Sunday News Shows – February 5, 2012

Sunday news shows, guests, topics, as scheduled.

NBC’s “Meet the Press”: roundtable with Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA), New York Times columnist David Brooks, Republican strategist Alex Castellanos and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow

ABC’s “This Week”: roundtable with ABC’s George Will, political strategist Matthew Dowd, AOL Huffington Post Media Group’s Arianna Huffington and BigJournalism.com editor and radio talk show host Dana Loesch

CBS’s “Face the Nation”: roundtable with co-author and the Boston Globe’s Michael Kranish (“The Real Romney”), CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell and CBS News’ John Dickerson

“Fox News Sunday”: Romney campaign surrogate Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and Gingrich campaign surrogate former Rep. J.C. Watts; roundtable with The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, the Christian Science Monitor’s Liz Marlantes, former State Department official Liz Cheney and Fox News’ Juan Williams

CNN’s “State of the Union” (SUN 9 a.m. and noon): former CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former OMB Director Alice Rivlin and Ron Brownstein; Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI)

CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS Live”: (SUN 10 a.m., 1 p.m.): roundtable with author and New York Times columnist David Brooks (“The Social Animal”), Thomson Reuters’ Chrystia Freeland, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan and The New Yorker editor David Remnick; Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong

CNN’s “Reliable Sources”: (Sun, 11 a.m. ET): POLITICO’s Jonathan Martin, the N.Y. Times’ Michael Shear and PBS’ Christina Bellantoni; The Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis and Newsweek / The Daily Beast’s Michelle Cottle; former Washington Post reporter Mark Potts and Reuters’ Felix Salmon

NBC’s “The Chris Matthews Show”: roundtable with TIME Magazine’s Richard Stengel, NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell, the Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman and the WashPost’s Nia-Malika Henderson

Univision’s “Al Punto” (Sun., 10 a.m. ET): Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ; Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.); former President of Peru Alan Garcia; roundtable with El Sentinel’s Rafael Palacio and El Clarin’s Ana Baron

SiriusXM’s “Polioptics” with Adam Belmar and Josh King (Sat., noon and 6 p.m.): Jeff Berman, GM of Digital Media for the National Football League (and former senior aide to Sen. Chuck Schumer). And Jason Recher of NorthStar Strategies, former White House Trip Director and aide to Gov. Sarah Palin. On SiriusXM’s POTUS Ch. 124; also available for download on iTunes and at www.polioptics.com.

Thanks to the Politico Playbook for compiling this list every week.

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