I think we should be alarmed, watchful, and, as journalists, rigorous and fearless. I think we should be alert.

I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power, finding out the truth, of shining a light on injustice, of, when appropriate, being amusing and entertaining - it's a complicated and varied beast, journalism.

I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law.

Trump's rise is troubling not just on an American level but on an international level.

There are systemic, painful problems of globalization and de-industrialization that cannot be solved with a phone call or a tweet or an angry speech or trying to isolate the press and the first amendment. Sooner or later, the Donald Trump show, which is a projection of strength and authority, will have to deliver to his voters. And if he doesn't, in very real terms, if he can't supersede a situation where a president cut the unemployment rate in half, if he can't do better, if he can't open factories and all the rest that he's promised, then I think he's in trouble.

Donald Trump lies with astonishing frequency and in stunning volume.

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.