The Talk Shows

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (WTTG), 9 a.m.: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld ; Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.); and Lt. Col. Barbara Springer , chief of physical therapy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

THIS WEEK (ABC, WJLA), 9 a.m.: Rumsfeld .

FACE THE NATION (CBS, WUSA), 10:30 a.m.: Rumsfeld ; and Sens. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.).

MEET THE PRESS (NBC, WRC), 10:30 a.m.: Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.); Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt ; Anthony S. Fauci, director of the infectious disease division of the National Institutes of Health; Julie L. Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and Michael Ryan , of the World Health Organization.

LATE EDITION (CNN), 11 a.m.: Rumsfeld ; retired Army colonel Lawrence B. Wilkerson , former State Department chief of staff; Richard N. Perle , former assistant secretary of defense; former senator Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.); Reuel Gerecht and Melissa Boyle Mahle, former CIA Middle East specialists; and Michael Scheuer , former CIA senior official.