This Weekend's Programming 12/22 - 12/23/12

SATURDAY, December 22, 2012

SANJAY GUPTA, MD – Airs Saturday 4:30PM – 5:00PM

This week on “Sanjay Gupta MD:” Looking for clues about the Newtown shooter: Sanjay investigates what Adam Lanza did and didn’t have in common with the gunmen in other mass murders. We’ll also explore the likelihood that mental illness was a factor. Sanjay is talking with Dr. Ronald Schouten of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Also, Andrew Solomon, author of “Far From the Tree,” talks with Sanjay about the struggles families face, in bringing up children who develop schizophrenia and other debilitating mental conditions. He’ll also tell us what he learned during his years of interviewing the parents of Dylan Klebold, one of the Columbine killers.

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

Topic: Sandy Hook shooting 

Guest: Lt. Paul Vance, Connecticut State Police

Topic: Sandy Hook shooting

Guest: Dr. Drew Pinksy, HLN anchor

Topic: Sandy Hook shooting

Guest: Joe Samaha, Father of Virginia Tech Shooting Victim

Anchor: Wolf Blitzer

SUNDAY, December 23, 2012

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

Topic: Fiscal Cliff negotiations; Speaker and the future of the GOP
Guest:  Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC)
Guest:  Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-OH)

Topic: Guns/ Connecticut shooting; Fiscal Cliff; Benghazi Report
Guest: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT)

Topic: NRA Statement; Guns in Schools

Guest: Asa Hutchinson, former congressman (R-AR)

Topic: Fiscal Cliff; Benghazi; Kerry Secretary of State nomination; Guns in politics

Guest: Ron Brownstein, editorial director, National Journal and CNN Senior Political Analyst

Guest: Mike Duffy, Washington bureau chief, TIME

Guest: Susan Page, Washington bureau chief, USA Today

Anchor:  Candy Crowley

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

Topic: Does it matter if we fall off the “fiscal cliff”? Moving beyond the fiscal cliff, what’s the state of the American economy? Do we need comprehensive tax reform? How can we pay for entitlements going forward? How can we fix health care?

Guest: Zanny Minton Beddoes, economics editor The Economist

Guest: Chrystia Freeland, editor, Thomson Reuters Digital

Guest: R. Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School; former chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors (George W. Bush Administration); adjunct scholar, American Enterprise Institute; former senior economic advisor to the Romney campaign.

Guest: Peter Orszag, former director of the Office of Management and Budget (President Barack Obama), former director of the Congressional Budget Office (President George W. Bush)

Topic: How did Eastern Europe move from democracy to autocracy after World War II? What lessons from that are relevant today?

Guest: Anne Applebaum, Washington Post columnist and director of political studies at London’s Legatum Institute

Topics: Preview of tonight’s primetime special ‘Tough Decisions’: Why save Chrysler? How was the decision made?

Guest: Steven Rattner, former Obama administration “car czar;” author of Overhaul: An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry; chairman of Willett Advisors, LLC

Anchor: Fareed Zakaria

RELIABLE SOURCES – Airs LIVE Sunday 11:00AM – NOON

Topic: NRA statement; NRA media blame for enabling gun violence

Guest: CNN correspondent Tom Foreman

Guest: Terence Smith, former media correspondent for "NewsHour"

Topic: Media handling of gun control in the wake of the Newtown, CT shootings; review of 2012 campaign.

Guest: Fred Francis, former NBC News Senior Correspondent

Guest: Steve Roberts, Professor of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University

Guest: Lauren Ashburn, editor-in-chief of the Daily Download-dot-com.

Topic: Discussion of "Zero Dark Thirty"; the movie’s depiction of torture; discussion about the female CIA agent at the center of the story

Guest: Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst

Guest: David Edelstein, Film Critic for New York Magazine

THE NEXT LIST –  Sunday 2:00PM – 2:30PM

This week The Next List delves into the world of culinary science and gadgets as we introduce you to Dave Arnold, Director of Technology at The International Culinary Center.  Arnold is one of the leaders of a "modernist" group of cutting-edge instructors, chefs and bartenders using science and high-tech tools - chamber vacuum machines, centrifuges, emersion circulators - to up-end traditional cooking methods. But the tools aren't just for show.

Saturday, December 22, 2012

8:00pm – 9:00pm TOUGH DECISIONS: A Fareed Zakaria GPS Special

11:00pm – 12:00am TOUGH DECISIONS: A Fareed Zakaria GPS Special

Sunday, December 23, 2012

2:00am – 3:00am TOUGH DECISIONS: A Fareed Zakaria GPS Special

8:00pm – 9:00pm TOUGH DECISIONS: A Fareed Zakaria GPS Special

11:00pm – 12:00am TOUGH DECISIONS: A Fareed Zakaria GPS Special

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