My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well.

Americans are clearly more afraid than at any time since 9/11. In Los Angeles, 650 schoolchildren didn't go to - 650,000 schoolchildren didn't go to school because of an e-mail threat, this two weeks after an attack killed 14 people in San Bernardino.

I tend to overwrite; I need a good editor.

No Republican has ever been elected president of the United States without winning Ohio.

I think what we try to do is bring the news to our viewers in a very comprehensive responsible way.

When I finished grad school, I sort of fell into journalism. Someone mentioned that there was an entry level job at the Reuters News Agency. I applied, and, to my amazement, I got the job.

My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.