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Have these conversations and continue to educate our viewers as well. thank you, thank you for your time. >> thank you. appreciate the time. now we turn to troubling new allegations about former "today" co-host matt lauer revealed overnight. nbcs stephanie gosk is here with more on those. >> hi to you, craig. the soon to be released book catch and kill written by ronan farrow was obtained overnight by variety. nbc news has not seen the book. it includes an interview with a former nbc news empl...

Whole testimony. do you think the term campaign or presidency ever stopped being about making money for the president, his family, and his organization? >> mr. cohen: yes. >> when did it stop being back? >> mr. cohen: when he won the election. >> what did it become about at that point? >> mr. cohen: that had to be about figuring out what to do here in washington. >> can you carefully explained to america how the hush money payments to karen mcdougall and stormy daniels work to? can you carefully...

Whats called catch-and-kill. again, federal prosecutors write that cohen admitted with respect to both payments he acted in coordination -- and heres the word -- and at the direction of individual one. thats donald trump. in addition to the special counsels filing seems to undermine president trumps claim that he had nothing to do with russia. according to page four of the special counsels filing tonight, michael cohen made false and misleading statements concerning outreach to russian officials...

This seems to be someone that nbc, if they are doing, is applying and something that weinstein would do. but they have bigger problems. farrow has a boom coming out called "catch and kill" where he describes what happened and how the story was killed at nbc. their problems are very, very big. you are simply discussing them. which is important. but what we also know is when it comes to even that 11-page tone, the andy lack put out, he stated that the women that came forward, they said they had no...

Controls on you. but now these companies have to contend with being different in the united states than in china. does that go along with their mantra of dont be evil? depending on what they do in china, that might be going against that. >> thats a fascinating concept in terms of mixed corporate metaphors, its complicated, "dont be evil." oliver, this week ronan farrows one-time produce at nbc resigned and lobbed new charges that the network tried to kill the harvey weinstein story. the producer...

The phrase, "catch and kill" just got catchier. when cnn got ahold of the tape talking to donald trump about the enquirer publisher we didnt know it would be a bigger purchaser of caught and kill stories than just karen mcdougal. the headlines, "national enquirer" had decades of dirt and he wanted to buy it all. when you do, watch for the phrase, all the stuff. >> i need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend, david, you know, so im going to do that right ...

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Wasnt ready. but farrow disagrees, and is going to write about what happened in a new book titled "catch and kill." the book was announced a few days ago and i think its going to be a doozy. let me bring back christiane amanpour and frank sesno. frank, there has been some skepticism, and one of the women -- the woman who came out tuesdaying tom brokaw of harassment says there should be an independent investigation. where do you stand on the idea of these media companies or newsrooms having to lo...

Wrong thing to do -- >> reporter: several people have now said peckers company bought the right to stories potentially damaging to trump just to keep them out of the public eye, a practice called "catch and kill." and at one point msnbc hosts claimed the white house threatened to launch a hit piece on them in "the enquirer." >> they said, if you call the president up and you apologize for your coverage, then he will pick up the phone and basically spike the story. >> reporter: peckers company, a...

Potential blackmail? how do you see this arrangement? >> well, actually, i thought that it was going to be a very exciting freedom of the press case where mr. pecker, and that is his name, and he is the publisher of the "national enquirer" and he bought the story from karen mcdougal for $150,000 according to the "new yorker" and the idea is and the glorious work of journalists here you go. you pay for the story and a great publication, and except that this is what is called the "catch and kill" ...