VIDEO: Brian Williams Talks of Being Lucky to Survive Enemy Attacks in 2007 Fairfield University Interview

The ongoing Brian Williams saga has reached Fairfield with the resurfacing of a video showing the NBC anchorman claiming he was fortunate to survive enemy attacks during a 2007 interview with a Fairfield University student, according to Poynter.org.

In the video, Williams says the following, via Poynter.org:

At a reception a few minutes ago, I was remembering something I tend to forget, the war with Hezbollah in Israel, a few years back, where there were Katyushka rockets passing just beneath the helicopter I was riding in. A few years before that, you go back to Iraq, and I looked down the tube of an RPG that had been fired at us and it hit the chopper in front of ours.

Williams, a New Canaan resident, has come under fire for mounting questions about the accuracy of a story, and the differing accounts he has told, about an Iraq War mission in 2003. (Read a rundown of the versions of the story he has told here).

Williams announced on Saturday that he would step aside from his ‘NBC Nightly News’ chair duties for several days amid the allegations of embellishing the story. NBC News confirmed on Friday that it is investigating him over the statements.

Poynter reports that the story Williams told during the Fairfield University interview of Hezbollah rockets passing just below him will likely also come under scrutiny.

Read the full story at Poynter.org here. Watch the full interview with the Fairfield University student below: