Hero Worship, NBC News Edition

Mediabistro.com, operating under "TV Newswer.... and now the news about the news," reports

In advance of the NBC News special "Inside the Obama White House" — set to air tomorrow and Wednesday at 9pmET — Brian Williams tells The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz that among the 150 hours of footage shot for the program, "there's stuff we've never seen of how the White House operates...we were pretty stunned at how much we were able to record and how natural events seemed to be."

Williams talks of "walking through the West Wing and Secretary [Hillary] Clinton drops by to see the president. To be in the hallway when the president walks by with a handful of M&Ms, popping them in his mouth as he goes to visit his chief of staff —it was unbelievable."

We've always known Brian Williams is no Bob Woodward or Carl Bernstein but... he admits this?