2016 presidential race tops Sunday talk shows
The 2016 presidential race will dominate the network talk-show circuit Sunday after Democrat Hillary Clinton held her opening rally in New York on Saturday and Republican Jeb Bush formally announces his candidacy in Miami on Monday.
The increasingly crowded presidential race has nearly a dozen Republicans and a handful of Democrats who are in the running, including Republican Sens. Rand Paul, Ky., and Marco Rubio and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley. More are expected to enter in the coming weeks.
In her remarks Saturday, Clinton invoked achievements of Democratic presidents, including her husband, and slammed the "new voices" in the Republican field who were "singing the same old song, a song called Yesterday."
Clinton discussed the struggles many Americans still face and growing income inequality. She said everyday Americans had to question when their work would pay off.
"Americans can't succeed unless you succeed," she said. "That is why I am running for president of the United States."
Here's the Sunday lineup:
• CBS' Face the Nation: The program will welcome presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. Sanders is challenging Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. He recently attacked her for not taking a stance on trade. Graham has been an outspoken critic of President Obama's foreign policy. Clinton's campaign manager Robby Mook also will discuss a host of issues including the role former President Bill Clinton will play in the campaign. Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post, Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal, Mark Halperin of Bloomberg Politics and Robert Costa of the Washington Post join the show.
• NBC's Meet the Press: Hillary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta will be interviewed a day after the former first lady and senator held her first campaign-style event. Former two-time GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney joins the show from Utah the morning after hosting six presidential hopefuls at his annual E2 Summit. This week's political panel will welcome Stephanie Cutter, the former deputy campaign manager for President Barack Obama; Hugh Hewitt, host of the The Hugh Hewitt Show; Andrea Mitchell, NBC News' chief foreign affairs correspondent and Evan Thomas, editor-at-large for Newsweek.
• ABC's This Week: The show will welcome potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Clinton campaign senior adviser Joel Benenson will discuss the former senator's campaign following her weekend launch event. This Week will include a political round table to discuss the week in politics, with ABC News contributor and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, ABC News contributor and Republican strategist Ana Navarro, Center for American Progress president Neera Tanden, and editor and publisher of The Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel.
•Fox News Sunday: The program will discuss a host of issues with House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., including trade, the Affordable Care Act and the GOP field for the 2016 presidential race.
• CNN's State of the Union: Former President Bill Clinton appears on the program to discuss his wife's run for the White House and allegations that have dogged his Clinton Global Initiative foundation.