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Lester Holt

The NBC Nightly News anchor on a difficult presidential debate, the Comey firing scoop and finding a home in broadcast history

You went to Memphis to cover the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. Do you think a figure like King could rise in our current media climate? A lot of organizations control their own media; they can Facebook Live. So that’s obviously a challenge for how we cover things. But I was reminded, covering the anniversary, that the movement was bigger than one

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