This Weekend's Programming 5/21/11

SATURDAY, May 21, 2011


SANJAY GUPTA, MD – Airs Saturday 7:30AM – 8:00AM
CNN chief medical correspondent and practicing neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta investigates cell phone radiation safety. There are no independent government safety tests. Includes an interview with Dr. Keith Black, chairman of the UCLA Dept. of Neurosurgery and Devra Davis, PhD, MPH, who founded the Environmental Health Trust, and cell phone safety activist Alan Marks on the risks of cell phone usage and brain tumors.


THE SITUATION ROOM WITH WOLF BLITZER – Airs Saturday 6:00PM – 7:00PM
Topic: Dominique Strauss-Kahn story
Guest: Jeff Toobin, CNN senior analyst
Topic: Pakistan; National Security Issues
Guest: Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Anchor: Wolf Blitzer

EDUCATION IN AMERICA: DON’T FAIL ME – Airs Saturday 8:00PM – 9:00PM, 11:00PM and Sunday 2:00AM
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.

SEX, LIES, ARROGANCE Airs Saturday 10:00 - 11:00 PM
What leads powerful men to engage in questionable behavior? In a partnership with TIME magazine, CNN Newsroom will host a special edition exploring the issues between sex and power. Hosted by Don Lemon, guests will include TIME Executive Editor Nancy Gibbs, who wrote this week's TIME cover story on the topic. HLN anchors Dr. Drew Pinsky and Jane Velez Mitchell will join the discussion.

SUNDAY, May 22, 2011

SANJAY GUPTA, MD – Airs Sunday 7:30AM – 8:00AM
CNN chief medical correspondent and practicing neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta investigates cell phone radiation safety. There are no independent government safety tests. Includes an interview with Dr. Keith Black, chairman of the UCLA Dept. of Neurosurgery and Devra Davis, PhD, MPH, who founded the Environmental Health Trust, and cell phone safety activist Alan Marks on the risks of cell phone usage and brain tumors.


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

Topic: Post bin Laden; U.S. Relations with Pakistan; War in Afghanistan
Guest: Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), House Intelligence Chairman
Guest: Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD), Ranking Member, House Intelligence Committee
Topic: Budget Battle; Debt; 2012 Presidential Elections
Guest: Dick Armey, (R) former House Majority Leader
Guest: Ron Klain, former Chief of Staff to V.P. Biden

Anchor: Candy Crowley

FAREED ZAKARIA GPS (FROM EGYPT) – Airs 10:00AM – 11:00AM** and 1:00PM – 2:00PM
Topics: Egypt after the revolution; Egyptian politics; the Muslim Brotherhood; Does Dr. ElBaradei want to be the next president of Egypt?
Guest: Mohamed ElBaradei, PhD, Nobel laureate; former Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency
Topics: Egypt after the revolution; Moussa’s relationship with former President Mubarak; the Arab League; revolutions around the region
Guest: Amr Moussa, Secretary-General, Arab League
Topics: What do the Tahrir Square revolutionaries say is the current state of the revolution in Egypt?; Is the ‘Arab Spring’ over? How much has really changed in Egypt? Reaction to President Obama’s Middle East policy speech
Guest: Sarah Abdelrahman, student activist, journalist
Guest: Noor Ayman Nour, activist
Guest: Ragia Omran, human rights attorney, activist
Guest: Waleed Rashed, co-founder / spokesman, April 6 Movement

Anchor: Fareed Zakaria

**This broadcast may be interrupted by live coverage of President Obama’s address to the AIPAC Policy Conference 2011 at approximately 10:30am ET.

RELIABLE SOURCES – Airs LIVE 11:00AM – NOON

Topic: LA Times Reporter Breaks Schwarzenegger Love Child Story
Guest: Mark Barabak, Los Angeles Times

Host: Howard Kurtz


DR. SANJAY GUPTA REPORTS: PATRICK KENNEDY – COMING CLEAN – Airs Sunday 7:00PM – 8:00PM
CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta interviews former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy about his decision to leave Congress, his struggles with addiction and mental illness, growing up Kennedy, his father’s legacy, and his new philanthropic mission. He speaks in detail about his forthcoming autumn memoir on these subjects – and his ‘moon shot’ to fund brain research for people who suffer all diseases of the mind from depression to cancer to addiction to dementia – his latest mission.


CNN PRESENTS: ACTING OUT – THE MEL GIBSON STORY – Airs Sunday 8:00PM – 9:00PM and 11:00PM
Mel Gibson’s battered public image may have hit rock bottom... But the Academy Award-winning actor and director was once better known as a family man and person of passionate faith. CNN reports unique insights and images from his humble beginnings in New York, to his teenage years in Australia. Brooke Anderson speaks with people who know him and follows his rise to fame as one of Hollywood’s most celebrated talents, and his stunning fall from grace.

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