-I watch you every morning.
I watch you with my children every single morning.
-I was so happy and shocked to hear that.
Was that, like, in your contract?
NBC´s like, "And you must wake up and watch the ´Today´ show."
-No, I choose to. I love you. You´re fantastic.
I know you so well, I think, from that
that I´m really comfortable talking to you.
It´s like we´re buddies. -We are.
-I know. We´re best friends. -We´re besties.
-But I know when you wear glasses...
-Yes. -Because I think --
´cause you have an all-nighter or something.
Is that why?
-Yeah, but my -- -You still look good.
I mean, you look great in anything.
You´re very -- Please.
-My all-nighter might be
a little different than yours, though.
My all-nighter is, like, you were up for election night
or, like, babies were barfing on you all night or whatever.
And then -- -That´s kind of what I do, yeah.
-It is true.
Like, if it´s a rough one, I wear my glasses.
-But I like your glasses. -Oh, thank you.
-You look really nice.
-I´m trying to look more intelligent.
-No. Exactly.
But no, do you remember the last time...
-Oh, yes. -...that you wore your glasses?
-I sure do. -[ Laughs ]
-Do you want to tell everyone what you did to me?
-I didn´t do anything to you.
You came on the show, and you were very fun.
We had a great time. -We did.
-That´s it. End of story. -Okay.
-Anyway, let´s go to the next thing.
-No. No, no, no, no. Let´s drill down.
Does anyone know the rock paper scissors pie game...
-Yeah. -...that you play on the show?
-We play rock paper scissors,
and then whoever loses gets a pie in the face.
-Right, so --
-Was this before we figured out we should wear goggles?
-Yeah, I think it was because you put a pie in my face,
and then all that cream got in my eyes.
And then Jimmy was looking at me like...
-[ Laughs ]
..."This isn´t gonna go well." -I´m sorry I´m laughing.
I´m laughing because it all ended well.
-I know -- It didn´t, though, actually, because --
-No, your eyes are -- It did because
I think I did your show the next day.
-You did, and he goes -- and so I woke up,
and my eye was, like, swollen shut, like, oozing pus.
It was like it just -- -Oh, you made that up!
It wasn´t oozing pus. -No! It was oozing.
-It was not oozing at all.
-Okay, maybe it was pie juice.
-No, it wasn´t pie juice.
It was just -- You had two bright pink,
like, this color pink eyeballs.
-Yes. [ Laughter ]
At least you´re plugging the book.
I did, so then I had to wear my glasses.
And I saw Jimmy. I was like, "Hey!"
And he was like [Laughs]
[ Laughter ]
-But it was -- But -- [ Laughs ]
-But do you remember what else happened?
-Oh, yeah. I´m so sorry about this.
Again, I didn´t do anything.
-So, right after the pie in the face [ Laughs ]
there was pie all over the floor, and I fell.
[ Audience ohs ]
You have to show the video. You´re going to die.
-We actually do have a video.
I don´t think we aired this. Maybe.
-We aired it.
-Here´s what happened. Here´s Savannah Guthrie.
Watch this at the end of our pie bit.
-I don´t want to get any on your shirt.
-[ Laughs ] -Oh, my God! Aah!
-[ Laughs ] Are we still rolling?
[ Cheers and applause ]
-I´m so sorry.
-It was like -- -You´re, like, "Oh, oh, oh!"
-That was like a 1940s slip on a banana peel.
-It was like a cartoon -- a cartoon fall.
-Oh, my gosh. Yeah.
-You just celebrated 10 years...
-At NBC News. -...at NBC News.
-Yes. -10 years?
[ Cheers and applause ]
Seems like it was yesterday.
-I know. -You´re still a baby.
-Oh. I know. It´s crazy to think about.
-You started off as a White House correspondent?
-Well, kind of. I started in Washington
as the general correspondent,
and then I was like, weekend White House correspondent,
and then I was on the campaign in 2008,
and then I went to the White House full-time,
which was crazy.
-Do you ever look back and miss those days?
-No. Never.
[ Laughter ] -Really?
Well, who do we have now? We have Kristen Welker.
-Kristen Welker and Hallie Jackson.
-I love Hallie. -They´re great.
-I love Hallie Jackson because --
Oh no, I love them both,
but Hallie Jackson always -- every time you cut to her,
like, she pretends like her earpiece is --
You go like, "And Hallie, how´s everything in Washington?"
She goes --
[ Laughter ]
"Thank you, Savannah.
Everything here," blah, blah, blah.
And they go -- Watch every time you cut to Hallie Jackson.
-Really? -Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Matt will say, "And we have
Hallie Jackson at the White House.
Hallie, what´s going on? What´s the situation there?"
She goes --
♫♫
-Oh, my God. Quest is like --
♫♫
"Everything is very scary here at the White House.
Thank you for asking, Matt."
[ Laughter ]
Like, why is everyone else´s ear piece working,
but Hallie´s isn´t working?
It´s the best. I love her.
I love Kristen Welker, too.
-Both she and Kristen are --
We call Kristen "Welknado,"
Kristen Welker, because she´s amazing.
-She does everything. -When I was at the White House,
I would get -- Like, you´re so tired
because you´re working so many crazy, crazy hours.
And sometimes, I would get asked a question,
speaking of IFB in your ear,
and I would not know the answer
or I would just, like, blank out.
And I had this whole strategy of just filling up the time
until I could think of what to say.
So I´d be like, "Lester, excellent question,
and I think we´ll all be talking about that tomorrow.
And it will be in the headlines. And you really zeroed in
on a super good point.
And, um, as soon as we -- oh, yeah, a change in policy.
-And you had no idea what he asked you. Yeah.
-Yeah, like, I was just like --
I could just fill up a lot of time with words
until I remembered. -That´s my favorite.
-Next time you see --
You´ll see what I´m talking about.