You try to be even-tempered, almost serene. Even when you’re covering a tipped Porta-Potty of political news. In that first year, the ratings were up, way up, insanely elevated by the insane stuff coming out of Washington. We’re talking double-digit increases over what were already double-digit increases during the 2016 campaign, all across the network. And while every network was up, we were routinely beating CNN for the first time in years.

