NBC newsman Brian Williams sat down with David Letterman last night on the ‘Late Show’ and was immediately grilled about a number of festering network issues.
The veteran CBS host tested the waters, “I’m the soul of discretion. A few months ago there was a problem on the TODAY show.”
Williams laughed and asked, “Am I going to wake up in the shower? Please tell me I’m going to wake up and it’s going to be morning and I’m going to say ‘Hey! I’m doing Dave tonight and that was just a dream.'”
Letterman pressed on, “No, now listen.” He wove a convoluted tale of the feud between Ann Curry and Matt Lauer that resulted in a shake-up and then went on to suggest that the ‘Tonight Show’ rumors were leaked to get everyone to focus there and not on the TODAY show.
He ended by asking Williams, “If I’m on to something, blink twice.” To the newsman’s credit … he did not.
The media noise surrounding Lauer has increased in recent weeks. After rumors surfaced that NBC had approached Anderson Cooper, a spokesman said, “The network has exploratory talks with talent inside and outside of the network. But to read anything specific into that is presumptuous.”
Check out the humorous exchange between Brian and Dave on video below:
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