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Sense of how much these executives were themselves participating in this system that commodityfied young female journalists, looked another way while matt lauer took advantage of them. these were young women who were showing up because they wanted to be journalists, because they wanted to do the job. and they deserve better, too. >> theres always been questions about who knew what when at nbc about lauer. the network always says there was never a formal complaint. heres andy lacks statement from...

Paid out past his last day of work. meanwhile, nbc executives are facing mounting criticism about what they knew and when. as a variety reports, several women told variety complained to executives at the network about lauers behavior. here now is the woman who wrote that expose, variety reporter, elizabeth wade meister. you said you were getting more calls and as you go out there and you are on the show, i imagine even more people who knew things and where victims have reached out to you, is tha...

Of sexual misconduct. this afternoon, this headline that matt lauer is accused of sexual harassment by multiple women, invited women who his hotel while covering the olympi olympics. variety has talked to three women who identified themselves as victims of sexual harassment. their stories have been corroborated. they said they complained to the network about lauers behavior which fell on deaf ears given the lucrative advertising on today. they say prior to monday night, current nbc news manageme...

Then, theres disciplinary action. the difference here is it happened the opposite way. then we started to find out about the accusations against him. the other big difference in this case is weve not heard from the accused person. weve seen a lot of awkward statements from various powerful men, kevin spacey, harvey weinstein. these men have been in the situations where they try to kind of half apologize, half defend themselves. ill argue no one has gotten it right. maybe hes wisely trying to sta...

Corroborated. they said they complained to the network about lauers behavior which fell on deaf ears given the lucrative advertising on today. they say prior to monday night, current nbc news management was never made aware of complaints about matt lauers conduct. youve been covering this day. these situations for any organization are awkward situations because we work with nbc news and this is a story about nbc news and we have been committed here today to covering this story because this is a ...

The firing happens overnight. we get the news about the firing this morning and all of these detailed allegations unfold over the course of today. and those allegations have been in some cases reported to nbc news human resources. and in several cases theyve been reported out into detail in "variety" and "the new york times." so thats one of the open questions here. will more accusers come forward? beyond that, though, now that there are multiple allegations involving multiple nbc employees over...

She told the "times" she passed out and had to be taken to a nurse. she said she felt helpless because she didnt want to lose her job and she didnt report the encounter at the time because she felt shamed. she has asked to remain anonymous. several women told "variety" they complained to executives at the network about lauers behavior. but the magazine writes it quote fell on deaf ears. nbc news released the following statement, quote, we can say unequivocally that prior to monday night current ...

>> reporter: -- and continued after, at least two other women have made formal complaints at matt lauer to nbc news. one of those women also went to "the new york times" with her allegation, saying that in 2001, lauer sexually assaulted her after summoning her to his office. she says lauer asked her to unbutton her blouse, which she did. at some point, she said, she passed out with her pants pulled halfway down. she woke up on the floor of his office, and mr. lauer had his assistant take her to ...

Case, to neglect very credible allegations of misbehavior. in this case, with matt lauer, it seems we didnt have those allegations before, but i think theres something salutary in simply not having these multimillion vehicles for entire networks prosperity. because that simply creates financial incentives to try to sweep these things under the rug. now were in kind of a tidal waive moment which is incredibly salutary but if we return to the old system, im not sure that this is going to continue ...