-I took her old job. 

-You took her old job and it’s five years, and you both… did you both know you were leaving?

-No, we did not. I mean, I've heard rumors about her leaving, but now, and I made my decision around January. 

-It seemed, it seemed to me like, you were, well, the same could be said for any pleasure-to-go, you were perfect fit for that show. But I thought you were the perfect fit on the, the view. 

-You did?

-Yeah!

-Thank you!

-Yeah.

-Well, I'd like to, I mean, why? why would I be the perfect fit on...

-Well, the view over there is like a Mexican fire, I mean the view, it's just crazy. And, and by the way, I don't want, I don’t want a lot of emails from Mexican firemen

-So how did I fit into that?

-You just, you bring us a sense of integrity to the proceeding, a sense of intelligence,

-The core.

-Yeah, the core man. Je ne sais quoi(French, means I don’t know). But the hours that at today’s show were… 

-They are really hard, I mean, I get up at 2:30, that’s, that's hard after a while. So I am tired.

-Yeah, but how long have Matt Lauer been there?

-Too long, really to long. It’s been...

-It’s bad, it’s bad…talk about the deal is dried up, you know... He’s up to, no, I don't mean it that way, I don't mean it that way, I don't mean it that way, I did not mean it that way, totally, so wrong, coz I've never even known that. No, that's great, that’s been there 15 years.

-You know what I've heard?

-I adore that.

-I heard the deal dried up, 

-No. 

-I heard. 

-I mean the business deal, you know, every 5 years you make a deal, that's exactly what I, that’s how I know the word