March 12th, 2011

CNN Programming: Sunday, March 13

Updates to CNN’s programming for Sunday, March 13 are after the jump.

ALL TIMES EASTERN

SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 2011

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

Topic:   Budget Battle

Guest:   Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)

Topic:   Japan Government’s Response to Earthquake, Tsunami

Guest:   Ichiro Fujisaki, Japanese Ambassador to the U.S.

Topic:   Budget Battle: Compromise of Government Shutdown?

Guest:   Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) Majority Whip

Guest:   Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) Minority Whip

Topic:   Nuclear Power Plant Risks in Japan

Guest:   James Acton, nuclear policy program associate, Carnegie Endowment

Topic:   Preparing a Country for a Natural Disaster

Guest:   James Lee Witt, former FEMA Director

Anchor:  Candy Crowley

FAREED ZAKARIA GPS – Airs Sunday 10:00AM – 11:00AM and 1:00PM – 2:00PM on CNN/U.S. and 8:00AM – 9:00AM on CNN International

Topic:      Unrest and revolution in the Middle East; what does the “Arab street” really want – no-fly zones? Other Western military support?  Has the wave of revolution stopped?

Guest:     Rashid Khalidi, Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University

Guest:     Ashraf Khalil, senior reporter, Cairo’s Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper

Guest:     Abderrahim Foukara, Washington, DC, bureau chief for Al Jazeera

Guest:     Rami Khouri, director of the Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy, American University of Beirut

Topic:      Crisis in Pakistan rachets up; political/religious assassination in Pakistan

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

Topic:      From Mogadishu to Buffalo and back; failed nation-states; pirates

Guest:     Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, prime minister for Somalia

Host:       Fareed Zakaria

RELIABLE SOURCES – Airs LIVE 11:00AM – NOON

Topic:    NPR Shake-up After Video Sting

Guest:    Terence Smith, former PBS media correspondent

Guest:    Alicia Shepard, ombudsman, NPR

Host:     Howard Kurtz