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Sunday Breakfast Menu, May 5

Sunday's Breakfast MenuStephen Crowley/The New York Times

With April’s jobs report easing concerns about an economic slowdown, Warren E. Buffett, chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, joins ABC’s “This Week” to share his thoughts on the economy.

In addition, the program will have a roundtable discussion on the president’s first 100 days of his second term with James Carville, Democratic strategist; Mary Matalin, Republican strategist; Jim DeMint, president of the Heritage Foundation and former South Carolina senator; and Bill Richardson, the former New Mexico governor.

As the debate in Washington intensifies over how to handle the civil war in Syria and with Israel’s airstrike on Thursday, Representative Darrell Issa of California, chairman of the oversight committee; Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan, chairman of the Intelligence Committee; and Representative C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, will join CBS’s “Face the Nation.” The program will feature a segment on gay athletes in professional sports.

President Obama gave interviews to Univision’s “Al Punto” and Telemundo’s “Enfoque” during his trip to Mexico and Costa Rica. The programs will air at 10 a.m. Eastern and noon Eastern, respectively, offering his perspectives on trade, border security and immigration. Univision will also have an interview with President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico, about his meeting with Mr. Obama.

As the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings continues, NBC’s “Meet the Press” features a discussion on national security with Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, which has oversight over the F.B.I.; Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor; Jane Harman, the former ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee and president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and Representative Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas and a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

CNN’s “State of the Union” talks to Representative Peter T. King, Republican of New York and a member of the Homeland Security Committee, about this week’s hearing on the bombings in Boston, as well as a panel on radicalization. Also, Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat and a member of the bipartisan group that proposed legislation to overhaul the immigration system, will talk about the push for reform on immigration and guns.

After the F.B.I. released photos Wednesday of men wanted for questioning in the September attacks on a United States diplomatic mission and C.I.A. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, two members of the House oversight committee will join “Fox News Sunday” to talk about the continuing search for answers: Representatives Jason Chaffetz, Republican of Utah, and Stephen F. Lynch, Democrat of Massachusetts.

In addition, Senator John McCain of Arizona, the ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee and a member of the so-called Gang of Eight, will weigh in on several issues, including Syria, immigration and Benghazi.

Representative Elijah E. Cummings, Democrat of Maryland, and William E. Spriggs, chief economist at the A.F.L.-C.I.O., are among the guests on TV One’s “Washington Watch” at 11 a.m. Eastern. They will discuss the effects of the broad, automatic spending cuts known as sequestration on the African-American community.

On Bloomberg’s “Capitol Gains” at noon Eastern, Charles F. Bolden Jr., the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, will share how sequestration will halt space launches in the United States and increase the agency’s reliance on Russia.

Representative Jeff Miller of Florida, chairman of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, will talk about the challenges facing veterans, including the backlog of disability claims, on C-Span’s “Newsmakers.”

Richard G. Lugar, the former ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as national security adviser in the Carter administration, joined Bloomberg’s “Political Capital” on Friday, talking about the situation in Syria, tensions with China and Mr. Obama’s foreign policy. The program will be repeated over the weekend.