manslaughter charges. inexplicably. h we are tracking the president oe twitter for his reaction, we ll follow the aftermath of this verdict. there will be one. it s easy to see the big winner in the downfall of matt lauer. it s hillary clinton. watch? in 2016, he moderated the commander-in-chief form in which he held separate half hour interviews with then candidates clinton antrim, according to clinton supporters, lauer was too easy on trump and far too tough on hillary clinton.su you were communicating on highly sensitive topics. why wasn t it more than i must take? why wasn t it disqualified, if you want to be commander in chief? for some of the email sent or received to you referring to our drawing program, our covert drone program? some of the emails you sent and received happened while you were overseas and director james comey said while they have no proof, we assess that it is possible that hospital actors gainedt access to secretary clinton s personal email
we are not 100% wrong. let s assume we are right every now and then and we are not crazy people. this is a great example of a time it s hard to say there was not an odd story. i don t think his colleagues or network would take any issue with that. tucker: they never liked hillary clinton. they are commited to abortion and immigration. they agreed on that but never liked her personally and she never treated them to be honest and you reported that. yes. tucker: it gets back to the point, do genuinely strong people complain about unfair coverage constantly? this is not the question you are asking, giving the news that s an interesting question. talking to matt lauer with what
accounts. tucker: look at how much he hates her. visible. in her book, clinton says that she fantasized about attacking lauer because of his allegedng bias. perhaps his firing is a serviceable l substitute. a former hillary clinton spokesman and a longtime advisor to her joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. thank you. tucker: i watched that when it happened and i thought, you know, if i, who obviously disagrees with her on everything, had asked her everything, i doubt she would have had been half is offended. i always thought that she was mad at matt lauer because he was supposed be part of the group, a follow-up world that works at nbc. yet, he had the temerity to ask hard questions. that was the sin. i don t think so. they have a history going back a long way. it was on his show that she blamed the right wing conspiracy that i m sitting in the middle
tucker: do you expect we will get a clear accounting in this case? i think that we may not get a clear count unless staffers start to talk about what s going on. i think it s important and there are questions about whether the ronan farrow story didn t air because of these allegations, there are questions about what nbc staffers new at one time, there are questions about why this conduct was allowed to go on for so long, ad there are all things that we are reporting. we have had, since her story has posted, we have had many more people reach out the house. they ve encouraged just to continue to look into not just matt lauer, what nbc as a whole, and of course we are going to be doing that. tucker: i know a lot of people who work there, some of them are good people, and they are horrified by this. elizabeth, some up quickly the tone of the conversations you are having with nbc employees.
network, one of our makeup artists said, this is happening at the post office, this is happening at the sanitation department. it s everywhere but people are paying attention to it in certain industries because it is more interesting. but i would say this, the people who committed these acts still work at these networks. these women have been afraid to come forward, they need to know that they can. my husband said to me at the time, why haven t more women come out another networks? i said, i don t know, i hope it comes to that, i hope they feel like they ll be heard and they come out. but those men still work there. i think i m sure their names will come out.l it s not my place to name them because i wasn t the one assaulted. tucker: i m fully aware of what you are talking about. thank you for that. that was prescient, to put it mildly. wonder the people happiest about matt lauer s departure could be at hillary clinton and her supporters. we ll explain why in just a a moment.