Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?

I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?

I think there is a mainstream media. CNN is mainstream media, and the main, ABC, CBS, NBC are mainstream media. And I think it's just essentially to make the point that we are largely in the center without particular axes to grind, without ideologies which are represented in our daily coverage, at least certainly not on purpose.

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.