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In his first night subbing for the embattled Brian Williams, Lester Holt took time before the first commercial break on Monday’s NBC Nightly News to again inform viewers of the reason for Williams’s absence.
Holt used similar wording that he did on Saturday’s program to describe the situation by making clear at the onset that he wanted “to take just a moment tell you where Brian is tonight” before reading a few portions of Williams’s statement where he announced that he would be taking “several days” off from the anchor desk.