This Weekend's Programming 3/23 - 3/24/13

SUNDAY, March 23, 2013:

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

This week on “Sanjay Gupta MD,” a new autism number: 1 in 50 children. The CDC report is based on a phone survey of parents and not everyone agrees on what it means. Sanjay breaks it down the numbers, and looks at what they means for parents, what therapies are available and proven to help, and what parents need to look for to identify problems early. Also, supermodel Niki Taylor nearly died in a car crash in 2012, she talks to Sanjay about her health issues since the accident, and also her new mission to promote blood donation.

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

Topic: Immigration, 2016

Guest: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)

Topic: Budget, 2016

Guest: Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)

Topic: Political Wrap-Up

Guest: Ron Brownstein, CNN senior political analyst

Guest: Gloria Borger, CNN chief political analyst

Anchor: Wolf Blitzer

SUNDAY, March 24, 2013:                                                                                                                                                      

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

Topic: Veterans Issues, Healthcare, benefits & Budget

Guest: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki

Topic:  Guns, Civil Unions, Death of Colorado Prison Chief

Guest: Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D)

Topic: Supreme Court Cases: Same Sex Marriage, Immigration and Guns

Guest: California Attorney General Kamala Harris

Guest: Austin Nimocks, vice president for Marriage Litigation at Alliance Defending Freedom

Guest: Ron Brownstein, CNN senior political analyst

Guest: Ana Navarro, CNN contributor and Republican strategist

Anchor:   Candy Crowley

** FOR NOON HOUR ONLY **

Topic:  Reaction to CNN Interview with Veterans Affairs Secy. Eric Shinseki

Guest: Tom Tarantino, chief policy officer of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America

Guest: Peter Gaytan, executive director of the American Legion 

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

Topics: Do the forced budget cuts matter? Is America on the brink of another financial crisis? What lessons can America learn from Japan’s continuing economic crises? Do deficits matter?

Guest: Paul Krugman, columnist, The New York Times and Professor of Economics & International Affairs, Princeton University; Nobel laureate in economics; author: End This Depression Now! (2012)

Topics: Will the U.S. lose this generation’s space race?

Guest: Neil deGrasse Tyson, PhD, astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History; author of Space Chronicles (2012)

Topics: Pivot to Asia: Will rising middle classes in the East create a democratic China? An expanded U.N. Security Council? How should the West respond?

Guest: Kishore Mahbubani, dean and professor of public policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore; author The Great Convergence: Asia, The West, and the Logic of One World (2013)

Anchor: Fareed Zakaria

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

Topic: The GOP ‘autopsy’ report

Guest: Bill Press, Host of Current TV’s Full Court Press

Guest: Tim Carney, political columnist for the Washington Examiner

Topic: A new study from the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism on opinion in broadcast cable news // Late Night landscape: NBC’s “Tonight Show” may move back to NYC with Jimmy Fallon as host

Guest: Marisa Guthrie, The Hollywood Reporter columnist 

Guest: Joe Concha, Mediaite reporter 

Guest: Gail Shister, TV Newser columnist

Topic: Life with mental illness by one of its own writers.

Guest: Annmarie Timmins, state house reporter for the Concord Monitor

Topic: Biography of Fox News chief Roger Ailes

Guest: Zev Chafets, author of “Roger Ailes Off Camera”

Host: Howard Kurtz

THE NEXT LIST –  Airs Sunday 2:30PM – 3:00PM

This week “The Next List” profiles Dr. Leslie Saxon, chief cardiologist at USC's Keck School of Medicine and founder of the Center for Body Computing, an innovation think tank dedicated to wireless health. Saxon spearheaded a unique collaborative system with the university's schools of engineering, business and film, along with USC's athletics department, to research and develop wireless devices and health solutions.

SPECIAL PROGRAMMING:

Friday, March 22, 2013

10:00pm – 11:00pm Anderson Cooper Special Report: 81 Minutes - Inside the Greatest Art Heist in History

11:00pm – 12:00am Anderson Cooper 360° (replay of 8pm program)

Saturday, March 23, 2013

1:00am – 2:00am Anderson Cooper Special Report: 81 Minutes - Inside the Greatest Art Heist in History

2:00am – 3:00am Anderson Cooper 360° (replay of 8pm program)

4:00am – 5:00am Anderson Cooper Special Report: 81 Minutes - Inside the Greatest Art Heist in History

5:00am – 6:00am Anderson Cooper 360° (replay of 8pm program)

2:30pm – 3:00pm What Women Want: Sheryl Sandberg

8:00pm – 10:00pm Atlanta Child Murders

11:00pm – 1:00am Atlanta Child Murders

Sunday, March 24, 2013

2:00am – 4:00am Atlanta Child Murders

5:00am – 6:00am Anderson Cooper Special Report: 81 Minutes - Inside the Greatest Art Heist in History

8:00pm – 8:30pm The Justin Timberlake Experience

8:30pm – 9:00pm Beyonce: Finding Her Destiny

9:00pm – 10:00pm Anderson Cooper Special Report: 81 Minutes - Inside the Greatest Art Heist in History

11:00pm – 11:30pm The Justin Timberlake Experience

11:30pm – 12:00am Beyonce: Finding Her Destiny

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