NBC anchor Brian Williams 'temporarily' steps down : 24/7 News Online — Transcript

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1. 0:00Williams said it had become painfully
2. 0:02apparent that he was too much a part of
3. 0:04the news he repeatedly told a story
4. 0:07about being shot down in a helicopter in
5. 0:09Iraq but veterans disputed his account
6. 0:12Williams the most watched Network anchor
7. 0:15in the US blamed the fog of memory for
8. 0:18the lapse in a statement he said he
9. 0:21would not be presenting his nightly show
10. 0:23for several days while the network
11. 0:25investigated his claims upon on my
12. 0:28return I will continue my career long
13. 0:31effort to be worthy of the trust of
14. 0:32those who place their trust in us he
15. 0:35added I made a mistake on Wednesday
16. 0:38Williams made an apology on air over the
17. 0:41Iraq story I made a mistake in recalling
18. 0:44the events of 12 years ago he said I
19. 0:48want to apologize I said I was traveling
20. 0:51in an aircraft that was hit by RPG
21. 0:53rocket propelled grenade fire I was
22. 0:56instead in the following aircraft his
23. 0:59apology came after veterans who were on
24. 1:01the helicopter that was hit challenged
25. 1:03his version of events one of them flight
26. 1:06engineer Lance retals wrote sorry dude I
27. 1:10don't remember you being on my aircraft
28. 1:13I do remember you walking up about an
29. 1:15hour after we had landed to ask me what
30. 1:18had happened some critics were not
31. 1:20satisfied by Wy I am s apology calling
32. 1:24for his
33. 1:25resignation questions have also been
34. 1:27raised about his coverage of Hurricane
35. 1:29Katrina in 2005 with one Health official
36. 1:33challenging a claimed he contracted
37. 1:34dentary reporting on the event