Watch : Jenna Bush Hager Explains Her Absence From Part of ‘Today’ ShowJenna Bush Hager is answering the hard-hitting questions. After viewers noticed the Today personality was missing from the morning show’s first and second hours Aug. 10, she clarified that her absence was due to travel plans. “I’m straight off a flight,” Hager said as Today With Jenna & Sheinelle kicked off the program’s fourth hour. “I was in Maine with my family, and my little nephew got baptized, which was so sweet.” “There’s something sort of evolutionary about looking up and seeing your twin sister hold this big ol’ baby, and I couldn’t help it.”