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Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: Sen. Angus King (I-ME); Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY); Wisconsin Gov-Elect Tony Evers (D); Roundtable: TBA.
Face The Nation: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA); Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL); Sen. John Thune (R-SD); U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer; Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde; Roundtable: TBA.
This Week: Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT); Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL); Legal Panel: Legal Analyst Dan Abrams, Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) & Former FBI Special Agent Asha Rangappa; Roundtable: Terry Moran (ABC News), Republican Strategist Alex Castellanos, Julie Pace (Associated Press) & Shawna Thomas (Vice News).
Fox News Sunday: Sen. Angus King (I-ME); Roundtable: Former Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Former Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), Guy Benson (Townhall.com) & Charles Lane (Washington Post).
State of the Union: Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY); Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL); Roundtable: Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), Nina Turner (Our Revolution), Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) & Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA).
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: an interview with Tesla CEO Elon Musk (preview); a report on a landmark government study of young minds that looked at whether phones, tablets and other screens are changing the development of adolescent minds (preview); and, an interview with opera singer Ryan Speedo Green (preview).
Late night shows:
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Monday: Actor Bryan Cranston; Presidential Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Tuesday: Actress/TV Host Whoopi Goldberg; Actor Adam Pally; Musical Group Jungle.
Wednesday: Actress Leslie Mann; Actor Brandon Micheal Hall; Rapper Lil Wayne.
Thursday: Actress Diane Kruger; Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX); Former HUD Secretary Julian Castro.
Friday: Actor Tony Shalhoub.
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Monday: Actress Tatiana Maslany; Tuesday: Rapper Meek Mill; Wednesday: Actress/Singer Jennifer Lopez; Thursday: Author Bob Woodward.
Elsewhere...
Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) downplayed the Saudi's murder of Jamal Khashoggi and President Trump's seeming indifference about it.
Following CIA Director Gina Haspel's briefing today on Saudi Arabia's involvement in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) shrugged off the killing of the Washington Post columnist, telling CNN that "journalists disappear all over the country."
"We have to have a relationship with players we don't agree with," Stewart, a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, told CNN anchor Brianna Keilar this afternoon. "Journalists disappear all over the country. 20 have been killed in Mexico. You don't think it happens in Turkey and China? Of course it does. We have to have a relationship with these countries."
"As the administration moves forward, is there not a commitment to telling the truth?" Keilar asked. "It seems like what is bothering the senators, bipartisan among them including folks who supported Saudi Arabia and the Trump administration is that the Trump administration turned a blind eye to the facts."
Stewart shot back by suggesting the anchor's comments were untrue and stood by Donald Trump's defense of the Saudis in regards to the Khashoggi assassination, alleging "new information may have emerged" justifying the president's comments.
In a statement last month, Trump implied that he did not care whether or not Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was involved in the killing.
Meanwhile...
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) launched into an anti-Semitic rant about George Soros while discussing the stock market, as one does (if you're an anti-Semite).
On Thursday, the congressman appeared on Fox Business' Varney and Co. to discuss the rapidly plummeting stock market. Google's parent company Alphabet was among the businesses that saw diminishing shares in the past few days, and Gohmert suggested that was because "Google has repeatedly sold their souls" and invaded user privacy. He then compared that to the surveillance state George Orwell envisioned in his novel 1984.
Discussing Orwell soon reminded Gohmert of "another George," he said. Just like how Google was "born in a free country" but shifted to "oppress others," the Hungarian-born liberal philanthropist George Soros is "supposed to be Jewish" but went on to "damage" Israel, Gohmert alleged. Without any form of proof, Gohmert then claimed that Soros, who received a suspected pipe bomb in the mail in October and is frequently the target of anti-Semitic smears, "turned on fellow Jews and helped take the property that they own."
Gohmert drifted away from his Soros rant as quickly as he arrived at it, and host Stuart Varney didn't question his very unfounded claims. Later, Varney addressed the "unsubstantiated and false allegations" Gohmert had raised, assuring viewers "those views are not shared by me, this program, or anyone at Fox Business."
Christ, what an asshole!
– Trix