our next guest is one of the preeminent tv news boys in the business
he is a white house correspondent and the saturday anchor for the nightly news
he also has his very own program on the recently launched msnbc channel
ladies and gentlemen please welcome the busy and talented brian williams brian
thank you very much for being with us here uh now i made that silly face because i thanks a lot very
much that's great that's great i got a rolex oh good for you i kind of know what this uh ms bill
what a microsoft nbc channel but what exactly it's a combination of bill gates and nbc and
what do they do we thought a lot of networks dave were going with way too few letters in their names
and uh a bunch of us got together i have it down to 2.2 seconds uh msnbc it takes me a while
but you know what it's worth it in the end um which end is that well you know hey wait a minute
i'll clear this room and subpoena every one of you it is a cooperative venture between the
the good folks at microsoft and the good folks at nbc you know them yeah what do i have and is it
is it like a 24-hour cable news service we never go off never go off the air oh we're always on
and how much of the broadcast day is devoted to just showing pictures of bill gates's money
well we just that's how you know that's how we open the broadcast day we uh
we had the blue angels for a while and then their hourly rate got prohibited so
uh now a lot of people uh think and i did not know this but it uh i don't even know
if it makes sense that you somehow are being groomed to replace tom brokaw when he decides
to step down tom brokaw a fine journalist a great anchor man a good friend of mine
and is there any truth to that is there i do i do most of my own grooming and it's just something
i don't think we want this conversation to go down the road of you know filling in for network icons
dave so uh but you and tom are friends also aren't you oh i was kidding i'm kidding i'm
kidding no we're very good friends i'm it's it's thanks to him that i'm there yeah and uh you know
his house is wild because it's always macarena night and uh uh he was on it before
anyone else in this country i can remember i guess we were doing the macarena in the late 80s
is that right yeah really quite ahead of yourself translator oh it's nuts it's nuts you go in you're
parking the car and you can hear the pulsating rhythm of that song uh and you you and i live
in the same general area is that right yeah we're very boy you got in late last night huh
i get in late every night it's a long damn day entertaining america i got in and my wife said
boy late one for dave and i said yeah you know and uh and you fell for it it crushes me when uh
i can mix it up pretty good
it's i think it's when you drive by my post and you act like i'm not even there sometimes
well we should get together we should hang around or something yeah like you mean that but anyway
i mean no i'm downtown all the time colonial barber shop uh so
uh can you give us a sense now of uh uh what's going on in the
middle east everything all right there cloudy and iraq nuttiness this past week um i talked
to uh the information you're not going to get from rather last night i see but i talked to um
i talked to some sources uh white house press secretary mike mccurry there's a little bit
of embarrassment that second round of missiles mission uh there's a problem uh the president
hit the wrong remote you know a lot of us a lot of us have tv vcr remotes he's got a third that
says you know cruise missiles on it so it was late you know he's reaching around and hits
uh to turn on the late show and evidently well 17 missiles launched oh no right then
you can't take them back once they're launched there's no like missile mit system so um you know
he's down to the two remotes now uh hillary's gonna take the third well that's great yeah
you you may be too funny to be a news well you know you know it's uh
it's brian wins the wacky anchor man
don't uh don't act like we didn't talk during pre-show cocktails but um
a lot of it dave has been the alcohol talking over the years yeah well that's that's good
uh listen thank you very much for coming by to spend a few minutes of our third
anniversary with us thank you thank you very much brian williams ladies and gentlemen