brian williams this week. >> or rosewater or in the criticism in the show that maybe not of meghan kelley but a lot of what john. jon did in the media he was trying to say do it better. >> you don't criticize something like that you don't care about, it is because he admires the work at its best. >> rose: what was his core skill, what is his core skill? i mean as a comic? was it what? was it -- >> for example, with letterman or with carson, it was an ad lib to a conversation. i think it is his intelligence. i mean the guy brought a fierce intelligence to what he was covering. i think he did not stand on finding exactly the facts and getting it exactly right, being extremely demanding. >> rose: and finding the fault in the reasoning. >> well, yeah. i would put it, extending exactly what bill said. it is finding the core absurdity or hypocrisy that could be turned into a laugh but that made the issue, you know, worse satirizing. >> and i think just because he is a performer because of the performer tone, i think that there were elements of his delivery and, you know, the ability to, you know, nobody could roll th