Tom Brokaw Sent Up Red Flags On Williams

Tom Brokaw

Former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw had been warning colleagues for at least a year about the truth of Brian Williams' story about the Army helicopter he was riding in being hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq in 2003, NPR's David Folkenflik reported.

Brokaw reportedly looked into the incident involving his successor in the NBC News anchor chair himself and concluded that, quote, "the facts simply didn't match."

Folkenflik also reported that Brokaw sees Williams as, quote, "more of a performer than an anchor." NBC suspended Williams on Tuesday for six months without pay, and an investigation into his statements is continuing.