To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Share Embed Share URL Video File Node URL Embed Code <iframe title="MRC TV video player" width="640" height="360" src="https://www.mrctv.org/embed/39152" allowfullscreen></iframe> NBC reporter Lee Cowan found Barack Obama to be "infectious" while covering him. It's no wonder, then, that Obama picked Cowan to ask the second question in Obama's first press conference -- and that Cowan floated a softball.