Hello media consumers. Welcome to Pressbox. It's Brian Curtis, along with producers

Isaiah Blakely and Bruce Baldwin, coming to you today from CNN headquarters in Washington, D.C.,

where I have just interviewed Wolf Blitzer. Now, before we bring on Blitzer, I want to tell you about a new

press box feature called This Is Your Media Life. When you have a guest like Blitzer who's worked

here for 36 years, we don't want to just do the conventional career retrospective interview.

We want to ask him about five big stories he covered for CNN.

The stories are the Gulf War in 1990 when Blitzer joined CNN to cover the Pentagon, the

1998 Monica Lewinsky, or should I say, Bill Clinton scandal when Blitzer was covering

the White House.

We'll talk about 9-11.

We'll talk about Barack Obama's election in 2008, when Blitzer was playing point guard for CNN on election night.

And finally, we'll talk about the event that gave us the political timeline we're still living in.

Donald Trump's election is president in 2016.

Settle back, relax, and repeat the mantra you hear from that bearded man on television.

We are watching this very closely.

Wolf Blitzer, this is your media life. Wolf, I knew you were a Bill's fan when you were growing up in Buffalo.

I didn't know you played linebacker when you were in high school.

What kind of linebacker were you?

Not a very good linebacker, but I enjoyed it.

And I had a lot of friends who were on the football team, Kenmore West Senior High School,

right outside of Buffalo, New York.

It wasn't our rival, Kenmore East Senior senior high school. We used to, when we played

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