Gene Randall: Political Courage

Gene Randall, CNN National Correspondent, specializes in American politics and covered five U.S. Presidential races from the campaign trail. In this video, he leads a panel inquiring about the lack of political courage that seems to stand in the way of meaningful compromise.

Gene Randall’s professional career is highlighted by decades as an award winning network television journalist, a span of years when he covered history-making events in the United States and around the world, from Washington to Moscow, from Berlin and Warsaw to Valdez, Alaska. As a CNN anchor and correspondent, Gene reported from the scene on the fall of the Berlin Wall, the liberation of Kuwait, U.S. troops in Somalia, the U.S invasion of Panama, and the Exxon Valdez disaster. He also specialized in American politics and covered five U.S. Presidential races from the campaign trail. With NBC, as Moscow correspondent, Randall chronicled the Solidarity strikes in Poland and the political rise of Mikhail Gorbachev. Later, for CNN, both from Washington and the streets of Moscow, he reported on the turmoil that led to the end of the Soviet Union and its domination of Eastern Europe.