CBS Evening News anchor and managing editor Katie Couric sat down with New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees ahead of tonight's game.

Segments were seen Friday on "The Early Show" and on "Evening News" as well as during CBS Sports pregame coverage. The entire interview was also Couric's weekly CBSNews.com show @katiecouric.

The full interview after the jump...

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Health care, the economy, the terror trials and the Super Bowl were all topics of this afternoon's Katie Couric interview with Pres. Obama at the White House.

Couric and company arrived in Washington, DC late Friday night ahead of snowpocalypse.

The pre-Super Bowl presidential interview is becoming an annual event, including last year's Matt Lauer interview with Obama ahead of NBC's coverage. Which makes us wonder: will Fox News do an interview with Pres. Obama ahead of FOX Sports coverage of Super Bowl XLV at Cowboys Stadium next February?

Couric's interview, which included viewer-submitted questions, after the jump...

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Taking a Sunday morning public affairs show to the Super Bowl has its perks. For "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer it wasn't talking to the commissioner of the league, or even being just inches away from the Lombardi Trophy, it was a blimp shot.

Anchoring from Sun Life stadium this morning, Schieffer interviewed NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, husband of Fox News anchor Jane Skinner. Schieffer also talked with the NFL on CBS crew of Jim Nantz, Phil Simms, and Shannon Sharpe.

Sharpe was especially thrilled to be on.

"Never in my wildest imagination did I ever think I'd be on 'Face the Nation,' said Sharpe, who played with three winning Super Bowl teams. "My grandmother and sister are watching back home and all my friends and I'm on 'Face the Nation!'"

But for Schieffer the highlight was having the first-ever blimp shot on "Face the Nation". Responding to Sharpe's excitement, Schieffer said, "Well, I'll tell you, I never in my wildest dreams thought we'd have a blimp shot on 'Face the Nation.' They tell me we're going to have one. So when we see it, we'll all wave."

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is interviewed by USA Weekend's Gayle Jo Carter:

• On how she gets her news: "I exist, essentially, totally online in my news-gathering experience, and that means you can seek out what you want and find almost as much depth as you want on any one thing that you want."

• If she has a favorite news anchor: "I've actually never watched network news my whole life. Growing up, we were not a network news family."

• The guest she wants for her show, but who hasn't yet appeared: "Dick Cheney or his daughter Liz Cheney, who has done every other cable news show in the world but won't come on my show."

For her first show, Candy Crowley scored the Secretary of State. Before they got to talking about Al Qaeda, North Korea, health care and even Chelsea Clinton's wedding dress, Secy. Hillary Clinton said, "Candy, first of all congratulations on your new show. I really wish you well. You have a lot to contribute to Sunday morning television."

At the end of the show, Crowley thanked her panel "for leaping over 30 inches of snow," to get to CNN's studio. The panel included Dana Bash, wife of the former anchor of "State of the Union" John King, "I owe you," said Crowley. "I'm going to come shovel out your driveways."

Happy big dig Sunday to our friends in the Mid-Atlantic. Enjoy this clip from Saturday Night Live -- a send-up of "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren" and her guests, Karl Rove, Ollie North, Glenn Beck and "Fox News correspondent, an attractive blonde lady."

The real Van Susteren is still in Rome where she interviewed the real Defense Secretary Robert Gates but presumably talked about some of the same issues that came up in the SNL parody. We're told she watched the sketch online.

Click continued to see the clip...

> Earlier: Greta, Shep, Brit Get the SNL Treatment... With Surprise Guest (Hint: He Gets Choked Up)

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Newsers sure are in demand on the graduation circuit. CNN's Anderson Cooper, NBC's Ann Curry, and CBS's Bob Schieffer all will deliver college commencement speeches this spring:

• Cooper will be the keynote speaker at Tulane University in New Orleans on May 15. The school's website quotes Tulane President Scott Cowen as calling Cooper "a favorite of New Orleanians and many Tulanians" for Cooper's breadth of reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

• Curry will speak at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts on May 22. Wheaton is celebrating its 175th commencement this year.

• Schieffer will be the featured speaker at The Citadel — the Military College of South Carolina — on May 8. The CBS Newsman is a former Air Force information officer. Schieffer is already set to deliver the commencement at RIT on May 21.

Weekend Today co-anchor Amy Robach had a pretty special birthday yesterday -- she got married. Robach married "Melrose Place" actor Andrew Shue.

The ceremony and reception, at The Lighthouse on Manhattan's west side, was attended by about 120 friends and family.

Some of the tvnewsers in attendance, Robach's "Today" show colleagues Meredith Vieira, and Ann Curry, MSNBC's Contessa Brewer, who Twitpic'd the night away, Alison Stewart and husband MSNBC VP Bill Wolff. Robach's former MSNBC anchor Randy Meier flew in for the ceremony, while her "Today" co-anchor Lester Holt was already in Vancouver for the Olympics. Also, "Today" show senior producer Don Nash, publicist Megan Kopf and former supervising producer Javier Morgado attended.

Shue's sister, actress Elisabeth Shue was also in attendance.

Robach and Shue met last Spring and got engaged in September.

Fox News contributor Sarah Palin headlined tonight's National Tea Party Convention in Nashville with most of her 40-minute speech taking direct aim at democrats in congress and in particular at Pres. Obama.

"We need a commander-in-chief not a professor of law standing at a lectern," said Palin. Later, Palin told the tea partiers politics needed more people like them and "not some charismatic guy with a telepromter."

Anchoring a two-hour "Geraldo at Large", Geraldo Rivera talked with Joe "the plumber" Wurzelbacher in the run-up to Palin's speech, while on MSNBC, host Ed Schultz talked with democratic strategist Bob Shrum.

Fox News, MSNBC and C-SPAN announced earlier this week they would carry the speech. CNN was planning to air a documentary on Martin Luther King, but aired Palin's speech instead.

"Welcome to those C-SPAN viewers, you may not be welcome at the health care debates but you are here at the tea party," said the one-time GOP VP nominee referring to C-SPAN's request to broadcast congressional health care negotiations.

After speaking, Palin took questions submitted by the Tea Party Nation. One asked, "in the instance that there were ever to be a conservative that were harrased in the media, what would you say to them?"

"Plow right on through it," said Palin. "Really, at the end of the day who cares what an irrelevant, lamestream media is gonna say about you? Who cares?"

In thanking the crowd for the invitation, Palin aid, "I have to apologize if I had anything to do with any of the controversy that some of the media spun up." She also reiterated that with her reported $100,000 speaking fee, she would "Turn it right back around and give it to the cause."

> Correction: CNN did not pre-empt the MLK documentary. Instead, the network aired the special earlier while Don Lemon anchored coverage of Palin's speech and analysis into the 10pmET hour.

Snowpocalypse isn't keeping Howard Kurtz away from CNN this weekend. But he does get an extra hour to prep "Reliable Sources". With the new Sunday morning line-up, the media analysis show is now on at 11amET.

On tomorrow's show, Arianna Huffington will talk about Arianna Huffington... and her appearance with Roger Ailes last Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

Kurtz will also talk about whether the media is rooting for the Saints to win Super Bowl XLIV. New Orleanian James Carville will guest.

(Photo credit: Kevin Allocca and his Photoshop machine)

You might have heard about this, but it's snowing in Washington.

(Yes, that is CNN's Suzanne Malveaux in the fabulous hat.)

Getting around was not easy for members of the White House press corps today. Before they departed the White House to cover the president's event at the Capital Hilton, an SUV they were about to get into was hit by another in the 15-vehicle motorcade. And on the way back, a tree branch snapped and fell onto a vehicle carrying members of the media.

> Related - FishbowlDC has the picture of Snowmageddon hitting the backyard of CNN's John King and Dana Bash...

On Tuesday, CNBC debuts its latest doc, "Inside the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue."

CNBC's sports biz reporter Darren Rovell reports on what the annual SI Swimsuit Issue -- a $1 billion multimedia franchise -- means to parent company Time Inc.

"Business Model: Inside the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue" premieres Tuesday at 9pmET. The 2010 edition hits newsstands and SI.com the same day.