Williams talks of “walking through the West Wing and Secretary [Hillary] Clinton drops by to see the president. To be in the hallway when the president walks by with a handful of M&Ms, popping them in his mouth as he goes to visit his chief of staff — it was unbelievable.”

“Inside the White House” is part of a forty-year NBC tradition of giving viewers behind-the-scenes insight into a new president’s day-to-day life. Kurtz reports that “Williams had to make the sale” to get access, though, “a lobbying effort that began before the election.”

Williams also says WH Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel gave permission for crews to chronicle various meetings of senior staff, although “Rahm closed the door in front of our crew eight times.”

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