Martha MacCallum reveals the story behind one of her toughest interviews

Martha MacCallum, host of “The Story,” told Trey Gowdy about an interview that did not go as expected and gave her take on opinion versus news journalism on “The Trey Gowdy Podcast.”

MARTHA MACCALLUM: Well, it's interesting, you know, sometimes you have a lot of time to prepare for an interview, and sometimes you don't. One of those that comes to mind is the morning that I got a phone call in the middle of the Brett Kavanaugh grilling by the Senate. I literally was on my way to work and got a call saying, OK, you just need to reroute that car and get head to D.C. as quickly as you can because you're going to interview Brett Kavanaugh and his wife today. And he hadn't spoken at all about the accusations against him.

At that point, I was very surprised that he was willing to speak out about them. And so I just started scribbling my questions on the way down there and thinking about basically it was just an issue at that point of just getting him on the record to respond to these things that had been said about him, which were uncomfortable things. Asking someone if they were involved in a high school gang rape is not an easy thing to question someone about. So, I mean, I wish I had more time on that one to sort of dig in. But it was, in some ways — it's almost better if you don't sometimes, because the basic mission of what has to happen and what questions need to be answered are pretty clear. So that was interesting.