George Stephanopolis – I believe – is a fan of Detective Colombo, he is excellent at hitting hard at a point until he begins to look bad for pushing too much because the question is NOT being answered as asked. So he moves on in perfect strid to the next set of questions and continues his hard-hitting pursuit of the truth.
THEN.. at the end of the segment, he will do an ‘end around’ back to the question that never was answered and ask it again in a different but appropriate way as sort of a ‘tag, you’re it’! And often he gets his answer in the end.. GREAT WORK GEORGE!! ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha..