Couric admitted to working with her producer Brian Goldsmith, who is now a Democratic candidate for California State Senate, to construct the questions in a “very artful way” to expose her. As for Couric, she kept rolling, “And so I think that it was the questions were constructed in a very artful way. Diemand-Yauman then interjected to sing his guest’s praises, “You're very humble and saying, okay, it was like kind of right place, right time, but also very artful questions. The Palin interview, which was set up by current MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace, won Couric a 2008 Cronkite Award from the Annenberg Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California. Her “Special Achievement for National Impact” for the Palin interview was said to have been a “defining moment in the 2008 presidential campaign."