Programs. Today we want to get your comments on those shows. Are they still relevant . Do they still matter . We want to hear from you. 202 7370001 host many of you are already weighing in on our facebook page. From the boston globe, an event getting in that getting lots of attention, two popes canonizing two popes. The scene, with over one Million People on hand, this headline comes from the boston sunday globe. A piece that really got a lot of attention this week, this style section was called meet the pressure. Host we will get your calls and comments in a moment, but for some look at the other sunday shows and what you can hear on cspan radio. Good morning, nancy. Some of the topics include the return of congress this week, the middle east, and of course, politics. You can hear rebroadcasts of the Program Beginning at noon eastern time with meet the press ergo guests include tony blair and bob menendez, the chairman of the foreign set the Senate Foreign relations committee. Then, this week, with jay johnson and elizabeth warren, the author of a new book. At 2 p. M. , fox news sunday, with mike pence, jennifer grass and sean the driver. State of the union follows at 3 p. M. With tony lincoln. Also, John Barrasso of wyoming and ben cardin of maryland. At 4 p. M. , face the nation, with another appearance by benjamin netanyahu, Claire Mccaskill, and bob corker, the Ranking Member on the Senate Foreign relations committee. Sunday network talk shows are on cspan radio and brought to you as a Public Service by the networks and cspan. Rebroadcasts of those shows begins at noon eastern with meet the press, fox news sunday, state of the union, and finally, face the nation. You can listen to them all on cspan radio, across the country , you can download our free app for your smartphone, or go online to cspan. Org. Host back zero calls and comments on those sunday morning programs. We have been airing them since cspan radio first went on the air. This story has generated a lot of discussion over the last seven days meet the pressure. A photograph their of David Gregory. Another point from the story the good news from all three shows is that they are amongst the most durable on tv. Host this story, at one point from the article a psychological consultant was brought in. David gregory told wto be it is a complete fiction. That is gossip reporting gone wild. Joining us live on the phone, the Media Coverage person from a e. Com. Politico. Com. Why has this story generated so much attention . Caller meet the press has really suffered in the ratings over the last few years. Back in its day it was king. In the past three years they have now been spurred, we are now in the Third Quarter of the ratings. They have moved up and down with its key demographic. At the end of the day, people are looking to David Gregory calling him a great reporter, not a great moderator. They say it is a problem with brand consulting. Where you have the one person who really drives the show. Arguably, speaking to some sort some sources at nbc, part of it was the psychological consultation where they spoke to his wife and friends to see where he was most comfortable. Paul told me he checked it with nbc a couple of times to see if that was the correct term and they had no objections and it was not until the piece went out that this went up. Clearly, nbc has been trying to figure out what they could to bring meet the press back to where it used to be. Host let me share with you a couple of other pictures. No interest in the outcome David Gregory is no more or less self infatuated than his on camera colleagues. Caller at the end of the day these are all host driven shows. As we wrote this past week, the whole sunday show idea is kind of losing steam. You did mentioned that they still truck them quite a bit of viewers, but they dont set the agenda like they used to. It used to be that staff, the white house, congressional staff, would plan what they were going to say this week on the sunday shows. It would be the escalation point to what they were trying to do that week. Now what kind of feels like you see the same senators all the time. It is no longer a destination. We spoke to a few washington insiders who said that they never used to miss the sunday shows, but now doesnt matter because cspan will rebroadcasts them, there will be stories about them, you will get more on them later. It is not as big event that Everyone Needs to be around four. Host april 14, slightly lower last week than the with easter, so this is a better comparison. Total numbers, just over 3 million, hosted by Bob Schieffer, 78 years old, he spent his adult life at cbs news. This week most often hosted by george stephanopoulos, also filled in with by jonathan karl. Meet the press, now third, 2. 3 million, fox fox news sunday, two point 3 million. This is from the new york post, why people hate David Gregory. She makes this point if it is sunday, it is meet the jerk. He is a thinskinned elite who lives in the beltway double and can barely contain content for his audience. Audience. Harsh words. Caller they are, but remember the source. This is big contention that anyone will talk to you about in the networks, cbs only rates the first halfhour, and this is something that has been going on for years. It is because face the nation used to only be half of an hour long. You have to take that with a grain of salt. A lot of times they want to point you towards the demographic. But i dont really think that advertising is the big deal for these sunday morning shows. That is where i think things are really dropping off. They might still have billions of viewers, but at the end of the day it is the people who really matter in washington. If the people are not clamoring to watch them, that is where you have the issue. What is a 15 minute interview on a sunday morning doing in a 24hour news cycle . Host one final point from fox news sunday, widely reported elsewhere, in a memo to in a memo, nbc said he is they are proud to have david in the anchor chair. Nbc, publicly supporting nbc anchor David Gregory as the moderator of meet the press here caller they have supported him for press. Caller they have supported him for quite some time. They double down on him, they renewed his contract, he is sticking around and not going anywhere. I think there might be some bets that once Bob Schieffer retires the dynamically change a little bit and those viewers of face the nation might find it almost. Host hadas gold, thank you for giving up early on a sunday morning. We appreciate your perspective. Caller anytime, thank you for having me. Host your calls and comments do sunday morning political talk shows still matter . Why and why not . Im tim from tim host jermaine, new rochelle, new york. Caller good morning to you good morning. The competition is interesting. First of all, i think that sunday shows are very relevant. During the week it is pretty much opinionated, lots of obama bashing, they should do block block, block. Afghanistan, soldiers coming back not been paid, stuff like that. That is generally what they talk about. During the week . They talk about nonsense all the time, the same story. For example, Chris Matthews will come on, Rachel Maddow will come on and say the same stuff. Or fox news, you have bill oreilly saying the same thing that hannity is going to say. But on the weekend it is a bit different in terms of shows. Apparently senators tend to get brave and want to show up on sundays. During the week they are not there, they dont want to show up. Host more than 500 of you have already weighed in on our facebook page. A lot of comments, sunday morning shows, do they still matter . Host jerry joins us next from columbus, ohio. Caller at 805i am old enough to remember make rag on meet the press. I miss Walter Cronkite and admiral. By gosh, where are the real journalists . I agree. A good example steve, if i may on this Affordable Care act, it was hardly ever brought up before we had an Affordable Care act. I have been on medicare for 20 years, i am not concerned, but they hardly ever brought out that the United States was the only industrialized country in the world that doesnt have National Health care. For god sake, harry truman called for that in january of 1949 in his state of the union but the ama and the chamber of commerce, the Insurance Companies fought it tooth and nail. It is just a shame. I can only quote whats his name, hl mencken. You know who he was . Host absolutely. Caller he said he will never go broke betting against the average intelligence of the average american. Look at that, bill oreilly they got themselves in a twist look what happened. Host do you watch the other sunday morning shows for information . Caller not very often. I watch cspan, and i watch cnn and msnbc once in a while but we need to get journalists. Where are the writers . Look at the congress. Remember what mark twain said, steve . Suppose you are an idiot, suppose you are a member of congress and i repeat myself. He has been dead. Caller thank you host thank you for the call. You sound terrific at 85. This from twitter host our focus this morning, sunday morning political talk shows do they still matter . We are basing it on a piece that got a lot of attention this past monday called meet the pressure. Michelle malkin weighed in on her column, calling it missing tim russert tim russert. David gregory is a phony. The second answer, he is a jerk. No amount of Brand Therapy consulting can fix him. Tim russert was highly respected on both sides of the aisle. He did his homework, did not pull punches, enlightened the audience conducting conducted real interviews. Tim russert was a decent man with so many warm eulogies across the idealistic divide attesting to that. From our facebook page, more of your comments. Host our next caller is jeff sellersville, republican line, good morning. Www. Cspan. Org caller caller i wanted to echo what everyone else said. I cannot stand that guy, gregory, either. As a conservative and very much to the right of genghis khan, he would say, i love msnbc cant get enough i am addicted to it. On sunday mornings my favorite show is from 10 a. M. Until 12 p. M. , this woman named Melissa Harris harry. She is deliciously insane. Call her the black cindy brady. Host are you and us . We lost you. You might have been calling a cell phone. This is the story from the Washington Post. More than just received friday for the networks, the relatively large and affluent projects evil that they attract make them attractive to premium advertisers with 60 million coming from meet the press in 2007. Yvonne, good morning. Caller i am a 72yearold. I would never miss meet the press when tim russert was there. He was a giant, so great, he did not let the people on his show takeover. The questions that he would follow up and ask they had to answer. This guy, david . He is horrible. I am waiting for mr. Russerts son to get up there and take over that show. Host thank you for the call. Front page of the New York Times this morning, lots of attention from those of the Roman Catholic faith this morning. This is a photograph from yesterday. The details this morning, from the l a times, one of them held to revolutionize the church. He viewed religion as a vehicle for justice and peace. The other figured in a revolution outside the church by battling communism and contributing to the downfall of the soviet union. Canonize into former pope and a ceremony marking the first time that two popes were on hand for the event. They were most influential in the postworld war ii era. Mark is joining us from new era michigan. The question this morning, do the sunday morning political shows still matter . Caller as long as taxes are considered a political issue as opposed to the legal political hot potato issues for politicians, i thought they were supposed to be under the assertion that they were supposed to offer a nonburdensome tax to the public. They havent qualified for it yet. So, it is a department of extortion driven by special Interest Groups and laws. Host john is next. Decatur, illinois. Caller good morning. What irritates me about those sunday talk shows, they have the same people on every sunday. John king has been caught in john mccain has been caught and 500 lives, but they bring him on every sunday. Everyone catches him in a lie, but they still bring him on. Out of the five senators, they use two or three. You know that you guys can do better than that. Host thank you for the call. This is from bill king host the president on his third stop of his weeklong trip to asia. Inside usa today, and online, the president at a News Conference in malaysia, backing that countrys handling of the investigation into the malaysian flight that is now believed to have gone down off the coast of australia. You can read the details at usa today. Com. Brian, connecticut, independent line. Caller i am overseas a lot. In the news overseas, i often have to look at the news overseas to see what is going on in america. Bbc world does great interviews. Al jazeera, bill oreilly calls that antiamerican, but it is not. They will have people on from the ukraine and you are hearing their viewpoints. Whether they are lying or not is irrelevant you still hear it from them. But the talk shows, all you have is what your last caller said, john mccain is on all the time giving his viewpoint. I hear it from the horses mouth rather than the horses asked when i am overseas. Haorses ass but i am overseas. Host brian, thank you for the call. Just tuning in or just listening on cspan radio cspan covers all of the sunday morning talk shows. We are focusing on the shows because of the peace by paul for ari and some of the other pieces written this morning like this from Jennifer Ruby and her opinion piece. It is hard to say who is in more trouble, president obama or David Gregory. His bosses let it be known that they hired a consultant to find out why his friends and family like it one most viewers dont. He seems prone to playing favorites. He seems laconic on the screen, like he just rolled out of bed. Come to think of it obamas ratings stink as well, he is disengaged on Foreign Policy and blacks distinctive policy. Another quote from the piece in the style section lacks distinctive policy. Another quote from the piece in the style section. His predecessor, tim russert, the inquisitor, guest host bill is joining us from buzzards bay massachusetts. Caller good morning. This month, april, 1945, a journalist passed away and the nation cried, collectively cried. Harry pyle died. I would like to know, what journalist if they passed away today would prompt anyone in any nation to cry over them . Journalism today is terrible whether it is from this site or that side, there are no more journalist today and it is really, really, really sad. Have a great day. Host do you watch the sunday shows . Caller i do. I have to watch them and then think about taking an average to find the truth in any of them. Then come up the happy medium. There is no onestop shopping for any particular opinion. And it is really terrible, terrible. You have to do creative thinking. Then you have to realize where they are coming from. Are they searching for ratings . Or the truth . Host thank you for calling from massachusetts, bill. I look at the weekly standard, other magazines time magazine, was one of four different covers on one of the 101st influential people, including senator randy paul and barack obama. The weekly standard, flying on faith, wishful shopping is now a pentagon have it. Another viewer with your comments guest host host every sunday we have newsmakers. This week our guest is the founder of next gen climate. One of the topics we asked is whether he is comparable to the coke brothers, whom harry reid has been critical of on the house on the house floor. [video clip] there are real distinctions between the coke brothers and us. One thing is that their policies line up perfectly with their pocketbooks, and that is not true for us. What we are doing is trying to stand up for ideas and principles of we think are incredibly important but have nothing to do with income or assets. We are trying to do this in as transparent a way as possible. We are trying to be completely open and why we are doing it and what we are doing, documenting it so that there is no question about something going on here that is secret. I do not think that they have been huge embrace hers of transparency. Lastly the coke brothers are continuing to prosecute highly successful business at the highest profitable levels. They are funding efforts without giving up at 6 00 in the morning to go to work in politics. They are going to work in their refining and chemical businesses. Host we hope that you tune in for our 30 minute conversation with john steyer, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to elect democrats in specific senate seat. Back your calls and comments sunday morning political talk shows, do they still matter . Matt says journalism is dead have a great day. Host minneapolis, independent line, good morning. Caller hi. I am fine. I stopped watching those sunday morning shows , it has been years. But there are some good ones. Melissa ferri is good. The only comments i ever have on her show sometimes people go on and she focuses a lot more on problems without having a lot of people on talking about solutions. Host thank you for the call. Another viewer saying host headline this morning from the New York Times, focusing on president Vladimir Putin and a couple of points from peter baker. For years the suspicion that mr. Pruden has a secret fortune has intrigued journalists and intelligence agencies, but he