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Jenna Bush Hager Gets Ready for New ‘Today’ Spotlight

Jenna Bush Hager will get a wider profile at 'Today' as NBC News experiments with a wide array of potential co-hosts to join the show's 10 a.m. hour

On a cold December afternoon on the streets surrounding NBC’s midtown Manhattan headquarters, Bush Hager is trying to cross against a “Don’t Walk” sign — and, surprisingly, the driver of a car eager to push through a New York City intersection lets her do it. Bush Hager is stepping around NBC’s Rockefeller Center offices to tape a new opening for her hour of “Today,” one that, as of January 13, will no longer feature longtime co-anchor Hoda Kotb, who is leaving both her 10 a.m. co-host job as well as the one she holds at 7. She was noticed within a few years of publishing her first book by NBC, which has developed a reputation for being interested in members of well-known U.S. political families, and has hired Maria Shriver as well as, for a shorter period, Chelsea Clinton.

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