On June 26, following the Supreme Court’s decision to grant a constitutional right to marry for gay couples, NBC News Special Report broke in to cheer on the ruling. Pete Williams labeled it a historic ruling and fought back tears while reporting the 5-4 decision to Guthrie.
Savannah Guthrie claimed the ruling “has potential to go down in the record books” with “the significance of something like Brown versus Board of Education.” Later in the segment, Chuck Todd and Matt Lauer agreed that this ruling is another “big victory for the administration.”