Yes matt lauer really did have a button to close women in his office with him and he s playing with semantics in his denial of it ashley collman oct 10 2019 7 34 am.
Matt lauer button in office to lock door.
The secret button that matt lauer allegedly used to lock his door inside nbc s rockefeller center headquarters was not a unique security feature a source at the show tells people.
This takes us back to the original variety report which didn t necessarily say that lauer was trapping women in his office.
A similar button exists or at least recently existed in the office of.
Nbc fired lauer on wednesday after the network received a.
The mechanism was a.
A detail in the news reports of lauer s workplace conduct animated the narrative.
It does not lock the door from the inside.
Lauer fired on wednesday amid allegations of sexual misconduct didn t install the button that enabled him to lock his office door automatically from his desk it turns out.
Last week the washington post published a report on new allegations against the former tv host including one woman who said lauer exposed himself to her in his office and asked her to touch him and another who said she and lauer had sex in his.
The washington post also looked into the button and after talking to people familiar with 30 rockefeller center s offices learned that the button locked the door but only from the outside for situations such as a shooting.
The button releases a magnet that holds the door open.
Former nbc news anchor matt lauer denied that his office has a secret button that could trap unsuspecting women inside his office two years after the claim sent shock waves through the media industry.
His office was in a secluded space and he had a button under his desk that allowed him to lock his door from.