After Hoda Kotb interviewed Savannah Guthrie on her mother, Nancy Guthrie's missing case, Megyn Kelly, on 'The Megyn Kelly Show' slammed Hoda and said that she was not the right person for the job.
A few days ago, Savannah Guthrie sat down for a candid chat with Hoda Kotb. For the unversed, it was the very first interview that Savannah gave after her mother, Nancy Guthrie, was kidnapped and was last seen on January 31, 2026. While the Today host opened up about the agony she and her family have been going through for the past few months, conservative commentator, Megyn Kelly sharply criticised the interview, labelling it a "promotional vehicle". She even questioned Hoda Kotb's role.
Megyn Kelly, on Thursday, March 26, 2026, episode of The Megyn Kelly Show, did not hold back on her thoughts on what a poor job Hoda Kotb did interviewing Savannah Guthrie. For those unaware, the interview was part of a three-part special scheduled to wrap on Friday. According to Megyn, Hoda was not the correct person for the interview. She claimed that NBC had a rather "inappropriate" agenda for the show to feel like a family. She said:
"With respect, I think Hoda Kotb fell down on the job. I don't think she was the woman for the interview."
Because Savannah and Hoda are friends and colleagues, Megyn thought that the reason NBC put Hoda out there was to project exactly that, and they wanted to make it look like the Today show is "a big family," using Savannah's interview as a "promotional vehicle." She noted that Hoda's mic was kept up “for her empathetic sounds and her active listening,” which she believes is a major distraction and a rather odd choice. This is because under normal circumstances, “the network would turn down Hoda's mic during Savannah's very compelling answers, especially in an interview this big.” Additionally, Megyn stated that her real complaint was that Hoda did not ask a single follow-up question to Savannah.
Megyn further criticised NBC's agenda of trying to portray them as a big, happy family and Hoda as empathetic, calling it “an inappropriate choice, journalistically, because it served as only a distraction.” Megyn reiterated the most important fact: that the interview was not about Hoda but rather about Savannah. She added:
“And I'm sorry, but Hoda kept wiping away tears that weren't there either. This was acting on Hoda Kotb's part, and it was a distraction and an unnecessary one.”
In the interview with her colleague, Hota Kotb, Savannah Guthrie openly spoke about the emotional toll of her mother's disappearance. Describing how her family was in agony, she continued to appeal for information during the interview. For the unversed, the 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie is suspected of having been kidnapped after she was reported missing from her Tucson, Arizona home under suspicious circumstances. Although nonstop efforts have been made by investigators, including the FBI, to pursue multiple leads, including forensic and ransom communications, no arrests have been made so far in the case. Acknowledging investigators' efforts, Savannah said:
“Someone needs to do the right thing. We are in agony. We are in agony. It is unbearable.”
Savannah also talked about how, at one point, there were speculations that her sister, Annie Guthrie and brother-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, were involved in Nancy's kidnapping. She called it a “cruel speculation” and “glad that people saw what came to our door.” She further defended her family by stating that nobody took better care of her mother than her sister and brother-in-law. And nobody protected Nancy more than her brother.
Check out Megyn Kelly's full take on the Savannah Guthrie interview here.
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