These two reporter earned this years knee pad award...if you get my drift.
Since Cooper is married to Mandy Grunwald .. I'm thinking there is a reason for bringing out the knee pads
http://centerforpolitics.org/programs/nss/text_03_agenda-panel.htm A New Jersey native, Cooper is a 1984 graduate of Columbia College in New York City and lives in Washington D.C. with his wife, Mandy Grunwald, and their son