Gregory to Moderate "Meet the Press"

Breaking News:  NBC News Chief White House correspondent David Gregory will be the new moderator of NBC's Meet the Press.  The announcement was made this morning by the departing interim-moderator Tom Brokaw, who took over the job as moderator after the untimely death of NBC's Washington Bureau Chief and long time moderator Tim Russert.  

Mr. Gregory will have a high standard to live up to in the coming months, if not years.  Russerts style and his ability to reinvent the Sunday morning public affairs show made him one of the true power players in Washington, DC.  Gregory who came to NBC News in 2000, currently is NBC's Chief White House correspondent, and host of MSNBC's daily show 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  Gregory while Brokaw was interim-moderator was the only other guest moderator.  Earlier reports said NBC was looking NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd, there Chief Foreign affairs policy correspondent Andrea Mitchell, and PBS's Gwen Ifill, but Gregory was tapped.  The announcement was made by Mr. Brokaw and is in the clip below.