carl bernstein beside me. almost everybody in the news industry has weighed in on the brian williams controversy except for brian williams. the newsman at the center of it all has yet to utter a peep since his self-imposed suspension. even as new allegations against williams are surfacing nearly every day. my sense is he's not being allowed to speak by nbc. sources at the network tell me fact checking into his past claims is quote, nowhere near done. while there's some that think williams should get a break, a second chance others say he should not return to the chair. carl before the break, you were saying to me it's clear he invented stories that he simply didn't misremember innocently. >> i don't know what the extent of it. that's what the investigation is for. let's withhold any kind of final judgment here. let's be careful and not sanctimonious. we do need to hear from brian. i expect and hope we will. nbc news we also need to hear from, as i mentioned. >> i checked in again, no comment. >> i think it wil

and on the special, on dick cavett's watergate, carl bernstein points out -- new interviews with him,an and with woodward. the first day of the administration, we had for the first time, we know, a criminal administration in the white house. and instead of celebrating, he is like how we have to get this guy and ruin this guy's business by screwing him this way and so on. and at one point, he wants to know if i am a jew. isn't that fascinateing? >> clive james wrote an he is aabout you and he said for television accurately appalled him but born for television, was. >> what add wonderful man. clive james, british columnist, great wit. i had him on several shows. >> were you appalled, though, by being born for television? because it seems to me that you loved television. entertainment? >> i did. >> in general. >> you are right, not to say clive is wrong if he is watching. i don't know. i think you are right, i belong in it. >> still ahead, on "talk to al jazeera" dick cavett on the guests he loved andthose he loathed. >> tonight. >> i am a mother of a missing child. >> every parents wors