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Jan. 22 (UPI) — NBC News announced the retirement of Tom Brokaw on Friday after 55 years with the network. The 80-year-old anchor said in a statement that he trusts the new generation of NBC News to cover current events. “During one of the most complex and consequential eras in American history, a new generation of NBC News journalists, producers and technicians is providing America with timely, insightful and critically important information, 24/7,” the statement read. “I could not be more proud of them.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Just to illustrate the disconnect for you. This has nothing to do with whether you're a conservative mad at Trump or whether you're a Trumpster mad at the establishment or what have you. Tom Brokaw is the establishment. Tom Brokaw epitomizes it. Tom Brokaw is the face of it! And he's on with other members of the establishment, Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie, and they're all wringing their hands over, "Wha-wha-wha-what's going on with the Republican campaign? Why is there so much anger?" And here is what Brokaw said... BROKAW: President Obama promised change, but he initiated...

Tom Brokaw: "It's frightening, frankly."

Dr. Bob Arnot has claimed that NBC News did not renew his contract as a correspondent after he clashed with news producers who shunned his reports about positive rebuilding efforts in Iraq. The New York Observer is publishing excerpts from an email message sent by Arnot from Baghdad to NBC News President Neal Shapiro, saying in part, "NBC Nightly News routinely takes the stories that I shoot and uses the footage, even to lead the broadcast [but] refuses to allow the story to be told by the reporter on the scene [himself]." He indicated that he was particularly offended when,...