Amidst Orlando, Brian Williams Jokes to Guest About Searching for GOP ‘With a Flashlight’

Curtis Houck | June 12, 2016
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While he apologized roughly six minutes later, MSNBC breaking news anchor and disgraced ex-NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams jokingly asked former Republican Senator Mel Martinez of Florida during an interview about the Orlando terror attack if he could find his party in the 2016 election “with a flashlight.”

Near the end of the segment, Williams smirked as he wondered aloud: “Senator, I'm listening to your politics and wondering what branch of the Republican Party you’re in these days and can you find it with a flashlight?”