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Sunday Show Preview

NBC's Meet the Press: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and Rev. Al Sharpton

CBS' Face the Nation: Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), CBS News

ABC's This Week: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani and a roundtable with ABC's George Will, NYT's David Brooks, Mother Jones' David Corn, PBS' Gwen Ifill and WaPo's Bob Woodward

Fox News Sunday: NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci

CNN's State of the Union: White House senior advisor David Axelrod, Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND), Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH), Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D-MT) and CNN's William Bennett and Donna Brazile

CNN's Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz: WMAL's Chris Plante, The Baltimore Sun's David Zurawik, St. Petersburg Times' Eric Deggans, Foundation for the Defense of Democracy's Cliff May and New America Foundation's Reihan Salam

CNN's GPS with Fareed Zakaria: Former CIA officer Reuel Gerecht, Claremont McKenna College's Minxin Pei, Harvard's Roderick MacFarquhar and
"The Age of the Unthinkable" author Joshua Cooper Ramo

NBC's The Chris Matthews Show: WSJ's Peggy Noonan, WaPo's Eugene Robinson, BBC's Katty Kay and Time's Michael Duffy

Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal: NYT's Peter Baker, NPR's Tom Gjelten, WSJ's Naftali Bendavid and Slate and CBS News' John Dickerson

Bloomberg's Political Capital with Al Hunt: White House Communications Director Anita Dunn and White House Budget Director Peter Orszag

Washington Watch with Roland Martin: U.S. Army (Retired) Major General John Hawkins, Council on American Islamic Relations National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper; Business and Media Institute Director Dan Gainor, Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD), WPFW-FM and The Final Call's Askia Muhammad, Democratic strategist Karen Finney, Urban Radio's April Ryan, Comcast and Roll Call TV's Robert Traynham, Politico's Nia-Malika Henderson and News One/Interactive One's Smokey Fontaine

CNN's Amanpour: Ha'aretz correspondent for Occupied Lands' Amira Hass, former U.S. diplomat Aaron David Miller, Center on Law and Security's Karen Greenberg, Norwegian Defense Research Establishment's Thomas Heggehammer and U.S. Coordinator for Counterterrorism's Daniel Benjamin

Will update as we learn them.

Oh the Horror! Wolf & Anderson Make the Pages of Stephen King's Latest

CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper are characters in Stephen King's latest thriller "Under the Dome."

"Is there something scary about Wolf Blitzer that makes him perfect for a horror story?" HLN's Robin Meade asked the acclaimed author this morning. Umm, his name is Wolf...

No John, No Lanny at TWT

TWT's weekly "Purple Nation" opinion columnist Lanny Davis informed editors today that he is out since John Solomon has resigned as the executive editor of the paper. TPM had the scoop.

From Davis' email: "In light of the announcement of John Solomon's resignation, I am no longer comfortable writing a column for the Washington Times. I began writing because John asked me to. And now with him gone, I cannot continue."

News Notes: "Going Rogue" Edition

• AP has an advance copy of Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue," out Tuesday. AP's fact-check.

• Drudge's excerpts.

• And WaPo's Howard Kurtz: Palin agonistes.

George in the Morning?

The Daily Beast reports today that ABC President David Westin was in Washington this week to chat with George Stephanopoulos about "Good Morning America."

A source close to "GMA" tells the Daily Beast the gig is "George's now to lose."

Can we make a suggestion... what about wife Ali Wentworth? She's already a blast on "Oprah," jumping out of planes and dancing with the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders...

Vice President Biden to "The Daily Show"

Set your Tivos... Vice President Joe Biden will be a guest of Jon Stewart's on "The Daily Show" next Tuesday.

This will be Biden's sixth appearance, but his first time back since being elected Vice President. His last appearance was when he was still a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in August 2007.

Schieffer Goes to the CMAs

That's CBS' Bob Schieffer backstage at the Country Music Awards in Nashville this week.

He's flanked by Rep. Steny Hoyer and Lady Antebellum-- the band that won the group of the year award, as well as single of the year for "I Run to You."

NYT's David Rohde Keynotes ICFJ Awards Dinner

Held captive for seven months, NYT's David Rohde spoke of the Taliban's strong grip on the ground in Pakistan and Afghanistan and what this means for U.S. policy as the keynote speaker for ICFJ's 25th Anniversary Awards Dinner, held last night at the Ronald Reagan Center.

It was Rohde's first speaking appearance since he escaped from the Taliban in June of this year. Following his presentation, Rohde sat down for a Q&A with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, ICFJ award recipient and the event's emcee.

Rohde's speech below and his interview with Steph after the jump.


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TWT Cuts 401 (k) Matching

While some members of TWT were concerned that the paper may not make payroll, FishbowlDC is told that employees were paid on schedule today. However, Times VP of HR Sonya Jenkins sent a memo this afternoon informing employees that "effective November 13, 2009 (today), the matching contributions under The Washington Times 401(k) Savings Plan and Supplemental Survivor & Retirement Plan (SSRS) will be suspended."

Jenkins said in her memo, "we regret having to take this action but believe it is the prudent thing to do in light of current economic and industry conditions."

Memo obtained by FishbowlDC after the jump.

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Fox News' Jennifer Griffin Battles Breast Cancer

FNC's Pentagon correspondent, Jennifer Griffin has been off-air for nearly six weeks since she was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer.

Griffin, who is undergoing an aggressive course of chemo before surgery, made an appearance to emcee the Cause gala on Wednesday night. Reliable Source has the story.

FishbowlDC wishes Jennifer, her husband (NPR's Greg Myre), their two girls and son a speedy recovery.

What a Reality Show Taping in DC Looks Like...

These pics are from a recent "Real Housewives of DC" dinner at Hotel Dupont...

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