I think there are people out there who just kind of say, let's repot the plant. Let's give somebody else a chance. And it's not just anger or disappointment in their lives, it's the sense of, let's shake this up. And no one is shaking it up as much as Trump.

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.