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As a good plan. richardson backing this idea of sending a message to china, those seems contrary, but what we heard from matt a moment ago, some republicans and democrats and unions are backing the proposal. explain how this could potentially help the united states? >> well, let's go to the top line first, there is a subtle approach and there is a sledge hammer by putting tariffs of 10% to 25%. that's not small on aluminum, steel product first and for most. we can address your question with wilbur ross. he knows how to restructure the steel industry and refine products. . he's done it himself....

Kind of level that the trump administration would wanted to if they really wanted to hurt the chinese economy. let me read you the top five of chinese imports of the united states, jongeneral genera general machinery and toys and equipment and foot wawear round out the top five. you notice that steel is not in there. that's probably why we have seen it relative response, they are not happy at all. this is not across the board tariffs across the board. donald trump has said many times before, this is not the way to do it. matt, standby, john, let's bring you back in. i know you heard from many ...

Story indicates, there could be more allegations to come. now i've been trying all day to reach matt lauer, his representatives, so far, he has no comment. that means no confirmation or denial of these charges. >> thank you very much. and now, two people who worked with matt for years. jamie, special correspondent here. she worked with matt for about 20 years. jane hansen was the coanchor at today in new york. i worked with matt a number of years at the "today" show when i was filling in during my time and as a reporter on the show. i want to just get your reactions when you both heard this. w...

All of these cases across the board and nbc has had to deal with this before. they had the contributor, mark halperin. they had a booker, a producer, matt zimmermann. i think they have learned and we don't know what the details are yet, but that once they made the decision, they made it very quickly. >> go ahead. >> i was just going to say and probably do it and do it quickly. don't let it linger. >> you know, obviously in the light of what happened the to charlie rose, the questions are what was this? and consentualty is significant. he interviewed bill o'reilly. matt did. after bill o'reilly...

Variety quoted staffers who said they tried to alert executives about lauer's behavior. in response, nbc says we can say prior to monday night, current nbc news management was never made aware of any complaints about matt lauer's conduct. on monday night, a female nbc employee and her attorney met with nbc hr and detailed quote, agree jous act of sexual harassment. the network investigated and decided to fire him less than 24 hours later. ry guthrie found out overnight. >> i'm heartbroken for matt. he is my dear, dear friend and partner. he is loved by many people here and i'm heart brobroken ...