It looks as if Brian Williams got too far out over his skis with a report on New
Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's link to the "Bridgegate" scandal.
On Friday, NBC News admitted Nightly News anchor Brian Williams' report that
federal charges for Christie had been ruled out in the "Bridgegate" investigation was
incorrect.
In fact, the probe into the closing of lanes on the George Washington Bridge in
September 2013has not found Christie to have had prior knowledge of the closure "thus
far." "The investigation is continuing,'' Rebekah Carmichael, a spokeswoman for U.S.
Attorney for New Jersey Paul Fishman told the Asbury Park Press, who was first to catch
NBC's correction.
NBC acknowledged the error on Friday. "An unscripted line of our Nightly News
report was imprecise and implied that a final decision had been reached," an NBC
spokesperson said of Williams' report.
On Thursday night, Williams said that "federal charges are now ruled out for
Chris Christie in the affair that came to be known as Bridgegate." The headline on the
segment's website was "'Bridgegate' Investigators Find No Link to Chris Christie."
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