in depth specials of the stories that matter to all of our lives. i'm going to be telling you more about this in the weeks ahead, but i love every night i get to spend with you. >> so why isn't her job going to george stephanopoulos who is arguably the network's lead anchorman. he is the anchor of "good morning america." abc says he will assume a new role of something called chief anchor handling big breaking news and election coverage. anyway you handle it, the evening news isn't the priority it was. that's a dramatic change. i can't think of anyone better to ask about this than one of the legends of the evening news, dan rather who was the anchor of cbs evening news. he joins me now. dan, thank you for being here. >> thank you very much, jeffrey. thanks for being here. >> david muir is the new anchor of the abc world news tonight.