This Weekend's Programming 4/2/11

SATURDAY, April 2, 2011


SANJAY GUPTA MD – Airs Saturday at 7:30AM – 8:00AM; Sunday at 7:30AM – 8:00AM
CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on the tragic end of Shane Dronett, who starred on the 1998 Atlanta Falcons Super Bowl team, but died 11 years later at his own hand. There's new evidence his death is connected to head injuries suffered on the field. Dr. Gupta also interviews teen actor, Isaac Lidsky, who made a dramatic career shift from Hollywood to becoming a lawyer after losing his eyesight, and speaks with Nathan Myhrvold - one-time Microsoft, Corp. executive who is now a cookbook author.



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

Topic: Crisis in Libya
Guest: Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI)

Topic: Crisis in Libya
Guest: James Zogby, president, Arab American Institute

Anchor: Wolf Blitzer


UNWELCOME: THE MUSLIMS NEXT DOOR – Airs Saturday 8:00PM – 9:00PM, 11:00PM and Sunday 2:00AM – 3:00AM
Murfreesboro, Tennessee (pop. 100,000) is home to 190 churches… and one mosque. Five times a day members of the Muslim community gather in Islamic Center of Murfreesboro to pray… men in one room, women and children in another. Muslims have lived in Murfreesboro for decades, yet when plans to build a new mosque were approved this summer, questions were raised and the resulting backlash and acts of vandalism revealed a community divided by deep-rooted suspicions about Muslims, and Islam. Ten years after 9/11, CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien reports the story of Muslims and non-Muslims, from Murfreesboro to Manhattan, struggling to find common ground in America.



SUNDAY, April 3, 2011


SANJAY GUPTA MD – Airs Saturday at 7:30AM – 8:00AM; Sunday at 7:30AM – 8:00AM
CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on the tragic end of Shane Dronett, who starred on the 1998 Atlanta Falcons Super Bowl team, but died 11 years later at his own hand. There's new evidence his death is connected to head injuries suffered on the field. Dr. Gupta also interviews teen actor, Isaac Lidsky, who made a dramatic career shift from Hollywood to becoming a lawyer after losing his eyesight, and speaks with Nathan Myhrvold - one-time Microsoft, Corp. executive who is now a cookbook author.



STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY – Airs LIVE Sunday 9:00AM – 10:00AM, NOON – 1:00PM

Topic: Crisis in Libya and the Middle East
Guest: Gen. James Jones (Ret.), former National Security Adviser

Topic: Battle over the Budget
Guest: Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), NRSC Chairman
Guest: Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Senate Budget Committee

Topic: Battle over the Budget; Crisis in Libya
Guest: Donna Brazile, Democratic strategist; CNN political contributor
Guest: William Bennett, national talk radio host; CNN political contributor

Anchor: Candy Crowley



FAREED ZAKARIA GPS – Airs LIVE Sunday 10:00AM – 11:00AM and 1:00PM – 2:00PM on CNN/U.S. and 8:00AM – 9:00AM on CNN International

Topic: Civil war in Libya; Unrest in Yemen and Syria; Is Gadhafi likely to go into exile?
Guest: Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor (Carter Administration), counselor and trustee, Center for Strategic & International Studies

Topic: Civil war in Libya: What role is Al-Qaeda playing in the revolution?
Guest: Noman Benotman, former leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group; senior analyst, Quilliam Foundation

Topic: What are the U.S. / NATO / E.U. roles in Libya, Syria, Yemen? What is the CIA learning about the regimes and the opposition groups?
Guest: Robert Baer, former CIA operative, author, Time.com columnist
Guest: Richard N. Haass, PhD, president of the Council on Foreign Relations
Guest: Bernard-Henri Lévy, French philosopher, author Public Enemies
Guest: Robert Worth, Middle East correspondent, The New York Times

Host: Fareed Zakaria



RELIABLE SOURCES – Airs LIVE 11:00AM – NOON

Topic: Pundits React to Obama’s Libya Speech
Guest: Roger Simon, POLITICO
Guest: Dana Milbank, The Washington Post
Guest: Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle

Topic: News Organizations Prepare for the Royal Wedding
Guest: Amy Argetsinger, The Washington Post
Guest: Sharon Waxman, TheWrap.com

Host: Howard Kurtz



CNN PRESENTS: EYEWITNESS TO MURDER – THE KING ASSASSINATION- Airs Sunday 7:00PM – 9:00PM
CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien describes how escaped convict and armed robber James Earl Ray spent a year on the run – pausing for plastic surgery and robbery before his path collided with civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968. Through interviews with first-person eyewitnesses and investigators, O’Brien retraces the steps of King, Ray and investigators and explores alternative scenarios of what happened on April 4, 1968. O'Brien asks who was ultimately responsible for the murder that, for some, may have meant the end to the U.S. Civil Rights Era.



STALKER: THE REAGAN SHOOTING – Airs Sunday 11:00PM – 12:00AM
CNN investigative correspondent Drew Griffin reports on the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. Weaving CNN's dynamic coverage of the events as they happened 30 years ago, with new interviews from eye witnesses, Griffin speaks to Jerry Parr, one of the U.S. Secret Service agents who saved Reagan’s life, and Drs. Joseph Giordano and Wesley Price - who treated President Reagan at George Washington University Hospital.

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