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Wolf Blitzer

Wolf Blitzer is CNN's lead political anchor and the anchor of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, CNN’s fast-paced, political news program that provides up-to-the minute coverage of the day’s events. The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer airs every weekday and in an abbreviated format on Saturday evenings. The program celebrated its six-year anniversary in August 2011. Blitzer has been with the network for more than 20 years.

In the 2012 election season, Blitzer has moderated three CNN Republican presidential debates. In September 2011, Blitzer moderated the first-of-its-kind CNN-Tea Party debate in Tampa, Florida. In November 2011, he moderated a debate on national security, foreign policy and the economy in Washington D.C. In January 2012, Blitzer moderated the last debate in Jacksonville, Florida before that state’s highly-anticipated primary. Furthermore, Blitzer has lead CNN’s election coverage throughout America’s Choice 2012, serving as lead anchor on key primary and caucus nights. During the 2008 presidential election, Blitzer spearheaded CNN’s Peabody Award-winning coverage of the presidential primary debates and campaigns.

Blitzer also served as the anchor of Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer for more than a decade. The Sunday public affairs program, which was seen in more than 200 countries around the world, featured interviews with presidents and heads of state, politicians, candidates and observers.

Blitzer began his career in 1972 with the Reuters News Agency in Tel Aviv. Shortly thereafter, he became a Washington, D.C., correspondent for The Jerusalem Post. Blitzer joined CNN in 1990 as the network’s military-affairs correspondent at the Pentagon. He served as CNN’s senior White House correspondent covering President Bill Clinton from his election in November 1992 until 1999.

Over the decades, Blitzer has reported on a wide range of major breaking stories around the world that have shaped the international political landscape. He has interviewed some of history's most notable figures, including former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. Blitzer has also interviewed many foreign leaders— the Dalai Lama, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, former South African President Nelson Mandela, among them.

Blitzer is the author of two books, Between Washington and Jerusalem: A Reporter's Notebook (Oxford University Press, 1985) and Territory of Lies (Harper and Row, 1989). The latter was cited by The New York Times Book Review as one of the most notable books of 1989.

He earned a bachelor of arts degree in history from the State University of New York at Buffalo, a master of arts degree in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C.