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And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your host, David Axelrod.

I just want to remind you again that the Axviles has been nominated for two Webby Awards and you will decide our fate.

If you guys like this podcast, then go on to webbyawords.com and the two categories in which we were nominated were best interviews, slash talk show and best host, one that is particularly close to me.

If you could go on and vote in both those categories, that would be great.

Now, Jim Sudo, even as we speak, I'm looking across the room and there he is on CNN talking about the events of the last few days in Syria.

Jim Sudo came by the Institute of Politics last week before the raid against Assad to bring to bear his 20 years as an international correspondent for ABC,

chief national security correspondent for CNN, and two years as a senior aide in the American Embassy in Beijing.

China, the Middle East, these are areas he knows as well as any.

And we had a chance to talk about all of that and his life when he came by the IOP.

Jim Sudo, among other things, my fellow New Yorker, welcome here.

I see you are a product of Regis High School in New York, a Jesuit school.

Yeah.

How did that impact on your worldview?

There's certainly no other school that I went to that was more influential on the way that I think and the way I tried to add.

People at Yale may resent that.

I know, and I say it, I even say it to my to my Yale friends, but it was the Jesuits are a special breed.

I think the world's learning that now with this Pope with Francis.

You see it in him. They're intellectuals.

They really influence the way I think about the world.

And they are questioners by nature.

And I think that some of that probably led me the way that I went in terms of my career path.

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