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Wolf Blitzer paid tribute to CNN political analyst Gloria Borger on Thursday (December 19) as she gets set to depart the news network after 17 years. At the end of Thursday’s edition of The Situation Room, Blitzer turned to Borger to thank her for all her contributions over the years, noting that her first appearance on the network came on his show back in September 2007. “Everybody stand back for a moment. I want to have a special moment right now to say, ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you,’ to our Gloria Borger,” Blitzer said, per Deadline. “Seventeen years here at CNN. This is going to be your last week here at CNN. You’re getting ready to move on, and we want to wish you only the very best.” The long-time news anchor continued, “You and I go way back. In fact, your first appearance on CNN was right here in The Situation Room.

CNN political analyst Gloria Borger is exiting the news network after 17 years, and Wolf Blitzer has shown his gratitude for her contributions to The Situation Room over the years.

At the end of Thursday, December 19’s broadcast, Blitzer took a moment to thank Borger and remember her first appearance on his show, airing a clip from September 13, 2007.

“Everybody stand back for a moment. I want to have a special moment right now to say, ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you,’ to our Gloria Borger. Seventeen years here at CNN. This is going to be your last week here at CNN. You’re getting ready to move on and we want to wish you only the very best,” Blitzer told Borger. “You and I go way back, in fact, your first appearance on CNN was right here in The Situation Room.”

The clip showed Blitzer hosting The Situation Room and taking...

Gloria Borger, who has been senior political analyst at CNN, is departing, the network confirmed.

Borger has been with the network since 2007, and has been a prominent figure in election coverage. She has appeared on shows like The Situation Room and AC360, but scaled back her role at the network in recent years.

Previously as chief political analyst, Borger hosted the documentary Fight for the White House: Joe Biden’s Long Journey, and in 2016 reported on the longform All Business: The Essential Donald Trump and Almost President: The Agony of Defeat.

Before CNN. Borger was national political correspondent for CBS News and contributed to Face the Nation, 60 Minutes II and special events coverage. She also was co-anchor of CNBC’s Capital Report. Status newsletter first reported on her departure.

CNN Worldwide CEO CEO Mark Thompson has been in the midst of a new strategic focus on the network’s digital efforts amid leaner budgets.

Broadcast networks are devoting their primetime hours to coverage of next week’s midterm results, underscoring the stakes and interest in this year’s election. But the night is also a bit of a prelude to 2024, as all of the news divisions and cable news outlets hope that audiences will return for another momentous presidential election.

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The biggest questions Tuesday — whether Democrats retain control of Congress, and whether Donald Trump-backed election deniers win key statewide posts — will have an impact on the next cycle. And speculation of who will enter the field in 2024, and...

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol is set to deliver its findings during its first public hearings on Thursday night.

The “Big 3” networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) and two major cable news channels (CNN and MSNBC, but not Fox News) will carry live, primetime coverage of the hearings, during which the committee — consisting of chairperson Bennie Thompson (D-ms); majority committee members Zoe Lofgren (D-ca), Elaine Luria (D-va), Adam Schiff (D-ca), Pete Aguilar (D-ca), Stephanie Murphy (D-fl) and Jamie Raskin (D-md); and minority committee members Liz Cheney (R-Wy) and Adam Kinzinger (R-il) — will “show...

President Joe Biden will deliver his first State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 9 p.m. Et/ 6 p.m. Pt. The speech comes as Biden — and the nation — face a host of generational crises including a burgeoning war in Ukraine, an ever-shifting pandemic and the overarching threat of climate change. It will mark Biden’s second address to a joint session of Congress.

A broad swath of outlets will be carrying the speech as well as offering analysis and reaction. See below for a breakdown of the expected coverage. You can also watch the President’s speech via the video embedded below.

ABC’s David Muir will lead the network’s coverage from Washington, D.C., with ABC News’ political team, including Linsey Davis, Cecilia Vega, Jonathan Karl, Martha Raddatz, Pierre Thomas, Chris Christie and Donna Brazile. Correspondents will also report during on ABC News Live.

CNN is parting ways with contributor Rick Santorum, the former Republican Senator and presidential candidate who has come under fire for remarks he made last month about Native American culture.

Speaking to an audience last month at an event organized by Young America’s Foundation, Santorum suggested Native American people had little influence on U.S. culture. “We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here,” he told a gathering of students. “I mean, yes, we have Native Americans, but candidly, there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture.”

The comments drew criticism from groups like the National Congress of American Indians. Santorum didn’t help matters when he appeared on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” and declined to apologize for the remarks or how they were interpreted, simply telling the anchor they were taken out of context. CNN confirmed a previous report in The Huffington Post...

After an extraordinarily busy first 100 days, Joe Biden is not expected to let up in his his first address as president to a Joint Session of Congress on Wednesday.

He’s expected to present his American Families Plan, a $1 trillion proposal that aims to provide free preschool for all 3- and 4-year-old children, bolster health care, education and other core aspects of the average American household. Along with his American Jobs Plan, it represents a $4 trillion infrastructure proposal from Biden.

The president plans to pay with it through a corporate tax hike and via increased taxes on the wealthiest 1% of Americans, including a near doubling of the capital gains rate on incomes above $1 million.

Below is a rundown of how to watch Biden’s United States Capitol address on TV and online.

Deadline will have the livestream right here — see below — starting at 9 p.m. Et/6 p.m. Pt.

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Congress will count the 2020 Electoral College votes on Wednesday to confirm President-elect Joe Biden’s presidential victory in a joint session beginning at 1 p.m. Et/10 a.m. Pt in the House of Representatives.

The final (and usually pro-forma) step in the Potus certification process, today’s count is expected to verify the votes electors cast back in December that gave Biden a 306-232 win in the Electoral College, a month after Biden won the popular vote in the general election. The margin of victory is the same in which now-President Donald Trump declared victory in 2016.

Trump and many GOP members of Congress have disputed the results of the this year’s presidential election, though dozens of attempts to overturn results in both state and federal courts (and two in the U.S. Supreme Court) have failed. Trump continues to press on with unfounded claims that the election was stolen from him,...

This is it, America – Election Day 2020. With President Donald Trump, his Democratic challenger Joe Biden and so many others declaring this “the most important election of our lifetimes,” it’s time for the final votes to be cast and tallied. Deadline will provide live coverage all day – and, likely, night – long, and here is a rundown of how to watch as the historic day unfolds.

You can keep abreast of called states with the Electoral Map on our homepage, and watch our poll closing times to get a sense of where things stand at any given moment. There promises to be no shortage of drama, along with the potential for a 2016-esque GOP surprise or a 2018-like blue wave. But prognosticators gonna prognosticate, while Americans await their new president.

If you haven’t voted yet, please do. Then follow all the action of the strangest election in the strangest year.

The final debate of the 2020 presidential election cycle is tonight in Nashville, with the second nationally televised meeting between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden set to begin at 9 p.m. Et/6 p.m. Pt at Belmont University.

NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker will moderate the debate, which will be simulcast across a total of 16 broadcast and cable networks and available on several streaming services and digital platforms. You can also watch the livestream on Deadline (courtesy of PBS NewsHour) here:

Like the first debate on September 28 in Cleveland — which drew 73.1 million viewers across the networks, the third-highest total ever — tonight’s debate will be 90 minutes without commercial interruption, with the subject matter (chosen by Welker) across six 15-minute segments to include fighting Covid-19, American families, race in America, climate change, national security and leadership.

The Commission on Presidential Debates, which organizes the proceedings, has tweaked...

There’s a little TV event taking place tonight that you might have heard about. President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden will square off in their first debate of the 2020 election season. Deadline is offering the C-span livestream above, but there are numerous other ways to watch.

Moderated by Fox News’ Chris Wallace, the 90-minute tussle starts at 9 p.m. Et from Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland. The Fox News Sunday host already has laid out what tonight’s topics will be, in no particular order: the Trump and Biden records, the Supreme Court, Covid-19, the economy, race and violence in our cities and the integrity of the election.

All the major broadcast and cable news networks and their radio and online outlets will carry the feed, while it will be shown on online platforms ranging from Roku to Twitter.

Here’s a...

If the most unobtrusive man in America thought tonight was his moment in the spotlight at the Republican National Convention, Mike Pence learned the hard way that Donald Trump always gets the last word.

As the powerful Hurricane Laura moved closer and closer to landfall in Texas and Louisiana, Trump’s vice president seemed like an afterthought on Wednesday as the boss came onstage at the end to upstage him without uttering a word.

Speaking live to a small audience at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, the presumed GOP 2024 frontrunner capped a Republican convention production that appeared dramatically out of touch with the harsh weather and other currents in the country. Despite making some near impromptu remarks on the storm and a single reference to the near fatal August 23 police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wi, Pence was also almost overshadowed by protests on the streets of the midwestern...

After Donald Trump characterized houses of worship as “essential services” and called upon governors to open them “right now,” Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany faced questions from reporters about what the president’s authority was to force state officials to do so.

But she also drew pushback when she claimed that reporters in the White House briefing room wanted to see churches remain closed.

In some states, churches have been closed amid the coronavirus pandemic and restrictions on large gatherings.

At today’s briefing, CBS News’ Ben Tracy asked McEnany, “If a governor does not allow that, does the White House support churches that defy these executive orders?”

She replied: “The president has been very clear. He wants to see churches reopen in accordance with these guidelines.”

“The answer is yes?” Tracy asked.

She responded, “I gave you an answer, and the president would like to do it in accordance with the Cdc guidelines.

Donald Trump began speaking at Thursday’s coronavirus press briefing at 6:24 Pm Et.

Twenty two minutes later, he was finished.

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A trend of truncated sessions? Better not try to predict with an unpredictable president.

But Trump’s nightly press briefings, some of which have stretched to more than two hours, have started to wear on some of his allies and supportive media figures.

On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page deemed the press briefings a waste of time and “boring,” the latter being a favorite Trump word he often uses to dismiss media and political figures he doesn’t like.

Joe Biden was the projected winner of the Florida, Illinois and Arizona presidential primaries Tuesday, giving him a delegate lead that makes it all but impossible for Bernie Sanders to catch up.

Biden was projected to win each state handily, after dominating the primary contests on the last two Tuesdays.

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As some pundits declared Biden the presumptive nominee, attention will now focus on whether Sanders stays in the race, especially as states move to postpone their primary contests because of the coronavirus crisis.

“The race for the nomination is over,” David Axelrod, the CNN commentator and...

CNN debate moderator Abby Phillip asked Bernie Sanders in the Tuesday debate in Des Moines:

“CNN reported yesterday — and Senator Sanders, Senator Warren confirmed in a statement — that, in 2018, you told her you did not believe that a woman could win the election. Why did you say that?”

Not “did you say that,” but “why did you say that?”

Sanders denied it, then listed the many reasons the story makes no sense: He urged Warren herself to run in 2016, campaigned for a female candidate who won the popular vote by 3 million votes,...

CNN interacts with most of its viewers via TV screen or mobile device. In weeks to come, however, the news outlet hopes to start engaging its audience at state fairs and local festivals.

The AT&T-owned news network plans new extensions for the “Citizen by CNN” forum it launched last year that aims to spur viewers to develop a more active relationship with politics. In October of 2018, CNN debuted an invite-only “Citizen” conference in New York that included interviews with White House adviser Jared Kusher, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi along with remarks from former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. That event will take place once again on October 24, but it won’t take another year to lapse before it returns.

CNN is planning to bring a series of “experiences” to various parts of the nation throughout the 2020 campaign. “We see an opportunity to harness the energy around the...

As cable news pundits stewed over a wild day in Washington, one that culminated in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement that Democrats were launching an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell took the stage at the News & Documentary Emmys to receive a lifetime achievement award.

“In my experience, during more than four decades covering the White House and Congress and national security during seven administrations, politics was invariably and appropriately adversarial,” she told the audience. “But this is different. Our credibility as journalists is deliberately targeted as part of a re-election strategy.”

She was talking of Trump’s attacks on the media up to this point, imagining what it will be like if the impeachment raises a serious threat to his tenure in office. The President’s fever over all things said on cable news only will rise as he watches the story unfold, along...

Top campaign staffers for Bernie Sanders held a press call Monday, and the message was positive. The senator, they said, is doing well and won the last debate. And polls show, they added, that the country cares about his favored issues, particularly health care.

But that’s not always, his staff noted pointedly to listening reporters, reflected in the coverage.

“It seems like there’s a direct correlation,” said senior advisor Jeff Weaver, who was on the call alongside campaign co-chair and Ohio state senator Nina Turner and pollster Ben Tulchin.

CNN is taking some of its coverage of politics off the TV screen and putting it into a special live forum.

The At&T-owned cable-news network is set to launch “Citizen by CNN,” a day-long conference slated to be held Monday, October 22, at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan. While some of the panels and interviews set to be featured will likely show up on the company’s flagship cable network, says Sam Feist, a CNN senior vice president who serves as Washington Bureau Chief, the wider intent is for the conference to burnish CNN’s ability to present non-partisan coverage of politics and issues that matter to viewers. The looming midterm elections in November lend new relevance to such an event, he adds.

“We are the news organization, the cable-news channel, that doesn’t pick sides. We play it down the middle and we are focused on news and coverage that matters,...

At least 8 major U.S. TV networks launched a new show they believed would generate bigger ratings than anything being replaced on their Thursday daytime schedules.

The nation’s biggest TV-news outlets replaced game shows, “The View,” regular news programming and even “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood” to cover a congressional hearing that is expected to become a lighting rod for national attention. The Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing of testimony from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused him of assaulting her sexually when they attended high school in the 1980s, represents a conflagration of the highest degree over whether the judge should be approved to sit on the Supreme Court and influence so many national issues.

CNN called the event an “Historic Hearing.” CBS News labeled it a “High-Stakes Hearing.”

Ford’s testimony made for early water cooler moments, When asked how certain...

Update: Sources tell Deadline that UTA sold an equity stake in the 40% range, with the cash infusion in the vicinity of $200 million. Some of the majority of that money will be used to further diversify the agency, and that some of the money will be spread around to the dealmakers who’ve put the agency in this position. Everyone who works for the agency, down to assistants and kitchen staff, will be cashing a check of some kind in the near future, sources said.

Breaking, 11:33 Am Pst: In a major move that gives United Talent Agency a chance to further diversify its businesses, the agency has completed a minority equity sale stake to Investcorp and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments). Deadline revealed in June that UTA had Moelis & Company exploring a 40% Equity Sale designed to raise revenue primarily to continue to aggressively broaden its businesses, something...

Exclusive: United Talent Agency has retained Moelis & Company to find an investor to acquire an equity stake in UTA as high as 40%, sources said. If a deal makes — it is not set in stone that UTA will close — the agency will primarily use the capital infusion to continue to aggressively broaden its businesses, something that has already been happening organically. And it might enter into the content creation arena as Wme and CAA have done.

Sources with knowledge of the situation said the agency turns an annual profit north of $50 million on revenues north of $325M. It wasn’t clear at the moment the worth of an equity stake as high as 40% would bring from an outside investor.

CEO Jeremy Zimmer is driving the process, and he runs the agency with co-presidents Jay Sures and David Kramer. The agency has been growing organically over the past few years, much of it through strategic acquisitions.

President Trump said in comments to reporters today that the Gop should just "let Obamacare fail." CNN's Gloria Borger criticized him for saying something so "cynical."...

President Trump took to Twitter to shoot down a report by CNN’s Gloria Borger claiming that Roger Stone recommended the firing of now-former FBI Director James Comey. The Roger Stone report on @CNN is false – Fake News. Have not spoken to Roger in a long time – had nothing to do with my decision. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 10, 2017 Borger cited “a source familiar with the conversation” and reported that “Stone was among those who recommended President Trump fire Comey,” but the president claims his decision has nothing to do with Stone. Also Read: Why Sean Spicer Plans to Skip Today's.

TheWrap’s guide to television coverage of President Barack Obama’s speech, including who’s anchoring the broadcasts and providing analysis

President Barack Obama will give his seventh annual State of the Union address on Tuesday night at 9 p.m. Et, with expected topics including national security, immigration, health care and the environment. Sen. Jon Ernst (R-ia) is expected to provide the Republican response.

After the president’s address, while the Republicans are giving their response and the networks are starting to break down their analyses, Obama will be preparing for something altogether different. His administration has invited three YouTube...

CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash will be the first substitute anchor this coming Sunday on “State of the Union” following Candy Crowley’s final show, an individual familiar with CNN’s plans told TheWrap.

“Candy, you can cut through the spin and talking points and translate political speak into real deal English like no one else in our business,” Bash said to Candy Crowley in a special montage that aired Sunday during Crowley’s final show. “You’re my mentor, my friend, and we are all going to miss you.”

Also Read: CNN’s Candy Crowley Gets Touching Sendoff From Top Competitors,...

TV news was abuzz following President Obama’s year-end press conference, in which he called Sony’s decision to cancel “The Interview” a mistake.

Also Read: President Obama: Sony ‘Made a Mistake’ in Canceling ‘The Interview’

On CNN, Brian Stelter broke news Friday morning about North Korea sending a new threatening to Sony Thursday.

“He certainly surprised me,” Jake Tapper said to Wolf Blitzer. “Before the press conference, if you asked me what I thought, I thought he’d be more cautious, and talk more about how he understood where Sony was coming from as a business.”

“They were outraged,...

With rumors swirling that first lady Michelle Obama may be interested in a political career herself and could be considering mounting a bid for the U.S. Senate, a panel of political reporters and analysts on CNN dug into just how likely that would be. CNN Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger said that the first lady is not a fan of politics and a run was unlikely, unless a Senate seat was “handed to her.”...

CNN’s Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger took a swipe at former Defense Sec. Robert Gates on Wednesday in reaction to the many ways in which he was critical of President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Vice President Joe Biden in his forthcoming memoir. Borger said that it would have been better form for Gates to have waited until Obama left office to publish a critical memoir.

Following the conclusion of President Barack Obama’s White House address in which he urged Congress to pass an extension of long-term unemployment benefits, CNN’s Gloria Borger and Wolf Blitzer discussed what the president accomplished with that address. They observed that both Obama and the Democrats are attacking Republicans over an issue they failed to address in a recent budget deal. However, according to Borger, the issue of extending benefits and inequality in general will be a winning one for Democrats.

A panel of political guests joined CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday to dig into recent polls showing President Barack Obama’s job approval slipping in the last two months. The panel guests unloaded on the president, with CNN correspondent John King observing that Obama is “0 for 13” in recent accomplishments which has depressed his base. The network’s political analyst Gloria Borger observed that the president has been on a “downhill” slide since his January.

President Obama hasn't exactly inspired much confidence in the past few days with apologies and proposed fixes for a health care law the White House spent over three years working on, especially with his admission during his presser this week that that he wasn't kept in the loop on the website issues. CNN's Gloria Borger said today this is a level of disengagement that shock people more about Obama than it would if it were Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush.

On Thursday morning, CNN political analyst Gloria Borger told Situation Room's Wolf Blitzer that the cooperation of insurance companies in President Barack Obama's anticipated fix to allow people to keep their health care plans was not guaranteed, creating the irony that Obama was now relying on the willing participation of the industry he demonized to pass the Affordable Care Act.

Following the broadcast of a portion of Mitt Romney’s exclusive interview with CNN host Jake Tapper, CNN State of the Union anchor Candy Crowley and chief political analyst Gloria Borger were brought in offer their reactions. Crowley said that Romney’s refusal to entirely embrace the tactics of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-tx) was to be expected because he has always been a Republican in the mold of Sen. John McCain (R-az) rather than a tea party conservative.

On Monday, CNN/Orc released a poll showing President Barack Obama’s approval rating down sharply over the last month as a variety of scandals and controversies involving his administration have dominated the news. CNN Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger told anchor Suzanne Malveaux that it was her opinion that the public is saying that Obama has not led on the issue and he needs to “speak more” about issues like the National Security Agency’s communications monitoring programs.

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R-Winterfell) not only lost the 2012 presidential election, he lost the state of New Jersey by seventeen points, and New York by twenty-six. Ever the good sport, though, Gov. Romney made it clear, in an interview with CNN's Gloria Borger, that there are no hard feelings, and that he even wishes that deadly Hurricane Sandy had never happened... to him.

Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward told Chris Matthews that he did not think the Boston attack was “not necessarily that big an event" to be looked back on as a paradigm-changing. CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger added that President Barack Obama’s actions during the crisis were a reflection of what he learned from “George [W.] Bush’s mistakes” following the September 11, 2001, attacks.

When a friend tweeted me about a line from CNN's Romney Revealed documentary, I thought he must have misheard or paraphrased it, but as it turns out, Gloria Borger's narration of the Mitt Romney profile really did contain the most ridiculous sentence I've ever heard on television, so ridiculous that I'm half-suspicious CNN is actually a cabal of master satirists who are making fun of the Republican presidential candidate.

On Thursday, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz reported on how we’re taking a “closer look” at Ron Paul‘s past, particularly when it comes to these newsletters you’ve probably yet to hear about. Schultz’s pointed to Paul’s most recent CNN interview, during which the candidate told Gloria Borger that he did not write racist material contained in various [...]...

Texas Rep. Ron Paul.s presidential campaign is on fire. Dr. Paul's poll numbers are jumping up in Iowa despite flack received over a CNN interview Wednesday that turned for the worse over alleged racist newsletters that were sent out in his name more than two decades ago. The Texas congressman took offense when CNN's Gloria Borger pressed Paul about the newsletters. In question were the old Ron Paul's Political Report, Ron Paul's Freedom Report and the Ron Paul Survival Report all published in the late 1980s and early 1990s during his time in office. CNN reports that offensive statements were included such as, ""We are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly...

Ron Paul is just plain tired of CNN. The Gop presidential candidate -- and current leader in the Iowa polls -- walked out on CNN reporter Gloria Borger Wednesday after she pressed him about racist newsletters sent under Paul’s name in the early 1990s. Paul insisted that he never wrote them, read them only after they were sent out and disavows them. When asked about the money he supposedly made off them, Paul said “I’d like to see that money.” “It’s been going on 20 years that people have pestered me about this and...

CNN's Wolf Blitzer returned home to the U.S. yesterday after an historic--and at times, harrowing--trip to North Korea. In talking about the trip with CNN political analyst Gloria Borger, Blitzer described the tension between North and South as the worst--and scariest--since 1953. The crisis, which Blitzer described as feeling in North Korea very much like a country on the verge of war, described how tough it had been to get a visa to travel into the North, and then--with tensions rising--how he ultimately feared he might not be able to get back out:...

NEW YORK -- CNN said Wednesday that Gloria Borger has joined the network as a senior political analyst. Borger, who until recently worked at CBS News, will start next week and talk on political topics for a number of CNN shows including the one being developed for Campbell Brown at 8 p.m. weeknights. Borger is also a contributing editor of US News & World Report and a former panelist for CBS's "Face the Nation".

NEW YORK -- CBS News said Monday that CBS Evening News anchor/managing editor Katie Couric will headline its Election 2008 coverage.

Couric will anchor the political coverage not only on the CBS Evening News but also throughout the network in special programming. She also will anchor the Dec. 10 debate in Los Angeles among Democratic presidential candidates, the last sanctioned one before the primaries and caucuses.

Also taking key roles in the campaign coverage will be chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer and senior political correspondent Jeff Greenfield. Schieffer will analyze the campaign and do reports for the network including Face the Nation, where he is the weekly moderator. Greenfield will do overall analytic pieces and big-picture stories, said CBS News senior vp Paul Friedman. National political correspondent Gloria Borger is leaving the network to pursue other opportunities.

Other correspondents receiving roles in covering the candidates will be Sharyl Attkisson, Jim Axelrod, Cynthia Bowers, Kelly Cobiella, Nancy Cordes, Byron Pitts, Tracy Smith, Hari Sreenivasan and Bill Whitaker.