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To General McChrystal, those men on his team are his family. You know, these guys, they would do anything. They would die for each other.

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I've been in this business now for almost ten years. I've done a lot of stories. I have a pretty good track record.

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I welcome all interviews with 'Rolling Stone' magazine, and I'm sure people will talk to me in the future.

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The first time I met President Obama was 2006 in Baghdad. He was the senator from Illinois; it was a month before he actually ended up declaring. He had to come to Baghdad to kind of check that box, and I was the correspondent for 'Newsweek' at the time.

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Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

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Obama's people will all often complain about how trivial and silly the media is, but there's no president who's probably benefited from this sort of trivialness or superficial nature as President Obama.

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For me, when I go in to write a profile, and no ground rules are laid down, and I'm there to write an on-the-record profile and cover readings while in the room, then that means it's on the record.

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If Bill O'Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that's probably - that probably means you're doing a good job.

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When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.

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You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: October 6th, 1980

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