Union (web page for comments) Twitter/X: @CNNSotu @JakeTapper

Email: Sunday Morning Futures Maria@FoxBusiness.com Twitter/X: @MariaBartiromo

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“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!

Genesis 12:1-3
King James Version
12 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

Only God would have Israel save Iran from the false prophet’s cult tyranny and underlining the difference between the one true God and a Satanic cult. To have Jews and Christians freeing Iranians suffering from a godless cult is the perfect symbol of the spiritual battle between good and evil around the world. Only the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and David would suddenly have the top Iranian leaders in a meeting at one time when they all knew the attack was coming.

During the first attack on the nuclear facilities as well as the top leadership of the top police offices the Jewish military said it was a miracle for both of those to happen so completely and claimed God had his hand on it and of course, he did. This attack and outcome seem to be an even greater miracle to take out their divine leader in the first attempt. Trump said to agree with the demands, or you will experience Hell and guess what, now he is.

These are the monsters who controlled most of the Islamic terrorism around the world and especially in the Middle East. These are the evil men who controlled Hamas in Gaza and ordered the Oct 7 attack on the Peace Concert raping and brutally murdering unarmed young people attending in the name of peace. It appears Israel and America surgically killed all of their leadership without breaking a window next door. If God’s vengeance was not being shown what was?

It took the God of the Jews and their grafted branch the Christians fifty years to fix President Carter’s biggest mistake. The man was an absolute buffoon who stabbed millions of Iranians in the back and made them slaves to a satanic monster. Atheists claim God and allah are the same when they could not be anymore different. God is the one God of the universe who created everything and allah is a moon god invented by Mohamhead to stop the incursion of Christianity into their Arabian Paganistic gods.

His family believed in moon and earth gods represented by the crescent moon and the family obsidian rock which is now the dome of the rock holy site. He made his religion a sadistic military cult which had a main purpose of killing Jews and Christians in is conquering of the world. Iran is the perfect example of an Islamic dictatorship where tens of thousands are murdered for the crime of resisting their tyranny.

Now the God of the Jews and Christians have shown mercy on Iran and its people. America needs to pray the people are freed from their slavery from allah’s Satanic Cult. Pray for a Godly leader to free them from Islam and have Christ come into their lives and country for true freedom.

This is a turning point for Iran, the ME, and World as the number one terrorist state may be freed from its oppression and leadership. This could become the end of the coordination of Mooselip terror around the world.
There of course will be Islamic terrorism since it is one of the main tenets of their sick cult. It exists to kill and enslave, by your tongue or a knife to your throat you will convert. No wonder Haavaad and Yale love them.

The God of Israel just gave their “greatest god” a wakeup call and he woke up with his father in the fires of hell with his forty closest murderers. Trump warned them over and over and this was the least kept secret that this weekend would be the attack, and they decided to have a big celebration.

God is in control and this is another example of him showing the world one more time by having His chosen people freeing Arabs.

Pray for Iran

Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.

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A huge change in warfare was demonstrated yesterday.

Watch this to see exactly how this change was perfected:

Operation Epic Fury: Dismantling Iran's Military

[rodguy911]

Great analysis,well done,thanks for all you do.
I'll do what I can for a while,had to go to work where I have no TV.

Trump has employed 4D once again in Mexico,Venezuela,Cuba and other areas.Now helping liberate citizens in Iran.The leader and 200 heavyweights have already been taken out and its just getting started.

Israel,the IDF,ran 500 bombing raids and took out lots of weaponry used by Iran to fire rockets all over the region.The IDF put a big hurt on Iran's ability to fire at will.

Our forces will continue to bomb the crap out of Iran until there is little left to bomb.

Meanwhile, Senate Rinos have sabotaged our ability to force the left to pass the Save act which will be a total disaster for us come election time.Senate Rinos are as corrupt as they can get and there is little we can do about it.

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Excellent anaylsis of what is going on and much of it is spritual. Possibly ltghe turning point for Pres. Trump was the killing of 32 unarmed citizens in Iran by the ayatollahs soldiers. with the ayatollah gone that leaves a secondary leader appointed by Kamanei.

that info is here:

Ali Larijani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, is the replacement.

Looks like the late kamanei picked this bozo over family to run the terror program. Below from the link:

Formally, Iran has a leadership council primed to act should the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, be killed or incapacitated. Under Article 111 of the constitution, the president, the head of the judiciary and a senior cleric would form a caretaker committee.

In practice, one man already seems to outrank them. Ali Larijani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, is shaping Iran's strategy as the supreme leader slips in and out of view.

“He's replaced Qassem Suleimani,” says Lynette Nusbacher, a British former intelligence officer, referring to the regime's leading commander whom America assassinated in 2020. “He's Khamenei’s eminence grise.

[Nekman]

An interesting line up for sure, Meet the Press back from hiatus with Graham,Kelly and Khanna. One guy with his prosthetic testicles, another with a prosthetic spine and poor old Ro...they dont make a prosthetic personality. I’m just hoping all shows offer up substantive debate and not the usual narrative driven sound bites designed for future propaganda drops. Hey...I can dream....

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Good morning!

[Candor7]

A huge change in warfare was demonstrated yesterday.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The Real Sunday Morning News, America is BACK !

Hey , Chuck Schumer, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Talib,Barrack Obama, Valerie Jarrett,Hakeem Jeffries, Zohran Mandami ! ........

And what nobody is talking about? Greenland is now ours.

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The Dims support Iran over America.

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Here's one that likely won't be covered today but it's huge news and actually started here last week near the end of the thread.

Catherine Austin Fitts, former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, reveals how the US government stole $50 TRILLION taxpayer dollars and used Jeffrey Epstein to launder it.

(8 min video)

X.com ^ | 2/26/2026 | Catherine Austin Fitts via Bridgett Fertig @LightOnLiberty

Posted on 2/27/2026, 9:15:57 PM by ransomnote

Below from the link:

Bridgett Fertig @LightOnLiberty

Our ENTIRE National Debt of $38 trillion truly IS due to elites stealing our taxpayer dollars?!

Catherine Austin Fitts, former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, reveals how the US government stole $50 TRILLION taxpayer dollars and used Jeffrey Epstein to launder it.

Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin arranged Jeffrey Epstein's first visit to the Clinton White House in 1993, precisely as massive funds began disappearing from federal agencies, alleging Epstein ran the SWIFT system:

The swift system is fairly complicated but claims to be a messaging system,below is a better explanation:

Begin Swift explanation;

SWIFTNet network

SWIFT moved to its current IP network infrastructure, known as SWIFTNet, from 2001 to 2005,[19] providing a total replacement of the previous X.25 infrastructure. The process involved the development of new protocols that facilitate efficient messaging, using existing and new message standards. The adopted technology chosen to develop the protocols was XML, which now provides a wrapper around all messages legacy or contemporary. The communication protocols can be broken down into:

InterAct

SWIFTNet InterAct Realtime

SWIFTNet InterAct Store and Forward

FileAct

SWIFTNet FileAct Realtime

SWIFTNet FileAct Store and Forward

Browse

SWIFTNet Browse

SWIFT provides a centralized store-and-forward mechanism, with some transaction management. For bank A to send a message to bank B with a copy or authorization involving institution C, it formats the message according to standards and securely sends it to SWIFT. SWIFT guarantees its secure and reliable delivery to B after the appropriate action by C. SWIFT guarantees are based primarily on high redundancy of hardware, software, and people.

end swift explanation:

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to launder the stolen TRILLIONS! TRILLIONS vanished through undocumented adjustments at DoD and HUD starting in the mid-90s, escalating to $21 trillion by 2017 (matching the entire U.S. national debt then), plus $29 trillion in bailouts, totaling $50 trillion extracted while taxpayers are forced to hold the central banking debt trap in the form of our National Debt!

belwo is Catherine Austin Fitts: Bridgett Fertig @LightOnLiberty

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...turning point for Pres. Trump was the killing of 32 unarmed citizens in Iran by the ayatollahs soldiers.

I think you are missing a couple of zeros.

I heard it was anywhere from 30,000 to 40,000 protestors.

[DeplorableTrumpSupporter]

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) Who is against the killing of Iran's Supreme Asshole

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz) Ditto...

Exiled Iranian Crown Prince HRH Reza Pahlavi; Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.); Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio); Good people to be interviewed

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.);

Florida's next governor

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.); Good guy...

retired US Army Gen. David Petraeus;

British-born American conservative political commentator, former political adviser, and contributor for Fox News Steve Hilton.

California next governor?? Maybe...

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AND Rand Paul and Thomas Massie.

Tucker Carlson called it dangerously evil.

AOC wants an impeachment inquiry, as does Ro Kahanna, Omar and Tlaib says it was Muslim genocide.

Dime Store Obama Jeffries and Chuck U Shumer want a vote in Congress to approve or stop Epic Fury.

Jane Fonda says she wishes she was young so she could go man an Iranian artillery gun.

All the usual suspects.

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I keep getting page rejects from Free Republic servers.

Free Republic is teetering on the edge.

I hope they fix it before it goes down!

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Democrats rage over Trump’s ‘illegal’ war in Iran, demand Congress return to Washington for ‘immediate’ vote

Okay, have a vote and use the "Nays" against the supporters of Iranian terrorism, er, democrats, in the midterm ads.

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Kim wants to curb his adventures in Russia, or there very well be a Tomahawk cruise missile in his near future, courtesy of Pete Hegseth and PDJT.

[Nekman]

After sitting on their arses during the SOTU speech and making complete fools of themselves they want to double down on being the “resistance” which they believe is wonderful. Go for it, bury yourselves. In case you didn’t notice for all the paid activists you dispatched to the streets with their professionally printed,ink barely dry, signs and Breeze detergent kitchen towels wrapped around their heads(some waving Palestinian flags and not Iranian🤔) there was something else. There were joyous groups of Iranian and others CELEBRATING the deaths of the leadership and hopeful for the future. Even the poor CNN reporterette was stunned by the reaction at a rally in LA of all places, it’s so sad to see your narrative go out the window...🤣

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CBS’ polling dude Salvano will surely have a snap poll on Iran attack popularity.

What’s your guess ?

I’ll say +70/30, but maybe overly optimistic.