NBC’s Meet the Press: White House National Ecomonic Council Director Larry Summers and a roundtable with Fmr. Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. (D-TN), Fmr. House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX), Time’s Rick Stengel, WaPo’s Steven Pearlstein, and Fortune Magazine’s Nina Easton

CBS’ Face the Nation: Senior White House Advisor David Axelrod, Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA) and NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre

ABC’s This Week: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, House Republican Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and a roundtable with ABC’s George Will, Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts and WSJ columnist Peggy Noonan

Fox News Sunday: Former CIA Director Michael Hayden, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Power Player of the Week opera singer Denyce Graves

CNN’s State of the Union: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) and Gov. David Paterson (D-NY)

CNN’s Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz: WashTimes’ Amanda Carpenter, Air America and The Daily Beast’s Ana Marie Cox, CNN’s Frank Sesno and “Morning Drive: Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Talking” author Michael Smerconish

CNN’s GPS with Fareed Zakaria: President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, U.S. Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke and “Jihad” and “Taliban” author Ahmed Rashid

NBC’s The Chris Matthews Show: The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan, NYT’s Helene Cooper, WaPo’s David Ignatius and BBC’s Katty Kay

Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal: Politico’s Eamon Javers, WaPo’s Spencer Hsu, ABC’s Martha Raddatz and NPR’s Tom Gjelten

Bloomberg’s Political Capital with Al Hunt: Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Bloomberg’s Christine Harper, Lizzie O’Leary, Jose Enrique Arrioja, Margaret Carlson and Kate O’Beirne

Roll Call TV with Robert Traynham: Former-communications director for the Republican National Committee Danny Diaz, former-communications director for the Democratic National Committee Karen Finney and Roll Call’s Emily Heil

Will update throughout the day as we learn them.

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Good morning Washington. It’s Joe Scarborough’s birthday! Also: Hugh Hefner and Jenna Jameson (why are we not surprised they share a day…thanks MicCheck). Also, on this day in 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.

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Where the WaPo took home the gold:

Public Service:

Awarded to The Washington Post for the work of Dana Priest, Anne Hull and photographer Michel du Cille in exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, evoking a national outcry and producing reforms by federal officials.

Breaking News Reporting:

Awarded to The Washington Post Staff for its exceptional, multi-faceted coverage of the deadly shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, telling the developing story in print and online.

National Reporting:

Awarded to Jo Becker and Barton Gellman of The Washington Post for their lucid exploration of Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful yet sometimes disguised influence on national policy.

International reporting:

Awarded to Steve Fainaru of The Washington Post for his heavily reported series on private security contractors in Iraq that operate outside most of the laws governing American forces.

Feature Writing:

Awarded to Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post for his chronicling of a world-class violinist who, as an experiment, played beautiful music in a subway station filled with unheeding commuters.

Commentary:

Awarded to Steven Pearlstein of The Washington Post for his insightful columns that explore the nation’s complex economic ills with masterful clarity.

(Oh, and Bob Dylan won a Pulitzer, too)

As E&P notes, this is the second biggest sweep by a single paper ever (the NYT took home seven in 2002, thanks to its Sept. 11 coverage).

And: Does this silence some of the anti-Len Downie chatter (accurate or not) we’ve been hearing recently?

Congrats to all.

During yesterday’s post.com chat, Steven Pearlstein clearly was eager to get the hell out of there, choosing to respond to 26 questions with a mere “thanks.”

An example:

Bethesda, Md.: As a libertarian, I would generally favor allowing the market to find mechanisms to address the moral hazard problem you identify in your article. Traditionally, those who purchased mortgages to service them long term, or securitized mortgages, insisted on rigid certifications and standards being met, validating the creditworthiness of the borrower and the soundness of the collateral.

So the development of a new, higher risk set of products would appear to be just another innovative expansion of diversity in the marketplace. But given the general financial and potential macroeconomic impact of the subprime market collapse, which affects everyone — including general investors and workers — and not just participants in the subprime mortgage market who encounter the direct consequences of their apparent lack of wisdom, would you agree that a case can be made for tighter regulation of these transactions?

As I recall, the S and L crisis 15 or 20 years ago didn’t generate such spillovers into the broader market, despite its evident regulatory failure and taxpayer bailout costs. Why the difference this time?

Steven Pearlstein: T%hanks.

From yesterday’s Post:

These seem to be some lessons of the 2006 Local Economy Challenge. Meet the person who most accurately predicted how the Washington region would fare last year: Kathleen Walsh Carr, the president of Cardinal Bank Washington. And the least accurate? We’ll get to that in a minute.

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At the other end of the results spectrum was Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein. In his 2006 forecast, he presented a view of rapidly slowing growth. The local economy held up just fine, and Pearlstein ended in last place on our list. He correctly forecast that the housing market would slump. (His prediction of the median home price was almost dead-on.) But he wrongly expected that the slump and a slowdown in government spending would spread through the broader economy.