Morning lineup
Meet The Press: Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R); Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta; New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton.
Face the Nation: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA); Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY); Terrorism Roundtable: Special Envoy to the Global Coalition to Combat ISIS Brett McGurk; Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX); Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell; Former Bush Homeland Security Adviser Fran Townsend; Former National Security Adviser Tom Donilon; Political Roundtable: Ruth Marcus (Washington Post), Ron Brownstein (National Journal), and Republican Strategist Karl Rove.
This Week: Nazi Donald Trump (R); Idiot Savant Dr. Ben Carson (R); Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D); Roundtable: Democratic Strategist David Axelrod, "Independent" Strategist Matthew Dowd, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), and Rep. Martha McSally (R-AZ).
Fox News Sunday: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL); Radio Host Rush Limbaugh; Roundtable: George Will (Washington Post), Kirsten Powers (USA Today), Michael Needham (Heritage Action for America), and Juan Williams (Fox News).
State of the Union: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R); Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel; Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA); Roundtable: Former Special Representative to Muslim Communities Farah Pandith, Former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-NE), Radio Host Hugh Hewitt, and Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: a report on the new advice police departments are giving civilians, and the new ways they are training their officers to respond to active shooters (preview); a report on the battle against ISIS in Iraq, where the U.S. finds itself on the same side of the fight as Shiite militias backed by Iran (preview); and, a report on M-PESA, a payment system that has not only improved urban commerce but has helped bring basic necessities like water and solar power to poorer rural areas (preview).
Late night shows:
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Monday: Actor Sylvester Stallone; Journalist Ted Koppel; Rock Band My Morning Jacket.
Tuesday: Director Spike Lee; Singer/Songwriter Carly Simon; Singer/Songwriter Justin Bieber.
Wednesday: Singer/Songwriter Gloria Estefan; Former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens; Author Jake Wood; Celebrity Chef Daniel Boulud.
Thursday: Rerun.
Friday: Rerun.
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah will be airing reruns all week.
Elsewhere...
After seven years of contemplation, Sarah Palin was finally ready to concede that "All of them, Katie" was not such a great answer.
Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said in an interview that aired Sunday that the question CBS anchor Katie Couric asked her about what publications she read to form her views on foreign policy was "fair," but that she gave a "crappy" answer. [...]
"I had a crappy answer," she said. "But it was a fair question."
"I didn't like, though, the way that, forever then in these seven years, that interview has kind of been stamped on my forehead as, 'she's an idiot,'" Palin said. "I just think, in the context of the whole ball of wax that day — or two days — of an interview and editing, it wasn't real fun."
Meanwhile...
One of Ben Carson's top advisers didn't hesitate to admit that, when it comes to matters of foreign policy/national security, the good doctor is definitely no brain surgeon.
Faced with increasing scrutiny about whether Mr. Carson — who leads in some Republican presidential polls — was capable of leading American foreign policy, two of his top advisers said in interviews with The New York Times that he had struggled to master the intricacies of the Middle East and national security and that intense tutoring was having little effect.
"Nobody has been able to sit down with him and have him get one iota of intelligent information about the Middle East," Duane R. Clarridge, a top adviser to Mr. Carson on terrorism and national security, said in an interview. He also said Mr. Carson needed weekly conference calls briefing him on foreign policy so "we can make him smart."
And, in the great state of Texas...
The Board of Education voted against allowing some "pointy-headed liberals in the ivory tower" to review their textbooks for errors.
At issue is whether the board should continue to rely on publishers and the public to flag errors. Currently, citizen panels nominated by the board have a narrower mission — to determine whether a book fits into Texas' curriculum standards. Mostly, current and retired teachers sit on the panels.
Board vice chairman Thomas Ratliff, R-Mount Pleasant, offered the backstop panel of university professors as an amendment to a proposed overhaul of textbook approval procedures. Under his proposal, the board could set up a new panel drawn "solely from Texas institutions of higher education" to check the books for errors.
"I know that people are concerned about pointy-headed liberals in the ivory tower making our process ... worse," he said. "Why wouldn't we reach out to them and say let's make sure these books are as factually accurate as possible?"
Several board conservatives, though, questioned the need for a secondary review panel.
It's the stupid, stupid!
- Trix