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

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.

My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.

I tend to overwrite; I need a good editor.

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

You tell the people the stories the best you know. If there is something you don't know, you be up front and make that clear. You always give the aggrieved party the chance to respond before you publish or go to air. That's just my kind of old-fashioned news values.

You see a lot over 30 years and you try to be professional and responsible. A lot of the interviews you do can be very haunting.