After Saturday Night Live, it's Sunday morning TV for Trump

WASHINGTON — Former Celebrity Apprentice star Donald Trump will follow up his guest hosting gig on Saturday Night Live with appearances on Face the Nation, State of the Union, This Week and Meet the Press.

His chief rival for the Republican nomination for president — at least as measured by the current national polls — is neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who will appear on Face the Nation and Meet the Press. Carson has faced questions over the past week about whether he embellished his parts rags-to-riches life story.

And Bernie Sanders  Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who's running for the Democratic presidential nomination,

The full Sunday morning news lineup:

CBS' Face the Nation: Carson, Trump and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.

ABC's This Week: Trump, Sanders, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., and Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and historian Jon Meacham, author of a new biography of President George H. W. Bush.

NBC's Meet the Press: Carson, Trump, Sanders, and GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina.

CNN's State of the Union: Trump and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who's also running for president. 

Fox News Sunday: Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has been relegated from the primetime debate stage at Tuesday's GOP presidential debate in Milwaukee.