*** Friday’s “Daily Rundown” line-up: Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) on the budget battle… NBC’s David Gregory on the GOP fight… NBC’s Ron Allen with the latest on the Trayvon Martin investigation… A deep dive into the words and ads that have shaped the ongoing health care fight… More 2012 analysis with NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell, TheGrio.com’s Perry Bacon and TIME’s Michael Scherer.
*** Friday’s “Jansing & Co.” line-up: Chris welcomes TheGrio.com’s managing editor Joy-Ann Reid; fmr US Attorney Zachary Carter; USA Today’s Jackie Kucinich; Wash Post Columnist Matt Miller; & Florida Congressman Ted Deutch (D).
*** Friday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” line-up: Chris Cillizza, National Urban League president Marc Morial, NBC’s Ron Allen, NBC’s John Yang, NBC’s Atia Abawi, Politico’s Ken Vogel and National Journal’s Kristen Roberts.
*** Friday’s “News Nations with Tamron Hall” line-up: A.B. Stoddard, Jimmy Williams, and Ron Allen on Trayvon Martin case
*** Saturday’s (and Sunday’s) “Weekends with Alex Witt” line-up: MSNBC’s Alex Witt interviews TheGrio.com founder David Wilson as part of her weekly “Office Politics” segment.
*** Saturday’s (and Sunday’s) “Up with Chris Hayes” line-up: Talking about the Trayvon Martin Case with Peter Moskos, author, "Cop in the Hood" and assoc. prof. at John Jay College of Criminal Justice; "The Atlantic" Senior Editor Ta-Nehisi Coates; "Nation" magazine Assoc. Editor Liliana Segura; Michelle Bernard, Bernard Center for Women, Politics and Public Policy; as well as Bryan Stevenson, who argued before the Supreme Court that life sentences for 14-year-olds are cruel and unusual punishment and Center for Media and Democracy Exec. Dir. Lisa Graves. Sunday’s show will look at atheism’s role in politics with Steven Pinker, author of "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined"; Robert Wright, author of "The Evolution of God"; Susan Jacoby, author of "Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism"; and Journalist Jamila Bey; as well as Richard Dawkins, author of "The God Delusion.”
*** Saturday’s (and Sunday’s) Melissa Harris Perry: Talking Trayvon Martin case, the Louisiana primary, Catholic voters, and more. Guests include: Dr. Jonathan Metzl, Vanderbilt University; Matthew Wilson, political science professor Southern Methodist University; Jawanza Kunjufu, author of “There is Nothing Wrong with Black Students”; Adam Serwer, Mother Jones. On Sunday: it will be about the Supreme Court case, the GOP budget and more. Guests: Kenji Yoshino, NYU law professor; Tim Wise, author of “Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority”; Jelani Cobb, Rutgers University professor of Africana Studies and history; Susan Douglas, author of “The Rise of Enlightened Sexism”; Richard Cohen, President of Southern Poverty Law Center; Anthea Butler, Univ. of Pennsylvania professor of Religious Studies.
