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You Look At The Middle East, You Started The Iran Deal, That's Another Beauty Where You Have A Country That Was Ready To Fall, I Mean, They Were Doing So Badly. They Were Choking On The Sanctions. And Now They're Going To Be Actually Probably A Major Power At Some Point Pretty Soon, The Way They're Going.

I Think We're More Relevant Than Ever Because It Is Such A Noisy Environment Out There. What's A Journalist Now? It's Anybody With A Way To Get Information Out And You're Sitting There With Your Smartphone In Front Of You. That's What We're Up Against Now. There's A Lot Of Unfiltered Information. Some Of It Is Accurate, Some Of It Way Off Base. We're That Safe Port In The Storm.

The Share Of Americans Who Say Race Relations Are Bad In This Country Is The Highest It's Been In Decades, Much Of It Amplified By Shootings Of African-americans By Police, As We've Seen Recently In Charlotte And Tulsa. Race Has Been A Big Issue In 2016 Campaign.

I Like To Report. I Like To Go To The Newsmakers. I Like To Get Out. I've Heard About People Talking About The Anchor As The Voice Of God. That Set Is Not An Altar. It's A Great Job, I Love Doing It, But I Don't Take That Role As My Identity - The Anchorman - It Sounds Very Old-fashioned.

I'll Co-host Today From Los Angeles Saturday Morning And Then Make My Way Up To Merced For That Evening's Graduation Ceremony. I'm Still Touching Up My Remarks, But My Challenge To The Class Of 2010 Will Be To Break Through The Deafening And Too Often Negative Echo Chamber Of The Digital Era And Become Critical And Independent Thinkers.