ok, but matt lauer, who was one of the nbc anchors, i mean, he himself has — after actually a silence you have said is categorically false and designed to sell a book. well, there are seven claims about matt lauer that are mentioned in the book, including the rape allegation that he is referring to. and like every other tract of investigative reporting in this book, it's laid out in a way that is incredibly fair to matt lauer, that incorporates his thinking and rebuttals, and people can decide for themselves when they see this claim from a young journalist who does say that she said no to a specific sex act, that she was too drunk to consent, and that she was assaulted. you know, i'll let peoplejudge whether they agree with that testimonial but certainly, this was something that... because, of course, it was a relationship that went be on — after that allegation. well, you have to be careful about the terms you use, right? because he says this was an affair, and that claim is in there. she says that, you know, he was the most powerful man at her company and she was fearful and wanted

book and feeling that the women who came before her and have voiced complaints and a company like matt lauer a sense of guilt that her recollections don't happen and in turn she carried a sense of guilt about anyone who might say that kofi's violence afterwards. and that ultimately is why she wanted to speak to break the cycle. spin it a sense of guilt because of the silence? >> the moment that you have a legal structure to conceal his alleged crime and to allow the perpetrators to stay in positions of power, you expose subsequent people to the subsidization. and if if that is the weinstein company that there's nothing in the file that was technically about sexual harassment or at fox bill o'reilly put it out there was nothing in the file about it where there were payoffs happening over and over and to conceal the record it happened at cbs news. this is not an nbc problem. this is a problem in our culture and corporate america. and i think that isn't wrong. it shouldn't have been on her shoulders to break the cycle. should have been on the shoulders of the company. >> the corporation. stanek

then there was nbc's matt lauer who brought on former house speaker jim wright who had resigned in disgrace in 1989 over a corrupt scheme of selling crates of his books to lobbying groups. as i recall, there were restrictions on getting paid for speeches so groups would buy thousands of his books that would sit in crates and go nowhere, in many cases, from what was said back then, as a way of getting around that. but he spoke with moral authority in response to lauer saying, speaker wright, let me start with you. when you resigned nine years ago, you had been battered by the right. you called for an end to what you call mindless cannibalism. nine years later we're hearing terms like that again. and others swirling around the impeachment of bill clinton. have we learned nothing in nine years? as the article says. one thing we all do know is matt lauer learned absolutely nothing from bill clinton about sexual harassment in the workplace. ather interesting. here's an article a week ago and i was down at the senate earlier today and i know the president's lawyers were asking people not to -- an

scrutiny because she was brave enough to speak and a whole variety of sources, seven claims about matt lauer, a still wider group about executives at the company and the serious misconduct. so a lot of people were brave to expose the story that plays out in this book. .. >> teethree in your 28 team book why we fight do you write the most significant threat we face today to emanate from the world of nonstate actors they come from old nationstate adversaries who have learned from the end of the 20th century toy understand the only way to defeat us is by using your regular or indirect means of attack. the assassination of general t14 fit into this quick. >> it was the shadow commander because he wasn't just a major general in the regular army and a normal battle it isn't the battleyb of the bulge or the first gulf war but use proxy forces on six continents including the us with the italian ambassador to wage irregular warfare the weaker power has developed a far more powerful adversary like united states no longer a superpower we are a hyperpower no one can come close to us in our conventional