talent

"Behind that seemingly effortless talent to joke, there was a gifted performer and an extremely deep thinker," Harris said in a statement.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”

Trump had mixed results with his first-term nominations, even as he chose from an inexperienced talent pool.

“Craig’s shown he has the talent and the range to cover all that we do here at ‘Today,’ ” Libby Leist, senior vice president of “Today,” said Thursday in a statement.

The grandson of Hollywood mogul Lew Wasserman and owner of a prestigious talent agency, he is seen as critical to wooing benefactors and corporate sponsors.