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Terminating the contract of phil griffin and joe scarborough based on the unsolved mystery that took place in florida years ago? investigate. that was the president weighing in. now we want marc thiessen to weigh in. youve been right about all the news breaking this morning, north korea, taxes, and now matt lauer. your thoughts here, marc. >> my first reaction is first as a father of two daughters im glad that matt lauer and the sex predators are getting called out and exposed. hopefully it will...

Can you feel -- these matters are complex. the emotions are not simple. she said something else, theres a reckoning going on. i want to see if theres a reckoning. firing matt lauer costs you money and prestige, but its a lot easier than corporate change. do you make settlements anymore? what kind of channels and avenues do you have for women to express these things that dont put them at risk. >> i hear you. we are at the beginning of this. this is the beginning changes of this change. >> one thi...

And what a news organization will do is go back through all the footage they have and find out if -- theyve done hundreds of shoots with trump over the years. find out if theres something potentially newsworthy. once they found that newsworthy item, then it goes to the producers of the show and the lawyers. listen, "access hollywood" is not technically a news organization. so, it is sort of overseen a little differently than nbc news. they have to assess whether they can air a piece of tape that...

>> anthony, do you think it would have been a lower level tape producer sort of person or an upper level, you know, executive or producer? >> well, heres the truth. the tapes go into a centralized system and everybody at that organization has access to it. and everybody has access to that tape. and, obviously, this is being discussed. its discussed in the news room. everybody knows its potentially in the system. so, once it goes to the legal department, there could be anybody in that organizatio...

Its kind of like being on the record and off the record. trump and billy were having a conversation. they technically werent rolling so they were technically, off the record. once the tapes were rolling with the segment, then it becomes on the record. so, he had have to make an assessment adds to whether they can air that tape, i believe, legally because its a private conversation. there are rules that dictate private conversations. because qum access hollywood "is not technically a news organiz...

Days. so, someone leaked this tape to the washington post. within hours, bam, an apology tour, parade of republican deflection and first 30 minutes of the northeastest debate we have ever seen. question is, are there more tapes to come? joining me, senior broadcast producer at "access hollywood" and he worked with both billy bush and nancy odell. with me, senior media course, host of "reliable sources," mr. brian steltzer. "access hollywood" said, we remember we interviewed trump, lets go to the...

The video was essentially sitting on a shelf at nbc. the network that produces "access hollywood." and on monday, some of the producers at "access hollywood" started to think about the tape, started to wonder if they could find it and if they should broadcast it. what triggered all of this was actually an associated press story. the a.p., one of the biggest news wires in the world, published a story early monday with explosive allegations from about 260 former employees who worked on the -- 20 f...

Allegations were absolutely false. it got "access hollywood" thinking about the video. they dusted it off, put it into nbc servers and were preparing a story about it. my sources said a script was written and everything, but it wasnt going to be broadcast until at least next week. perhaps for that reason, there was a leak, a leak from inside nbc to the "washington post." and thats why the reporter was calling at 1:30 on friday afternoon with this tape. at 4:00 is p.m., trump was half apologizing...

With the "rolling stone" investigation, too. a source says it will be published in early april and pub accomplished lish he says he has no comment on what he might do editorially because he hasnt read the report yet. one other unanswered question will we hear from the columnist? i think "rolling stone" should get some credit for doing this investigation, for having it done independently and for agreeing to publish the findings. there is another investigation of journalistic trouble ongoing, insi...

>> lets bring in a couple other friends to hash this out. maria guthrie, larry hackard, and hadas gold. so as i was thinking about this all today and this morning, this situation is different from others that have come out in recent. in one significant way, there was no independent reporting that came out before nbc moved on this, before he was -- it was handled swiftly and internally, even though as brian says, there were reports coming. what does that mean? >> most of the other people weve see...