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

Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.

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.

If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

In television there are only about 12 people who do what I do.