This Weekend's Programming 8/13/11

SATURDAY, August 13, 2011

SANJAY GUPTA, MD –Saturday from 7:30AM – 8:00AM

CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta anchors from the Somalian refugee camps along the border of Kenya and Somalia on the unfolding humanitarian crisis there. Among the people he speaks with are a family that walked for over a month with three sick children to reach the camps – who were also robbed just prior to reaching relative safety. Dr. Gupta also interviews relief worker and former journalist Canadian Amanda Lindhout who was held in captivity in Somalia for 15 months, beginning in 2008 about her dedication to the nation, and why she has founded a nonprofit to bring aid to Somalians.

THE SITUATION ROOM WITH WOLF BLITZER – Airs Saturday 6:00PM – 7:00PM
Topic: Special countdown to results of the Iowa Straw Poll with Don Lemon and Candy Crowley live from Ames, Iowa.
Anchor: Wolf Blitzer

CNN Newsroom – Airs LIVE Saturday from Ames, Iowa 7:00PM – 8:00PM
Topic: Special Coverage as Iowa Straw Poll results are announced
Anchor: Don Lemon
Anchor: Candy Crowley

CNN PRESENTS – Airs Saturday 8:00PM – 9:00PM, 11:00PM- MIDNIGHT and 2:00AM-3:00AM
CNN investigative correspondent Kaj Larsen visits the U.S. Coast Guard’s Station Golden Gate, the busiest surf rescue station on the West Coast, near San Francisco, which averages over 600 search and rescue cases per year. The summer action-comedy film 30 Minutes of Less, about a kidnapped pizza delivery guy who is strapped with a bomb to his chest and told to rob a bank, is loosely based on a much more complicated true crime mystery. Investigative correspondent Drew Griffin reports on the not so humorous story behind the movie premise. CNN’s Poppy Harlow reports on what may be precedent-setting lawsuits over celebrity merchandising, involving former teen idol David Cassidy and five of the stars of the TV classic Happy Days, Don Most, Marion Ross, Anson Williams, Erin Moran and the widow of actor Tom Bosley. Their characters inspired memorabilia from t-shirts, lunch boxes, and dolls to DVDs and slot machines, received scant profits from the wide use of their likenesses. Harlow interviews them about whether they were cheated out of millions promised in their contracts with CBS Studios.

SUNDAY, August 14, 2011


SANJAY GUPTA, MD – Sunday 7:30AM – 8:00AM

CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta anchors from the Somalian refugee camps along the border of Kenya and Somalia on the unfolding humanitarian crisis there. Among the people he speaks with are a family that walked for over a month with three sick children to reach the camps – who were also robbed just prior to reaching relative safety. Dr. Gupta also interviews relief worker and former journalist Canadian Amanda Lindhout who was held in captivity in Somalia for 15 months, beginning in 2008 about her dedication to the nation, and why she has founded a nonprofit to bring aid to Somalians.

STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY – Airs LIVE from Ames, Iowa Sunday 9:00AM – 10:00AM and NOON – 1:00PM
Topic: Iowa Straw Poll Results, 2012 Race
Guest: Rep. Michele Bachmann, GOP presidential candidate

Topic: Iowa Straw Poll Results, 2012 Race
Guest: Herman Cain, GOP presidential candidate

Topic: Iowa’s Role for GOP in 2012
Guest: Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa)

Topic: Iowa Straw Poll Results, Week in Politics
Guest: Philip Rucker, The Washington Post
Guest: Neil King, The Wall Street Journal

Anchor: Candy Crowley

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

Topic: Does the S&P downgrade matter? Is U.S. government debt really a problem? What’s the way out of our economic troubles – spending, saving, taxing, cutting? Why does Paul Krugman think we need the threat of a “space alien” attack?
Guest: Paul Krugman, columnist, The New York Times and professor of Economics & International Affairs, Princeton University; Nobel laureate in economics
Guest: Kenneth Rogoff, PhD, professor of economics and public policy at Harvard University

Topic: The London riots: what has caused them? Who are the rioters? What are the solutions?
Guest: Theodore Dalrymple, physician and former prison psychiatrist
Guest: David Goodhart, columnist, founder of Prospect magazine

Topic: Pakistan post-Bin Laden: Is there any extant relationship between Pakistan and the U.S. today? Just how bad is it? Is it salvageable? What will fix it?
Guest: Ahmed Rashid, author of Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia and Taliban

Anchor: Fareed Zakaria

RELIABLE SOURCES – Airs LIVE 11:00AM – NOON
Topic: Iowa Straw Poll and Newsweek’s Michele Bachmann Cover
Guest: Jackie Kucinich, USA Today
Guest: Roger Simon, Politico
Guest: Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post
Guest: Stephanie Miller, Syndicated radio talk show host

Topic: Texas Gov. Rick Perry enters the GOP presidential race
Guest: Wayne Slater, Dallas Morning News

Topic: Coverage of the Market’s Bad Week
Guest: Felix Salmon, Thomson Reuters

Topic: Remaking Current TV
Guest: David Bohrman, president of Current TV

Host: Howard Kurtz

Battle for Blair Mountain: Working in America – Airs Sunday 8:00PM – 9:000PM, 11:00PM – MIDNIGHT and 2:00 AM- 3:00AM

CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien reports on a battle that is dividing communities in West Virginia and beyond. On one side are coal miners, their families, and the mining industry who are collectively supportive of mountain top removal – a destructive, yet highly-effective form of strip mining. On the other side of this debate is a mix of interests: community activists, environmentalists, and the EPA feel mountaintop removal threatens the environment; and still others feel the practice threatens future coal mining. All sides feel their arguments support a way of life that has existed for generations. With nearly 50 percent of America’s relatively inexpensive electrical power still coming from coal, it’s a battle whose outcome affects everyone.

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