Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager share an emotional moment of embrace in the wake of Hoda's announcement that she will be leaving TODAY after 5 years as co-anchor. Kotb reflects on the moment she realized she needed to leave. 'When you have kids later in life, you think about days and hours and minutes,' she says.
After Hoda Kotb's emotional announcement that she is leaving TODAY next year, Jenna Bush Hager tearfully remembered how Hoda was in her corner when it came to Jenna becoming her co-host and part of the TODAY family. 'You are who I come to, and you believed in me first,' Jenna told Hoda on the fourth hour of TODAY on Sept. 26. 'We have a lot of bosses and I love them, but this lady on Oct. 28, 2013 — I looked it up — said, 'Hey, want to come sit next to me? There’s room.
'Hoda told me just a couple days ago, and when she told me, my first reaction it was, from my gut, it was almost crazy,' Jenna said. 'I said ‘No, you can’t leave because what we have here with all of these people.' What I get to sit next to you and feel is this, it’s what’s between us, and it is magical and powerful, and it feels like that here.
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