Luke Russert is returning to television, following in the footsteps of his father Tim Russert - once a household name on Sunday mornings in America.
The only son of the TV icon, who died of a heart attack in 2008, is now co-host of 7 p.m. news program "The Weeknight" on lefty MS NOW, the second most-watched U.S. cable news network after right-wing Fox News. It's been a 10-year hiatus from television for him and comes amid shifting attitudes toward cable news shows.
But Russert says wisdom can help the political news landscape.
"Sometimes you're a young man and you're very confident in your twenties and you might be too brash, too overconfident," Russert told USA TODAY. "You get older. Now I'm 40. You kind of have some years of experience behind you where you're more comfortable sharing your opinions and you feel more grounded in your beliefs."
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