Savannah Guthrie was initially nervous about joining the hit morning show Today in the midst of a “transitional period.”

“I was waiting to do my live shot on a Supreme Court case on Nightly News, and the president of NBC at the time called me down to his office at 6:00,” Guthrie, 53, said on the Friday, September 12, episode of Jason Kennedy’s eponymous podcast, referring to her 2012 job offer. “The news goes on at 6:30, [and] I thought it was a little odd.”

When Guthrie entered the then-network president’s office, he handed her a news article discussing then-Today anchor Ann Curry’s plans to leave the show.

“[This] was news to me, and then he started talking to me about that job,” she said. “Honestly, I didn’t even know what he was saying. … He was, kind of, talking around it, ‘It’s no

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