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

I've had the great pleasure over the last three years on election nights and debate nights to sit on a CNN panel next to Gloria Borger, the Network's Chief Political Analyst.

And one of America's great veteran political journalists. I sat down with Gloria the day after the midterms last week to talk about the results, but also to talk about her remarkable career as one of the real pioneers among women in political journalism. Here's that conversation.

Gloria Borger, good to see you on an eventful week. We're recording this the day after the midterm elections. And I'm going to get to all of that, the sacking of the Attorney General and all of that news because there's no rest for the weary.

No, there isn't. But I want to talk a little bit about your own journey first, starting in New Rochelle, which as I remember was where Rob Petri and Laura Petri lived in the Dick Van Dyke show.

Your quintessential suburban community in New York. Tell me about your folks in New Rochelle.

I actually was born in the Bronx. And when my father opened air conditioning television store with his brother, we moved to the suburbs. We moved to New Rochelle, New York.

But we lived in an apartment building, never, never lived in a house. My mother was a homemaker and my father commuted into the city every day. I went to public schools, culminating in the wonderful New Rochelle high school, which was a very large high school.

I think my graduating class at six or 700 kids, very diverse. And it burned down my senior year.

Oh, my. There was an arsonist, actually my junior year. And then my senior year, we went to school in trailers. And I actually just went back to New Rochelle high school to speak to the students there.

And it was in a phenomenal experience for me because it's now 2500 kids, all kinds of education from kids who end up at Harvard to special vocational training. It's just an amazing place.

So it was a wonderful place to go to high school. New Rochelle back then was probably not terribly diverse, right?

It actually, it actually was. It actually was. It was divided by one road in town, but there, but it actually was a pretty diverse high school. And my friends were black and white, which for those days, an I'm an old lady, was kind of amazing.

And so that's how we, that's how we grew up. And there were a lot of private schools around, but we couldn't afford it. And I'm glad I didn't go, actually.

Now, was politics discussed in the house?

Politics was not a big issue in my house. My parents are Democrats were Democrats. And it was just kind of assumed.

But no, not really issues were discussed. Local issues were discussed. My mother was very involved. But politics per se, not so much.

I was the editor of my high school newspaper. You'll be surprised to learn. And so I was, I was very involved with the politics of my high school.

But, but at home, it was sort of much more traditional than the way my kids grew up in Washington, DC, where politics was discussed nonstop.

And you, you were the editor of the newspaper. You, what drew you to that? What drew you to the journalism?

I don't know. I think I've always been kind of a gossip. And I like to ask questions. The you cannot herald was what it was. And, and it was, we did, we put it out. I think every couple of weeks.

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