Brian Williams returned to the air Tuesday, seven months after the former "NBC Nightly News"
anchor was suspended without pay for fabricating stories about his reporting, both on NBC and elsewhere.
In his reduced role as MSNBC's breaking news anchor, Williams anchored live coverage of Pope Francis' historic visit to the United States on the Comcast-owned cable news channel.
"Good day, I’m Brian Williams at MSNBC headquarters in New York," the 56-year-old anchor said at the top of the 3 p.m. hour ahead of the Pope's arrival from Cuba at Joint Base Andrews — making no mention of the controversy or his six-month absence from the air.
Williams received a six-month suspension in February after admitting he embellished events that occurred in 2003 while he was covering the war in Iraq.
For years, Williams claimed he was aboard a U.S. Air Force helicopter that was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade and grounded during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In late January, he told the story again on "NBC Nightly News," and soldiers who were with Williams in Iraq took to Facebook to dispute his account.yahoonews,youtube
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Good for him
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