David Gregory NBC

David Gregory NBC, David Gregory acknowledges that he could accept done assertive things bigger as adjudicator of "Meet the Press."

But in some of his aboriginal accessible comments back his blowzy breakdown with NBC News, Gregory says his above employer could accept accept handled affairs a bit differently, too.

Chuck Todd acutely replaced Gregory on "Meet the Press" in August of 2014, but the shakeup had been the affliction kept abstruse in TV account all summer. Gregory was about a asleep man walking as letters swirled about his accepted ouster.

In an account with New York annual appear Wednesday, Gregory was asked why he didn't accost Todd, whose abettor allegedly instigated some of the awkward leaks about Gregory to media outlets.

"I absitively not to do that. I absitively not to bung the leaks," Gregory said. "I anticipate it's adverse that the administration of NBC was not able of ambidextrous with it. I accept Washington and there was claret in the baptize about me."

NBC Account beneath to animadversion on Gregory's remarks.

In a abstracted account on "CBS This Morning," Gregory lamented that NBC Account had "leaked the actuality that they fabricated a accommodation for me to go."

"That was acutely abashing to see that they had handled it that way," Gregory said.

Months afore Gregory larboard NBC, and amidst a continuing ratings accelerate for "Meet the Press," the Washington Post appear that the arrangement had assassin a cerebral adviser to appraise the active host.

Gregory told New York annual that the address was "false," but he said abounding of the leaks acutely came aural NBC.

"You know, there were a lot of leaks that were advancing out and apperception about the approaching of the appearance that could accept alone appear from aural NBC," he said.

Gregory accepted the interviews because he is announcement a account chronicling his airy journey.

He said he disagreed with the angle that he was "fired" by NBC, cogent New York annual that he abreast the arrangement that he "was acceptable too abundant [of] the story."

He aswell dedicated his time at "Meet the Press," adage that the Sunday morning allocution appearance was amount one in the ratings for three out of his six years there.

Gregory said he "could accept done a bigger job architecture a community" at NBC, which may accept accustomed him some awning during the agitation that captivated the end of his tenure. He aswell bidding affliction over an abominable articulation in 2013 during which he displayed a gun annual on the air.

But ultimately, Gregory said he doesn't "miss" NBC.

"I don't absence getting there," he told CBS. "It was just the amiss atmosphere for me."
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