Poise is a word that seems to have slipped out of the lexicon. There's no emoji for it.
— Martha MacCallum
I started my career at the Wall Street Journal, before moving on to CNBC and NBC.
The Fox News that I know and work in is a team of producers, technicians, photographers, truck operators and production managers who barely have time to eat lunch, much less engage in bad behavior.
Here, anyone can become president. We've had haberdashers, generals, lawyers, peanut farmers, community organizers and a real estate developer, to name a few. But perhaps no one had a better resume than George H.W. Bush.
We will all look back on the Trump presidency as reporters one day over a beer, and say, we were there, we covered it all, and what a trip it was!
I started at the 'Wall Street Journal Report' as a production assistant typing chyrons and rolling the teleprompter, and then I became a producer, producing stories in the field, then the show's line producer.
I think when I was in college I thought that, you know, like, sort of giving everyone an equal amount and spreading it around seems like a wonderful idea.
I loved theater and went to Circle in the Square's post-graduate program for two years and studied acting and directing and I loved it. I loved acting and directing - I really like directing a lot. Some days I think maybe someday I'll go back and direct something.
In this country, we've gotten away from institutionalizing and we've moved toward assimilating and drugging the mentally ill.
Early in my career, I was subjected to harassment in the form of some unwelcome suggestive comments and overtures.
The words used to describe the heroes of D-Day are not the current lexicon we tend to use for success. Humble, selfless, brave. Those are not words we attach in 2019 to superstars.
Our relationship with presidents is often like that of a teenager and parent. He's our leader, but sometimes we rail against his decisions for us. We push back at times to make sure he knows who's boss.
When I was a toddler, we lived in Maryland and my mom would routinely pile us in the car to go see events unfolding in Washington, D.C. such as the return of Apollo astronauts, parading through the streets of D.C. on open back convertibles while we all waved pennants.
There's a big battle going on in the country in regards to capitalism and socialism, and it's a debate that deserves attention.
I've always been a person that thinks nonfiction is more interesting than fiction, I love to read presidential biographies.
If we are going to get serious about 'gun violence' we should get serious about facing the facts of the violent mentally ill.
A society where divisiveness leads to crassness that seems to feel it's justified by political bent. Is that really who we want to be? Is that what our nation was built on?
Our founders thought long and hard about what the office of president should be. George Washington resisted the role, and then defined it.
Death has a way of making us all stop and think about life.
It was great to learn producing news from the bottom up and although I often looked at the reporters and thought, 'I could do that!'
Pennsylvania is one of the most important states in the country when it comes to the election of the president of the United States.
I worked at CNBC for several years.
