This Weekend's Programming 7/23/11

SATURDAY, July 23, 2011


SANJAY GUPTA MD – Airs Saturday 7:30AM – 8:00AM
CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta updates the latest on a lawsuit filed this week by more than 70 professional football players against the NFL for head injuries. Child actor Max Page, aka “Darth Vader” from this year’s Super Bowl commercials, is only six-years-old, but speaks to Dr. Gupta about his upcoming trip to Congress to lobåby against cuts in Medicare. As a heart patient himself, Max is worried about health care for other families with sick kids. Also, Dr. Gupta interviews Howard Markel, author of An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine, about the complicated history of what was once thought to be a wonder drug – a potential cure for everything from morphine addiction to tuberculosis. Also Dr. Gupta catches up with his triathlon team member Anastasia Cirricione from Kansas City, MO, about their race – now just over two weeks away.


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

Topics: Debt negotiations
Guest: Ron Brownstein, editorial director for the National Journal

Topics: US-Afghanistan policy
Guest: Marvin Kalb, professor at The George Washington University

Anchor: Wolf Blitzer

CNN PRESENTS – Airs Saturday 8:00PM – 9:00PM; 11:00PM – 12:00AM; 2:00AM – 3:00AM
CNN correspondent Deborah Feyerick reports on the latest updates into the search, capture, arrest and investigation surrounding the former FBI Most Wanted, notorious Boston mob boss, James “Whitey” Bulger. Correspondent Kaj Larsen takes the USS Honolulu, a nuclear powered hunter-killer submarine, to the North Pole in what is designed to be a brazen display of US primacy and power in the arctic region. He treks across the ice to an outpost to check out the US presence in the region, and conduct a series of interviews to learn which country is ahead in the race to control the top of the world. Also, correspondent Sandra Endo profiles “the ultimate sport” - cheerleading.


SUNDAY, July 24, 2011


SANJAY GUPTA MD – Airs Sunday 7:30AM – 8:00AM
CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta updates the latest on a lawsuit filed this week by more than 70 professional football players against the NFL for head injuries. Child actor Max Page, aka “Darth Vader” from this year’s Super Bowl commercials, is only six-years-old, but speaks to Dr. Gupta about his upcoming trip to Congress to lobby against cuts in Medicare. As a heart patient himself, Max is worried about health care for other families with sick kids. Also, Dr. Gupta interviews Howard Markel, author of An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine, about the complicated history of what was once thought to be a wonder drug – a potential cure for everything from morphine addiction to tuberculosis. Also Dr. Gupta catches up with his triathlon team member Anastasia Cirricione from Kansas City, MO, about their race – now just over two weeks away.


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

Topics: Race for the White House; Debt Crisis
Guest: Tim Pawlenty (R), presidential candidate

Topics: Debt Talks; Defense of Marriage Act
Guest: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chair, Intelligence Committee

Topics: Debt negotiations; debt ceiling
Guest: Timothy Geithner, Treasury Secretary

Topics: Debt negotiations
Guest: Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Co-Chair, Congressional Progressive Caucus

Anchor: Candy Crowley


FAREED ZAKARIA GPS – Airs 10:00AM – 11:00AM and 1:00PM – 2:00PM
Topic: Morocco is the first Arab nation to approve a new constitution and real reforms since the “Arab spring” – how is it going so far?
Guest: Taïb Fassi-Fihri, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Morocco
Topic: What’s being happening in REST of the world while all eyes were on a tabloid murder trial, a newspaper hacking and bribery scandal, and a couple of debt crises? Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and much more
Guest: Gideon Rose, Editor of Foreign Affairs magazine
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
Topic: How will history view the rancorous cultural and political times we live in today? The President? The Congress?; Also, a look back at a time when Americans were curious about the rest of the world
Guest: David McCullough, author (most recently) The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
Anchor: Fareed Zakaria


RELIABLE SOURCES – Airs LIVE 11:00AM – NOON

Topic: News Corp; Murdoch’s Testify
Guest: John Burns, The New York Times
Guest: Paul Farhi, The Washington Post
Guest: Vicky Ward, contributing editor, Vanity Fair

Topic: Coverage of Rep. Bachmann’s Migraines
Guest: Ruth Marcus, The Washington Post
Guest: Jonathan Strong, The Daily Caller

Topic: News Corp
Guest: Paul McMullen, former News of the World features editor
Guest: Cenk Uygur, former MSNBC anchor; TheYoungTurks.com

Host: Howard Kurtz


CNN PRESENTS – Airs Sunday 8:00PM – 9:00PM; 11:00PM – 12:00AM; 2:00AM – 3:00AM
CNN’s Poppy Harlow reports about the investigation into potential civil rights abuses by bullied students in Minneapolis’ Anoka-Hennepin school district. In less than two years, seven have committed suicide. Harlow includes reporting on tensions within schools over sexual orientation across America. Investigative correspondent Kaj Larsen examines the mystery behind the bodies of four prostitutes found along a Long Island beach – and whether these are connected to other bodies in the case of the Long Island Serial Killer. Also, CNN’s Amber Lyon travels to Costa Rica to visit a refuge where poached monkeys are rehabilitated.

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