He doesn't have support for it. He may not be anchoring the p. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. These days, Williams and his team own the ratings across cable news at that hour. Certainly, the message was lost in the visual, but Jim is right.
This was a nothing — this was the quintessential definition of a nothingburger speech tonight. I — I — again, I looked at that, I tweeted, I thought it was mean. I will never introduce someone only as an analyst. As Trump's administration is hit with more subpoenas, new reports say Trump push Don McGahn to clear his name after the Mueller report was released. By spring of 2017, it expanded to a full hour.
I, you know, one of these rare moments, I'm in agreement with my buddy, James Carville. I defer to Chairman Steele and see what he says. Now it seems that a more permanent spot has opened up. He doesn't have the votes to protect this President's flank. Just long enough to have a break. At the same time, he still goes to the same Jersey Shore stock-car track where his dad took him.
All of a sudden, 11 p. Of course they're not going to change. If there's such a crisis, you would think particularly whenever you sit behind the resolute desk, Brian, to give a national speech that's covered by all the networks and the cable stations, you've got urgency, you got a reason to be there. In his new life, he gets to work a few hours before the time he would have been leaving work a few years ago. He's not selling it to the broader audience of Americans who are genuinely concerned about their neighbors and family members who are directly impacted by this. That's the kind of hurt he doesn't want to feel. What is the problem with responses, James? We had Democrats that responded to the speech that didn't want to respond to the speech and the value of your news judgment was justified within the first ten minutes of your program, you talked about Mueller and not this speech.
And then he did the primaries, and by day two of this show, we knew it was exactly what that hour should have. He couldn't get a Republican congress for two years to go along with this. The Democrats are not going to be for it. Around this time, he sat for a with his colleague Matt Lauer, in which he explained that, in the lingua franca of millennial culture, he owned his failure and had let his ego get in the way of the truth. I — I — again, I looked at that, I tweeted, I thought it was mean.
Winning the 25-54 age-group matters just as much maybe more to executives trying to sell airtime to advertisers. In fact, one of the only public appearances he made during his suspension was a fund-raiser for his New Jersey alma mater, Mater Dei Prep. That didn't work very well. Of course they're not going to change. On the 19th, he said he would sign the — the — the bill, they were going to pass in the Congress to keep the government open. These two people, both of great station and accomplishment, are sharing this little tiny, modest, wooden podium.
Then Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh went crazy and he had to change his mind as if they're going to change on this thing. Williams, though, seems to fit right where he is. At an hour literally, 11 p. I think tomorrow, federal workers should be even more concerned about their situation and whether or not this government is prepared to really do anything about it in the short term and that, you know, all the — all the memes and the visuals aside, that's the seriousness of this. Are you going to pull the trigger? He began volunteering at 18.
I've been more excited about colonoscopies than he was giving the speech tonight. As the 2016 campaign played out with remarkable acceleration, the traditional news cycle was inverted upon itself: by late 2016, it was apparent that the morning news cycle officially began in the evening, as reporters from The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others were publishing their pieces after 6 p. That and more with Jonathan Allen, Donny Deutsch, Barbara McQuade, Paul Butler, Juana Summers, and Ken Thomas. So yes, I do think we can unify, but these are troubling, unsettled, fast-moving times where there have been a lot of people that find themselves in the ditch. And someone has to account for Bobby Jindal, his guest appearance in Gone with the Wind and for Rubio drinking water. And he made clear that he is perfectly content to stay where he is now.
The hour was yeoman-like, to be sure, but that was the point: the slot was open, and Williams happens to be a night owl. If Nancy Pelosi is saying there is nothing coming out of the House that's going to have a wall in it, all right, and if — if — if the Senate leadership, Chuck Schumer notwithstanding, says you don't have the votes, what's he going to do? I think the news judgment was right on. These two people, both of great station and accomplishment, are sharing this little tiny, modest, wooden podium. . Williams, who splits his time between homes in Connecticut and New Jersey, plus an apartment in Midtown, then works on the show until airtime, writing and re-writing his scripts himself, as he did when he anchored Nightly News.
Learn more about your ad choices. I mean, didn't really matter in the end because nobody wanted to be doing what they were doing tonight and that's the bottom line. A number of fire helmets line the walls behind the desk, including his yellow rookie helmet. It — this — the political effect of this is less than zero. I don't think anyone got a sense of what that urgency was or why he was actually doing it.