This Weekend's Programming 6/17/11

SATURDAY, June 18, 2011

SANJAY GUPTA MD – Airs Saturday 7:30AM – 8:00AM
CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta interviews former CNN sports anchor Nick Charles. Charles, perhaps best known for his legendary anchoring at boxing matches talks to Dr. Gupta about his biggest fight yet – against terminal bladder cancer and against the time he may not have left. Charles talks movingly about how his young daughter Giovanna, hope and love in the face of terrible odds, how to manage regret, and offers lessons he’s learned during this fight to other families dealing with cancer. Features a moving meeting between Charles and his close friend, legendary boxer Mike Tyson.

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

Topic: Unrest in the Middle East
Guest: Dr. Fouad Ajami, professor, Johns Hopkins University

Anchor: Wolf Blitzer

CNN PRESENTS: WIKIWARS – THE MISSION OF JULIAN ASSANGE – Airs Saturday 8:00PM – 9:00PM and 11:00PM and Sunday 2:00AM
CNN investigative correspondent Kaj Larsen reports on the whistle-blowing website that remains beyond the reach of governments and international authorities. Founded by 39 year-old, former computer hacker Australian Julian Assange, the virtual volunteer army of supporters that form the loosely organized WikiLeaks has unleashed an avalanche of secret documents, videos, and classified military reports on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other matters. Assange, a self-appointed champion of free speech, says he is on a mission to expose secrecy, corruption and injustice. Critics say his revelations of detainee torture and previously unknown civilian deaths – including the identities of informants working with the US military – have put U.S. military lives in danger and compromised American interests.


SUNDAY, June 19, 2011


SANJAY GUPTA, MD – Airs Sunday 7:30AM – 8:00AM
CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta interviews former CNN sports anchor Nick Charles. Charles, perhaps best known for his legendary anchoring at boxing matches talks to Dr. Gupta about his biggest fight yet – against terminal bladder cancer and against the time he may not have left. Charles talks movingly about how his young daughter Giovanna, hope and love in the face of terrible odds, how to manage regret, and offers lessons he’s learned during this fight to other families dealing with cancer. Features a moving meeting between Charles and his close friend, legendary boxer Mike Tyson.


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

Topics: War in Afghanistan; Conflicts in Libya and Syria; Defense Department Budget
Guest: Robert Gates, Defense Secretary

Topics: Race for the White House; President Obama’s Re-election Campaign
Guest: David Axelrod, senior strategist, Obama Re-election Campaign

Anchor: Candy Crowley


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

Topics: Jobs & the economy: how do we create more jobs and get the economy going again? It is more stimulus? Or should the government get out of the business of trying to fix the economy?
Guest: Robert Reich, former U.S. Labor Secretary (Clinton Administration), Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California-Berkeley
Guest: David Stockman, former Director of the Office of Management and Budget (Reagan Administration)

Topic: Inside Syria: What is happening? How bad is it? How widespread is the violence? What’s life like inside Syria today? Who will win in the end - President Assad or the protestors?
Guest: Fawaz Gerges, Professor of Middle Eastern Politics and International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science. A Fareed Zakaria GPS Exclusive.

Topic: Iran Two Years Later: where is the “Green Revolution” today? Who is the “good guy” in the current power struggle – President Ahmedinejad or Ayatollah Khamenei? Is there a “good guy”?
Guest: Maziar Bahari, journalist and author “Then They Came for Me”

Anchor: Fareed Zakaria


RELIABLE SOURCES – Airs LIVE 11:00AM – NOON

Topic: Rep. Weiner Resigns; Rep. Bachmann’s New Image
Guest: John Avlon, The Daily Beast
Guest: Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post
Guest: Julie Mason, POLITICO

Topic: New Outlook on Sarah Palin
Guest: John Ziegler, filmmaker

Topic: New Book
Guest: Larry King, CNN anchor and the former host of Larry King Live

Host: Howard Kurtz


CNN PRESENTS: DADS FOR MY DAUGHTERS – A DR. SANJAY GUPTA SPECIAL – Airs Sunday 7:00PM – 8:00PM
CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta shares a conversation with best selling author Bruce Feiler on living despite a devastating diagnosis. Feiler thought he was going to die after receiving a devastating diagnosis of a rare and aggressive bone cancer in 2008. He endured brutal treatments and decided to form a “Council of Dads” for his twin girls, a group of his closest male friends who would, in effect, take his place as father to his girls should he not make it. Each father represents a special gift and value which Feiler feels is important to pass on to his five year old twin daughters. Feiler, author of the book Council of Dads continues to fight his cancer.


CNN PRESENTS: iREVOLUTION – ONLINE WARRIORS OF THE ARAB SPRING – Airs Sunday 8:00PM – 9:00PM and 11:00PM
CNN correspondent Amber Lyon reports from Tunisia, Egypt, and Bahrain on the revolutionary fires spreading through North Africa and the Middle East. It was dubbed “The Facebook Revolution,” but behind the Facebook pages and cell phone cameras, online activists have been mobilizing and preparing for this moment for years, becoming cyber sleuths and digital experts. They’ve learned to use and adapt new technologies to evade censors and authorities to lead momentous changes in the streets of their home countries. Also includes reporting on the revolutionary movements in Libya, Syria, and Yemen.

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