CNBC’s “Investing in America” town hall meeting with Pres. Obama got off to a decidedly political start. The event, being held at Washington D.C.’s Newseum in front of an audience — as described by CNBC’s John Harwood — of “CEOs, union workers, teachers and students, small business owners, people who don’t have a job.”

Harwood’s first question was about how Obama’s policies are being perceived differently, depending on whom you ask:

Harwood: “Many leaders in business think you and your policies are hostile to them. And many ordinary Americans think your policies are helping Wall Street and big business. How’d that happen?

Well, first of all, even though economists may say that the recession officially ended last year, obviously for the millions of people who are still out of work, people who have seen their home values decline, people who are struggling to pay the bills day to day, it’s still very real for them. And I think we have to go back to what was happening when I was first sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. We went through the worst recession since the great depression. Nothing’s come close. In fact, if you look at the consequences of the recession in the ’80s, the recession in the ’90s and the recession in 2001, you combine all three, it still wasn’t as bad as this recession that we went through. So the month I was sworn in, we lost 750,000 jobs. The month after that, 600,000. The month after that, 600,000. This is before any of our plans has a chance to take effect.

The event will run until 1pmET and will re-air on MSNBC from 3-4pmET.

TVNewser has learned President Obama will appear in a town hall meeting on the economy live on CNBC Monday.

Update: The special will be called “Investing in America: A CNBC Town Hall Event with President Obama,” and it will air Monday at noon ET.

CNBC’s Chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood will moderate the event, which will feature a live audience.

CNBC will re-air the program that evening at 8 PM.

The press release is after the jump.

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Tomorrow evening, President Barack Obama will deliver his first address from the Oval Office since the start of his presidency and will discuss the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and his latest trip to the region. TVNewser has learned that ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC will be carrying the brief address. We anticipate CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox News, FBN, and MSNBC will deliver full coverage as well.

Diane Sawyer will anchor for ABC, Katie Couric anchors for CBS, and Lester Holt, who’s in for Brian Williams this week, will anchor for NBC.

And don’t worry, everyone. The new two-hour “Hells Kitchen” will be slid back.

More: PBS will also carry the address with Judy Woodruff anchoring. CNN will have Wolf Blitzer, John King, and Candy Crowley with Anderson Cooper in the Gulf Coast. CNBC will air a special report at 8pmET anchored by John Harwood. Neil Cavuto hosting for FBN. Bloomberg will air an edition of “Charlie Rose” with Al Hunt and ABC’s Jake Tapper at 7pmET and Carol Massar will host live coverage at 8pmET. Terry Moran will anchor ABC’s “Nightline” from D.C. with George Stephanopoulos contributing.

CNBC’s John Harwood sat down with Pres. Obama this afternoon. The first question was about last Friday’s SEC charges against Goldman Sachs. Harwood asked the president if there was “something fishy and political” about the timing of the suit considering the Senate is beginning debate on a financial regulation bill:

JOHN HARWOOD: So, you say categorically no winks, no heads up in advance –

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Categorically.

HARWOOD: — no signal from anyone –

PRES. OBAMA: Categorically. We– we– we found out about it on — CNBC.

HARWOOD: Nice.

Meanwhile, while that was going on at the White House, on CNBC-TV, Virgin CEO Richard Branson was swearing up a storm with Maria Bartiromo.

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Here are some notes for cable news coverage this Sunday as the health care reform bill heads to a vote tomorrow afternoon:

• Fox News Channel will be live Saturday and Sunday. Weekday anchors Bill Hemmer and Martha MacCallum will be in for “America’s Newsroom at 9amET, and Megyn Kelly will anchor “America Live” at 1pmET. Shepard Smith will be live from New York at 3pmET, and Neil Cavuto will anchor “Your World” from DC’s the Newseum at 4pmET. Then a special edition of On the Record with Greta Van Susteren at 5pm, Special Report with Bret Baier at 6pm, FOX Report with Shep at 7pm and then live Sunday night coverage of the weekday programs, O’Reilly at 8pm, Hannity at 9pm and Greta at 10pm.

• CNN provides special coverage beginning at 1pmET approximately 2pmET (depending on when the vote is). Wolf Blitzer, Candy Crowley and John King will be joined by members of the BPTOT for full coverage of the latest developments in the health care debate and vote. A special health care-focused edition of Larry King Live will begin at 9pmET.

• MSNBC’s Alex Witt anchors until 1pmET when David Shuster picks coverage for the rest of the afternoon.

• Fox Business Network will be live Sunday beginning at 2pmET with Cavuto at the Newseum in Washington, DC and Stuart Varney from New York.

• CNBC is producing a live primetime special at 9pmET co-anchored by Michelle Caruso Cabrera and Carl Quintanilla. In addition, CNBC’s Tyler Mathisen and Hampton Pearson will report live from Capitol Hill and CNBC’s Chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood will provide instant analysis.

>Update: Two hours of debate begins at 2pmET with a final vote expected no earlier than 8:30pmET. Democrats say they have the 216 votes needed.

> More: Diane Sawyer will anchor ABC’s World News. CBS’ Russ Mitchell anchors CBS Evening News but will be preempted on the east coast due to the NCAA tournament. CBS News plans a special report in primetime when the votes are counted.

MSNBC is streamlining its dayside schedule and doing away with the themed hours focused on the economy and politics. It’s a back-to-basics approach for the network’s daytime news hours which slipped to fifth place in December, behind FNC, CNN, HLN and CNBC between 9am-4pm.

TVNewser has learned that effective Monday, David Shuster will anchor at 10amET and 3pmET, Tamron Hall will anchor at 11amET and 2pmET and Contessa Brewer will anchor at 12N.

Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie begin the dayside hours at 9amET. Andrea Mitchell remains at 1pmET and Dylan Ratigan at 4pm.

It’s a continuation of recent changes to the daytime lineup.

The network’s themed shows “It’s the Economy” which had been co-anchored by CNBC’s Melissa Francis and Brewer and Friday’s “New York Times Edition” which had been co-anchored by NBC’s Norah O’Donnell and CNBC’s John Harwood have been canceled.

Tomorrow evening, President Obama will deliver his State of the Union address to Congress just after 9pmET. Gov. Bob McDonnell will provide the GOP response. Here are the special coverage plans we’re hearing for the cable news networks.

	Wolf Blitzer and Campbell Brown will anchor coverage leading into the address along and post-response analysis along with John King. Soledad O’Brien will report on polling data and Jessica Yellin will moderate a focus group in Ohio. Anderson Cooper will report and anchor “AC360″ from Haiti at 11pmET. Larry King will be live at 12amET.
	“O’Reilly Factor” will end at 8:55pmET and Bret Baier will anchor the address, the Republican response, and analysis live until 10:30pmET. Sarah Palin, Karl Rove, Joe Trippi, and Bob Beckel will contribute. Carl Cameron and Major Garrett will report. Greta Van Susteren will be live for “On the Record” until 11pmET. Sean Hannity will be live from 11pmET until midnight.
	Starting at 9pmET, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and Rachel Maddow will anchor coverage of the address and response. Live editions of “Countdown” and “Rachel Maddow” will air at 10:30pmET and 11:30pmET
	Fox Business will have coverage from 8-11pmET anchored by Neil Cavuto from the Newseum. Elizabeth MacDonald will host “Fixing America” beforehand and John Stossel will lead a “town hall” discussion afterward.
	CNBC special coverage begins at 7pmET with Larry Kudlow in D.C. followed at 8pmEt by “President Obama 1 Year Later,” which will be anchored live by John Harwood and Carl Quintanilla from Washington. CNBC will carry the address with and have reaction until 10:30pmET.
	C-SPAN will begin special coverage at 8pmET with “a historical look at Presidents in their first year in office” followed by the address and response. Coverage will conclude at 11pmET. C-SPAN2 will air live reaction from Representatives and Senators from the Capitol.
	Peter Cook will be in D.C. to anchor for Bloomberg with Al Hunt from 9-11pmET. Panel will include Tom Daschle, Martin Feldstein, and William Cohan.

We will update as we learn more.

What do Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the Balloon Boy family, President Obama, Jon & Kate, Taylor Swift, and Kanye West have in common?

All, along with CNBC’s John Harwood, appear in a video montage of pop culture moments from 2009, set to music. Enjoy.