Our Journalists Share Their Most Memorable Interviews of 2017<br />FRANCES ROBLES, domestic correspondent AILEEN AYALA, mother whose son died of a heart condition the morning Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico I met<br />Aileen Ayala at the Salinas Memorial Funeral Home a week after her 29-year-old son, Josue Santos, died as Hurricane Maria trampled Puerto Rico.<br />ANDREW KRAMER, Moscow correspondent AMINA OKUYEVA, volunteer soldier in the war against Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine It was Amina Okuyeva’s<br />first interview with a foreign journalist since an assassin posing as a foreign journalist had tried to kill her and her husband during an interview.<br />SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Washington correspondent JEFF FLAKE, Republican senator from Arizona I had just started covering Congress when<br />I went to Arizona in October to interview the Republican senator Jeff Flake, an ardent critic of President Trump, on his home turf.<br />Sesame said that I always wanted to visit some of these other universes, just to see how things are there,<br />But as the son of a Galway woman, I also knew that a deeper discussion would require tea, and tea would require pie.
