Brian Williams Expected To Return To MSNBC Sept. 22 To Cover The Pope

This April 4, 2012 file photo shows NBC News' Brian Williams, at the premiere of the HBO original series "Girls," in New York. (AP Photo/Starpix, Dave Allocca, File)
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Brian Williams is scheduled to return from his six-month suspension on Sept. 22 to anchor live, breaking news coverage, which is expected to include coverage of the pope’s visit to the U.S., according to a Thursday report in The Hollywood Reporter.

Williams, previously the anchor of NBC’s “Nightly News,” was suspended without pay after he was caught embellishing stories about his reporting in Iraq. He was later replaced by NBC’s Lester Holt and has since been reassigned to MSNBC.

MSNBC is in the midst of making several schedule changes, but Williams will not have a dedicated hour in the schedule and will instead focus on several afternoon programs, according to the report.

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  1. Cool he can tell us what it was like when he was there in the room when the pope was elected.

  2. Yeah…that’s a fairly safe thing for him to do. How much trouble can you get into covering Your Holiness after all? Baby steps Brian, baby steps.

  3. Hopefully he’s learned his lesson about mis-remembering. Otherwise he may say something like “I remember applying first aid when Pope JP II got shot.”

  4. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    Wax over tapas with il papa?

  5. Lester Holt interviewed two women who survived the church shooting in SC, and Holt handled it graciously with sympathy and understanding. There’s no need for Brian for whom the word obsequious was created.

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