This Weekend's Programming 8/18/12

SATURDAY, August 18, 2012

SANJAY GUPTA, MD – Airs Saturday 4:30PM – 5:00PM
This week on Sanjay Gupta MD, Sanjay looks at the future of Medicare. He examines plans put forth by Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, and compares it to President Obama’s plan. He also talks with Jonathan Cohn, senior editor of the New Republic and author of the book “Sick,” who has done his own in-depth reporting on the implications of the various Medicare plans.

THE SITUATION ROOM WITH WOLF BLITZER – Airs Saturday 6:00PM – 7:00PM
The best of The Situation Room from the week of August 13.
Guest anchor: Joe Johns

CNN PRESENTS: UNWELCOME: THE MUSLIMS NEXT DOOR – Airs Saturday 8:00PM – 9:00PM and 11:00PM (Sunday 2:00AM)
Murfreesboro, Tennessee (pop. 100,000) is home to 190 churches… and one mosque. Five times a day members of the Muslim community gather in Islamic Center of Murfreesboro to pray… men in one room, women and children in another. Muslims have lived in Murfreesboro for decades, yet when plans to build a new mosque were approved this summer, questions were raised and the resulting backlash and acts of vandalism revealed a community divided by deep-rooted suspicions about Muslims, and Islam. CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien reports the story of Muslims and non-Muslims, from Murfreesboro to Manhattan, struggling to find common ground in America.

SUNDAY, August 19, 2012

SANJAY GUPTA, MD – Airs Sunday 7:30AM – 8:00AM
This week on Sanjay Gupta MD, Sanjay looks at the future of Medicare. He examines plans put forth by Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, and compares it to President Obama’s plan. He also talks with Jonathan Cohn, senior editor of the New Republic and author of the book “Sick,” who has done his own in-depth reporting on the implications of the various Medicare plans.

STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY – Airs LIVE Sunday 9:00AM – 10:00AM and NOON
Topics: Medicare Debate; Taxes; Race to the White House
Guest: Eric Fehrnstrom, senior adviser, Romney campaign
Topics: Medicare Debate; Taxes; Election 2012
Guest: Stephanie Cutter, deputy campaign manager, Obama re-elect campaign
Topics: Romney-Ryan Ticket; Combative Tone of the Campaigns
Guest: Rick Santorum (R), former presidential candidate; former Pennsylvania senator
Guest Anchor: Jim Acosta, CNN national political correspondent

THE SITUATION ROOM WITH WOLF BLITZER – Airs Sunday 10:00AM – 11:00AM and 1:00PM
The best of The Situation Room from the week of August 13.
Guest anchor: Joe Johns

RELIABLE SOURCES – Airs LIVE Sunday 11AM - NOON
Topics: Paul Ryan Coverage
Guest: Steve Roberts, Professor of Media and Journalism at GWU
Guest: Erin McPike, Real Clear Politics
Guest: Jonathan Martin, Politico
Topics: Paul Ryan Coverage; VP Pick Honeymoon Over
Guest: Amy Holmes, GBTV
Guest: David Shuster, Current TV
Topics: Moderating Debates; Romney-Ryan First Interview
Guest: Bob Schieffer, anchor, CBS’s “Face the Nation”
Topics: Legacy of Helen Gurley Brown
Guest: Gail Sheehy, author, "Passages in Caregiving"
Host: Howard Kurtz

THE NEXT LIST – Sunday 2:00PM – 2:30PM
This week The Next List profiles Hugh Herr, director of the Biomechatronics Group and the MIT Media Lab. A double amputee since age 17, he seeks to create prosthetics that transform the ways amputees experience their lives, revolutionize sports and change the entire psychology of disability. He founded a company called iWalk, which fits veterans with bionic ankles and works on developing other forms of prosthetics for those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

CNN PRESENTS – Airs Sunday 8:00PM – 9:00PM and 11:00PM (Monday 2:00AM)
In a three-story magazine special crime edition hosted by Drew Griffin and Randi Kaye, Griffin investigates one of the most complicated bank robbery investigations in FBI history, in which an Erie, Pennsylvania man walked into a bank wearing a bomb collar he said had been forced to wear and demanded $250,000. Kaye investigates tax refund fraud – where criminals steal identities, and apply for refund money with stolen debit cards. In a separate report, Kaye explores the disappearance of two men in Florida who were last seen with the same sheriff's deputy.

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