Welcome to Cape Up. I'm your host Jonathan Kapart coming to you from the West

Wing of the White House and the Office of Valerie Jarrett, the longest ever serving senior

advisor to the President.

Now in a town famous for inflating egos and corrupting souls, Jarrett has survived

the slings and arrows of Washington by never forgetting for whom she worked.

Make no mistake, she's very proud of her accomplishments, but she's clear on who gets the credit.

And if he didn't care about the issues that I have put the shoulder to the metal behind,

they wouldn't have happened and they wouldn't have been my priority.

And the most revealing moment came when she talked about how five-year-old Valerie gazing

through the gates of Buckingham Palace gave way to the woman who would return decades

later to meet the Queen. Thanks for being on K-P-Up. Thanks for being here. Welcome to the White House, Jonathan.

I know, can you believe?

It's been eight years.

It has been eight years.

As you know, I started January 20, 2009.

I mean, I'm just trying to wrap my head around just in terms of you

know as a reporter covering the White House for eight years and a new person's

coming in but it's completely different when it's someone like you who has

been here since day one and will be going out on the last day. How you feeling

right now? It's a little surreal. I mean eight years is even at my age

eight years is still a big chunk of my life. I think where it came home to me is when I was

listening to the president talked to some college students and he said you

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