bernie, along with reporters john hol laman and peter arnett made television history from the ninth floor of baghdad are being illuminated. >> he had the microphone first. the instinct to broadcast, to be there. he didn't waver. he didn't hesitate. >> no one knew whether the boys in baghdad would survive that night. a billion people watched around the world and cnn, as we know it, was born. >> what a day. i remember it very, very vividly. congratulations to bernie shaw from all of us here at cnn. when i joined 24 years ago, he was a huge, huge help to me. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in washington. "crossfire" starts right now. >>> tonight on "crossfire," the battle lines for 2016 and front-runners already facing problems. from scandal and recovering from a superstorm -- >> and nothing will distract me from getting that job done. nothing. >> to benghazi. >> she couldn't be on tv to talk about what happened in the state department because she was distraught? >> on the left, stephanie cutter, on the right, newt gingrich. in "the crossfire" -- paul begala, a democratic str