‘Meet the Press’

20 June 2008 |permalink | email article

Over a week after Tim Russert’s death, Brian Williams, the NBC anchor and his longtime friend, will fill the moderator’s chair Sunday with guest Senators Joe Biden and Lindsey Graham.

While no attention has yet been given to finding a successor for the top-rated show, Williams would be a top candidate.

The former chief White House correspondent anchors the network’s nightly news from New York and moderating the weekend program might a strain to do from Washington.

But Bob Schieffer spent 18 months anchoring CBS’s evening news while hosting “Face the Nation.”

Speculation builds that David Gregory, NBC’s chief White House correspondent who Russert recently tapped to host a new one-hour prime time MSNBC politics program, might be on the short list to host MTP.

Chuck Todd, NBC’s savvy political director, is another intriguing possibility.

Quotes of the Day

“It’s pretty safe to say that I am the only person in the history of Virginia to be elected to statewide office with a union card, two Purple Hearts, and three tattoos. White guys like talk like that.” – Sen. Jim Webb, a highly decorated Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War, Secretary of the Navy under Reagan and considered a possible pick by Barack Obama for vice president.

“You know, forever is a long time.” – Sen. Joe Liebermann, I-Conn., backing John McCain for president, asked if he plans to be a Democrat “forever.”

“We’re not going within 30 miles of the city he’s in.” – Charlie Black, McCain’s chief strategist, making clear there would be no photo ops when the presumptive nominee and President Bush toured Iowa flood areas hard hit by floods.

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