Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

I certainly don't think Donald Trump suggesting violence in any way.

The questions about Donald Trump temperament were raised - he suggested that the only way to stop Hillary Clinton from appointing judges that they disagreed with is that maybe the Second Amendment folks could handle it.

All of our panelists are deeply engaged in the topics at hand, so that leaves me free to convene a little dinner party, sans alcohol, and invite the rest of America to listen in.

I knew early on that I wanted to be a reporter, but I didn't know I was a political journalist until my first job in Boston, in the '70s, covering the public school committee at a time when busing was a huge issue. Children's lives were being directly affected by political decisions, and that's when I realized that everything is politics.

I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television.

I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches.