Now it's time for the last word with Ali Valshi. Good evening, Ali.

She was still hitting the road this week. She was in Panama last weekend with Marco Rubio.

And, you know, I've traveled around the world with her a lot. We've covered a lot of the same types of things.

And I sort of pride myself on not necessarily the smartest or best looking in the room, but I can work a lot.

I can work for a long time. And Andrea Mitchell

can always work longer and harder than I can. She's up earlier. She's on TV later. This

woman has been unbelievable to work next to and be around the world and cover some of the biggest,

most important, breaking news stories where you don't get to set your own schedule. This isn't the world of old where you show up and you have dinner with some famous people.

You are working all the time, and that is Andrea Mitchell.

Yes.

It's going to take four people to fill her role.

And, Ali, I would say that would be true, even if she weren't, the time that she's been doing all of this globe-trotting and all of this

correspondent work, also doing a daily show on MSNBC.

Yes, that's right.

That's right.

And on top of that, she really has been an incredible mentor.

I can just speak from personal experience.

When things are tough, when things are rocky, you know, on a corporate side, when stuff is

difficult behind the scenes, when people are going through stuff, Andrea has been there for me almost more than anybody. And I got to say,

I just, I owe her a lot. And I hope she gets from our viewers the respect that she deserves and that

I hope that you can all see among us who have worked with her. She really is something else.

The admiration that we all share for her.

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