Al Hunt will interview Nanci Pelosi on Bloomberg TV today. The interview will air tonight at 9pm ET on Money & Politics and on “Political Capitol with Al Hunt” on Friday at 8:30pm ET (repeated throughout the weekend)

Tonight Bloomberg TV will have live “Business & the Ballot” coverage of the Potomac primaries during a special edition of Money & Politics hosted by anchor Peter Cook.

FNC contributor Judge Andrew Napolitano will be a guest on Mike Schneider’s “Night Talk” tonight at 10pm ET…

Tonight on “Night Talk with Mike Schneider” Judge Andrew Napolitano rails against President Lincoln, trumpets the candidacy of Ron Paul and talks about his latest book “A Nation of Sheep.” Napolitano is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court Judge in the history of the State of New Jersey, a Judicial analyst and the author of “Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks its Own Laws.”

Tonight on Bloomberg TV, Mike Schneider’s “Night Talk” will focus on the aftermath of Super Tuesday…

Tonight on the BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® program “Night Talk,” anchor Mike Schneider interviews Douglas Schoen about Super Tuesday results, what it means for the road ahead, the viability of a third party candidate and how the candidates will stack up in a general election. Schoen is the author of “Declaring Independence: The Beginning of the End of the Two-Party System” and was a campaign consultant for more than thirty years with the firm he founded, Penn, Schoen & Berland.

Also on “Night Talk,” Former Congressman Mickey Edwards talks about Super Tuesday Results, the Conservative backlash against a McCain candidacy, and the future of the GOP party. His book “How the American Political Movement Got Lost–And How It Can Find Its Way Back” is released this month. Edwards is the founding trustee of the Heritage Foundation, national chairman of the American Conservative Union and currently is Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School Lecturer of Public and International Affairs. He was a member of Congress for 16 years (1977- 92).

Night Talk airs everyday at 10pm ET and is repeated at midnight.

Tonight at 10pm on Bloomberg TV’s “Night Talk,” Mike Schneider interviews Tom Ridge about the campaign, national security, waterboarding, and foreign policy challenges for next president. Ridge, a National Co-Chair for the McCain Campaign, was formerly Secretary of Homeland Security and Governor of Pennsylvania.

Also on “Night Talk,” John Engler, President and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, talks about the economic stimulus package and reducing the corporate capital gains rate. Engler, former Governor of Michigan, delivered the eulogy for Mitt Romney’s father George Romney in 1995.

Bloomberg TV’s Super Tuesday coverage plans…

Tomorrow Bloomberg News will deliver nonstop multimedia coverage of Super Tuesday late into night via BLOOMBERG TELEVISION®, BLOOMBERG RADIO® and BLOOMBERG.COM® and on the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service. As voters cast their ballots in the Democratic and Republican primaries and caucuses, Bloomberg will provide comprehensive Super Tuesday coverage from New York, Washington and Bloomberg’s network of bureaus across the nation and around the world. Bloomberg viewers and listeners will be kept up to date on Wall Street’s reaction with reports and interviews.

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Bloomberg TV announced what’s coming up on this weekend’s “Conversations with Judy Woodruff”…

This weekend on the BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® program “Conversations with Judy Woodruff,” Woodruff interviews Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill and Representative Emanuel Cleaver. Both lawmakers discuss their endorsements of presidential candidates Senator Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton, the role of race in the election and predictions for next week’s Super Tuesday in Missouri.

Senator Claire McCaskill is supporting Senator Barack Obama and Representative Emanuel Cleaver is supporting Senator Hillary Clinton.

“Conversations with Judy Woodruff” airs on Saturday at 11AM ET and is repeated throughout the weekend.

Barack Obama appeared on Bloomberg TV last night in an interview with Peter Cook. Transcript follows…

PETER COOK: Joining me now from Capitol Hill with more reaction to the
president’s State of the Union address tonight, as well as the presidential
campaign and what’s been playing out on the campaign trail is Senator Barack
Obama, the Democrat from Illinois, who is of course running for president as
well. Senator Obama, thanks for joining us here on Bloomberg.

And I need to ask you, did you listen to a lame-duck president this
evening?

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Bloomberg TV’s coverage plans for the 2008 SOTU…

Bloomberg Television will have special State of the Union coverage anchored by Peter Cook from 8PM to 11PM. Guest for the coverage will include Senator Charles Grassley, Senator Mitch McConnell and Representative Charlie Rangel. Also during the coverage, we’ll have analysis from Al Hunt, Bloomberg contributors Stephanie Cutter and Terry Holt, and a look at what Wall Street wants to hear.

Anchor Kathleen Hays will have an all-star roundtable discussion of the speech with experts from the world of finance including Robert Hormats, Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs (International), David Garrity, Director of Research for Dinosaur Securities and Roger Kubarych, former chief economist at the New York Stock Exchange and currently chief economist chief Economist for Unicredit Global Research.

Bloomberg TV announces that “Money & Politics” will air at a new time, 9pm ET.

Starting tonight, the BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® program, “Money & Politics,” will air at its NEW TIME 9PM ET. From our nation’s capital, Money & Politics talks to the politicians and government officials who make the laws that govern our economy and set our fiscal policy. We look at Washington with a Wall Street perspective.

Bloomberg TV will air a half hour special hosted by Mike Schneider on Ethanol. “Deadly Brew: The Human Toll of Ethanol” will air on Thursday at 7pm and 9pm ET…

Brazil - the world’s largest ethanol exporter - is in the midst of a bio-fuel boom. Yet as the riches pile up, conditions grow worse for many of the sugar cane workers. Over 3 years, cane harvesters have suffered 82,000 injuries and more than 300 deaths. A BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® half-hour primetime special report, which airs this Thursday, documents the abuses endured by Brazil’s army of migrant workers who harvest the sugar cane that is turned into ethanol.

Hosted by anchor Mike Schneider, the special report, titled “Deadly Brew: The Human Toll of Ethanol,” will take BLOOMBERG TELEVISION viewers to the sugar cane fields of Brazil. There they’ll meet a group of workers jailed for more than a month because they went on strike against an ethanol mill; a former sugar cane cutter-turned union leader, Carlita da Costa, who’s fighting for basic rights for her 1,500 union members; and a Brazil Labor Ministry prosecutor.
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Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney will appear in an interview Wednesday at 7am on Bloomberg TV. Romney will be discussing the crisis this week in the world’s stock markets and President Bush’s plan to stimulate the U.S. economy.

Bloomberg TV will be live until 7pm ET this evening and then take their Asia feed from 7pm to midnight and theirUK feed from midnight to 5am in order to provide live coverage on the world wide market turmoil.

Bloomberg TV announced that Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton will be interviewed by Al Hunt on “Political Capital” in conjunctin with MLK Day…

This weekend on the BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® program “Political Capital with Al Hunt:” As the United States celebrates the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., and as leading Democratic candidates prepare to revisit their sometimes harsh recent exchanges on race at Monday night’s Congressional Black Caucus debate, Al interviews one of its leading members, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. Norton represents the District of Columbia and has yet to endorse one of the Democratic candidates.
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Today at 12:10pm ET on Bloomberg TV, Peter Cook will interview Senator Hillary Clinton…

Bloomberg TV announced that Treasury Secrectary Paulson will be Al Hunt’s guest this weekend…

This weekend on the BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® program “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” Al interviews US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. They’ll talk about the economy and fiscal stimulus proposals.

Also on Political Capital this weekend: The next big political contests will be the Nevada and South Carolina primaries. We’ll have reports from Bloomberg’s Heidi Przybyla in Charleston, SC and Hans Nichols in Las Vegas.

Robert Novak and Margaret Carlson debate the week’s issues.

Update: Bill Richardson will be on Bloomberg’s “Money & Politics” tonight at 7pm ET to talk about withdrawing from the race…
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Tonight on Bloomberg TV’s “Night Talk”, Mike Schneider interviews Carl Bernstein about the 2008 election, focusing on Hillary Clinton, the subject of his Clinton biography. Night Talk airs at 8pm ET…

Rudy Giuliani will appear on Bloomberg’s Money and Politics with Peter Cook tonight at 9pm ET. Giuliani will be discussing his campaign and his new tax plan…

Bloomberg TV’s New Hampshire related highlights today…

- Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee appears at 9 a.m. to talk about his campaign;
- Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison appears at 9:53 a.m. to discuss President Bush’s Mideast trip;
- New Hampshire Governor John Lynch appears at 10:30 a.m. to talk about the vote today;
- Presidential candidate Ron Paul appears at 2 p.m.
- On the “Money & Politics'’ show, former Bush adviser Terry Holt and former John Kerry adviser Stephanie Cutter appear at 7:03 p.m. to discuss the New Hampshire primary.

Bloomberg TV announced its New Hampshire coverage plans…

Anchor Peter Cook will lead BLOOMBERG TELEVISION’s®, Business & the Ballot coverage from Manchester, New Hampshire. Live editions of ‘Money & Politics’ at 7pm ET on Monday, and at 7pm and 9pm ET on Tuesday . Correspondent Lizzie O’Leary will be reporting throughout the day. BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® will get on-air analysis from two veterans of the 2004 campaign, Kerry communications director Stephanie Cutter and Bush campaign press secretary Terry Holt. We’ll also talk to business leaders and elected officials about politics and the New Hampshire economy.

Guests throughout BLOOMBERG TELEVISION’s two days of coverage in New Hampshire will include presidential candidates Bill Richardson and Ron Paul, campaign advisers Terry McAuliffe and Steve Forbes and local officials including New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch and Senator Judd Gregg.

This weekend on Bloomberg’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” Al interviews Senator John McCain. Also on Political Capital this weekend: Bloomberg’s Hans Nichols and Indira Lakshmananan report on the campaign efforts of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in New Hampshire and beyond. Robert Novak and Margaret Carlson also discuss the results of the Iowa caucuses and the outlook for the candidates in New Hampshire and nationally.

“Political Capital with Al Hunt” airs every Friday at 10pm ET and is repeated throughout the day Saturday and Sunday. The program is also podcast at Bloomberg.com and also on iTunes under Business News.

Bloomberg TV will have Terry Holt and Stephanie Cutter as special on air analysts for the Iowa Caucuses. It will also be talking to the campaigns and economic and business leaders in Iowa. Guests will include Senators Tom Harkin and Charles Grassley and Democratic candidate Bill Richardson on a special edition of Money & Politics at 7pm and 9pm ET with anchor Peter Cook in DC and reporter Lizzie O’Leary in Iowa.

Update: Updated guest list for Money & Politics…

-Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie
-Iowa Governor Chet Culver
-Principal Financial CEO Barry Griswell
-Giuliani Campaign Manager Mike DuHaime
-Wells Fargo Exec Mark Oman
-Presidental Candidate Bill Richardson
-Iowa Senator Harkin
-Senator Lindsey Graham, R - SC
-Senator Charles Grassley, R - Iowa

Bloomberg TV announced this morning that Terry Holt and Stephanie Cutter will be providing analysis for the Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire primary…

Terry Holt, the national press secretary for the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign, and Stephanie Cutter, the communications director for the 2004 John Kerry campaign, will provide exclusive on-air analysis for BLOOMBERG TELEVISION’S® coverage of the first nominating contests of the 2008 season.

Holt and Cutter will appear on special live editions of “Money & Politics” at 7pm and 9pm Eastern Time on the nights of the Iowa caucuses (January 3rd) and New Hampshire primaries (January 8th). They will also appear during other BLOOMBERG TELEVISION programs.
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Bloomberg TV announced that FCC Chair Kevin Martin will be on Money & Politics tonight at 9pm ET. And for those keeping score, yes, starting today I’m including Bloomberg info, when I can find it, on ICN…

Tonight on BLOOMBERG TELEVISION®, an interview with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin. This will be Martin’s first interview since today’s FCC vote allowing companies to own a newspaper and a television/radio station in the same city. The entire interview can be seen on tonight’s “Money & Politics.”

Money & Politics airs everyday at 7pm ET and is repeated at 9pm ET.

Update: Transcript…

PETER COOK: I’m Peter Cook in Washington. It’s been a very busy day in the world of Money & Politics. Major action today from Congress, the Fed, and the Federal Communications Commission that will all have an impact on company bottom lines. We begin with a controversial FCC vote to ease media ownership limits. On a party-line three-to-two vote, the commission agreed today to Chairman Kevin Martin’s plan that allows media companies to own a newspaper and a radio or TV station in the nation’s top 20 markets. In pushing this plan through, Martin argued the media landscape, since the cross ownership ban was put in place back in 1975 has changed. He dismissed criticisms from members of Congress from both parties and from the commission’s two Democrats who argued the rulechange would hurt the public interest.

(Soundbite) Michael Copps/FCC Commissioner: “Everywhere we go, the questions are the same. Why are we rushing to encourage more media-merger frenzy when we haven’t demonstrated, when we haven’t addressed the demonstrated harms caused by previous media-merger frenzy?”
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