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Williams return to the air is an opportunity for him rehabilitate his image and perhaps restore some of the trust lost for making up details about a 2003 reporting trip to Iraq.

MSNBC draws a fraction of the audience of its network parent, with 639,000 total viewers in primetime in August, compared with the 10m that Williams’ NBC Nightly News broadcast sometimes drew.

Williams’ fall from grace at NBC came after he misrepresented, during a newscast, events that occurred while he was in Iraq in 2003.