Have you ever wondered what life is like in the White House? Particularly for President Obama and First Lady Michelle?

Well, NBC’s Brian Williams got a good inside peek, and he’s letting us have a glimpse, too. The first hour of a two-hour NBC program on "Inside the White House" aired last night; the second hour will air at eight o’clock PM ET tonight. We get behind-the scenes looks at the president in action: his morning routine of working out and sending his girls, Sasha and Malia, off to school; and how he and Michelle — and even the family Portuguese water dog, Bo — balance it all.

A few highlights:

-President Obama reads newspapers but not cable news, because "it feels like WWF wrestling."

-The president taught Bo to shake, and likes to playfully growl at him.

-He says all the talk about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor being a "racist," among other allegations, is "nonsense that is being spewed out."

-The leader of the free world loves Five Guys burgers.

Watch a clip of the video below.

Meanwhile, Obama has a different kind of debut to make in the Middle East this week during his much-anticipated trip to the region. He will deliver an address in Cairo, Egypt, on Thursday, in hopes of reaching out to Muslims and opening up communication lines. He arrived in Saudi Arabia today and met with Saudi King Abdullah. For their part, Mideast experts say Muslims want action, and want to know the U.S. is serious about bettering relations, working on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, among other things. Although hopes are high for Obama’s trip, the White House essentially reminded everyone Tuesday that Rome wasn’t built in a day.

"This is about resetting our relationship with the Muslim world … we don’t expect that everything will change after one speech. I think it will take a sustained effort and that’s what the president is in for," said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs. "What is important is that we demonstrate that the United States wants to pursue a different relationship and ensure that Muslims around the world understand the message of the United States: that we share common hopes and dreams, and that we can work together to fulfill those hopes and dreams … separating that from the extremism and extremists that wish to do us harm.”

Madeleine K. Albright, President Clinton’s secretary of state and the first female in U.S. history to hold that post, wrote in The New York Times today that Obama has a tough job in changing perception that America is hostile to Islam — a perception that fuels Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the Iranian government, among others. The hope is that he can succeed on this front where President Bush could not. She writes:

He must persuade Muslims abroad to view our existing policies in a new light. That is no small job. It requires separating the rationale for contemporary actions from the long history of clashes between Islam and the West, and it requires overcoming the resentment caused when Muslim noncombatants are killed as a byproduct of conflict … We cannot pretend that American soldiers and aircraft are not attacking Muslims. We can, however, remind the world that the people we oppose are murdering Muslims and other innocents every day.

Although many are optimistic about Obama’s trip, one man, in particular, is far from it: Osama bin Laden.

Al Jazeera TV aired a recording purported to be of bin Laden today, in which he said Obama had planted seeds for "revenge and hatred" toward the United States in the Muslim world, and he told Americans to be "prepared to receive the consequences" if Obama continues the policies of Bush.

Looks like the terrorists are keeping close tabs on what Obama says and does, too.

Watch a video clip of NBC’s "Inside the White House" below. You can watch more clips here.