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(41,505 posts) Sat Mar 31, 2012, 11:14 PM Mar 2012

Sunday Talk Shows: VP Biden Interview: Biden on Romney: He offers "nothing"

Meet The Press
Rick Santorum continues to bowl through the Badger State campaigning for votes and trying to present a common-man contrast with Mitt Romney before the critical primary in the state this Tuesday. Is Wisconsin his last chance to stop Romney from running away with the nomination? This Sunday, we’ll talk with Rick Santorum about his campaign, the health care battle in the Supreme Court, and the economy.

The president’s health care law faced tough questions at the Supreme Court this week while Republican candidates panned the law on the trail. We’ll talk with Senator Chuck Schumer about the future of health care reform and the 2012 race.

What effect will health care reform's legal fate have on the fall campaign? Is it the beginning of the end in the GOP primary fight? Our roundtable weighs in: Tom Friedman and David Brooks of the New York Times, Fmr. Newsweek Executive Editor Jon Meacham, Fmr. Rep. Harold Ford and MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski

ABC This Week
Coming Up on 'This Week': Rep. Paul Ryan and Rep. Chris Van Hollen
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-WI., and Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-MD., square off on health care, the budget, and the 2012 presidential race, Sunday on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."

More Republicans line up behind presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, and Washington braces for an election-year budget showdown, as House Republicans pass their budget blueprint this week. Fresh off his endorsement of Romney, House budget committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, squares off against the top Democrat on the budget committee, Rep. Chris Van Hollen on their drastically differing budget and tax priorities and on the 2012 presidential election.

And President Obama's signature health care law goes on trial, as the Supreme Court hears arguments on whether "Obamacare" will remain the law of the land. How will the high court's decision impact the president's signature legislative achievement, and what will it mean for his chances for a second term? Ryan and Van Hollen go head-to-head, Sunday on "This Week."

Then, our powerhouse roundtable weighs in on all the week's politics, from the Supreme Court to the campaign trail, with George Will, conservative commentator Ann Coulter, former White House environmental advisor Van Jones, author of "Rebuild the Dream," Matt Bai of The New York Times Magazine, and "Nightline" co-anchor Terry Moran

Will the Supreme Court's health care ruling change the political landscape? As more Republicans coalesce around Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum slips in key polls in upcoming primary states, how long will the fight for the nomination continue? And does Newt Gingrich's latest staff shake-up signal his campaign is at the end of the line? Plus, Mega Millions mania sweeps the nation – did the roundtable catch lotto fever?

CBS Face The Nation
Biden on Romney: He offers "nothing"
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57406717/biden-on-romney-he-offers-nothing/?tag=morningLeadStoriesAreaMain;ftnLeadHero

Vice President Joe Biden told CBS News' "Face the Nation" that Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney has no plans to strengthen the middle class.

"This is about the middle class," Biden told anchor Bob Schieffer. "And none of what he's offering does anything."

"All they argue is cut. Get rid of that," Biden said referring to Republican economic policies. "What is the Romney answer? There's nothing."

Schieffer told CBS Evening News host Scott Pelley that the White House has determined Romney will be the nominee and the president and vice president have started "turning up the heat" against the former governor.

Tune in Sunday for the full interview during the first hour-long episode of "Face the Nation." Also appearing on the show are Republican Presidential Candidates Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul.

Romney campaign adviser Kevin Madden, CBS News political correspondent Jan Crawford and political director John Dickerson, along with PBS NewsHour and Washington Week's anchor Gwen Ifill, will discuss the 2012 presidential race and the Supreme Court's hearings on the Affordable Care Act.

CNN State of The Union
An exclusive interview with Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell He’ll weigh in on the blame game over rising gas prices and what president Obama’s improving poll numbers mean for campaign 2012.

Then, Rep. Paul Ryan on his Republican-backed budget, his decision to endorse Mitt Romney, and Tuesday’s Republican Primary in Wisconsin.

Plus, House Intel Chair Mike Rogers and Ranking Member C.A. Ruppersberger (D-Maryland) on the pressing foreign policy issues facing the country.

And finally, we’ll have a round table political discussion with the New York Times’ Jeff Zeleny and CNN Sr. Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash

Fareed Zakaria GPS
Sex, politics and religion

The three things your mother told you not to talk about at the dinner table: Sex, politics and religion. I have a great panel to talk about the intersection of all three in the 2012 presidential race.

Then, is space the final frontier of foreign policy? That's what astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson says. And he's warns us that the United States is losing the current battle.

Finally, is America "coming apart"? I'll talk to author Charles Murray who has a controversial book out about the current class struggle. It's subtitled "the state of white America, 1960-2010."

Fox News Sunday
Rick Santorum fights to win a slate of consequential primaries. We’ll talk with the candidate about his chances for victory and ask how he plans to win the Republican nomination.

Then, we’ll preview the 2012 general election with former party chairmen Haley Barbour and Howard Dean

C-SPAN's "Newsmakers,"
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Republican Study Committee

Bloomberg TV’s “Political Capital”
National security adviser in the Carter White House, Zbigniew Brzezinski

Reliable Sources
Trayvon Martin case coverage: Frank Sesno; Callie Crossley; Francis Robles, the Miami Herald; Supreme Court health care hearings: Jeffrey Toobin. Gaffes: Ana Marie Cox; Michael Medved.

CBS 60 Minutes
Hard Landing - Seven thousand employees of the Kennedy Space Center lost their jobs when the final Space Shuttle was launched last July, a loss of income that's hit the local economy hard. Scott Pelley reports.

Sugar - A prominent doctor who treats childhood obesity believes the high amount of sugar in the American diet, much of it in processed foods, is killing us. And as Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports, new studies seem to support his theory that sugar is toxic.

Art Market - Morley Safer visits the Art Basel Miami Beach art fair where prices for contemporary art are spiking upward in a market that's been outperforming stocks since 2003.

Melissa Harris Perry Show-Saturdays and Sundays from 10-12

Up w/Chris Hayes- Saturdays and Sundays from 8:00 – 10:00 a.m. ET.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) (@carolynbmaloney), chair of the Joint Economic Committee.

Alexis Goldstein (@alexisgoldstein), member of Occupy the SEC and former Wall Street information technologist.

Kai Wright (@kai_wright), editorial director of Colorlines.com and an Alfred Knobler Fellow of The Nation Institute.

Karen Ho, author of Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota.

John McWhorter, Columbia University professor of linguistic and American studies and contributing editor at the New Republic and TheRoot.com.

William Black (@williamkblack), associate professor of economics & law at University of Missouri - Kansas City and author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One.

Richard Benjamin, senior fellow at Demos and author of Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America.

TV One's Washington Watch
Three young, black leaders in Washington — Janaye Ingram, Washington bureau chief of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network; Brandon Andrews, legislative aide to Senator James M. Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma; and Mikael Moore, chief of staff to Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California — talking about the Trayvon Martin case

Univison's Al Punto
José María Aznar, former prime minister of Spain, discussing the state of the Spanish economy.

C-Span's Washington Journal

7:00am - Question/Newspaper Articles/Phones

7:45am - Peter Coy, Bloomberg Businessweek, Economics Editor

Topic: Guest will discuss his recent Bloomberg Businessweek cover story entitled “Why The Debt Crisis is Even Worse Than You Think.”

8:30am - John Velleco, Gun Owners of America, Federal Affairs Director and Dan Gross, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, President

Topic: In light of the shooting of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, guests will discuss “Stand Your Ground” laws that exist in states across the country, what their track record is, if they have resulted in more or less gun related violence, etc.

9:15am - Marc Lynch, Center for a New American Security, Senior Fellow

Topic: Guest will discuss the uprisings in Syria, the international response, Sec of State Hillary Clinton’s trip to Saudi Arabia and the 60-nation gathering of the “Friends of the Syrian People” in Istanbul, Turkey.

Sunday Breakfast Menu, April 1
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/31/sunday-breakfast-menu-april-1/

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CBS’s “Face the Nation” celebrates its first hourlong broadcast by interviewing Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. about the health care law, the Trayvon Martin case and the presidential race.

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Joining Mr. Santorum on Fox will be Haley Barbour, former Mississippi governor and chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Howard Dean, former Vermont governor and chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Meanwhile, Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, will be on NBC to talk about President Obama’s health care law and the presidential campaign