NBC’s Today added another chapter Monday to its history of far-left antics and propaganda as co-host Al Roker served up an embarrassing interview with President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden at the White House ahead of the annual Easter Egg Roll.
For over 70 years (here was our look-back at 65 years), the news show has been a home for softball interviews with former presidents, the current First Lady (and Second Gentleman), climate change radicals, far-left Supreme Court justices, failed comedians, economic dunces, and race hustlers to name a few. They’ve also aired deceptive clips, cheered White House weddings closed to the world, possessed questionable ethics, hailed abortion, smeared parents, trumpeted a so-called bright side of millions dying from COVID-19, and hounded conservatives.
Roker had at least ten liveshots from the South Lawn, including the nearly three-minute-long interview that began with him asking the President and First Lady about their Easter (click “expand”):
ROKER: First of all, how — how was your Easter?
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: It was great. We went up to Camp David and we had — we read — the whole family, getting bigger and bigger. Grandkids, kids. We had an Easter egg roll. And you know, we did not roll. We say hunt. I get up at 7:00 in the morning and go out and hide — a total — I guess we had 38 eggs.
JILL BIDEN: Yes.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: And some of them have little plastic ones that they put a little prizes in the eggs and everybody — everybody gets engaged.
JILL BIDEN: Yeah. They love it.
Given the fact the President has been kept a football field’s-length away from formal interviews with journalists (as opposed to, say, Drew Barrymore), Roker made sure to keep it light, asking Jill about the Egg Roll’s theme of “Egg-ucation.”
The President couldn’t help but get involved, bizarrely talking about an egg sent to the Space Station “rolling around” and creepily getting excited about how many kids would be at the White House (click “expand”):
JILL BIDEN: And you love education, Al, so you know I'm a teacher, so that — that’s what we themed this year's Easter egg roll. We have science. I know you love science. And we took one of our eggs and we set it up to the International Space Station in February so that we could teach kids —
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Bouncing around and around up there — no, it is.
JILL BIDEN: Yeah.
ROKER: Just kind of rolling around.
JILL BIDEN: Yeah.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: No, it is!
JILL BIDEN: Rolling around, so we could teach kids about gravity, so learning can be fun anywhere you are. So we have all kinds of educational activities here at the White House.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: And 30,000 kids coming.
JILL BIDEN: Yes.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: 30,000 invitations.
ROKER: That's a lot of kids.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: That’s a lot of kids.
ROKER: That's a lot of kids.
PRESIDENT JOB BIDEN: A lot of kids.
Roker got even more embarrassing: “You know, we had just finished — we’ve had Passover, Easter, Ramadan. What's the message that you have — you and Dr. Biden — have for — for our nation?”
After Joe said Americans should “reach out to somebody” and “do something nice” as we’ve “gotten much too tense as a nation,” Roker wondered whether he’d be participating in Easter Egg Rolls “after 2024.”
The President initially replied there’d be “at least three of four more,” but quickly added “maybe five” or “maybe six.” Roker followed up if that meant he “would be taking part in our upcoming election in 2024,” which resulted in this scrambled egg of an answer from Joe:
Well, I’ll either, I’ll eith — I’ll either be rolling egg or, uh, being the — the gu — you know, the guy who’s pushing them out...I plan on running, Al, but we're not prepared to announce it yet.
As Roker tossed back to New York, the President pointed to Roker’s camerman and said he should “put down a cameras [sic] and go get some of those Easter eggs.” Back in New York, the crew was ecstatic with co-host Savannah Guthrie boasting he “[got] the scoop.”
Fast-forward to the 3rd Hour of Today and, filling in for Roker and co-host Craig Melvin, chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander quipped Roker should be “chief White House correspondent from here forward” as he had “been there, like, 11 years. I'm still trying to get that interview” with a president.
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To see relevant transcripts from April 10, click “expand.”
NBC’s Today
April 10, 2023
8:13 a.m. EasternAL ROKER: And that is your latest weather. We're here on the balcony of the Blue Room overlooking the White House South Lawn and honored to have the President, Joe Biden —
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Good to see you, pal.
ROKER: — and Dr. Jill Biden.
JILL BIDEN: Hi, happy Easter.
ROKER: Happy Easter.
JILL BIDEN: Thank you.
ROKER: First of all, how — how was your Easter?
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: It was great. We went up to Camp David and we had — we read — the whole family, getting bigger and bigger. Grandkids, kids. We had an Easter egg roll. And you know, we did not roll. We say hunt. I get up at 7:00 in the morning and go out and hide — a total — I guess we had 38 eggs.
JILL BIDEN: Yes.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: And some of them have little plastic ones that they put a little prizes in the eggs and everybody — everybody gets engaged.
JILL BIDEN: Yeah. They love it.
ROKER: Dr. Biden, the theme this year “Egg-ucation.”
JILL BIDEN: “Egg-ucation.” Don't you love the name?
ROKER: I like that.
JILL BIDEN: And you love education, Al, so you know I'm a teacher, so that — that’s what we themed this year's Easter egg roll. We have science. I know you love science. And we took one of our eggs and we set it up to the International Space Station in February so that we could teach kids —
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Bouncing around and around up there — no, it is.
JILL BIDEN: Yeah.
ROKER: Just kind of rolling around.
JILL BIDEN: Yeah.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: No, it is!
JILL BIDEN: Rolling around, so we could teach kids about gravity, so learning can be fun anywhere you are. So we have all kinds of educational activities here at the White House.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: And 30,000 kids coming.
JILL BIDEN: Yes.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: 30,000 invitations.
ROKER: That's a lot of kids.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: That’s a lot of kids.
ROKER: That's a lot of kids.
PRESIDENT JOB BIDEN: A lot of kids.
ROKER: You know, we had just finished — we’ve had Passover, Easter, Ramadan. What's the message that you have — you and Dr. Biden — have for — for our nation?
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Reach out to somebody, do something nice. Just a simple act of kindness. I mean, it's not complicated. And it's amazing what happens. Open the door for someone. You know, pick up something if they drop it. Move and say — say hello. I mean, I really mean it. I just think we’re — we’re — gotten much too tense as a nation. I think we have to be a little more open.
JILL BIDEN: A lot more kindness.
ROKER: Yes. Absolutely. So, this is a fantastic event. One of my favorites of the year. I was just wondering, Mr. President, will you be taking part in the Easter egg rolls after — planning on after 2024?
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Well, I plan on — I — at least three or four more Easter egg rolls.
ROKER: At least three or four more?
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: May — maybe five.
ROKER: Maybe five?
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Maybe — maybe six. What the hell, I don't know.
ROKER: Are you — are you saying that you would be taking part in our upcoming election in 2024?
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Well, I’ll either, I’ll eith — I’ll either be rolling egg or, uh, being the — the gu — you know, the guy who’s pushing them out.
ROKER: Come on. Help a br — help a brother out, make some news for me.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: No, no, no. I — I plan on running, Al, but we're not prepared to announce it yet.
ROKER: Alright. Well, uh, so nice and thank you for having us.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Oh, good — good to be here.
JILL BIDEN: Thank you for coming.
ROKER: Thank you, Dr. Biden.
JILL BIDEN: Have fun. Have fun today.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I noticed — saw your cameraman — want to put down a cameras [sic] and go get some of those Easter eggs.
ROKER: That’s right. We’re going to — afterwards, we’re making egg salad, it's going to be great.
JILL BIDEN: That’s great.
ROKER: Guys, back to you.
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: Okay, chief White House correspondent Al Roker —
TOM LLAMAS: Oh yea.
HODA KOTB: There you go, Al.
GUTHRIE: — getting the scoop —
KOTB: Come on, Al.
GUTHRIE: — from the President and Dr. Biden. Thank you for being with us.
KOTB: Thank you, guys.
LLAMAS: Breaking news, alright.
SHEINELLE JONES: That was great.
KOTB: Yeah.
JONES: He said help a brother out. I think he did.
GUTHRIE: Yeah.
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NBC’s 3rd Hour of Today
April 10, 2023
9:01 a.m. EasternPETER ALEXANDER: Here's the thing.
SHEINELLE JONES: Yes?
ALEXANDER: Al is chief White House correspondent from here forward —
JONES: Exactly.
ALEXANDER: — interviewing the President today. I have been there, like, 11 years. I'm still trying to get that interview.
JONES: That’s so funny. You do, like, a —
ALEXANDER: And Al crushes it right out the gate.
JONES: — there you go. You doing, like, a — a swap.
ALEXANDER: A swap.
JILL MARTIN: A swap. I don’t — although, I don’t know if your line is hook a brother up when you’re looking to get news from the president.
JONES: From the President.
ALEXANDER: That’s how I’ll start —
MARTIN: How’d that go over?
ALEXANDER: — that's how I’m going to start every question —
MARTIN: Yeah.
ALEXANDER: — from here forward —
JONES: Joe Biden, hook a brother up.
ALEXANDER: — at the daily briefing now.
JONES: Just kind of make some news.
