What is the most interesting news story out there right now?
The most important story is Iraq. There’s no question about it. It’s consuming all of us as journalists and as Americans. If you look at all the polls, the country has been telling the members of Congress and the administration that they don’t want them to deal with anything else until they deal with Iraq. There’s just no escaping that. We’re spending a lot of time on it here. The stories that I’m most deeply affected by now are the stories about these vets coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan, and hearing what they’re going through right now, and the impact this has had on so many families in this country. In conjunction with that, when I think about what I would like to be covering, probably the most interesting interview would be with Syrian president Bashar Assad because Syria, in tandem with Iran, is a direct conduit for so much of the instability in the region.
