Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 26 April 2026

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: British Ambassador Sir Christian Turner; Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Chevron Corporation Mike Wirth.

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries; acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche. Panel: Kellyanne Conway, Susan Page, Karl Rove and Juaner Williams.

MEET THE dePRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen Welker: Sen. Thom Tillis (RINO quiter-N.C.); Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.). (MSDNC) Panel: Leigh Ann Caldwell, Lanhee Chen, Adrienne Elrod and Melanie Zanona—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?): Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.); Wendy Sherman, former Biden admin Deputy Secretary of State; president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations Richard Haass. Panel: Donna BrazileNut, Chris Christie and Jason Riley—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?): Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz; Rep. Jamie Ratskin (D-Md.). Panel: Scott Jennings, David Urban, Xochitl Hinojosa and Kate Bedingfield--Tapper’s totally and toxically biased group of democrap talking points parrots!

SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): The Show to watch! Hosted by Maria Bartiromo: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.); Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio); Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.); former Trump 2016 campaign aide (illegally investigated by James Comey’s FBI as part of “Russian Collusion”) Carter Page.

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BUTCHER'S THUMB — April 26th, 2026

This week’s butcher’s thumb shows a clear pattern: strong foreign-policy emphasis, energy-sector visibility, and a noticeable focus on institutional leadership. CBS leans diplomatic and corporate, Fox blends congressional leadership with legal authority, NBC mixes Senate and House voices with political analysis, ABC leans foreign-policy depth, CNN highlights health-policy and House messaging, and Bartiromo delivers a national-security and oversight-heavy hour.

FACE THE NATION (CBS)
CBS is running a “diplomacy + global energy + corporate leadership” hour. Ambassador Sir Christian Turner anchors the foreign-policy segment. Chevron CEO Mike Wirth provides the corporate and energy-sector perspective. This is a streamlined, two-guest hour focused on international relations and global markets.

What to watch:
Whether Brennan centers the hour on U.K.–U.S. diplomatic coordination or pivots toward global energy markets and corporate strategy.

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network)
Fox is running a “House leadership + legal authority + 2026 positioning” hour. Jeffries provides the Democratic leadership lane. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche adds a legal and institutional dimension. The panel blends campaign strategy, political analysis, and media framing.

What to watch:
How Bream balances Jeffries’ leadership segment with Blanche’s legal framing.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC)
NBC is running a “Senate voice + House perspective + political analysis” hour. Tillis provides the Republican Senate lane, but one often at odds with Trump and the party’s populist base. Khanna adds the Democratic policy perspective. The panel blends reporting, strategy, and political communications.

What to watch:
Whether Welker uses Tillis and Khanna as contrasting voices or pivots quickly to broader political themes.

THIS WEEK (ABC)
ABC is running a “foreign policy + diplomacy + national security” hour. Goldman provides the Democratic House lane. Sherman adds a diplomatic and State Department perspective. Haass brings institutional foreign-policy analysis. The roundtable blends strategists and political commentary.

What to watch:
Whether ABC frames the hour around global diplomacy or ties it to domestic political implications.

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN)
CNN is running a “health policy + House messaging + mixed-ideology panel” hour. CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz anchors the health-policy segment. Raskin provides the Democratic House perspective. The panel blends Republican and Democratic voices with strategic communications.

What to watch:
How Tapper/Bash positions Dr. Oz’s segment within broader national health-policy debates.

SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC)
Futures is running a “national security + oversight + foreign-policy depth” hour. Johnson and Jordan provide Senate and House oversight lanes. Smith adds a fiscal and economic dimension. Carter Page brings a foreign-policy and national-security perspective. This is a classic Futures hour: oversight, strategic analysis, and high-profile guests.

What to watch:
Whether Bartiromo structures the hour around oversight themes or uses the foreign-policy segment as the anchor.

Ecosystem Summary
This week’s lineups emphasize diplomacy, energy leadership, institutional authority, and national security. CBS leans diplomatic and corporate, Fox blends congressional leadership with legal framing, NBC mixes Senate and House voices with political analysis, ABC leans foreign-policy depth, CNN highlights health-policy and House messaging, and Bartiromo delivers a national-security and oversight-focused hour.

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

“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!

1 Corinthians 15:55-57 (King James Version)
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Nobody can say President Trump did not give the Iranian Terrorist Regime every opportunity to accept a peace treaty before he has the military finish the job. If the military takes out the power grid and bridges it is their decision and were warned over and over. The issue with killing all the leadership is you no longer have leaders to make a decision or a chain of command if there was one to follow those decisions.

It is now a mop-up situation to stop these speedboats from closing the strait and keeping it safe for ships traveling those waters. As much as is being made of the shooting of a tanker nobody believes long term there will be a disruption of oil or a serious counterattack by the mullah madness. As much as the Dims would love to see Trump and America fall on its face this war is over and has turned into a waiting game watching them lose everything.

They can surrender the easy way or the hard way it is up to whatever leadership they have left. As everyone knows the American media is completely against Trump and America so they are trying to talk down the markets to dispirit the American people. This is the Dims and Iran’s only chance of surviving another month since anyone knows they have lost their navy, missiles, radar, communication, air force, and leadership. Trump was being magnanimous to allow them to remain in power rather than hitting with the finishing punch.

Every day there is not an attack on a ship, there will be a drop in oil prices. Iran still sits in a vice as they can cut off the vital waterway they make their living on. Sure, they can stick it to Trump by closing down the strait but it comes at a cost of not being able to ship their own oil and cannot break through the Trump blockade.

The Dims of course cannot support America since they rightly believe this will help Trump and the Repubs. They are portraying him as a war hawk even though he never wanted to enter this conflict and had no choice.

The fist bombing of the nuclear facilities was supposed to clear out their nuclear enriching abilities and likely did. This should have been done during the last five Presidents but they thought they could pay them enough blackmail to get them to stop. Problem with paying blackmail to terrorists is they lie and are happy to use your money to buy more weapons and not do what they agreed to.

None of these Presidents cared if the Iranians as long as they did not nuke anyone during their administration and affect their poll numbers. Politicians are cowards who are risk averse and would never do something which can give their opponents a club to beat them with but that is not Trump. He sees a problem which could be a catastrophe and decides to solve it.

Trump said Midnight Hammer was a success but the Iran Ambassador during talks said they had enough nearly enriched uranium to make nine bombs. As President of the US, you could not allow them to make those bombs and never knew until a month ago they had an intercontinental rocket which could go 3500 miles which is only 1500 mile short of America.

He then decided to be sure they cannot fire or make these weapons the military would take out their weapons manufacturing abilities. This is what he has done for the past six weeks was turning their ability to military weapons into rubble. He made sure it would take them as long as possible to rebuild these facilities and keep the world safe from their terrorist plans.

It may not be pretty which war never is and especially when you are dealing with Arab terrorists, but this is the cleanest war which has ever been fought. There are no ground troops or weapons with everything flying in the air. The partnership between America and Israel is seamless in the execution of taking out the leadership in a matter of minutes and precision targeting their weapons infrastructure.

God is working miraculously through these two nations and keep praying those miracles continue throughout this mission.

Pray for our military

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

Excellent analysis of the weeks news before the real news took place last night.

First let's attend to the annual meeting of the driveby media last night.

The president was seated with friends and relatives and his wife when the Secret Service came told him to evacuate a shooter was at hand. The shooter ran past a group protecting everyone. A video that will see millions and millions of replays.

He was caught after shooting a secret service man and hitting his vest. Turns out it was a teacher of the year from California.this is what they produce,hate filled monsters who instill anything but the right thing in our students and then serve as role models for those who hate America.

Bottom line when the shooting was over the perp caught and those around the President were waiting for him to say if the event would go on or not he said it would!

Unfortunately it did not go on.

But the highlight of the night was just beginning. As the madness and mayhem of the night ended those around the president began shouting what will go down in history as: who we are as a nation ":the crowd burst into a chant of:

USA USA USA USA USA!!!!!!

Just like the last time some dirtbag tried to kill our president he came up and told the world who we are with a big: USA USA.!!

We are so lucky the have the greatest president of all time!!

I wonder if the the lamestream will realize its their pushing the Democrat narrative (aka lies) that has fed all of this pure unhinged hatred of all things Trump/MAGA? 🤔.....nahhhhh. I was amused this morning reading several legacy media accounts of this madness last night, how the articles were all opinions of the writers sprinkled with a few grains of facts, they just cant help themselves. And better still....the comments section of the publication or Facebook. I dont think you can get more than 3 or 4 in before the “This was staged” comments, followed very quickly by the many Epsteinphiles. And with every typed letter you see the vitriol and hate just oozing out, but never do you see an original thought. Once again they prove my point without realizing it, they are nothing but brainwashed zombie cultists who all share the same lone brain cell. A few even cut and pasted the urinalists opinions from the article as gospel facts. But thats just my opinion, and since I’m a racist Nazi white supremacist misogynistic homophobe trogladyte it doesn’t count. Just a pity its too late to get on the SPLC payroll....

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