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Allegations of harassment or assault or anything, the kind of sexual misconduct weve heard about in the last two months. certainly, many of the sources ive talked to this morning are expecting the same kind of shock youre describing, larry. even people that know lauer well who are saying, we didnt know there was this other side. we havent seen these specific allegations yet. we dont know what was alleged monday night by this employee, but know it was severe enough by nbc to take swift action. >>...

>> 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...

Things and all of these companies are looking at all of their people and trying to get ahead of this stuff. its very delicate, because, you know its coming. do you wait for it? do you get ahead of it? in this case, nbc decided to get ahead of it. and that is -- and well see what comes out after the fact. >> because, larry, theres no -- i dont think anyone should think that this is going to squash any story thats going to come out. >> no, not at all. and i dont know if theres a whole great deal o...