JAKE TAPPER

Politicians lie.

There are news sources that are just out-and-out lies coming from Europe, coming from other parts of the world.

My dad's a hero in a lot of ways. He was a 1960s and 1970s hippie and a member of the protest crowd.

Don't get me wrong: politicians have been lying for a long time, long before Donald Trump was born, but the degree of just nonstop rage, grievance, prevarication, I haven't seen, probably because we haven't had a direct line from a politician's id to the public before.

I'm an everyday guy - I'm a try-to-write-at-least-15-minutes-every-day-if-not-an-hour-or-two kind of guy. I write in Google docs so that wherever you go, you have access to it.

There's a long tradition in this country of questioning generals.

I don't really get nervous anymore unless there's a big interview.

I've always been a ravenous consumer of opinion. When I was in my high school library and my college library, I would read 'National Review' and I would read 'The Nation' and I would read 'The American Spectator' and I would read 'Mother Jones.'

A lot of the stuff I blog is either stuff I'm reporting anyway for ABC News internally and figure I might as well put it up on the blog. Or it's stuff I'm just interested in, or I read about it, or I hear about it, and I'm just curious.

What would McCarthy, what would Nixon, what would Bill Clinton have done if they'd had Twitter?

I do breakfast first, which is a small bowl of oatmeal and some sort of protein, like hard-boiled eggs. And then I work out - 40 minutes of cardio and maybe some strength training.

We've gone through many different permutations of coffee-making, from grinding our own beans to the regular drip to an iced coffee maker.

I tried to do a comic strip. I came close, and I met with Universal Press Syndicate in Kansas City, but ultimately, they did not go with my strip.

I have a wife and a son and daughter. What do I need to do to make their lives better, happier? What can I do in terms of my time or my attention given that I am very busy at work? That's a personal rule of thumb I live by from the moment I get up to the moment I go to bed.

It is empirically indecent to make fun of the disabled... That's just indecent.

I wanted to be a cartoonist, and then I wanted to go into film - not as an actor, but as a writer-director - and then I found myself during film school at the University of Southern California listening to the Clarence Thomas hearings in class on my Walkman, and I realized L.A. was not really for me.

If the Trump White House and their allies in the media want to have this conversation about decency, I welcome them to the table to talk about it. But there's a bunch of stuff that they need to get caught up on before we get to a comedian at the White House dinner.

I lost a great uncle in World War II who was with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

I'm a collaborative person - it makes me better - and sometimes taking that collaboration to Twitter is helpful.

Washington, as we know it, is essentially run by men and women who are not elected or even appointed to their posts, staff members unaccountable to traditional constituencies. They rise according to the needs and whims of their own special constituency of elites.

You know who has done a lot of questioning of generals? President Trump.

My back isn't great.

The Patriots cheat. This is just a fact as established by investigations. They're a cheating team.

Everybody should work in their nation's capitol and see how politics actually work because it was the most eye opening experience of my life.

Politicians don't like tough coverage, and their protectors try to destroy the messengers.