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Culture and this change had to happen. >> my gosh, brian, what you have learned? >> matt lauer was the "today" show for 20 years. matt lauer is the engine for one of the single most profitable programs on television news. it funds the rest of the news division, so for nbc to make this decision within 24 hours of receiving a complaint, it tells you there's something very serious here although we don't know the details alleged by this employee, and we know nbc inform informed lauer of the decision to fire him before he went to bed. the contract was not about to expire. >> they have to pay that o...

On lauer's conduct in the workplace, and the editor of "variety" said there were multiple victims, so there's more to come in terms of the details of what was alleged here, but obviously nbc is trying to get out ahead of it with this announcement this morning. >> your thoughts? >> well, first of all, i would imagine that lauer must have acknowledged this behavior to have taken the action so quickly and not to give him an opportunity to respond or whatever. that is an aspect i guess we will find out to come. it's obviously a devastating blow to nbc. this is a guy that is the face of their news ...