This Weekend's Programming 8/4/12

SATURDAY, August 4, 2012

SANJAY GUPTA, MD – Airs Saturday 4:30PM – 5:00PM
This week on Sanjay Gupta MD, Sanjay examines Olympic cheating: how athletes may try and foil drug tests. Sanjay talks with Dr. Victor Conte, founder of the BALCO laboratory, who went to prison after helping top athletes obtain and use steroids. He says cheating is just as easy as it was 10 years ago. Also, the high technology that’s helping Olympic swimmers and runners, and an interview with Rebecca Soni who just set the world-record in the 200 meter-breaststroke

THE SITUATION ROOM WITH WOLF BLITZER – Airs Saturday 6:00PM – 7:00PM
Topic: Israel; Politics
Guest: Shimon Peres, Israeli President
Topic: Israel; Politics
Guest: Ehud Barak, Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense
Guest anchor: Candy Crowley

CNN PRESENTS: ATLANTA CHILD MURDERS – Airs Saturday 8:00PM – 10:00PM and 11:00PM (Sunday 2:00AM and 4:00AM)
Over 30 years after the murders of more than 25 Black children, teens and young adults, CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien investigates the nearly two-year siege of fear that gripped the city of Atlanta. Although Wayne Williams continues to profess his innocence from behind bars, with his arrest and conviction, he was described as both a “monster” – and the nation’s first Black serial killer. In his first television interview in 10 years, O’Brien’s exclusive access to Williams and new evidence offers viewers a new look at the persistent doubts, and invites viewers to decide for themselves who was responsible for all those lost young lives. Viewers can analyze the evidence at www.CNN.com/atlantachildmurders.

SUNDAY, August 5, 2012


SANJAY GUPTA, MD – Airs Sunday 7:30AM – 8:00AM
This week on Sanjay Gupta MD, Sanjay examines Olympic cheating: how athletes may try and foil drug tests. Sanjay talks with Dr. Victor Conte, founder of the BALCO laboratory, who went to prison after helping top athletes obtain and use steroids. He says cheating is just as easy as it was 10 years ago. Also, the high technology that’s helping Olympic swimmers and runners, and an interview with Rebecca Soni who just set the world-record in the 200 meter-breaststroke.

STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY – Airs LIVE Sunday 9:00AM – 10:00AM and NOON
Topic: Campaign 2012; Economy; July Jobs Report
Guest: Robert Gibbs, senior Obama campaign adviser
Topic: 2012 Politics; Situation in Syria; Sequestration and the Military
Guest: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), member, Armed Services Committee
Topic: July Jobs Report; Federal Regulations
Guest: Carly Fiorina, vice chairman, National Republican Senatorial Committee; former chairman and CEO, HP
Guest: Bob Johnson, founder, Black Entertainment Television
Anchor: Candy Crowley

FAREED ZAKARIA GPS – Airs Sunday 10:00AM – 11:00AM and 1:00PM – 2:00PM
Topics: Was Romney using Israel to get the American Jewish vote? Is there a litmus test for presidential candidates on Israel? Has President Obama been soft on Iran? Who will get the Jewish vote in November?
Guest: Peter Beinart, senior columnist, Newsweek/The Daily Beast – editor, Open Zion, contributor – TIME
Guest: Bret Stephens, Global View columnist, The Wall Street Journal
Topic: Global warming: is it happening? Is it man-made? What can be done about it? Why and how did Muller go from being a skeptic to a believer? Will he continue to receive funding from Charles Koch?
Guest: Richard Muller, PhD professor of physics, University of California at Berkeley, author (Energy for Future Presidents, 2012)
Topics: How do we end up as liberals or conservatives? Why can’t liberals understand the conservative mindset? Which side has a psychological advantage?
Guest: Jonathan Haidt, PhD, professor, New York University Stern School of Business; author (The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, 2012)
Anchor: Fareed Zakaria

RELIABLE SOURCES – Airs LIVE Sunday 11AM - NOON
Topics: Political Headlines; Romney Campaign’s Strained Relationship with the Press
Guest: Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle
Guest: Michael Shear, The New York Times
Guest: Bill Press, Current TV; syndicated radio talk show host
Topics: NBC’s Special Twitter Relationship Shuts Down a Journalist’s Account
Guest: Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine.com
Topics: Investigating Jonah Lehrer’s Lies
Guest: Michael Moynihan, contributing editor, Reason Magazine
Topics: Being Setup By WikiLeaks; Fox News
Guest: Bill Keller, columnist and former executive editor, The New York Times
Host: Howard Kurtz

THE NEXT LIST – Sunday 2:00PM – 2:30PM
This week The Next List profiles Ben Kaufman, the 25-year-old founder and CEO of Quirky.com, a start up website that gives would-be-inventors with no experience a place to see their ideas come to life. Quirky is a one-stop shop that uses a huge internet community to weigh in on design, marketability and price.

CNN PRESENTS – Airs Sunday 8:00PM – 9:00PM and 11:00PM (Monday 2:00AM)
A three-story magazine edition hosted by Drew Griffin and Randi Kaye, includes a report from Drew Griffin that examines race relations in Mississippi and takes an in-depth look at the brutal murder of an innocent African American man. In a separate report, Griffin investigates the practice of sharing “recall” exams – questions and answers to old tests – between military doctors in preparation for American Board of Radiology exams. Lastly, investigative reporter Deborah Feyerick probes into the controversial case against a former NYC transit officer who was convicted of murdering another man in a dispute.

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