Friday, July 3, 2026

NBC’s Brian Williams Tells Matt Lauer on Today: “I told stories that weren’t true”

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Here’s the video of this morning’s interview with Brian Williams. It sums up at about 9:38. “I told stories that weren’t true,” Williams, now the former anchor of NBC Nightly News, says. Lester Holt replaces him. Williams gets kicked to MSNBC so that Comcast doesn’t have to pay out any part of his contract. Williams still receives $10 million a year. “This came from a bad place…inside me,” Williams says.

To me he sounds like Richard Nixon. He never once says these words, “I lied.” Watch this video. It’s brutal– especially since NBC has embedded a Dunkin Donuts commercial with Joel McHale. Keep refreshing.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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