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>> i mean, already the morning television shows were clearly changing, but you're right that matt was a huge presence. he had been there for decades, one of the most reliable faces of a huge empire that brings in tens and hundreds of millions of dollars for these networks. these are really the money-making machines of these networks and that's really important to keep in mind. now, obviously, the question is, what happens next? who will replace matt lauer? and who will replace charlie rose? it's only been one week since charlie rose was let go of cbs this morning. now i'm hearing some critics ...

Newshour, that had been doing that quite successfully for some time. >> and i think we would all agree that how the female co-hosts, how savannah, how hoda, how nora, and how gayle all handled this, which is the most impossible of impossible situations, to be put on, to say on live tv, to have to present this and report it. so admirably. >> it is. and they were so -- we've seen some really eloquent moments out of these women. because as they said, it is a tough situation. it's somebody that they are very close with. they spend so many hours with these people, every single day, at very odd hour...

Things and all of these companies are looking at all of their people and trying to get ahead of this stuff. it's very delicate, because, you know it's 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 we'll see what comes out after the fact. >> because, larry, there's no -- i don't think anyone should think that this is going to squash any story that's going to come out. >> no, not at all. and i don't know if there's a whole great deal of significance to the fact that it came out ahead of time. inside nbc, they knew it was comi...