"You'll get plenty of more opening days. Let Howie and Keith Raad finish it the right way with 40,000 people, with optimism, hope, and then Howie can drop the mic and say I'm out."
It's hard to view this as anything other than a chance to get back into the television news limelight. But did his performance show networks should be beating down Brian Williams' door?
The network that pitched a return for Williams was interested in repurposing the content of the We Interrupt This Broadcast into a television series hosted by the anchor.
"You'll get plenty of more opening days. Let Howie and Keith Raad finish it the right way with 40,000 people, with optimism, hope, and then Howie can drop the mic and say I'm out."