This Weekend's Programming 10/01/11

SATURDAY, October 1, 2011

SANJAY GUPTA, MD – Airs Saturday & Sunday 7:30AM – 8:00AM
CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta demonstrates how the drug propofol, central to the Michael Jackson wrongful death trial, works in a hospital setting – and interviews doctors who practice so-called “concierge medicine.” He also interviews actor Seth Rogen and writer/producer Will Reiser who collaborated on the upcoming cancer comedy film, “50/50,” and previews this weekend’s CNN documentary investigation into the 2001 anthrax letters.

THE SITUATION ROOM WITH WOLF BLITZER – Airs Saturday 6:00PM – 7:00PM
Interview with GOP presidential candidate and businessman Herman Cain.
Anchor: Wolf Blitzer

IN HER CORNER: LATINO IN AMERICA – Saturday 8:00PM-9:00PM, 11:00PM – 12:00AM, 2:00AM – 3:00AM *

SUNDAY, October 2, 2011

SANJAY GUPTA, MD – Airs Saturday & Sunday 7:30AM – 8:00AM
CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta demonstrates how the drug propofol, central to the Michael Jackson wrongful death trial, works in a hospital setting – and interviews doctors who practice so-called “concierge medicine.” He also interviews actor Seth Rogen and writer/producer Will Reiser who collaborated on the upcoming cancer comedy film, “50/50,” and previews this weekend’s CNN documentary investigation into the 2001 anthrax letters.

STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY – Airs LIVE Sunday 9:00AM – 10:00AM, NOON – 1:00PM

Topic: Al-Awlaki Death; President Obama; GOP 2012 Field; New Book
Guest: Dick Cheney, former Vice President, author, “In My Time”
Guest: Liz Cheney, daughter and co-author, “In My Time”
Topic: Death of Al-Awlaki; Afghanistan; Relations with Pakistan
Guest: Gen. Michael Hayden (Ret.), former CIA Director
Guest: Jane Harman, former U.S. Congresswoman; director, Woodrow Wilson Center
Topic: View of the 2012 GOP Field from a Leading Republican
Guest: Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS)
Anchor: Candy Crowley


FAREED ZAKARIA GPS – Airs Sunday 10:00AM – 11:00AM and 1:00PM – 2:00PM

Topics: Pakistan: are the ISI and other elements of the government allowing the Haqqani Network to operate in Afghanistan? What does Admiral Mullen have to say now about the death of bin Laden? How does he feel about the scheduled withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan?
Guest: Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Topics: Is the Haqqani network a “veritable arm” of the ISI? Does the Pakistani government support terrorist elements within its country? Will the Pakistani government attack the Haqqani network to prove they aren’t in cahoots? What’s it like being a powerful woman in a largely conservative Muslim nation?
Guest: Hina Rabbani Khar, Foreign Minister of Pakistan
Anchor: Fareed Zakaria

RELIABLE SOURCES – Airs LIVE 11:00AM – NOON

Topic: Media Buzz Surrounding New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie; Fox News Tries to Reposition
Guest: Lauren Ashburn, founder, Ashburn Media Company
Guest: John Avlon, Newsweek/The Daily Beast
Guest: David Frum, FrumForum.org
Topic: Burnett’s New CNN Program
Guest: Erin Burnett, anchor, OutFront
Topic: Michael Jackson Death Trial Coverage
Guest: Eric Deggans, media critic, St. Petersburg Times
Host: Howard Kurtz

CNN PRESENTS: DEATH BY MAIL – THE ANTHRAX LETTERS – Sunday 8:00PM-9:00PM, 11:00PM – 12:00AM, 2:00AM – 3:00AM **


*CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien reports on Marlen Esparza’s Olympic dreams. The International Olympic Committee has allowed female boxing into competition – for the first time – in the 2012 games. Five-time U.S. national champion, 21-year-old Esparza weighs 112 pounds and hits so quickly and so hard that she has to spar with men. She is beautiful and oozes charm, but also has been fixated on the male-dominated boxing since she was 11 years old – shunning friends, boyfriends, a social life, and even TV to make time to train. She was smart enough to earn full scholarships to top colleges, but postponed college because she and her family dream she will one day represent the U.S. in the Olympics, giving their Mexican-American community a hero that could push aside negative stereotypes. Standing in Esparza’s way are the competitors who share her Olympic aspirations, a mirror of the kind of girls who box in this country – mostly blue collar, women of color, who struggle in what is traditionally a man’s sport. Chief among them, and also profiled, is Cristina Cruz, a Puerto Rican from Hell’s Kitchen.

** CNN’s Joe Johns draws upon recently released FBI and Justice Department documents to tell the story of the mysterious 2001 bioterrorism poisonings that killed five people and sickened 17 more. Threatening letters – using jihadist language – were enclosed with anthrax and mailed to media organizations and the U.S. Capitol shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks upon the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Weaving together interviews with people central to the investigation, Johns follows the trail of evidence revealing where authorities missed important clues, wrongly focused on an innocent man, and ultimately built a case against a civilian scientist working in a U.S. Military laboratory. Since the suspect committed suicide and the government’s case was built upon circumstantial evidence, doubts linger about his guilt – ten years after the anthrax attacks.

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