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Programming notes

*** Friday’s “Jansing & Co.” line-up: Today’s guests include Karen Tumulty, Washington Post; Perry Bacon, TheGrio.com; Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY); Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL); Gretchen Hamel, Executive Director, Public Notice; Howard Bragman, Chairman, Fifteen Minutes Public Relations; Doug Thornell, Democratic Strategist

*** Friday’s “MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts” line-up: MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts’ guests include Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA); Karen Finney, host of MSNBC’s “Disrupt”; The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein; Salon.com’s Joan Walsh; Larry Sabato, Director of the UVA Center for Politics; Lehigh University’s James Peterson; Viviana Hurtado founder of the Wise Latina Club; and attorney Faith Jenkins.

*** Friday’s “NOW with Alex Wagner” line-up: Alex Wagner’s guests include Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim, the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson, Dem strategist Ben LaBolt, Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Josh Green, and Maria Teresa Kumar.

*** Friday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” line-up: NBC’s Andrea Mitchell interviews NBC’s David Gregory, Doctors Without Borders VP of the Board Dr. Adi Nadimpalli, Cat Colvin, sister of Marie Colvin, USA Today’s Alan Gomez, the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza and NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell and Luke Russert.

*** Friday’s “News Nation with Tamron Hall” line-up: Full coverage of the president’s announcement of Jeh Johnson as Homeland Security Secretary with Politico’s Carrie Budoff Brown, and USA Today columnist Raul Reyes.

*** Saturday’s and Sunday’s “Weekends with Alex Witt” line-up: As part of her weekly “Office Politics” series, she interviews MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on his new book.

*** Saturday’s “MSNBC Live Weekends” line-up at 2pmET: Craig Melvin’s guests include Fmr. Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI); Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times; USA Today’s Alan Gomez; Republican strategist Hogan Gidley; Reason Magazine’s Matt Welch; Christine Neidermeier of StraightScoopPolitics; The Grio’s Perry Bacon; and Denise Spellberg, MSNBC.com reporter Trymaine Lee; author of “Jefferson’s Qur’an”

*** Sunday’s “MSNBC Live Weekends” line-up at 3pmET: Craig Melvin’s guests include Fmr. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX); The Atlantic’s Molly Ball; The Daily Beast’s Michael Tomasky; Voto Latino’s Maria Teresa Kumar; and filmmakers Eric Zala and Chris Strompolos of “Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation”