My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.
My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction.
I eat right. I exercise. I run 5 miles a day on the treadmill.
You don't suppose that the photo ops and the military convoys arriving at the same time were a coincidence, do you, Wolf ... Situation Room.
I tend to overwrite; I need a good editor.
You have to be precise. You have to be specific, but you want to be accurate. That is first and foremost. You want to be on top of the story, but words do matter.