This Weekend's Programming 9/22/12

SATURDAY, September 22, 2012

SANJAY GUPTA, MD – Airs Saturday 4:30PM – 5:00PM The head of the country’s biggest cancer center announced on Friday that they’re ready to radically cut deaths from cancer, in the next few years. This week on ‘Sanjay Gupta MD’, Sanjay has an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at this vow – the first part in a series at MD Anderson. Also, a discouraging study about the most popular diet supplements is claiming that supplements like Omega-3 fatty acids do not help prevent heard disease. Sanjay talks with Physician Nutrition Specialist Dr. Melina Jampolis, who tells him: don’t drop those pills just yet.

THE SITUATION ROOM WITH WOLF BLITZER – Airs Saturday 6:00PM – 7:00PM
Topic: Politics
Guest: Ron Brownstein, CNN Senior Political Analyst; Editorial Director, The National Journal
Topic: Middle East
Guest: Fran Townsend, CNN National Security Contributor
Topic: Middle East
Guest: Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst; Author, Manhunt
Anchor: Wolf Blitzer

CRUISE TO DISASTER – Airs Saturday 8:00PM – 9:00PM and 11:00PM (Sunday 2:00AM) CNN senior international correspondent Dan Rivers investigates safety issues within the cruise industry – specifically focusing on the January 13, 2012, Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster off the Italian coast, which claimed the lives of 32 passengers and crew members. Rivers takes an in-depth look at the multiple failures and consequences of that night by interviewing several surviving passengers as well as Costa CEO Pier Luigi Foschi and ship captain Francesco Schettino’s lawyer. International Maritime Organization Secretary General Koji Sekimizu and U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller speak about the safety issues raised by the disaster.

SUNDAY, September 23, 2012

SANJAY GUPTA, MD – Airs Sunday 7:30AM – 8:00AM
The head of the country’s biggest cancer center announced on Friday that they’re ready to radically cut deaths from cancer, in the next few years. This week on ‘Sanjay Gupta MD’, Sanjay has an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at this vow – the first part in a series at MD Anderson. Also, a discouraging study about the most popular diet supplements is claiming that supplements like Omega-3 fatty acids do not help prevent heard disease. Sanjay talks with Physician Nutrition Specialist Dr. Melina Jampolis, who tells him: don’t drop those pills just yet.

STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY – Airs LIVE Sunday 9:00AM – 10:00AM and NOON
Topics: 2012 Politics; Democratic Agenda; Immigration Reform; U.S. Troop Drawdown in Afghanistan
Guest: Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Majority Whip
Topics: 2012 Politics; Republican Agenda; Agenda; Immigration Reform; U.S. Troop Drawdown in Afghanistan
Guest: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), member, Armed Services Committee
Topics: State Dept. Ad Campaign in Pakistan; Libya; Anti-American Violence; Congressional Fight Over Foreign Aid
Guest: Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), chairman, House Intelligence Committee
Anchor: Candy Crowley

FAREED ZAKARIA GPS – Airs 10:00AM – 11:00AM and 1:00PM – 2:00PM
Topic: Why should voters give President Obama a second term? What should the U.S. and the international community do about Syria? What should the U.S. do about the recent rise in “green on blue” attacks in Afghanistan? Will Israel strike Iran? What is the appropriate response to the violent reactions to the anti-Muslim film in Libya, Egypt and in other countries across the Muslim World?
Guest: Bill Clinton, former President of the United States
Topics: Religious extremism – have we reached a tipping point for the current crisis? Will the current reactions to the anti-Muslim film change the way future anti-Muslim insults are managed by Middle East governments – and extremist groups?
Guest: Salman Rushdie, author Critical Insights: Salman Rushdie (2013)
Anchor: Fareed Zakaria

RELIABLE SOURCES – Airs LIVE Sunday 11AM - NOON
Topics: Media Coverage of Romney Hidden Camera Tape; New Book
Guest: Bob Woodward, The Washington Post; author, “The Price of Politics”
Topics: Media Coverage of Romney Hidden Camera Tape
Guest: Peter Baker, The New York Times
Guest: Lynn Sweet, The Chicago Sun-Times
Topics: Partisan Split Over the Romney Tape, Fall Out for the Campaign and Media
Guest: Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post’s “Right Turn” Blog
Guest: Bill Press, host, “The Bill Press Show”
Host: Howard Kurtz

THE NEXT LIST – Sunday 2:00PM – 2:30PM This week ‘The Next List’ profiles neuroscientist and best selling author David Eagleman who is wrestling with some of the most profound questions of our existence: What is time? What is consciousness? How does the human brain construct reality? Whether he’s peering into the mind of a mass murderer or spinning tales of the afterlife, as head of the Laboratory for Perception and Action at Baylor Medical College in Houston, Eagleman and his students are pursuing some 50 different projects on the human brain.

GLOBAL LESSONS: PUTTING AMERICA TO WORK – Airs Sunday 8:00PM – 9:00PM and 11:00PM (Monday 2:00AM)
The 2012 U.S. election will pivot, in large part, on perceptions of the status of the economic recovery, which most people view in terms of improved jobs numbers. Economic experts now predict it may take as long as 60 months for America to return to pre-2008 employment levels. CNN’s and Time’s Fareed Zakaria says a “patchwork system of job training programs” are why the U.S. has 3.5 million unfilled jobs and takes an in-depth look at public-private partnerships and industrial policies in Germany, the Netherlands, Charlotte, NC, Chicago, IL, and Albany, NY, for models of job engines. Zakaria interviews Philips CEO Frans van Houten, Dr. Alain Kaloyeros, CEO of the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at The University at Albany-SUNY, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Frits Van Paasschen, president & CEO of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., discusses growth prospects for perhaps the ultimate “un-outsourcable” American industry: tourism.

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