Instead of responding to the obvious question regarding Plain's inexperience, the anchor just hesitates and mentions how he's interviewing McCain later.
Gee, I wonder why people think the media softballs in order to maintain access. Certainly the fact that the McCain campaign pulled interviews with CNN after he complained about the questioning of Tucker Bounds, wouldn't have anything to do with it.
The funny thing about John Roberts is he used to be a host on MuchMusic up here in Canada. He was the token metalhead VJ back in the eighties, long hair and all.
Now he's trying to be "fair and balanced" in his carefully worded statements about the biggest moron in political history.