This Weekend's Programming 3/16 - 3/17/13

SATURDAY, March 16, 2013

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

This week on “Sanjay Gupta MD”:  10 years after the start of the Iraq War, Sanjay revisits one of the most memorable people he met in that time. Youssif who was five years old when masked men in Baghdad set him on fire, in an apparent effort to terrorize his family.  Sanjay and Arwa Damon reported on Youssif’s recovery from his terrible burns, and his family’s effort to build a new life in the United States. Sanjay just paid another visit to Youssif’s home and school in southern California, and found a happy American 5^th grader – even as the rest of his family faces new challenges.

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

Topic:  Pres. Obama to Travel to Israel

Guest: Israeli Ambassador to U.S. Oren

Anchor: Wolf Blitzer

SUNDAY, March 17, 2013

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

Topic:   Cyber-security; Nuclear Threat from North Korea; Capture of Benghazi Attack Suspect

Guest:  Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), chairman and ranking member, House Intelligence Committee

Guest:  Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD)

            A State of the Union with Candy Crowley Exclusive

Topic:   10^th Anniversary of the Iraq War

Guest:  Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI)

Guest:  Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR)

Topic:   CPAC; Future of the Republican Party

Guest:  Al Cardenas, American Conservative Union

Guest:  Kiki McLean, democratic strategist

Guest:  Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ)

Guest:  Dr. Ben Carson, director of pediatric neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University; CPAC speaker

Anchor:  Candy Crowley

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

Topic:      Iraq – Ten years after the controversial war, what did the U.S. win and lose?

Guest:     Paul Wolfowitz, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense (George W Bush Administration)

               A Fareed Zakaria GPS Exclusive

Topics:     Afghanistan: the trouble with Karzai; what’s next for women and girls in Afghanistan?; Af/Pak after Coalition forces withdraw from Afghanistan

Guest:      Paul Wolfowitz, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense (George W Bush Administration)

Guest:      Husain Haqqani, former Pakistan Ambassador to the United States 

Guest:      Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, deputy director, women and foreign policy, Council on Foreign Relations

Topics:     North Korea’s bellicose belligerence: what is behind the recent talk and actions?; what does North Korea really want?; will China really help?

Guest:      Victor Cha, PhD, former director for Asian Affairs, White House National Security Council (George W. Bush Administration); director of Asian Studies, Georgetown University

Guest:      Donald Gregg, chairman emeritus of The Korea Society, former director for Asian Affairs, former national security advisor to Vice President George H.W. Bush; former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea

Topic:       How did a British anti-war activist become an advisor to the top U.S. generals in Iraq?

Guest:      Emma Sky, senior fellow in global justice, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University

Anchor:    Fareed Zakaria

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

Topic:    Coverage of the New Pope

Guest:   Sally Quinn, The Washington Post’s ‘On Faith’ blog

Guest:   Laurie Goodstein, religion correspondent,The New York Times

Topic:    10^th Anniversary of the Iraq War

Guest:   Rajiv Chandrasakaren, The Washington Post

Guest:   Mark Thompson, TIME Magazine

Guest:   Fred Francis, co-founder of 15-Seconds.com; former correspondent, NBC News

Topic:    Debut of CNN’s New Show “The Lead with Jake Tapper”

Guest:   Jake Tapper, anchor and chief Washington correspondent, CNN

Topic:     Matt Lauer and Troubles at NBC’s “Today”

Guest:    Adam Buckman, Xfinity TV blog

Host:      Howard Kurtz

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

This week, The Next List profiles Brian O’Hanlon, Founder and President of Open Blue, the world's largest open-ocean fish farm.  O’Hanlon learned long ago that the world’s supply of wild-caught seafood could never keep up with ever-increasing demand. He set his sights on solving the problem by bringing a reliable source of sustainable, high-quality protein to the market.   O’Hanlon is raising fish far out at sea where the clean water and brisk currents are the natural place for fish to thrive. The Next List traveled to Panama to witness the operation first hand. 

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Cardinal Dolan Speaks with Chris Cuomo

Live from Rome, CNN’s Chris Cuomo sat down with Cardinal Timothy Dolan after Pope Francis was elected by the papal conclave.

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CNN's Rome Team for Papal Conclave

As all 115 cardinal-electors meet at the Vatican this week, Chris Cuomo and Anderson Cooper lead CNN’s coverage of the Papal Conclave live from location in Rome.  Ben Wedeman, Miguel Marquez, Dan Rivers and Becky Anderson report for the network, along with CNN en Español’s Adriana Hauser and Jose Levy.  CNN Vatican Analyst John Allen contributes analysis.  

CNN.com offers full coverage of the conclave on CNN.com/pope with a special interactive that explains how the next Pope will be decided.  CNN.com/live will also live stream coverage of the smoke that comes from the Vatican's rooftop online and on the CNN Apps.

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This Weekend's Programming 3/9 - 3/10/13

SATURDAY, March 9, 2013

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

This week on “Sanjay Gupta MD,” Sanjay explores one of the most troubling accusations in the CNN Films documentary “Escape Fire,” which is that doctors perform unnecessary heart procedures simply to make money. The focus is stenting; as the film points out, implanting a stent to open arteries costs $1500 while a half-hour of counseling on diet and exercise can pay a doctor less than $50. Sanjay is joined by Dr. Steven Nissen, chair of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic and one of the most outspoken voices in “Escape Fire,” and by Dr. Jeffrey Marshall, a leading cardiologist whose specialty is implanting stents.  Also, Sanjay talks to pediatrician Dr. Harvey Karp about swaddling to help babies sleep. They tackle the controversy, explain the dangers and show how to calm a baby safely.

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

Topic:   Osama Bin Laden’s Son-in-law in court

Guest:  Jeffrey Toobin, CNN legal analyst

Guest:  Peter Bergen, CNN national security analyst

Topic:   North Korea, Syria

Guest:  Susan Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

Anchor: Wolf Blitzer

SUNDAY, March 10, 2013

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

Topic:     Democratic Agenda; Forced Spending Cuts; The Way Ahead

Guest:    Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), House Minority Leader

Topic:     GOP Agenda; Forced Spending Cuts; The Way Ahead

Guest:    Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Majority Whip

Topic:     Immigration; New Book; 2016 Politics

Guest:    Former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL), author, “Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution”

Topic:     2016 Politics; Sequestration Cuts and Budget; Gun Legislation

Guest:    Donna Brazile, Democratic Strategist; CNN Political Contributor

Guest:    Alex Castellanos, Republican Consultant; CNN Political Contributor

Guest:    Anita Dunn, Former White House Communications Director

Guest:    Newt Gingrich, (R) Former House Speaker; Former Presidential Candidate

Anchor:   Candy Crowley

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

Topic:       Venezuela after Chávez

Guest:      Rory Carroll, author, Comandente: Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela (2013)

Guest:      Nikolas Kozloff, Chávez biographer, author of Revolution!: South America and the Rise of the New Left (2009)

Guest:      Moisés Naím, former Minister for Trade and Industry, Venezuela; former editor-in-chief, Foreign Policy magazine; former executive director of the World Bank

Topic:       Should the Keystone pipeline project move forward?

Guest:      Michael Brune, environmentalist, executive director of the Sierra Club

Topics:     China’s leadership changes and what they mean for the rest of the world; China hacking

Guest:      Evan Osnos, Beijing-based New Yorker correspondent

Guest:      Neil MacFarquhar, United Nations bureau chief, The New York Times

Topic:       The Future of Medicine

Guest:      David Agus, MD, co-founder of Navigenics, Inc., a personal genomics firm; professor of medicine  and engineering, University of Southern California; author The End of Illness (2012)

Anchor:     Fareed Zakaria

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

Topic:    Covering the Menendez Story: ABC News and The Daily Caller

Guest:   Brian Ross, Chief Investigative Correspondent, ABC News

Topic:    Relationship Between White House and the Media 

Guest:   Dana Milbank, columnist, The Washington Post

Topic:    The Washington Post Ombudsman Job Eliminated

Guest:   Patrick Pexton, former Ombudsman, The Washington Post

Guest:   Geneva Overholser, Professor and Director, USC Annenberg School of Journalism; former Ombudsman, The Washington Post

Guest:   Michael Getler, Ombudsman, PBS; former Washington Post ombudsman

Topic:    New Biography of Roger Ailes; Jon Stewart Takes a Hiatus from The Daily Show

Guest:   Gail Shister, columnist, TV Newser

Guest:   Marisa Guthrie, media reporter, The Hollywood Reporter

Host:     Howard Kurtz

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

This week “The Next List” profiles Miguel Nicolelis, the Brazilian-born is a professor of neurobiology at Duke University and a pioneer in the field of brain-machine-interfaces, in which brain waves from a human or animal control a robot-limb prosthethis. His goal is to help paralyzed people walk again.  In just 18 months, he plans to “shock the world” by unveiling his mind-controlled exoskeleton - a sort of “wearable robot” - at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. 

ESCAPE FIRE - Airs Sunday 8PM &11 PM

CNN Films documentary to debut Sunday, March 10 at 8:00pm & 11:00pmET

CNN has acquired the U.S. television broadcast rights for the award-winning documentary, Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare.  The film premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and received honors at the 2012 Silverdocs, Full Frame, and other prominent festivals.  The two-hour feature-length film was produced and directed by Matthew Heineman and Academy Award-nominee Susan Froemke and distributed by Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate.  It will debut on CNN/U.S. on Sunday, March 10 at 8:00pm and air again at 11:00pm Eastern.

The film reveals flaws in the notion that the healthcare delivered via America’s patchwork of facilities, practitioners, and insurers offers good value for its outcomes.  Through the real-life experiences of physicians and patients, Escape Fire shows the tremendous pressures providers feel to reduce costs and limit patient interaction time – and the frustrations of patients struggling with preventable conditions that are often created or exacerbated by insufficient or inappropriate care. 

Americans spend nearly twice as much on healthcare as any other country on Earth, but lag behind nearly every industrialized nation in life expectancy - ranking number 50 out of more than 220 nations around the world in the 2011 CIA World Factbook.  In the film, former Administrator for the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Dr. Don Berwick, and the former director of communications for insurance giant CIGNA Wendell Potter, explain this as partly due to the impact of for-profit interests that guide an uncoordinated care system that focuses more on disease management than disease prevention.

“CNN Films is very pleased to bring this documentary to television,” said Jeff Zucker, president of CNN Worldwide.  “The physical health of our nation and the cost of healthcare, impact every current fiscal challenge we face.  This compelling film gives us an explanation of some of the factors that have contributed to our broken system and explains why we urgently need to fix it.”

Filmmaker Heineman said, “CNN is the perfect place to release Escape Fire to spark an honest and important dialogue about the future of healthcare.”

Viewers meet a war-injured veteran seeking to wean himself from dozens of medications for his pain and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms with acupuncture, meditation, and other more holistic remedies, a short-order cook who accesses his local hospital emergency services since he does not have a primary care physician, and a mother with heart disease, who learns less expensive, less invasive procedures may have helped her to avoid her multiple surgeries.  

The film also offers innovative healthcare solutions from leaders in the public and private sector, including noted holistic health experts Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Dean Ornish, Safeway grocery chain CEO Steve Burd, medical journalist Shannon Brownlee, Cleveland Clinic cardiovascular chairman Dr. Steven Nissen, and Dr. Berwick.  They describe this moral hazard for physicians – predominantly fee-for-service health care payment models incentivize medical interventions yielding higher profits and spend less time counseling patients how to curb or avoid illness related to behaviors that cause conditions like obesity and diabetes in the first place.

CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta will moderate a 30-minute discussion following the exclusive premiere broadcast of Escape Fire, focused on how Americans can cut through the red tape to save money and increase their access to healthcare.

Escape Fire will encore on Saturday, March 16 at 8:00pm and 11:00pm ET and PT on CNN/U.S.

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Jake Tapper’s “The Lead” Debuts March 18

Today’s Lead: Jake Tapper’s “The Lead” Will Debut on CNN March 18

                The newest addition to CNN’s weekday afternoon line-up, The Lead with Jake Tapper, will premiere at 4 p.m. ET on Monday, March 18. Anchored by chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper, the one-hour program will draw not only on Tapper’s deep knowledge of politics and national issues, but also seek to examine and advance stories across a wide range of topics that demonstrate his own curiosities and interests. Compelling headlines will come from around the country and the globe, from politics to money, sports to popular culture, based on news drivers of the day.

                Tapper’s prolific tweeting will extend to his program, which will aggregate and incorporate trends and response from social media into the reporting of stories that are part of the national consciousness. Users should follow @jaketapper and @theleadcnn. Original digital content including exclusive video and blog posts will appear on CNN.com/thelead beginning March 18.  

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Your Views on the News 3/1/13

DCFishbowl is reporting that CNN's new pres Jeff Zucker took a meeting this week with the leadership of the National Association of Black Journalists to discuss the state of black journalists at the network. In part Betsy Rothstein writes:

Speculation continues…to swirl about the network’s future with journalist and NABJ member Roland Martin. He recently answered a question from a fan on Twitter who would like to see him go to MSNBC. Martin’s contract with CNN expires April 8.
Some at the network believe times have been iffy for black journalists at CNN. TJ Holmes left his anchor slot in late 2011 over concerns of future advancement. Morning anchor Tony Harris did not have his contract renewed by CNN in early 2011 and surfaced at Al-Jazeera.
With O’Brien’s departure, Suzanne Malveaux will be the only black weekday anchor. On the weekends there are Fredericka Whitfield, Don Lemon, and Victor Blackwell.

Here's your chance to weigh in on who should be in primetime and who CNN shouldn't consider hiring/bringing back or anything else that strikes your fancy.

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This Weekend's Programming 3/2 - 3/3/13

SATURDAY, March 2, 2013

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

This week Sanjay Gupta MD puts 'bullying' under a microscope.  First up, Sanjay speaks to candidly with a teenage girl who was bullied so viciously about her looks that she had elective cosmetic surgery at 14.  Sanjay also talks to Anderson Cooper about "The Bully Effect," an AC360 special report that chronicles the journeys of a bullied child, a grieving parent, a victim of violence and a filmmaker turned activist.  Also this week, the lasting legacy of C. Everett Koop, the first Surgeon General to officially warn about the dangers of passive smoking and a vigorous opponent of Big Tobacco.   

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

Topic:   Gun Control

Guest:   Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York City

Topic:   Iraq

Guest:   Arwa Damon, Senior International Correspondent

Topic:   Rodman in North Korea

Guest:   Shane Smith, Co-founder, VICE

Topic:   Jesse Jackson, Jr., Rosa Parks

Guest:   Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition

Anchor:  Wolf Blitzer

SUNDAY, March 3, 2013

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

Topic:    Forced Spending Cuts

Guest:   Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senate Minority Leader

Topic:    Forced Spending Cuts

Guest:   Gene Sperling, director, National Economic Council; Assistant to the President for Economic Policy

Topic:    Forced Spending Cuts; 2014 Midterm Election

Guest:   Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY), DCCC Chairman

Guest:   Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), NRCC Chairman

Topic:    Current State of the Economy

Guest:   Mark Zandi, Moody's Analytics Chief Economist

Guest:   Stephen Moore, economist; senior economics writer, The Wall Street Journal.

Guest:   Susan Page, Washington bureau chief, USA Today

Anchor:   Candy Crowley

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

Topic:    Woodward vs. The White House; Coverage of Sequestration; Fox News Sunday interviews Ann and Mitt Romney

Guest:   Jackie Kucinich, political reporter, USA Today

Guest:   Cenk Uygur, host, The Young Turks on Current TV

Guest:   Tim Carney, senior political columnist, The Washington Examiner

Topic:    Michelle Obama in the Media; Coverage of Yahoo’s Decision to Forbid Working from Home

Guest:   Sally Quinn, The Washington Post

Guest:   Barbara Lippert, editor at large for Mediapost.com and formerly of Adweek

Host:     Howard Kurtz

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

Topics:    How Iran feels about ‘Argo’; the future of nuclear talks

Guest:     Mohammad Khazee, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations

Topics:    Forced budget cuts; Italian election politics – and what they mean for the U.S. and global economies

Guest:     Roger Altman, American private equity investor

Guest:     Zanny Minton Beddoes, economics editor The Economist

Guest:     David Leonhardt, author, Here’s the Deal (2013); Washington bureau chief, The New York Times

Guest:     Beppe Severgnini, OBE, journalist, Corriere della Sera

Anchor:   Fareed Zakaria

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

This week The Next List profiles Saul Griffiths, an inventor, engineer, scientist and recipient of the coveted MacArthur "genius" award, whose goal is to transform the way America generates and uses power, and make alternative energy the fuel of the future.  Griffith is the co-founder of Otherlab, a hothouse of ideas and inventions where he and his team are developing technologies that could dramatically cut the cost of solar power, make it possible for cars to run on natural gas and change everything you think you know about robots.

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