Hi, everybody. Yasmin Vasugian here, host of Here's the Scoop from NBC News. We are a daily news podcast that brings you the top stories and headlines from NBC News, as well as news making interviews and analysis from our team of correspondence all over the world. I'm dropping into your feed with a recent episode I think you're going to love. First, my colleague in

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Hey, everybody. Welcome to Here's the Scoot from NBC News. I'm Yasmin Vesugin. We have a packed

show for you today, including your guide to the Olympic Games ahead of tomorrow's opening

ceremony in Italy. Plus, we have the latest on the search for Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old

mother of today's show co-anchor, Savannah Guthrie. Up first, though, NBC news anchor Tom Yamas sat down with President Trump yesterday for a wide-ranging interview about the economy, immigration, and a lot more. And he's joining us now. Hey, Tom. Hey, Yas, how are you doing? I'm good. How are you? Good.

It was quite the interview, to say the least. Interviewing the president is a major undertaking. How do you prepare for something like that? It starts with a lot of prep. We've been prepping probably for the last month or so. And then over the past few weeks, and as we got closer and closer, the prep gets more intense. and it's, you know, it's all the issues.

It's making sure how you want to build out your your sheets for your facts and also your questions the the biggest challenge one of the biggest challenges with the interview is the timing right we were told it'd be this long and then the day before we're told it's actually going to be this long and then when we got there it's like it's be this long. So you got to slash stuff. And then when we're in there, it changed again. And so if you notice, you know, we're sitting down and there was an interview is about 30 minutes. And then we get up and he starts giving me a tour. And then I had a lot more questions to ask because half my interview was still on the table. so I still had I had a lot, I had a lot to get through it.

So I went through Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, his health, his, his legacy, uh, the assassination attempts, the things he's building in D.C. That was all the back part of the interview. And that was, and that was just, I had to do it when we were standing up because the time ran, You know, they cut it.

You got a self-ed-ed-it on the fly.

Yeah.

It's just a lot of research.

When we prepare to moderate for debate, And that was just, I had to do it when we were standing up because the time ran, you know, they cut it. You got a self-edit on the fly.

Yeah.

It's just a lot of research. When we prepare to moderate for debates, we often do kind of mock moderation and mock debating. Do you have mock interviews and preparing for the president? I did too. Yeah. Can you tell us who played the president? I had two different Trumps. I'm not going to do it because I didn't ask them.

But it's people we work with.

And they did very, they did very good Trump impersonations. Not like not impersonating him, but his answers were very on. And what was so interesting, the questions that sort of stump them, because there are people that listen to Trump speeches all the time and are out there all the time, like hearing him every day, were the questions that Trump really sort of like got really keen on.

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