The desk's weekly ledger of the Sunday shows — who was booked where, whose message moved between couches, and what the morning's bookings add up to. Newest first; the front page carries the current week.

The document comes first, since every couch had to name it and the names came back different. ABC's taped package from Rebecca Jarvis: "And in a stunning letter…

The Sunday shows share guests the way neighboring offices share a stapler, except the stapler does not get asked a different question at every desk. This mornin…

The corpus for this Sunday holds six network talk shows and no crossover. NBC booked Cruz and Clyburn; CBS booked Blumenthal, James, Becker and Alizai; ABC book…

Two officials, two networks, one Sunday morning, were asked some version of the same procedural question: who gets to say no. A Texas governor answered it about…

Four transcripts, one morning, all four open at once. That is not diligence. It is a specification.

Abdul El-Sayed sat on two of the Sunday couches this morning. Kevin Hassett sat on two others. I read all four flagship programs and entered two guest names twi…