Opinion: Sunday shows: Petraeus, H. Clinton, Gates, Romney

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ABC ‘This Week’ with George Stephanopoulos: Secy. of State Hillary Clinton, Secy. of Defense Robert Gates, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) and a round table with Richard Haass, columnists George Will, Peggy Noonan and Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Bloomberg ‘Political Capital’ with Al Hunt: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Bloomberg’s Janine Zacharia and Kate O’Beirne.

CBS ‘Face the Nation’ with Bob Schieffer: Clinton and Gates.

CNN ‘State of the Union’ with John King: National security advisor Ret. Gen. Jim Jones, Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), Gov. Mitt Romney (R), and Mary Matalin and James Carville.

CNN ‘GPS’ with Fareed Zakaria: Richard Holbrooke, special presidential representative to Afghanistan-Pakistan region.
‘Fox News Sunday’ with Chris Wallace: Gen. David Petraeus, Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.).

NBC ‘Meet the Press’ with David Gregory: Clinton, Gates, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Bob Woodward.

UPDATE on the Sunday show ratings battle: Last Sunday for the third time this year ‘This Time’ beat out the iconic ‘Meet the Press’ in total viewers, according to new Nielsen numbers. Details are right here.

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