In an exclusive interview, NBC News' Meredith Vieira sat down with David Goldman in his first interview since reuniting with his son, Sean.  The interview will air in a special two-hour "Dateline," on Friday, Jan. 8  at 8 p.m. ET.  A portion also aired on TODAY on Dec. 28, which you can watch below.

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 The Dateline special will include exclusive footage of Goldman and his son's trip back together from Brazil and their first days in the United States.  The special will also feature Vieira's previous interviews with Goldman and NBC News' extensive coverage of this story.

Excerpts from the interview are below. 

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ON SEAN BEING LED THROUGH THE STREET BY HIS STEP-FAMILY:

MEREDITH VIEIRA:
Did it break your heart to see that?
  
DAVID GOLDMAN:
Yes.  My heart has been breaking, and has been broken over and over, and over, and over, through this whole terrible ordeal.  And I just couldn't-- I'll never understand them.  I will never-- I don't think any rational - anybody who has rational logic and true love can ever grasp that-- that spectacle that they created out there.  For what?  What?  Why?  What-- what would it do, at all, in any positive way at all.

Very sad.  He left on his own will.  And he's here now.  And he's with his cousins.  And they're having fun.  And he's loved.  Very, very loved.
  
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MEREDITH VIEIRA:
And when he saw you, and you saw him, and you hadn't seen him since when?  June was it?  Just tell me about that moment, and what you said, what he said.
  
DAVID GOLDMAN:
Well, he was very hot.  And he was just saying, "I'm very hot.  I think I may have a--" like talking to me like we've spoken for a very long time.  You know, he wasn't-- he didn't ever, ever once say, "I don't want to go with you, I don't want to be with you."  And-- anything, whatsoever.  He had no resistance at all.  But at the same time, he was in a great deal of pain.  I mean, they-- what he had just experienced, it's-- it's unfathomable.  And-- and he-- and he was saying, "Can-- I need to get boots.  I need to get-- if there's a lot of snow, I-- we need to get boots.  I need a winter coat."
 
You know, he's been envisioning it.  He's been imagining it.  And-- you know, his mind was all over the place, I'm sure.  So, I was just responding and reacting as best I could to keep him calm, and to keep reassuring him that I love him.  And even though there was no resistance, I didn't-- I mean, I just wanted to of course pick him up like I do every single time I see him.

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MEREDITH VIEIRA:
What was going through your head in terms of this little boy that you're about to take home?
  
DAVID GOLDMAN:
I hope he doesn't have lifelong nightmares of that day.  You know, it was just cameras, first of all.  There weren't mobs saying, "Stay here, don't leave."  You know, it was-- so, there-- there really wasn't resistance from anyone for him to do that, number one.  So, we had to understand that.  It was just cameras, and just pictures.
 
So, there wasn't anybody trying to hold him back, or a mob scene trying to, you know, shout things and create a riot.  It wasn't that all.  So, that was a good-- a good point.  And it was just basically a little boy who was being dragged-- if you want to just break it down-- break it down to the bare minimum-- through-- a bunch of cameras and media.
 
And there-- there was nothing-- no tug-of-war, no fighting or anything.  So, on that-- in that respect, that-- that was as good as it could have been.  And I have to go back to them, because, of course, they wanted it to be everything but that.  And, of course, he was still terrified.
 

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MEREDITH VIEIRA:
You must have-- thought about this a million times, the fact that you get your son back on Christmas Eve.  Just the symbolism.
  
DAVID GOLDMAN:
It's a miracle.  I mean, even if-- if somebody was borderline, is there somebody up there, there was 364 other days that he could've been, if he ever were going to come home.  But it was Christmas Eve.  Somebody's up there for sure.  That's amazing.  Somebody-- one of my friends said, "You know, if-- if some Hollywood producer was gonna write this, and have this-- this whole journey, and have it come to the end how it did, they would say, 'What are you kidding.  No one would believe that.'"  And-- and it seems like that-- that's-- I wouldn't believe it.  And that would almost ruin the movie if they threw that in there.  But it's-- it's amazing.  It's-- it's truly incredible.  It was like the stamp on it.  Or the exclamation mark on it.

A beloved school headmaster and her husband go diving in the beautiful blue waters of the Caribbean, but only one of them comes up alive. What happened so far beneath the sea? An accident or a cold-blooded killing? NBC's Dennis Murphy reports at 9 p.m. ET, 8 p.m. CT.

Remember when we only read about Tiger Woods on the sports page? That was before he hit a fire hydrant, and a parade of women hit the tabloids -- claiming to have had affairs with him.

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On Friday night, we'll talk to one of those women in an exclusive interview.

For the first time, you'll hear how the story of Tiger's other life really got out. Turns out Tiger wasn't the target.

The program, airing Friday, Dec. 11 (9:00 pm, ET), will include an exclusive interview with Las Vegas cocktail waitress Jaime Jungers, an alleged mistress of Woods. In the interview, she shares intimate details about her love affair with Woods, refutes rumors and says he never paid her any money. Jungers will appear live on "Today," Friday, Dec. 11.

For the special, "Dateline" correspondent Josh Mankiewicz takes an in-depth look at the private VIP world in Vegas that attracted Woods and for the first time gets inside the National Enquirer story that started his public nightmare. In an exclusive interview with a Vegas insider, Mankiewicz is told that a feud between two women led to that first story on Woods's alleged affair.

Below are excerpts from the Jungers' interview with Tracy Gallagher, a freelance correspondent for the international television group that conducted the interview.

Jungers: "It wasn't just, like, regular sex"
JUNGERS: it was great.  I mean, yeah, he-- he was pretty wild...Like, it wasn't just, like, regular sex.  It wasn't like, boring, married couple sex.  Like, it was fun and exciting.

Jungers: "It was way more than sex"
TRACY GALLAGHER: And over how many years or months did this relationship take place?

JAIME JUNGER: Almost two years.

TRACY GALLAGHER: So after he was married.

JUNGER: Yes.

GALLAGHER: So he's calling you.  He's flying you places.  Was this relationship just about sex?  Or was it more for you?

JUNGERS: Not at all.  It-- it was way more than sex.  It was very-- it was very emotional.  I mean, we had-- I felt like we had a lot-- or I had a lot of feelings towards him.  And he showed me that he had a lot of feelings towards me. It wasn't just a sexual situation, it was-- I believe, it-- it was love.  I loved him.  I still love him.

Jungers on not owing Woods's wife an apology
TRACY GALLAGHER: Do you think you owe Tiger's wife an apology?

JUNGERS: No, I don't.  I feel like that's his-- that's his business.  Everybody makes mistakes.  This wasn't something that I did yesterday or a month ago or a year ago.  This was years ago.  I was younger.  And I'm not saying that what I did then was right.  But-- I'm certainly not gonna say that it was wrong.  I believe everything happens for a reason.  And-- no, I-- I don't-- I don't believe that I owe her apology-- an apology.  I mean, I-- I'm sorry for everything that's going down.  And what may happen to her kids' fe-- their kids' future, you know?  But no, I don't-- I don't believe I owe her an apology.  No.

Jungers on allegations of prostitution
GALLAGHER: So, would you refute these insinuations that you were in that line of work?

JUNGERS: Absolutely.  And if I have to, I mean, I'm obviously gonna bring my lawyer into this and make sure that whoever is making these accusations will pay for it.  Because that's -- 100 percent false.  I have nothing to do with prostitution and never have, never will.

Jungers: "There will always be a place in my heart for Tiger"

JUNGERS: Well, there-- there'll always be a place in my heart for Tiger, because I-- I loved him.  But I definitely look at him a lot differently after hearing about all the other girls.  And I really don't know what to think about Tiger.  I really don't.  I mean, I-- I hope for his sake.  And for his family's sake that things work out for him. 

Josh Mankiewicz has the story of The Secret Life of Tiger Woods, at 9 p.m./ 8 central on Dateline NBC. A transcript of this report will be available after the West Coast broadcast.

It's a story that has fascinated and mystified millions all over the world: American college student Amanda Knox charged with the brutal murder of her British roommate in Italy. After a trial that lasted almost a year, the case is finally drawing to a close, and now it is the jury's turn.

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Are Amanda Knox and her Italian boyfriend guilty of a gruesome crime? Or are they innocent? NBC's Dennis Murphy will take us step-by-step through the murder, the trial, and - when the jury speaks - the verdict.

Watch "The Trial of Amanda Knox" on Dateline Friday at 9 p.m. ET, 8 p.m. CT on NBC.