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The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president.

We have to ask the tough questions.

The challenge with a candidate like Donald Trump is he's not a conventional candidate, and he doesn't run a conventional campaign, and he doesn't answer questions in a conventional way.

I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Washington.

I'm not seeing tough questions asked on American television. I'm not seeing those correspondents that would question those in power. It's like a club. We are not asking the tough questions.

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

The issues that cross a president's desk are never easy. The easy questions don't even get to the president.

Trump himself has not laid out a clear agenda on the national security issues that are the most pressing for the United States, from the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan to the deepening Syrian civil war to the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria and the flexing of Russian muscles under President Vladimir Putin.

As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers.

Donald Trump is at his very best, at his very best, when he talks about the issues.