CNN Press Release - CNN will provide live programming of President Obama’s speech at 8 p.m. ET with Wolf Blitzer anchoring. Chief national correspondent John King and national political correspondent Jessica Yellin will provide coverage of the victims’ memorial service and the latest details about Saturday's tragedy in Tucson. Tonight’s coverage also will include historian Douglas Brinkley, CNN senior political analyst David Gergen, and former presidential speechwriter Michael Gerson.

Beginning at 8 p.m. ET, the President’s speech also will be live streamed on CNN.com and via the CNN App for iPad, and CNN App for iPhone and iPod touch.

CNN Press Image - (L-R) Members of the Political Panel Roland Martin, Mary Matalin, David Gergen, Candy Crowley, John King and Wolf Blitzer speak as moderator Anderson Cooper looks on at CNN + HLN Newsmakers 2010 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 13, 2010 in New York City.

CNN Press Release - CNN’s John King will travel to a manufacturing factory in Bedford Heights, Ohio, to interview President-elect Barack Obama for an exclusive interview before being sworn in as president on Tuesday, Jan. 20.

The interview will air during The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer on Friday, which airs 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. (ET). King will question Obama on substantive issues that he will face in the first days of his administration, including the economy and national security. Obama will also discuss his relationship with President George W. Bush, share his thoughts on his family’s move to Washington and reflect on the historic nature of becoming the first African-American U.S. president.

John King is CNN’s chief national correspondent and the anchor of the new Sunday morning program State of the Union with John King, which debuts this weekend from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (ET).

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CNN Press Release: Cheney, Pelosi to Appear on Final Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer

CNN’s lead political anchor Wolf Blitzer will host Vice President Dick Cheney and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi for the final Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer on Sunday, Jan. 11.

As he prepares to pass the torch to John King who will anchor State of the Union with John King, Blitzer will sit down with the two leaders to discuss the ailing economy, the war on terrorism and the challenges the new administration faces in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East. Cheney will reflect on his legacy as the Bush administration comes to a close, while Pelosi will discuss the upcoming congressional agenda.

Blitzer served as the anchor of Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer for 11 years. The program was seen in more than 200 countries and territories around the world and featured interviews with presidents, heads of state, politicians, candidates and observers.

Blitzer will continue to anchor The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, which airs weekdays 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. (ET).

King was tapped last month to anchor a four-hour Sunday news power block, following his break-out reporting during the 2008 election season. The program, which will air 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. beginning Sunday, Jan. 18, will offer a blend of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, national and world affairs and cultural segments and will include media analysis from Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz.

CNN Press Release - Special year-end editions of Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, Reliable Sources and After Party will air in the final weekend of 2008, Saturday, Dec. 27 and Sunday, Dec. 28.

Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer: Best of 2008 will examine a remarkable year in news and look ahead at what is in store for 2009. CNN lead political anchor Wolf Blitzer will be joined by members of the “Best Political Team on Television” to look back at newsmaker interviews during the year of a historic election and a global economic crisis. Interviews with key political and business leaders including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Sen. John McCain, President-elect Barack Obama, Gov. Sarah Palin and CNN founder Ted Turner. Airing Sunday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (ET), Blitzer and the panel will look ahead at the incoming Obama administration and discuss the future of the GOP.

Howard Kurtz hosts Reliable Sources: A Year in Review to examine coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign and changes in the news business. Kurtz will be joined by Amy Holmes, CNN political contributor; Bill Press, radio talk show host; Terence Smith, former PBS media correspondent; and Jessica Yellin, CNN national political correspondent. The one-hour program will air in its usual time slot, Sunday at 10 a.m. (ET).

After Party will be moderated by David Brody, CNN political contributor and correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network, and will air Saturday at 6 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. (ET). Brody will host Michelle Cottle, senior editor at The New Republic; Christopher Hayes, Washington editor of The Nation; Stephen Hayes, senior writer at The Weekly Standard and CNN political contributor; and Tara Wall, deputy editorial page editor at The Washington Times and CNN political contributor. Guests will discuss the ailing economy, President-elect Obama’s plans upon taking office, foreign policy and the conservative-progressive divide in the United States.

A transcript of the program will be available at http://www.CNN.com/transcripts and from the Federal Document Clearing House.

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CNN Press Release - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will appear on CNN’s Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer on Sunday, Dec. 7. As her tenure comes to a close, Rice will discuss her legacy, her successor and key issues that will carry into the Obama administration, including the fight against international terrorism and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Anchor Wolf Blitzer will also be joined by Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.) and Gov. Ed Rendell (D-Penn.) to discuss the auto industry’s appeal to Congress for a bailout loan and President-elect Obama’s Cabinet selections.

Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer airs Sundays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (ET) and is seen in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. Lucy Spiegel is the program’s senior executive producer and Linda Roth is the executive producer.

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CNN Press Release - In the days before the last votes are cast and counted in the 2008 presidential election, CNN will air special election programming throughout the weekend that features lead political anchor Wolf Blitzer and other members of the Best Political Team on Television.

On Saturday, Nov. 1, at 5 p.m. (ET), CNN political contributor and Christian Broadcasting Network senior correspondent David Brody will host the one-hour special Election Countdown: View from the Right. This roundtable discussion will examine the strength of the McCain-Palin ticket, the priorities for conservatives after the election and top issues on voters’ minds, including national security and the economy. Brody will be joined by Amanda Carpenter, national political reporter for Townhall.com; Brian DeBose, editorial writer for The Washington Times; Stephen Hayes, senior writer for The Weekly Standard; and Kevin Madden, Republican strategist and former press secretary for Gov. Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.

On Sunday, Nov. 2, Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer expands to a three-hour election special, airing from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (ET). Blitzer will be joined by McCain and Obama campaign surrogates and members of the Best Political Team about expectations on Election Day. Chief national correspondent John King will be on hand with the “Magic Wall” to zero in on the hotly contested battleground states and calculate electoral math based on the latest polling. Reliable Sources host Howard Kurtz will join Blitzer to lead panel discussions with fellow journalists about the coverage of the election.

To cap off the weekend, Blitzer will anchor a one-hour election preview special on Sunday at 8 p.m. (ET) He will be joined by members of the Best Political Team live from the campaign trail. Senior political analyst Bill Schneider will zero in on the latest polling data, and King will again break down the electoral map county-by-county in his analysis of battleground states.

Encore presentations of the 90-minute CNN Presents documentaries McCain Revealed and Obama Revealed will air back-to-back on Saturday at 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. (ET), respectively.

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CNN’s Wolf Blitzer will anchor The Situation Room live from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, April 17. The special program will focus on Pope Benedict XVI and the Catholic Church during the pope’s final day in the nation’s capital. Blitzer will also provide in-depth coverage of the pope’s address at 5 p.m., which will be held on the Catholic University campus and delivered to the heads of more than 200 Catholic U.S. colleges and universities and to the superintendents from the 195 Catholic dioceses.

CNN correspondent Brian Todd will join Blitzer in reporting from the campus. Todd will explore the relationship between Pope Benedict XVI and other religious faiths. Correspondent Mary Snow will also be covering the pope for the program.

The Situation Room is CNN’s daily political news broadcast. It airs weekdays from 4-7 p.m. Eric Sherling is the executive producer.

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Tonight (Sunday, March 30) at 8:00 PM ET, Join Wolf Blitzer for a special edition of The Situation Room on CNN Domestic.

Fran Lewine, Washington DC Assignment Editor/Producer for CNN, died Saturday of an apparent stroke.


CNN.com has the obituary.


ICN has transcripts from Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer and Reliable Sources.


Greta Van Sustren remembers Fran in her blog.


She will definitely be missed.

CNN Pressroom - Situation Room to Run 4-7p.m., Lou Dobbs Tonight Moves to 7 p.m. as Network Girds for Intense Election Year

Leveraging the ratings successes and buzz around two of its signature political programs, CNN will flip the time periods of Lou Dobbs Tonight and the third hour of The Situation Room. Under the new schedule, The Situation Room becomes a single, three-hour program from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. (ET), leading into Lou Dobbs Tonight at 7 p.m. (ET).

The new schedule creates a four-hour block of breaking news plus political analysis and opinion. CNN's lead political anchor, Wolf Blitzer, will kick off the evening then hand off to Lou Dobbs. The new lineup debuts Monday, Nov. 5, one year from Election Day 2008.

CNN also announced that Blitzer, who led the network’s Emmy Award-winning Election Night 2006 coverage, will anchor the network’s caucus and primary coverage, Democratic and Republican conventions and Election Night coverage. He will also moderate three important upcoming presidential debates: a Democratic candidates debate in Las Vegas on Nov. 15, the Congressional Black Caucus debate in South Carolina on Jan. 17, and the final Democratic debate before Super Tuesday in Los Angeles on Jan. 31.

“As the countdown to Election Day 2008 begins, we're capitalizing on the momentum of two of our most talked-about and fastest-growing political programs,” said Jon Klein, president of CNN/U.S. “Wolf and The Best Political Team on Television have turned The Situation Room into a must-see stop for anyone serious about politics, while Lou has become one of the most influential political journalists of our day through his fearless reporting and commentary on issues of vital interest to America’s middle class.”

“Lou Dobbs Tonight has experienced dramatic ratings growth over the last two years, rising 18 percent this year in the P25-54 demo. Lou Dobbs Tonight has become the most-watched program on the network outside of Larry King Live.

In little more than two years on the air, The Situation Room has become the top political destination on cable news, beating all competition at 4 p.m. in the month of September and showing double-digit growth year-over-year in all three of its hours.

“I'm honored to lead CNN’s political team during this extraordinary election year, and I'm thrilled that The Situation Room will be whole again,” Blitzer said. “The three-hour block makes more sense for The Situation Room because at 6 p.m. there is so much news still developing, particularly news out of Washington and the political world. We can cover that breaking news in our unique style while still presenting a comprehensive look at all the top political developments of the day.”

I can’t wait to hit prime time,” Dobbs said. “Our program is tailor-made for people who’ve heard the headlines, think most of the news defies logic and want to understand what’s really happening in, and to, this country.”

Blitzer also anchors Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (ET). Lou Dobbs Tonight re-airs on weekends at 6 p.m. (ET)

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No, he's not switching offices, but he sure has been working in different bureaus recently. Normally based in the New York bureau, last week he was in Atlanta co-anchoring the afternoon edition of CNN Newsroom filling in for Don Lemon and tonight he is filling in from Washington for The Situation Room host Wolf Blitzer.

Would you like to see Miles O'Brien moved back to a full-time anchor postiion? Yes No Current Results

CNN Pressroom - Sen. Jon Kyl, Sen. Jim Webb Among Others Slated as Guests for Sunday, April 15, Program

Former Vice President Walter Mondale will appear on the Sunday, April 15, edition of CNN’s Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. In an exclusive, wide-ranging interview, Mondale will discuss the war in Iraq, the struggle between Congress and President George W. Bush over troop funding and the race to the White House for 2008.

Also joining anchor Wolf Blitzer will be Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), who will discuss the threat of a nuclear Iran and the continuing conflict in Iraq. Additionally, Richard Perle, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former member of the Defense Policy Board, will weigh in on the fight for Iraq and the threat of Iran.

CNN’s Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer airs Sundays from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. (ET). Linda Roth is the executive producer of the program. Lucy Spiegel is the senior executive producer and vice president of weekend public affairs programming. A transcript of the program will be available at http://www.CNN.com/transcripts and from the Federal Document Clearing House.

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