Listen: Matt Lauer Denies Rape Allegation, Says Affair Was ‘Consensual’

"Three Matt Lauer has broken his silence yeah on these allegations that he raped a young NBC employee says absolutely not true their fair was consensual even and if you got kids in the car plug your ears this woman claims that he raped her anally raped her and he says no it was consensual all the sex acts that they did she participated in willingly so it's a he said she said in this all comes about because of the Ronan Farrow book that apparently is got NBC in a tizzy as in this book runner for also says that Andy lack the head of NBC dated preyed on young we have office too so we'll see if Comcast which owns NBC stands by and the lack and I just have to the I'm just from my own standpoint I I obviously I worked there let's see from nineteen eighty two to two thousand and nine and I I didn't see this stuff so you can call me a phony or a liar whatever but I went and did my six o'clock news eleven o'clock there's no one home I didn't see our people stalking women in the hallways and so on you know I I just never saw the stuff was and I do I'm just gonna say again and and this is not you know she calls it broke novels so she calls Lauer's statement victim shaming I I don't want this to come across as victim shaming I'm I just have to wonder if she was so violated it with this rape and I won't describe it again and she was so violated and it hurt and she cried and she went on to have a long time consensual affair with him at its which she admitted to having by the way she meets to having the system doesn't have a huge hassle just doesn't compute I agree and I think Lauer's defense is pretty tough now I think you should file suit against Ronan Farrow Ferrell's publisher and this woman if he's going to take this all the way by the way they were rather this is not the only woman who came forward again flower right but he is now claiming that all of these affairs were consensual yeah meeting to infidelity but he says you know he didn't he did not force these women to have a relationship with them round eight it was consensual sonatas different cases but Bill Cosby said everything was consensual to sell any sitting in jail right now so I don't know is your I don't think so either decide that no charges have been filed listen when this story first broke there was a story on the front page of The New York Times and I read that story and said well that's rape at the duck double the chair in his office yeah and member had the famous button that you push that no well that he denies he denies there was any button any claims NBC back them up on that and I don't feel like I can not only that but he claims that it yep so I think it's gonna be interesting if if he continues to speak at do you think you may make any TV appearances well there was that rumor there was no time and all right yeah and then I think was the post speculated he better off doing what Gil Kane or someone along those lines yeah so I don't know I I do think that I know you say you should so what he should do all this but the more you sue the more you do TV the more you dredge everything up well and it's a big it's about how much more I read step can it be is on the front page of the New York Post forgot I think I've got to believe there's a small part of him the things he can at some point have a career I I have to believe that I think it's impossible but I I don't think he can ever come back no I don't think he can have a comeback Harvey Weinstein's Hurley's never gonna come back Kevin Spacey out Charlie Rose will never have a combined Kevin Spacey"

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Matt Lauer Denies Rape Allegation, Says Affair Was ‘Consensual’

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