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.