NBC Profiles Vietnamese Republican Who Beat Corrupt Dem Rep Jefferson

Brad Wilmouth
January 6th, 2009 10:54 PM
On Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News, correspondent Ron Mott filed a report featuring incoming Republican Congressman Joseph Cao, the first Vietnamese-American elected to Congress, and the man who defeated corrupt former Democratic Congressman William Jefferson in heavily Democratic New Orleans. Brian Williams introduced Mott’s piece: "There was new ground broken on Capitol Hill today, where the first…