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About what matt lauer is alleged to have done. nbc is not saying at this point nor have we heard from matt lauer himself. no statement or apology at this hour. >> bill: savannah guthrie on the air this morning said the following at one point. >> i do know that this reckoning that so many organizations have been going through is important and long overdo and must result in workplaces where all women, all people feel safe and respected. >> bill: the bigger picture, we've gone through that here, cbs is going through it now as of two weeks ago with charlie rose and now nbc. how do you look at the ...

Harvey weinstein and post al franken we're in news organizations feel they have to move swiftly. two of the three network morning show anchors fired over these kinds of allegations. the other thing is it's hard to overstate how important lauer is to that nbc franchise. the face of nbc news from the thanksgiving parade, olympics, the "today" is a gold mine. this had to be serious for him to do this. >> bill: he has become the face of this network, wouldn't you agree? after brian williams and brokaw it was lauer. >> he has been on the air since he was paired with katie couric in the 90s and matt...

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...

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Sexual misconduct. how important he was to nbc news. >> bill: the president fired off twitter, wow, matt lauer fired from nbc. when will the top executives at nbc and comcast be fired for putting out so much fake news? check out andy lack's past. the chairman of nbc. >> donald trump has a deep seeded resentment for nbc when he was running the apprentice for 14 years. whatever matt lauer did doesn't have anything to do as far as we know with journalism and reporting on the air. the president couldn't resist taking the shot at and' lack as well. ironically he thought matt lauer was fair to him d...