Wednesday evening, President Obama will address the joint session of congress at 8pmET. On Friday, we reported that ABC, NBC, and CBS would be carrying the address and the subsequent GOP response (FOX broadcasting would not). Now, we’ve got full evening plans for the three cable news networks:

	Wolf Blitzer, Campbell Brown, and John King will lead CNN coverage of the address and response as well as the post-address analysis with the BPTOTV. “Larry King” and “AC360″ (with Anderson Cooper reporting from Afghanistan) will follow.
	Bret Baier will lead FNC coverage starting at 7:55pmET with analysis from Brit Hume, Stephen Hayes, and A.B. Stoddard and reports from WH correspondent Major Garrett and political correspondent Carl Cameron. At 9pmET, Bill O’Reilly will host “The Factor” live and special live broadcasts of “Hannity” and “On The Record” will follow at 10pmET and 11pmET.
	Keith Olbermann will anchor MSNBC coverage at 8pmET and then host a live “Countdown” at 9pmET. “Rachel Maddow” will be live at 10pmET and a live “Ed Show” will be on at 11pmET.
	Neil Cavuto will anchor Fox Business Network coverage from D.C. and host a post-address roundtable with former Speaker Dennis Hastert, Gov. Ed Rendell, and former H&HS Secretary Michael Leavitt (among others). Cavuto will be hosting a special edition of “Cavuto” from 6pmET until the address.
	CNBC will have a special edition of “Kudlow Report” at 7pmET. At 9pmET, there will be a special “CNBC Reports” with Dennis Kneale, Larry Kudlow, Steve Liesman and John Harwood.

> Tonight on CNN’s Larry King Live, Elizabeth Edwards and former HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson will debate healthcare reform. The live debate will be the first time Mrs. Edwards has debated someone on the topic…on TV.

> CNBC’s senior economics reporter Steve Liesman hosts a special from Jackson Hole, WY, site of the Federal Reserve’s annual conference. “Fed, Crisis & Recovery: Live from Jackson Hole” airs tomorrow at 8pmET on CNBC.

> Comedian Steve Harvey made his first appearance as a “Good Morning America” special correspondent this morning. At issue: “Can Men and Women Just Be Friends?”

Charlie Gasparino…Steve Liesman…Rick Santelli…Larry Kudlow. There really isn’t much else to say anymore. Some fireworks at 1:20, more at 3:30, and some boxing glove graphics at 3:40 (seriously). Happy Friday:

RealClearPolitics was watching CNBC this afternoon when Mr. Tea Party himself, Rick Santelli, went off on CNBC’s Steve Liesman.

Liesman, the network’s economics guru, posed a question about whether it might be okay for business leaders to not disclose certain things even if it were ethically wrong or even illegal.

Santelli, from his post at the CBOT, shot back, “Are you gonna come up with excuses to break rules and break the law. You sound like Richard Nixon. Who did you vote for Steve?”

Before explaining his question, Liesman asked, “In which election?”

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> CNBC’s Steve Liesman interviews Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner today on “Power Lunch” at NoonET.

> Tonight on Nightline, ABC’s Terry Moran reveals his predisposition to Alzheimer’s, a disease which runs in his family.

> Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg, who conducted the initial poll with James Carville that led to the Rush Limbaugh focus by the Democrats, goes head-to-head with Sean Hannity tonight.

NBC’s Brian Williams will co-anchor NBC’s Today show in the morning alongside Matt Lauer, “so Meredith can take a morning off,” he announced on tonight’s Nightly News.

One of the last times Williams was on the show live and in studio was when he appeared with former Today co-anchor Katie Couric and ABC’s Charlie Gibson to promote last summer’s Stand up to Cancer event.

> Update: Meredith Vieira won’t be on the Today show tomorrow, but a tipster tells us she’ll be on The Tonight Show instead.

> Morning Update: Williams co-anchored just the first hour of the show. He moderated a debate between CNBCers Rick Santelli and Steve Liesman saying Santelli’s call yesterday for a remake of the Boston Tea Party was, “the most e-mailed moment in the Blogosphere.” (Santelli: “Maybe I could have chosen some words better, but I think at the end of the day, what this boils down to is you have to treat everybody fairly.”) Later in the show the control room cued up, “It’s Raining Men” as Lauer and Williams sat side by side in studio and Al Roker reported from Miami Beach.

NBC’s Brian Williams blogged about it yesterday afternoon, and last night on Nightly News it happened:

Tonight will be a first for Nightly News: for the first time ever on the broadcast, TWO former Nightly News interns will appear on the same evening. Correspondent Trish Regan (our CNBC business specialist) and correspondent Jeff Rossen are both former interns in this newsroom — who you might say grew up to make something of themselves.

Regan, pictured with CNBC’s Steve Liesman and Williams on last night’s show, worked for NBC’s station in Birmingham, before moving on to Bloomberg TV, KPIX-TV and CBS News before joining CNBC. Rossen, whose story aired later in the show, began his broadcasting career in radio at WBLI-FM in New York, then to local TV stations in Utica, Syracuse, and Detroit before returning to New York and WABC-TV. Rossen re-joined NBC in September.

As announced Friday, Fox Business Network will air a one hour live special tonight at 8pmET. CNBC has just announced it too will be live tonight for one hour, or longer if necessary. The special at 8pmET is titled “CNBC Reports: Saving Citi.” The special is co-anchored by Melissa Lee, Steve Liesman and Charlie Gasparino.

This Week with George Stephanopoulos edged out NBC’s Meet the Press in the A25-54 demo last Sunday. MTP still beat all its public affairs competitors in Total Viewers. The economic crisis was the big topic on all the shows. ABC had Treasury Secy. Hank Paulson, Sen. Chris Dodd and Rep. John Boehner as guests. As well as a roundtable that included Democratic strategist Donna Brazile.

MTP also had Paulson as well as New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and a roundtable with CNBC’s Steve Liesman and Erin Burnett and the Washington Post’s Steve Pearlstein.

The last time ABC beat NBC in the demo was January 27, 2008 when This Week had Sen. Barack Obama on the broadcast. Interestingly, as the primary battles were heating up, Sen. John McCain was a guest on Meet the Press that day.

Also, for the 2007/2008 season, This Week placed second outperforming CBS’ Face the Nation among Total Viewers and the A25-54 demo. This marks the program’s first second place finish since Stephanopoulos began as anchor in September 2002 and its first second place finish among both Total Viewers and the demo in seven years (since the 2000/2001 season).

After a very turbulent week on Wall Street, CNBC anchors and correspondents were seen throughout the broadcasts on NBC this morning.

Erin Burnett, Steve Liesman and John Harwood guested on Meet the Press today. Earlier Harwood interviewed Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama about the financial crisis, which will air tonight on CNBC.

On Weekend Today, Carl Quintanilla filled in as guest co-anchor. Trish Regan, Scott Cohn and Carmen Wong Ulrich appeared on a panel about the government bailout and Sharon Epperson appeared as well.

• Related: CNBC president Mark Hoffman is interviewed by Multichannel News’ Mark Robichaux about the week. Asked about the competition from FBN, he says: “We’re focused on what we do. We have a brand promise that we make, and that is that we’re fast, accurate, actionable and unbiased. We try to bring, despite 20 years of experience this coming April 17, we bring a startup mentality every day.”