John Kerry, Willie Brown to be on Meet the Press tomorrow, and other Sunday morning info

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On tomorrow's Meet the Press on NBC, which will be hosted at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, US Ambassador to Egypt Sameh Shoukry will discuss the latest from the Egyptian democracy protests. Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will also be interviewed. The roundtable will discuss the Reagan legacy today now that it's the 100th anniversary of Reagan's birth and will include Reagan's former Chief of Staff James Baker, Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan, former California Assembly Speaker and San Francisco mayor Willie Brown (a Democrat), and NBC News chief foreign correspondent Andrea Mitchell (who was chief White House reporter for NBC during the Reagan administration).

(Oh, in case you were wondering, Kerry's no longer interested in becoming Secretary of State.)

ABC, CBS to devote their shows entirely to Egypt
Christiane Amanpour will host This Week (ABC) live from Egypt for the second consecutive week. She'll also interview Ambassador Shoukry (but for some reason ABC plugs this as "exclusive" when he's to be on NBC too). On her roundtable: Egyptian journalists Lamia Radi and Nadia abou el-Magd, BBC's John Simpson, Tony Shadid of the New York Times, and ABC's David Muir.

Appearing on Face the Nation (CBS) to discuss Egypt are Brookings Institution vice president/director for foreign policy Martin Indyk, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Israel and Jordan Thomas Pickering, and Washington/New York bureau chief for Al-Jazeera Dr. Abderrahim Foukara.

On CNN I forgot...
On State of the Union (CNN), Candy Crowley will interview a former secy of state and two former ambassadors and have live coverage from Egypt. Joining her are: former SOS under Clinton, Madeleine Albright, fmr US Ambsdr to Egypt Edward S. Walker (a Clinton appointee), and former US ambassador to the UN under George W. Bush, John Negroponte. Then, Crowley will interview former Republican US Senator from Wyoming and now co-chair of the presidential debt commission Alan K. Simpson.

On Fareed Zakaria GPS, Zakaria will interview Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaraedei and UK prime minister David Cameron.

I don't know who'll be on CNN's journalism review program Reliable Sources tomorrow.

Sunday morning sports talk?
If you're more interested in sports than politics and protests this Super Bowl Sunday, Fox News Sunday will devote itself completely to football (as the Fox network shows the SB this year): Chris Wallace will interview NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to discuss current issues surrounding pro football, then interview two former players from this year's SB teams, Lynn Swann (from the Steelers) and Jerry Kramer (from the Packers). There's also a behind-the-scenes segment with Joe Buck, an announcer for the Super Bowl.

Does this happen every Super Bowl Sunday that the host network's Sunday morning show decides to become a pregame show? Face the Nation did the same last year when CBS broadcast the big game, but when Fox broadcast the SB in 2008, FNS went on with the usual political coverage since it was an election year and the primaries were coming up in two days. On that edition of the program, Bill Kristol mocked Hillary Clinton's base as being only "the Democratic establishment and white women" and said that "white women are a problem." Wallace interviewed John McCain and Hillary Clinton. On the Super Bowl Sunday edition of Face the Nation in 2004, when CBS showed the game (and the Janet Jackson incident), the Sunday morning show covered the Democratic primary and interviewed John Edwards.

However, on February 4, 2007, preceding the Super Bowl, that day's FTN was pretty much a pregame show. Yet on February 1, 2009, the day NBC was to show the Super Bowl, Meet the Press had an interview with Sens. Kerry and Kay Bailey Hutchison regarding Obama's then-proposed stimulus package and the usual roundtable and a short segment previewing the NFL championship game.

So get informed this Sunday morning, and support your favorite team whether it be the Packers or Steelers...I'm cheering on those PACKERS from Green Bay, Wisconsin!

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1. addendum re fox news sunday

in my area, the Fox station (KTVU) will show FNS at 2AM because coverage begins at 9AM following the local morning show, and FNS is a 10AM ET program