This week’s Media Beat interview is with CNN’s Soledad O’Brien. Before we got started, however, she tried to psyche me out using the same technique that, Matt Lauer used to use on her when O’Brien would fill in on weekday “Today.”

Luckily, your TVNewser editor is an impenetrable fortress of both ice and steel.

• Check out our three part sit-down with O’Brien starting Monday on TVNewser.