I have a job to do. There is a major story in the
public I nteresting in, sorry, in the public interest

of huge public policy importance, unfolding on
the border of Canada, sorry, on

the border of the United States with Manitoba. I
know this is true and it is not merely a huge

public policy story, it is a major human interest story. It is massive. People's lives are unfolding

in front of me more or less and my audience, my audience needs to know. My audience doesn't just

need to know the facts of the situation, they need
to understand what it is like to be a human being

on the planet earth in this type of situation. Here I am patrolling the border in effect

to try to tell that story and here is a man before
me who is in that situation and my job in that

moment is to make an assessment of whether
this person is fit to be interviewed

or not. And I think it's a judgment call
that a journalist makes in that situation.