Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 17 August 2025

Various driveby media television networks ^ | 17 August 2025 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

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The Talk Shows

August 17th, 2025

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska); Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) … former U.S. National Security Council official specializing in Russian and European affairs Fiona Hill (whose sole purpose is to tell Margey that Trump just sold Ukraine out).

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.); Special envoy Steve Witkoff. Panel: Michael Allen, Mary Katharine Ham, Hans Nichols and Whine Williams.

MEET THE dePRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen Welker: Secretary of State Marco Rubio: Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). (MSDNC) Panel: Sara Fagen, Jonathan Martin, Andrea Mitchell and Ned Price—EVERY one of these easily forgotten angry Leftists slinging anti-American balderdash are featured on MSNBC!

THIS WEEK (ABC): Hosted by Little Georgie Steponallofus (or is it Martha Raddish?): Secretary of State Marco Rubio … Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-El Salvador). Panel: Donna BrazileNut and Chrisp Christie—same Ugly, shameless, Left-wing Propagandist and Fat RINO!

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Anchored by Jake Toe-Tapper (or is it Dana Bash?): Special envoy Steve Witkoff; Former Vice President RINO Mike Pence. Panel: Brad Todd, Kristen Soltis Anderson, Bakari Sellers and Nayyera Haq—Tapper’s totally and toxically biased group of parrots!

SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): The Show to watch! Hosted by Maria Bartiromo: United States Pardon Attorney Ed Martin; Sen. Linda Graham (R-S.C.); former Speaker of the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy (RINO-CA).

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

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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!
2 Corinthians 7:1 (King James Version)
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

What a difficult task of who to support between two warring countries. One is a ruthless dictator who has stolen billions from his people and has not run a single legal election in years, and the other is Putin. Who do you believe, a liar or a drug addicted thief who will lose billions of dollars the minute he signs the peace agreement?

You have to admit, Putin has the same people hating him who hate Trump, MAGA, America, and ran Coup-19 against Trump so you have to go with Putin as the one to trust. Nothing is guaranteed between these two Communists but you have to believe Putin will live up to this agreement for no other reason than fear of Trump sending the B-1 and its escorts to Moscow with a picture of his Dacha, Yacht, and mistress.

Zelenski is a Ukrainian version of Hunter Biden without the class and grace. How do you reach an agreement with someone who is skimming billions off the aid money and will be doing the same with the reformation billions. He is running a country which was the center of the dark money Eastern European money laundries. It was known as the center of the female slave trade markets as poor European women were promised jobs in the West only to be sold into Middle Eastern and Asian prostitution rings and harems of which Burisma was said to be a money laundry for those slave trade cartels.

Ukraine was where billions of Clinton Family Laundry monies were washed as well as the Obama Foundation bringing in billions from unknown countries or businesses. Most believe it was both from the exchanges, Russia, and China going through various countries getting lost more and more with each washing. In the end Ukraine and Zelinski’s predecessor and now him were skimming billions off the top.

At the start of the conflict when Harvard, Columbia, and every High School in America was flying the Ukraine flag it was reported Ukrainians were spending millions with sacks of cash throughout the Black Sea regions and all through Eastern Europe living the high life with bags of US bills. There was no end to the money these people had since they could not spend it as fast as it came in. Small wonder there is over fifty billion unaccounted for in military aid that just disappeared. At the time, flying the Ukrainian flag was the virtue signal de jour while they were stealing America blind.

To know the Three Pillars of Propaganda is completely invested in Ukraine and against Putin, how refreshing to know there is one Communist they don’t love, you have to be suspicious of their motives. Sure, Z is a dictator who has actual Nazis in his army and likely in his cabinet and has suspended the vote declaring Martial Law during the war. Is there a reason you cannot have a vote during a war or is it an excuse to wield power and maintain corruption?

He looks and acts like a drug addict and appears to be undermining everything Trump is doing to bring his war to a close. He is losing the war yet has no interest apparently in bringing it to an end even though he has lost hundreds of thousands of young men. What kind of leader would do that to his people and not try to settle for peace?

If Trump manages to bring these to crazy dictators to a peace agreement he does not need the Nobel Prize but the Houdini Prize for the greatest magicians trick in histoir. You do have to give Z credit for exposing the Russian Army for the complete military fraud that it is. They have to be the worst army in the world as they outnumbered Ukraine by many multiples but managed to do nothing over the past four years. You know when Putin looked up at the B-1 and the F-22s he had to understand better than anyone, there is absolutely nothing he could do to stop them from flying over Red Square undetected.

The world needs to be praying to God these two dictators come to their senses and put down their weapons for the sake of their countries and the world. This meatgrinder has been going on long enough and it is time for peace and prosperity for both countries who have lots to offer the world in energy and precious minerals. It is time to stop the killing and begin the rebuilding while you still have citizens alive. There is no good guy with these two men just the better of two evils.

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

[animal172]

Not impressed with Maria’s lineup this Sunday.

[Texan4Life]

Comcast is the parent company of the conglomerate that owns Sky News of the UK.
Sky News UK has been putting out stores about the Trump-Putin meeting that shit all over it. With headlines like:

Analysis: Not a ‘single mention’ of ceasefire in Trump-Putin talks
What does the body language between Trump and Putin tell us??
Putin ‘probably laughing all the way home’, says former UK defense secretary
Alaska was a diplomatic failure

[JoeVortex]

I knew it, I knew it! Senator Lindsay Graham would be somewhere on the guest roster this morning when I saw this on another thread:

Sens. Graham, Blumenthal float bill that would designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism over missing children

I hope President Trump blows a gasket and yanks his endorsement of this neocon fool.

[9YearLurker]

Bless your heart.

[rodguy911]

Great stuff bud and the choice is what Trump has always wanted to do but what everyone seems to keep ingoring. Russia has a slight edge on us when it comes to nukes!! Here's how the nuclear countries stack up:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywashburn/2023/02/24/russia-has-the-most-nuclear-weapons-in-the-world-here-are-the-other-countries-with-the-largest-nuclear-arsenals/

Russia (5,977 warheads)

United States (5,428)

China (350)

France (290)

United Kingdom (225)

Pakistan (165)

India (160)

Israel (90)

North Korea (20)

As you can see there is Russia and the US. The rest are really not players, yet.

So keeping that in mind that we are dealing with a country that can blow the world up numerous times it might make good sense to go to Alaska meet up with the big player. Thats PUtin. You can totally ignore the grifter zee. He's an illegal leader anyway and hopefully will be gone from the scene before long.

The entire goal here is to keep Russia happy and not inclined to ever go nuclear which could be not only the end of the war but the world.

Meanwhile, who can you trust? Surely, not either country. Putin has good a show he puts on,but remember he's former kgb AND likely head of the current FSB the Russian version of our CIA. Both as corrupt as intel agencies get.

Ukraine is not a player unless they go NATO which Trump will do anything he has to to keep that from happening. Ukraine has had a long reputation as the fraud headquarters of the world. If you want to launder money,drugs, arms or whatever Ukrane is always a great starting point.

And as far as the Russian mob goes well they are likely a good match for the Mexican cartels.These are great countries to stay as far away from as possible.

Here is President Trump meeting with Vlad Putin a relationship that has endured the years with respect on both sides:

[rodguy911]

Consistent with our driveby/old media.For any real news you have to go to the New Media and likely the web.The driveby/old media has never been much on fair and balanced and little has changed even as their numbers continue to tank.

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South Carolina is about 50 years in the past when it comes to elections,they have an open primary which means the dirty dems can come across and vote Goober graham back in office as long as they want. LIttle seems to change in SC,sad but true.

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Yeah, I did a lot driving yesterday. I had the radio on. Then they played the “News”.

Such blatant BIAS!

I was actually laughing at how ham-handed and nonsensical they were.

To them, the summit was a total disaster, in their “I told you so...” manner.

Might as well let Chuck U Schumer do the newscast.

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It’s not the number of warheads that really matter, but the number of deployed (mounted on missiles, in bomb bays or bomb racks), number on ships).

The USA has 1770 deployed, and the Russians have 1718.

But, of course, those are “official” numbers. There may be more or less.

China, etc, have even fewer ready to launch.

[rodguy911]

Good catch and its like that all the time,the drivebys are slow to go and as long as big pharma props them up with endless add money we are stuck with them. ...........................

Here's one of the bigger stories of the week:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4334733/posts

BIG DEVELOPMENT:

House GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik Demands AG Pam Bondi Launch a Full Investigation into Standard Chartered Bank’s Terrorist Financing and Letitia James’ Role in the Explosive Scandal

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/04/uk-bank-standard-chartered-iran-terrorists-sanctions

Above looks like the start,over a year old.

UK bank Standard Chartered accused of helping to fund Iran and terrorists

Lender denies whistleblowers’ claim transactions worth $100bn were carried out in breach of sanctions

Whistleblowers have claimed Standard Chartered allegedly carried out billions of dollars of previously undetected transactions for Iran-linked entities and terrorist organizations, according to a New York court filing.

Two whistleblowers, who include a former executive at the British bank, filed a motion last week to set aside a judgment that dismissed an earlier lawsuit they filed, in an attempt to revive their efforts.

The two men, who run Brutus Trading, which was formed to pursue their claim, said in court papers that their lawsuit should be reinstated after they used forensic data analysis to “decloak” information “hidden deep in the bank's electronic spreadsheets”.

The data was provided by Brutus to US authorities in 2012 and 2013 and the whistleblowers claim it shows “countless illegal transactions” by the bank. Standard Chartered denies the allegations.

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There is more once again over a year old:

https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/whistleblower-accuses-us-of-ignoring-evidence-standard-chartered-bank-served-suspicious-iranian-clients/

WHISTLEBLOWERS:

Whistleblower accuses US of ignoring evidence Standard Chartered Bank served suspicious Iranian clients

A former SCB banker claims the U.S. government misled a federal court about his role in exposing the bank's dealings with sanctioned Iranian entities and international “terror groups” after the bank had pledged to stop.

A former Standard Chartered Bank executive said in a new court filing that U.S. authorities either overlooked or concealed crucial evidence showing the bank conducted many more transactions with sanctioned Iranian entities and international “terror groups” than it admitted to when settling a criminal case in 2012.

Julian Knight, who headed a Standard Chartered transaction services unit from 2009 to 2011, said U.S. officials falsely denied he had provided the information when the Department of Justice declined to intervene in his whistleblower claim against the bank.

Knight, who asked a U.S. federal court in New York to reinstate his claim, said that the government had committed a “colossal fraud” on the court by denying he had provided “damning evidence” that the bank “facilitated many billions of dollars in banking transactions for Iran, numerous international terror groups, and the front companies for those groups,” long after it claimed to have discontinued all Iranian operations in 2007.

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Finally this:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11j09q2llo

It's a big story and these clowns that make it happen all need to be in jail. Starting with lettttiiiiishuuuhhhh. By Scilla Alecci

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/ ^ | Aug. 15, 2025 | Jim Hoft

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I think my area of SC is now purple. The GOP here is dysfunctional, judging by some of the meetings I’ve attended. Graham is going to be re-elected because of this and open primaries.
I am surprised Maria has him on as a guest today. Maybe she will confront him as he continues to undermine Pres. Trump’s efforts to stop the killing in Russia and Ukraine.
Sounds like every leader in the EU is showing up to support little Z when he appears Monday. Will Graham invite himself too?

[rodguy911]

Thanks for straightening that out.

I think we see what is behind Trumps strategy. He does not want to get into an altercation with a country that has about as many nuclear arms as we do and then provoke them as well. Just does not make a lot of sense.

If anyone can thread their way through the morass that is the Ukraine/Russian war or whatever it is it would be Donald Trump.

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Exactly!

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Thanks for chiming in.Looks like South Carolina needs a mini-Trump to come into leadership hopefully at the Governor level.The entire south,ga. SC.NC,Miss. Al. Fla.Texas is now encountering growth that was never ever planned,designed or in many cases even wanted.

Calif. is Uhauling its way East and the entire Northeast is limoing their way South just as fast as they can. Once the terrorist manganammmi of NYC is elected it will only get worse.

Fla. is in pretty good shape and Gov. Desantis may well redistrict our state into even more Republican seats.Texas is a disaster and needs help at every level as does North and South Carolina and Georgia is not much better.

[TTFlyer]

If Graham torpedoes Trump’s peace efforts the President needs to land on that jackass with both feet. If he doesn’t, the “TACO” moniker is going to stick.

[9YearLurker]

The UK body language and lip readers are a riot.