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But first on the news banter, Brian Williams is credible enough for MSNBC.

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I'm joined by my fellow banterer, Matt Bellany, of the Hollywood reporter.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So it has already been revealed and hashed over quite a bit that Brian Williams is not being booted altogether from the NBC world. He's going to be covering breaking news at

MSNBC. This is not something that I think is going to ultimately go down all that smoothly

because, of course, if you have a person whose issue is credibility, I'm not sure how having

this person in the news chair for breaking news. I mean,

maybe he never exaggerated or fibbed about breaking news, but we now perceive him as a person who's

not entirely straightforward and lacks that very important credibility. But this is a solution

that NBC Universal came up with to solve a problem. Yeah, I think this is the equivalent of a rehab

assignment in AAA, if you use the baseball terms. I mean, he is being essentially sent to the farm

team at MSNBC to see what people think. Will they accept him there? Are they not going to watch

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