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Brian Williams Stepping Down ,but did he or did he not live in Ridgewood ?

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Brian Williams Stepping Away From ‘NBC Nightly News’ Amid Scandal

But the REAL question remains did he or did he not live in Ridgewood ?

Brian Williams is stepping away from NBC Nightly News for a number of days.

The anchor sent a note to the show’s staff, announcing that Lester Holt is replacing him for an unspecified amount of time. The news comes as Williams is embroiled in a scandal surrounding his story about being a passenger in a helicopter that took fire in Iraq in 2003.

On Jan. 30, an NBC Nightly News clip was posted to Facebook in which Williams repeated a story he had told previously about having been in the helicopter that was hit and went down during the Iraq invasion. After the story was questioned, Williams apologized on Wednesday’s Nightly News, saying that his helicopter was following the one that was hit.

“I feel terrible about making this mistake, especially since I found my OWN WRITING about the incident from back in ’08, and I was indeed on the Chinook behind the bird that took the RPG in the tail housing just above the ramp,” Williams wrote on Facebook.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/brian-williams-stepping-away-nbc-771102

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No Credibility : With an Apology, Brian Williams Digs Himself Deeper in Copter Tale

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With an Apology, Brian Williams Digs Himself Deeper in Copter Tale

By JONATHAN MAHLER, RAVI SOMAIYA and EMILY STEELFEB. 5, 2015

For years, Brian Williams had been telling a story that wasn’t true. On Wednesday night, he took to his anchor chair on “NBC Nightly News” to apologize for misleading the public.

On Thursday, his real problems started.

A host of military veterans and pundits came forward on television and social media, challenging Mr. Williams’s assertion that he had simply made a mistake when he spoke, on several occasions, about having been in a United States military helicopter forced down by enemy fire in Iraq in 2003. Some went so far as to call for his resignation.

In his apology, Mr. Williams said that he had been on a different helicopter, behind the one that had sustained fire, and that he had inadvertently “conflated” the two. The explanation earned him not only widespread criticism on radio and TV talk shows, but widespread ridicule on Twitter, under the hashtag “#BrianWilliamsMisremembers.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/06/business/brian-williamss-apology-over-iraq-account-is-challenged.html?_r=0

NBC News anchor Brian Williams’ comments about dead bodies, Hurricane Katrina starting to gain attention, draw scrutiny

https://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/11526453-148/nbc-news-anchor-brian-williams