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The Sunday Shows — Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer on Meet the Press, Senator Lisa Murkowski on Face the Nation, Representative Ro Khanna on This Week and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Fox News Sunday All Read From the Same Working Page on the War-Powers Question, Phase Two on Russia and Ukraine and the Conditional Tehran Reply That Arrived in Rome at Two on Sunday Morning

May 10, 2026 • Politics Lookout

The four Sunday political shows that broadcast live from Washington at nine and ten Eastern on Sunday morning — NBC’s Meet the Press from the Nebraska Avenue studio, CBS’s Face the Nation from the Constitution Avenue bureau, ABC’s This Week from the corner studio at Nineteenth and L, and Fox News Sunday from the Capitol Hill bureau — took the four working interlocutors of the working week and put each on a single working page. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, on the Meet the Press sofa, kept the seventh-cloture park on the Tuesday parallel sanctions-relief enabling bill in place and tied any Democratic floor support to a separate floor vote on the billion-dollar ballroom-security line. Senator Lisa Murkowski, on the Face the Nation panel, named the war-powers question “not closed by an executive order” and committed to an Authorization for Use of Military Force markup the week after the Memorial Day recess. Representative Ro Khanna, on the This Week sofa, named the discharge-petition working count at one hundred and ninety-three and named the working calendar of the discharge filing as “Tuesday week.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on the Fox News Sunday set, named the four Tehran conditions on the conditional reply that arrived in Rome at two on Sunday morning “serious, narrow and answerable” and named the working bilateral with Foreign Minister Araghchi for “Wednesday week in Doha.”

Schumer on Meet the Press

The Schumer interview, on the working transcript NBC released at half past ten Eastern Sunday, runs to fourteen minutes and is conducted from the New York studio. The Minority Leader, on the working transcript, “welcomes the working bipartisan instinct on the parallel sanctions-relief enabling bill and parks the working seventh-cloture procedure where the working Senate Democratic Caucus has parked it.” The on-air formulation, on the same transcript, ties any Democratic floor support to a separate floor vote on the billion-dollar ballroom-security line that the House Republican appropriations conference attached to the working ICE supplementary on Friday morning. The on-air working line, on the same transcript, is the line the Minority Leader closed the Friday-afternoon Senate-floor remarks with: “the working ballroom is not the working national-security working calendar.” The honest reading of the Sunday Schumer formulation, on the working assessment two Sunday political magazines published through the Sunday afternoon, “is that the Tuesday floor vote does not happen on Tuesday.”

Murkowski on Face the Nation

The Murkowski interview, on the working transcript CBS released at half past eleven Eastern Sunday, runs to nine minutes and is conducted from the Anchorage studio. The senior Senator from Alaska and the Senate AUMF lead, on the working transcript, “does not accept that the working war-powers question on the working calendar of the Iran war is closed by the working signature on Executive Order 14211 at the Rose Garden lectern at eleven on Friday morning.” The on-air working line, on the same transcript, commits to an AUMF markup in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee “the week after the Memorial Day recess” and names the working co-sponsors as the senior Senator from Maine, the senior Senator from Kentucky and the senior Senator from Virginia. The honest reading of the on-air commitment, on the working assessment of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair speaking on the working brief through the Sunday afternoon, “places the AUMF markup on the working calendar of the first week of June and forces the floor vote in the working calendar of the second week of June.”

Khanna on This Week

The Khanna interview, on the working transcript ABC released at half past eleven Eastern Sunday, runs to eleven minutes and is conducted from the Fremont district office. The Seventeenth District California congressman and the House discharge lead, on the working transcript, “names the working count of the working discharge petition at one hundred and ninety-three names of the two hundred and eighteen working signatures the working petition needs to discharge the working H.J.Res 939 from committee.” The on-air working calendar of the working discharge filing, on the same transcript, is “Tuesday week.” The working list of the eighteen working Republican signatures the petition holds, on the same transcript, “will not be released on a Sunday morning, and will be released on the working calendar of the working filing.” The honest reading of the on-air working count, on the working assessment of the House discharge desk speaking through the Sunday afternoon, is that “the working petition will discharge the working resolution from the working committee in the working calendar of Tuesday week, and the working floor vote follows in the working calendar of Wednesday week.”

Rubio on Fox News Sunday

The Rubio interview, on the working transcript Fox News released at half past ten Eastern Sunday, runs to seventeen minutes and is conducted from the Capitol Hill bureau. The Secretary of State, on the working transcript, “reads the working four-condition Tehran reply that arrived at the working United States Embassy in Rome at two on Sunday morning Rome time as serious, narrow and answerable.” The four working conditions, on the on-air formulation, are the sanctions-relief working schedule, the working end of Project Freedom, the working timing of the central reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the working working-level access of the United States Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control to the Iranian Cabinet’s working draft of the working seven and eleven point reservations. The on-air working calendar of the working bilateral, on the same transcript, places the Secretary of State and Foreign Minister Araghchi at the working table in Doha “on Wednesday week.” The honest reading of the on-air working answer, on the working assessment of three Sunday political magazines published through the Sunday afternoon, “places the working closing of the working Doha framework at the working calendar of the working close of June.”

The Sunday Reading

The honest reading of the four Sunday political shows, on the working assessment of every Sunday political magazine published through the Sunday afternoon, is that the working week opens on a working page on which Senate, House and the State Department all read from the same working line. The Tuesday floor vote does not happen on Tuesday. The AUMF markup follows in the first week of June. The discharge filing follows on Tuesday week. The Doha bilateral follows on Wednesday week. The working week, on the working calendar that closed the four working sofas, opens on the working calendar of the Iran war close and not on the working calendar of the Iran war end.

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