This Weekend's Programming 1/25 - 1/26/13

 SATURDAY, January 26, 2013

SANJAY GUPTA, MD – Airs Saturday 4:30PM – 5:00PM and Sunday 7:30AM – 8:00AM

This week on Sanjay Gupta MD, Sanjay examines the hazards of chemical flame retardants. Ultimately, he reveals that not only can flame retardants cause health problems, but they are also ineffective. In addition, Sanjay talks with sportscaster Hannah Storm about her experience being caught in an explosion from her home grill. He provides useful tips and advice on grill safety.

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

The best of The Situation Room from the week of January 21, including chief political analyst Gloria Borger’s exclusive interview with Vice President Joe Biden.

Anchor:  Wolf Blitzer

TO CATCH A SERIAL KILLER – Airs Saturday 8:00PM – 9:00PM, 11:00PM and Sunday 2:00AM

In small towns…across the Midwest…several young girls went missing.  Some were found murdered.  Others were never found at all.  And all of these cases went unsolved.  Investigators believed only one man knew what happened.  To get answers, it would take a risky, unusual plan: send a convicted drug dealer undercover into a dangerous prison to befriend an alleged serial killer.  At stake: answers, peace for grieving families, and one man’s freedom.  CNN’s Brooke Baldwin reports.

SUNDAY, January 27, 2013

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

Topics:   Future of American Foreign Policy; Hagel Confirmation Hearings; McChrystal’s Book

Guest:   Gen. Stanley McChrystal (Ret.), former U.S. Commander in Afghanistan; author, “My Share of the Task”

Guest:   Gen. Michael Hayden (Ret.), former CIA Director

Topic:    Gun Control Legislation; Foreign Policy 

Guest:   Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)

Topic:    Way Forward for the GOP
Guest:   Mayor Mia Love (R-Saratoga Springs, UT); former candidate for Congress

Guest:   Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA)

Guest:   Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI)

Guest:   Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, former Secretary of Commerce; former Romney adviser

Anchor:  Candy Crowley

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

Topics:  Manti T’eo, Lance Armstrong, and the Guns Debate
Guest:   Bob Costas, NBC Sports

Topic:    Media Coverage of the Inauguration from Right and Left Perspectives
Guest:   Clarence Page, columnist, The Chicago Tribune
Guest:   David Frum, CNN contributor; contributing editor, Newsweek/The Daily Beast

Topic:   Jill Kelley's First Post-Petraeus Scandal Interview
Guest:   Amy Argetsinger, columnist, The Washington Post
 

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

Topics:    Parliamentary elections and political reforms inside Jordan; the continuing reverberations of the Arab Spring; what Israel’s election results mean for the rest of the Middle East; Iran’s nuclear ambitions

Guest:     King Abdullah, II, King of Jordan

Topic:      Russia’s support for the Assad regime; the Putin/Medvedev relationship; U.S./Russian relations; the Magnitsky Act; Russia’s ban against American adoptions

Guest:     Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister of Russia

Anchor:   Fareed Zakaria

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

This week 'The Next List' profiles Skip Rizzo, the mastermind behind a virtual therapy for military members suffering from PTSD. His current effort is called STRIVE, designed to prevent PTSD by intervening before a war deployment.

RED CARPET – Airs LIVE Sunday 6:30PM – 7:30PM

A.J. Hammer and Nischelle Turner will host a one-hour special Red Carpet on CNN Sunday, Jan. 27th at 6:30 p.m. They will be live from the Screen Actors Guild Awards red carpet interviewing celebrities and previewing the projected winners and the Dick Van Dyke Tribute. The 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards can be seen on TNT at 8 p.m.

WHO IS BLACK IN AMERICA? – Airs Sunday 8:00PM – 9:00PM, 11:00PM and Monday 2:00AM

For her fifth exploration of African-American history, issues, and culture, CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien explores interpretations of race and identity for African Americans.  The latest U.S. Census reported 15 percent of new marriages are interracial, and one in seven American newborns are of mixed race, yet racial identity is often complicated by perspectives of community acceptance.  O’Brien follows the journeys of two high school seniors as they explore their own senses of racial identity, expressing their feelings through a spoken word workshop in Philadelphia.  O’Brien also interviews Drexel University professor Yaba Blay, spoken word artist Perry “Vision” DiVirgilio, anti-racism activist and author Tim Wise, and writer, speaker, and image activist Michaela Angela Davis about the historical roots of how race is often defined in America, the prejudicial concept of colorism, and discusses their reflections on categorizing people by race, and racial identity.

CNN Newsroom – Airs LIVE Sunday at 10:00PM

On Sunday, Jan. 27th at 10 p.m. (ET) a one hour special edition of CNN Newsroom anchored by Don Lemon will focus on Manti Te'o's major media interview looking at the questions that still remain, the psychology and culture of Catfishing, online dating and identity theft.

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