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About how he wanted to use it on her, which left her mortified. on another day, he summoned a different female employee to his office and showing her his after the employee declined to do anything, he reprimanded her for not engaging in a sexual act. that report came out from variety. then shortly kerriafter, the new york times reported tonight at least two more women have come forward to nbc news resources today since matt lauer s firing was announced today. quote, one complaint came from a former employee who said mr. lauer summoned her to his office in 2001, locked the door and had sex with her. she told the times she passed out and had to be taken to a nurse. she felt helpless because she didn t want to lose her job and didn t report the account because she felt ashamed. when she sat down, she said he locked the door, which he could do by pressing a button while ....
Never made aware of any complaints about matt lauer s conduct. so nbc news tells us they are and have been looking into whether any current or former nbc news executives have received any complaints about matt lauer s behavior before what was brought to the network on monday night. so far they tell us they have not found evidence of that. they also say as far as they know, there are no instances of nbc news paying settlements to matt lauer s past behavior. nbc news also tells us the human resources department will continue to field any further allegations, but they tell us it s too early in the process to say whether nbc will handle the investigation internally or eventually retain some third party to come in to try to fig out what happened here. over all these years, over the course of all of these accusations and whether or not nbc should have in over before they say they did. so, they remain some important open questions in the hours after matt lauer s termination from nbc news. ....
Apparently just blatantly try to incite fear and hatred of muslims with something he made up for the purpose of doing that. the british prime minister felt compelled today to put out a statement in response to the president s online behavior. theresa may said in very simple terms, quote, it is wrong for the president to have done this. but, you know, the dutch embassy in the united states also felt compelled to respond to this today. they sent out this, quote, facts do matter. the perpetrator of the violent act in this video was born and raised in the netherlands. he received and completed his sentence under dutch law. and thus recurs my personal nightmare of sitting at this desk in this seat once again having to apologize to the dutch, right? i never thought it would be worse or weirder than having to apologize to the dutch for the behavior of one of our rando presidential candidates who you can t quite believe got that far, but it s like a nightmare ....
Heard. most stories are. so that happened today. also, this happened. cnn announced that it had fired a senior producer over claims of inappropriate behavior. quote, a comprehensive investigation was conducted as soon as this matter was brought to our attention. the behavior attributed to the senior producer does not align with the standards and values of cnn and he is no longer with the company. like i said, it s been a heck of a day. but before any of those stories unfolded today, the biggest news yet in sexual harassment in the news media broke first thing on nbc s the today show. from nbc news, this is today. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, everybody. welcome to today. and hoda s here with me this morning because this is a sad morning here at today and at nbc news. just moments ago, nbc news chairman andy lack sent the following note to our ....
The firing happens overnight. we get the news about the firing this morning and all of these detailed allegations unfold over the course of today. and those allegations have been in some cases reported to nbc news human resources. and in several cases they ve been reported out into detail in variety and the new york times. so that s one of the open questions here. will more accusers come forward? beyond that, though, now that there are multiple allegations involving multiple nbc employees over multiple years, that, of course, raises the question of whether nbc had knowledge of allegations about matt lauer in the past, and if so, how were those allegations handled? today, variety made a nonspecific claim that several women, quote, complained to executives at the network about lauer s behavior which fell on deaf ears. now, nbc news today took issue with that. they responded to that by saying prior to monday night this week, quote, we can say unequivocally that prior to monday night ....