Sunday Talk
* Meet the Press: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY); ex-Rep. Tom Andrews (D-ME); ex-House Maj. Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX); AEI’s Richard Perle; Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA). Schumer to talk about US Atty purge; other four to discuss Iraq.
* Face the Nation: Defense Sec. Robert Gates; Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). Gates to talk Iraq, Walter Reed. Feinstein to talk about US Atty purge
* This Week: Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT); Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX); NSA Stephen Hadley; Unity 08 & L&O’s Sam Waterson; roundtable of Time’s Jay Carney, Donna Brazile, Claire Shipman, and George Will. Leahy v. Cornyn on US atty purge; Hadley to talk about Iraq
* Fox News Sunday: ex-U.S. attys Bud Cummins and David Iglesias; Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA); Sen. John Kerry (D-MA); Obama for America’s Alyssa Mastromonaco.
* Late Edition: ex-NSA Zbigniew Brzezinski; Rep. John Murtha (D-PA); NSA Stephen Hadley; Gen. George Joulwan (Ret); NYT’s Michael Gordon; Col. Pat Lang (Ret); James Carville; Candy Crowley; Human Events editor Terry Jeffrey. Given the guests, this week’s Late Edition is all Iraq.

TV Alerts
* Reliable Sources: Jeralyn Merritt on 3/18 to discuss US Atty purge
* Political Capital: U.S. Central Command’s Admiral William Fallon (Bloomberg, repeats throughout weekend).
* Chris Matthews Show 3/17-3/18: Howard Fineman, Katty Kay, John Heilemann, and Kathleen Parker discuss: “Rudy Giuliani: Can the tough New Yorker become president? Bill Richardson: Can the last governor in the Democratic race knock off the senators?” Quotes here. (This week’s predictions are more interesting than usual.)
* Newsmakers: Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) being questioned by San Francisco Chronicle’s Lochead and McClatchy’s Doyle on 3/18 (CSPAN, 10am).
* Road to the White House: ex-Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) and Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) in NH on 3/18;
* 60 Minutes: Haditha killings on 3/18
* Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) appears on The Apprentice on 3/18
* MSNBC on 4th anniv. of Iraq war beginning on 3/19: ex-WH CoS Andy Card, Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO), ex-Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR), Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), Sen. Joe Lieberman (CFL), Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA).
* ABC News will be doing a series of reports across all ABC News programs, titled “Iraq: Where Things Stand” the week of 3/19
* Sit. Room: Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) on 3/19
* LKL: Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) on 3/19
* Tavis Smiley: Robert Greenwald on 3/19; Joss Stone on 3/19; Terrence Howard on 3/20; Steve Bickerstaff on 3/20; Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM) on 3/21; Gina Torres on 3/22; Jane Smiley on 3/23; Julian McMahon on 3/23;
* The Daily Show: Stephen Prothero on 3/19; Chris Hansen on 3/21; Don Cheadle on 3/22;
* Colbert Report: Jerome Groopman on 3/19; Willie Nelson on 3/20; Benjamin Barber on 3/21; Katie Couric on 3/22; John Perry Barlow on 3/26; Madeleine Albright on 3/27; James Fallows on 3/27; Jabari Asim on 3/28; Clive James on 3/29;
* Leno: Richard Engel on 3/20; Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) on 3/22
* Conan O’Brien: Dateline’s Chris Hansen on 3/20
* Richard Engel’s War Zone Diary on 3/21 on MSNBC.
* Letterman: Lara Logan on 3/21; Al Franken on 3/28
* The View: William S. Cohen & Janet Langhart Cohen on 3/22
* Ellen DeGeneres: Bob & Lee Woodruff on 3/22
* Jimmy Kimmel: Bob Woodruff on 3/22
* Today Show: John & Teresa Heinz Kerry on 3/26
* Frontline’s News Wars series on 3/27. Click link for preview.

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