Hey everybody. It's Glenn Thrush with Politico's Off Message podcast. At the end of the election, no one thought would end. So this is a special episode of

off message. We're not interviewing anyone new. I think it's too close to the election to get

people to really sit down and be candid. So here are some of my favorite moments from all the

interviews that we have done with politicians, their staff, entertainers, and just a lot of

interesting people over the last year. For us here at OffMess, it all started on a snowy day

in late January, 2016, when we were summoned to the White House after a lot of negotiating and

lobbying to speak with President Obama who wanted to talk about

the election. We were really kind of surprised to get that invitation.

Now, let me start off by telling you the story of that day because it's kind of funny.

President Obama was supposed to see me at 1.30 in the afternoon, and this was the day of the

biggest snowstorm that D.C DC had that year. We're

supposed to get about 15 to 17 inches. I think we wound up getting more than two feet. And the

snow was due to start at 3 p.m. So I'm sitting in the briefing room waiting to be summoned to the

Oval Office. And an aide to Obama keeps coming in every 15 minutes and saying 15 more minutes, 15 more minutes.

Well, suffice to say, by the time I got into the Oval Office, the snow was already coming down,

and I had to figure out a way to get back home in the snowstorm after interviewing the president.

I had packed my family off to New Orleans, Louisiana, knowing that they would be snowed in.

I live in a place that the power tends to go out when the snow comes. And so imagine this. I'm sitting across from the leader of the free world.

And on one hand, I'm trying to interview the guy.

On the other hand, I'm looking over his shoulder into the Rose Garden,

watching the snow pile up and thinking,

how the hell am I going to get home? Well, one of the real challenges with Obama is getting him

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