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Please tell them you're a troublemaker and that the nerve sent you.

Joining us now at the nerve, the one and only Rob Shooter, celebrity reporter extraordinaire.

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Welcome, Rob.

We are in an undisclosed location because Oprah and Gail have a reverse course and are hot on our trail.

I call this our situation room.

Forgive a bit of the echo.

It should be our last day in here.

We love it.

As we suspect, there are troublemakers everywhere.

So, Rob, let's begin.

You have a breaking exclusive about Savannah Guthrie that has run counter to all of the other reporting about this tragic situation.

But over at 30 Rock, over at Studio 1A, everybody's trying to climb up the greasy pole of Savannah's absence.

You have a report that

That says her mother sacrificed everything so that Savannah could pursue this career.

One longtime source says to walk away now would feel like letting the darkness win.