This Weekend's Programming 2/11/12

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2012

THE SITUATION ROOM WITH WOLF BLITZER- Airs LIVE 6:00PM – 7:00PM

AMERICA’S CHOICE 2012: THE MAINE CAUCUSES - Airs LIVE 7:00PM – 8:00PM
Anchors Wolf Blitzer, John King and Candy Crowley will headline the network’s America’s Choice 2012: Maine Caucuses coverage beginning at 6 p.m. live from the nation’s capital with a special edition of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, before the network’s caucus coverage at 7 p.m.. All times Eastern.

CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger and senior political analyst David Gergen, along with political contributors David Frum and Donna Brazile, will offer insight and analysis during the special programming.

CNN political reporter Shannon Travis will be live on location with the Maine Republican Party, where the results of the caucuses will be announced in Portland, Maine. Correspondent Mary Snow will report from Ron Paul headquarters in Maine, senior congressional correspondent Dana Bash will cover the latest on the straw poll results live from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington and White House correspondent Brianna Keilar will provide reaction from the Obama campaign.


BLACK IN AMERICA: THE NEW PROMISED LAND – SILICON VALLEY – 8:00PM, 11:00PM, and 2:00AM
While much of the country struggles to emerge from a recession, California’s Silicon Valley is booming, and technology companies like Facebook, Skype, and Apple are seeing their valuations soar. CNN’s Soledad O’Brien profiles a unique technology-focused “accelerator” – a collaborative of African-American start-up founders with Internet-based businesses developed to help diversify the technology sector. Eight participants – strangers – lived together for nine weeks in a modest, three-bedroom house in Mountain View, CA, were mentored, worked on their business proposals, and pitched for venture capital funding. Viewers see their journey, learn who secured funding to develop their Web-based companies – and who is still waiting.

HOMS: A CITY UNDER SIEGE – Airs 10:30PM – 11:00PM
Bombs rain down on residential neighborhoods. Snipers shoot at those who dare to leave their homes. Bodies lay in the streets, as women, children, even medical crews are killed. This is how activists describe the scene in what’s being called the capital of the Syrian uprising. Homs, Syria’s third-largest city, has suffered the worst of the violence that has left more than 6,000 people dead since the uprising and government crackdown began almost a year ago. And residents say it’s getting worse. Many are risking their lives to show the world how their city is suffering, by sharing video of the violence that has grown in intensity over the past week. Distressing images and remarkable voices bear witness to the deteriorating situation and the escalating atrocities. Through the voices of those who are living it, CNN tells the story of one week in Homs: a city under siege.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2012

STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY – Airs LIVE 9AM – 10AM and Noon
Topic: Santorum Sweeps the Midwest; Election 2012
Guest: Rick Santorum (R), presidential candidate
Topic: Obama’s Budget; Economy
Guest: Jacob Lew, White House chief of staff
Topic: U.S. Options for Syria
Guest: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT)
Anchor: Candy Crowley

FAREED ZAKARIA GPS – Airs 10:00AM – 11:00AM and 1:00PM – 2:00PM
Topics: What can the US do about Syria – after the UN Security Council veto? What does the US really know about what’s going on inside Syria? How are Iran and Saudi Arabia influencing the Syrian conflict?
Guest: Elliott Abrams, senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Guest: Fawaz Gerges, author, professor of Middle Eastern Politics and International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Guest: Rami Khouri, director of the Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut; editor-at-large of Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon)
Topics: Does US economy need stimulus or austerity? Should wealthy be taxed more? Will Mr. Soros vote for President Obama? Will there be a euro catastrophe? Will Mr. Soros establish a SuperPAC?
Guest: George Soros, chairman, Soros Fund Management, LLC; founder, the Open Society Foundations. A Fareed Zakaria GPS Exclusive.
Anchor: Fareed Zakaria

RELIABLE SOURCES – Airs LIVE Sunday 11AM - Noon
Topics: Media’s Lag on Obama’s Contraception Regulation; Roland Martin
Guest: Lauren Ashburn, Ashburn Media Company
Topics: Santorum’s Three State Sweep; Obama Super PAC
Guest: Bill Press, syndicated radio host
Guest: Jim Geraghty, National Review
Guest: Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times
Topic: NBC’s Interview with Former JFK Intern
Guest: Amy Argetsinger, The Washington Post
Host: Howard Kurtz

BLACK IN AMERICA: THE NEW PROMISED LAND – SILICON VALLEY – 8:00PM, 11:00PM, and 2:00AM
While much of the country struggles to emerge from a recession, California’s Silicon Valley is booming, and technology companies like Facebook, Skype, and Apple are seeing their valuations soar. CNN’s Soledad O’Brien profiles a unique technology-focused “accelerator” – a collaborative of African-American start-up founders with Internet-based businesses developed to help diversify the technology sector. Eight participants – strangers – lived together for nine weeks in a modest, three-bedroom house in Mountain View, CA, were mentored, worked on their business proposals, and pitched for venture capital funding. Viewers see their journey, learn who secured funding to develop their Web-based companies – and who is still waiting.

THE NEXT LIST – 2:00PM – 2:30PM
Anchor Dr. Sanjay Gupta interviews Dale Dougherty, a man on a mission to inspire all of us to get passionate about making more things – cheese, wine, sculptures, robots, rockets, 3D printers – even electric muffins! Over a decade ago he created a Bay Area grassroots festival called Makers Faire (http://makerfaire.com/) – now there are similar festivals in NYC, Africa, and other places around the world where people show off all of the spectacular things they’ve made (e.g. a basketball bikini).

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