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They didn't have a choice, that this was something that if matt lauer makes a move on you that you don't really have a choice to say no. >> there are other headlines coming out this morning from ronan farrow. he's speaking about it. basically that there isn't just the women we've heard about. there were also, he's saying, secret settlements for years with other women that involved matt lauer. so listen to this. >> what we show in this book, with the paper trail, with documents, is that there were multiple secret settlements and nondisclosures being struck with women at nbc news. >> those were ...

It's not a good situation. we know how quickly those things can spread and even jump the freeway. please be careful. thank you very much for your reporting from there all morning for us. now to this story. ronan farrow's new book "catch and kill" is not out until next week. this morning he's speaking out about the explosive allegations against matt lauer and nbc news executives. >> did brooke or her attorneys use the words rape or sexual assault when they went to nbc? >> we're very careful about laying out exactly what happened and what she said when she went to them. she unambiguously descr...

Whether this was an open secret that lauer was having relationships with staffers at the network. farrow makes the argument that his own reporting about harvey weinstein was tabled by nbc because the network had a lot of secrets, including secrets about matt lauer. he was trying to reveal nondisclosure agreements and secret settlements with weinstein and he's saying nbc had some of those deals that were done, that no one knew about. so that's the heart of his argument that his reporting was buried because nbc was trying to cover up its own secrets. and also perhaps cover up weinstein's. now nb...

Nitty-gritty details about matt lauer, no, we haven't. there's more that's coming out in this book. ronan farrow is out talking about it. is he saying that in terms of that particular case, the brooke nevils which goes further than other cases in terms of the, what she alleges was the violence and nonconsensual aspect of it is, is he saying that nbc executives knew before they fired matt lauer about those? >> he is saying that they knew the substance of her complaint in very vivid detail, but that she didn't use the word rape when she came forward who years ago. and that matters because there'...

Read the book but in reading about the book, he goes to meet with one executive who is not super sympathetic and finds out that a million dollars has been paid out to a woman who this executive harassed. and so that's one of the reasons these stories are hard to break is because so many of the men at the top of the chain have engaged in the same kind of behavior. and the thing that i was thinking about, if women executives routinely behaved in a way that cost the company millions of dollars, it would be an argument against women in power, simple. i mean, really. after like the second time it h...