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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. >> there's always been questions about who knew what when at nbc about lauer. the network always says there was never a formal complaint. here's andy lack's statement from this week saying that when they learned what matt lauer had allegedly done in 2014, he was fired...

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 lauer's 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 that true? >> that's absolutely right. i was scrabbling to get here on time because i've been on the p...

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 lauer's 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 lauer's conduct. you've been covering this day. th...

Then, there's 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 we've not heard from the accused person. we've 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. i'll argue no one has gotten it right. maybe he's wisely trying to stay silent rather than comment at all. >> we have the variety story, "new york times" vets invest...

Corroborated. they said they complained to the network about lauer's 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 lauer's conduct. you've 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 news story. >> it's without a doubt a news story but it's also important to remember we don't nec...