Anybody who is enjoying a disruption of this man, you have got to look at yourself here. And there is a lot of people saying made me real happy that his career is going down the drain. Millions of dollars at stake for nbc and the Brian Williams controversy. The story is getting even bigger now. We will have the latest. Caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone from california. Factor begins right now. Hi im bill oreilly. Reporting tonight from los angeles. Thanks for watching us. Another american killed by the isis savages. That is the subject of this evenings talking points memo 26yearold Kayla Mueller from arizona is dead. Apparently isis contacted her family providing proof they had been killed by them. This makes four americans executed by the jihadists. Kayla was captured by isis on august 4th, 2013 in syria by leaving a hospital staff doctors without borders. She was in syria to help suffering refugees. President obama said quote the United States will find and bring to ju
We have coverage tonight. Bernard goldberg is here, political analyst brit hume is here as well. But we begin tonight with Trace Gallagher on the breaking news. Trace . Megyn, in the memo debra turner said brian misrepresented events which occurred while he was covering the iraq war in 2003. It then became clear that on other occasions, brian had done the same while telling that story in other venues. Of course, williams first claimed he saw a chopper in front of him get hit by a rocketpropelled grenade and later claimed his chopper got hit. Both are untrue. The nbc president went on to say, we have concerns about comments that occurred outside nbc news while brian was talking about his experiences in the field. As managing editor and anchor of nightly news, brian has a responsibility to be truthful and to uphold the high standards of the News Division at all times. Adding, quote, this was a very hard decision. We believe this suspension is the appropriate and proportionate action. The
Editor and anchor of nbc nightly news for six months without pay. The suspension is effective immediately. And lester holt will continue to anchor the nightly news. In a note to nbc staff, nbc news president Deborah Turness said while on nightly news on friday, january 30th 2015 brian misrepresented events which occurred while he was covering the iraq war in 2003. It then became clear that on other occasions brian had done the same while telling that story in other venues. This was wrong and completely inappropriate for someone in brians position. She went on to say, this was a very hard decision. Certainly, there will be those who disagree but we believe this suspension is the appropriate and proportionate action. Daily show host jon stewart will step down from his Signature Program later this year. This was a shock to a lot of people watching as stewart took over the Comedy Central show from Craig Killborn some 15 years ago, turning it into the comedy standard for criticism in the ne
As a kid, his voice was so strong as a writer and back then he was a correspondent in the middle east. I just to me he was everything that a reporter should be and that i dreamed of being, and still to this day hope to be a quarter of the e reporter and the writer that bob simon is and has been and to even be in the same office as him, you know at 60 minutes and it is a place full of great writerers and producers and correspondents but bob simon was a legend in my opinion, and somebody i was intimidated by. I was shy to talk to him. He started to kind of poke fun at me a couple of year ss back, and this year, he was poking fun at me, because i was getting the short haircuts but he was a love lovely guy. And the producers who worked with him loved to work with him, and you cant say that about everybody in this business. He was a treat from everything that i have heard to be on the road with. And yet, you knew that when bob simon presented a story on 60 minutes you knew it would be speci
We have coverage tonight. Bernard goldberg is here, political analyst brit hume is here as well. But we begin tonight with Trace Gallagher on the breaking news. Trace . Megyn, in the memo debra turner said brian misrepresented events which occurred while he was covering the iraq war in 2003. It then became clear that on other occasions, brian had done the same while telling that story in other venues. Of course, williams first claimed he saw a chopper in front of him get hit by a rocketpropelled grenade and later claimed his chopper got hit. Both are untrue. The nbc president went on to say, we have concerns about comments that occurred outside nbc news while brian was talking about his experiences in the field. As managing editor and anchor of nightly news, brian has a responsibility to be truthful and to uphold the high standards of the News Division at all times. Adding, quote, this was a very hard decision. We believe this suspension is the appropriate and proportionate action. The