This Weekend's Programming 5/14/11

SATURDAY, May 14, 2011


SANJAY GUPTA, MD – Airs Saturday 7:30AM – 8:00AM
CNN chief medical correspondent and practicing neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports how U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) survived the mass shooting in Tucson earlier this year that killed six and wounded 18 others. Gupta interviews the EMTs who evacuated her to a trauma hospital, her surgeons, her rehabilitation doctors and other therapists. Gupta also performs a surgical demonstration of the skull surgery for the documentary so that viewers can better understand how it works.

THE SITUATION ROOM WITH WOLF BLITZER – Airs Saturday 6:00PM – 7:00PM
Topic: Unrest in the Middle East
Guest: Jeffery Goldberg, national correspondent, The Atlantic

Anchor: Wolf Blitzer

CNN PRESENTS: INSIDE THE MISSION: GETTING BIN LADEN - Airs Saturday 8:00PM – 9:00PM, 11:00PM – 12:00AM
CNN’s Chris Lawrence reports on the inside story of the mission to get bin Laden. With debriefs from an array of CNN's most experienced reporters around the world, the special report examines the complex military and intelligence decision-making process that led to the daring capture and killing of the world's most wanted terrorist inside Pakistan on May 2, 2011. CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr, CNN terrorism analyst Peter Bergen, CNN White House correspondent Ed Henry, senior political analyst Gloria Borger, and senior international correspondent Nic Robertson dissect the long hunt for bin Laden from the mountains of Tora Bora to the compound where he met his end. Former CIA director Michael Hayden, military interrogators, and Former CIA officer Gary Berntsen contribute first-hand knowledge from their experiences tracking bin Laden on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border.

SUNDAY, May 15, 2011

SANJAY GUPTA, MD – Airs Sunday 7:30AM – 8:00AM
CNN chief medical correspondent and practicing neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports how U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) survived the mass shooting in Tucson earlier this year that killed six and wounded 18 others. Gupta interviews the EMTs who evacuated her to a trauma hospital, her surgeons, her rehabilitation doctors and other therapists. Gupta also performs a surgical demonstration of the skull surgery for the documentary so that viewers can better understand how it works.


STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY – Airs LIVE Sunday 9:00AM – 10:00AM, NOON – 1:00PM
Topic: Budget Battle in Washington; Debt Debate
Guest: Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Minority Leader

Topic: Budget Battle in Washington; Debt Debate
Guest: Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Budget Chairman

Topic: Politics of the Budget Battle; 2012 Presidential Race
Guest: Joe Lockhart, former Clinton White House Press Secretary
Guest: Michael Gerson, former Bush Speechwriter

Topic: Unrest of the Middle East
Guest: Adm. Dennis Blair (Ret.), former Director of National Intelligence
Guest: Amb. John Negroponte, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN and Iraq; former Director of National Intelligence

Anchor: Candy Crowley

FAREED ZAKARIA GPS – Airs 10:00AM – 11:00AM and 1:00PM – 2:00PM on CNN/U.S.
Topics: A ‘report card’ on President Obama’s foreign policy; What should be the U.S. posture as related to the ‘Arab Spring’?; How should the troop levels in Afghanistan be managed post-bin Laden?
Guest: Condoleezza Rice, PhD, former U.S. Secretary of State (George W. Bush Administration)

Topics: How the world sees the killing of Bin Laden; U.S. role in the Middle East; U.S. economic problems and their effect on U.S. power perception
Guest: Anne-Marie Slaughter, D.Phil, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, former Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department of State (Barack Obama Administration)
Guest: Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Guest: Joshua Cooper Ramo, managing director of Kissinger Associates

Topics: The future of technology, the iPad v Android battle, mobile and cloud computing
Guest: Eric Schmidt, former chairman/CEO of Google, Inc.

Anchor: Fareed Zakaria


RELIABLE SOURCES – Airs LIVE 11:00AM – NOON

Topic: Presidential Candidates’ Private Lives
Guest: Michelle Cottle, Daily Beast/Newsweek
Guest: Lauren Ashburn, Ashburn Media
Guest: Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle

Topic: Coverage of Osama bin Laden’s Death
Guest: Steve Coll, The New Yorker

Topic: Network Morning Shake-ups at NBC and CBS
Guest: Glynnis MacNicol, Business Insider
Guest: Adam Buckman, Fancast.com

Host: Howard Kurtz


CNN PRESENTS: INSIDE THE MISSION: GETTING BIN LADEN - Airs Sunday 2:00AM – 3:00AM and 7:00PM – 8:00PM
CNN’s Chris Lawrence reports on the inside story of the mission to get bin Laden. With debriefs from an array of CNN's most experienced reporters around the world, the special report examines the complex military and intelligence decision-making process that led to the daring capture and killing of the world's most wanted terrorist inside Pakistan on May 2, 2011. CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr, CNN terrorism analyst Peter Bergen, CNN White House correspondent Ed Henry, senior political analyst Gloria Borger, and senior international correspondent Nic Robertson dissect the long hunt for bin Laden from the mountains of Tora Bora to the compound where he met his end. Former CIA director Michael Hayden, military interrogators, and Former CIA officer Gary Berntsen contribute first-hand knowledge from their experiences tracking bin Laden on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border.


EDUCATION IN AMERICA: DON’T FAIL ME- Airs Sunday 8:00PM – 9:00PM, 11:00PM – 12:00AM, Monday 2:00AM – 3:00AM
CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien follows a national high school robotics competition called FIRST to answer the questions about the future of education in this country and what IS working. Tracking the progress of high school teams across the country, O’Brien focuses on the stories of students from TN, NJ, and AZ as she learns more about the success areas and the gaps in the nation’s preparation for future competitiveness. Only 31 percent of American college students actually graduate in four years, and the most recent international tests ranked U.S. high school students at 17 in the world in science and 20 in math. Features interviews with U.S. Sec. of Education Arne Duncan, Xerox Corp. CEO Ursula Burns, and FIRST founder Dean Kamen.

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