I started as a print reporter. I’m a journalist and that’s what I do. My function is an anchorperson, but it’s in a journalism context, and gravitas and coats and ties and haircuts and all that sort of stuff, I’ll leave to others. My thing is just to do my job the best way I know how and as I say I’m very fortunate to be able to do it the way I want to do it.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.