The Today Show with both Katie Couric and Matt Lauer, ABC's 20/20. In media news today, Katie Couric says she reached out to Matt Lauer, offered sympathetic texts following his 2017 sexual misconduct scandal, The View blasts LeBron James for refusing to. 'You want to be obviously totally fair about everything, but I am looking forward to sitting down with her. She worked here for a long time, she left such a mark here, and I'll just be curious, I mean, also to just see how she’s handling the backlash,' Kotb went on to say of the book, which touches on everything from career highs to Matt Lauer's scandal at the network. His most recent books are Virtuous Leadership (2004) Sexual Exploitation of. 'Katie's had a long career and a long life, and this is her kind of final chapter that she’s putting out there into the world, so I’m curious to read all of it and, I don't know, I've only read what I've read in the press, so I do want read the context,' she said.

While Kotb hasn't had a chance to read Couric's new tell-all, Going There, she told ET she's excited to read it all and talk to her former colleague about her storied career that has spanned decades over multiple networks. I have to tell you, when you give someone room to say their business, think about that, it's like, all they need is space and a place, and if you just are there, all the sudden stuff comes tumbling out and it's full of connection and I just think to myself, 'I can't believe I get to do this,' and sometimes, it hits me in the middle of an interview.' She continued, 'I'm honored to be able to sit with her. She has a lot of stories to tell and doesn’t usually tell them.' In our interview, Couric writes off early coverage of the book as a strange, willful misinterpretation of what I wrote.

In the book, Couric printed text messages that chronicled the disintegration of their relationship. 'Sheryl Crow is someone who I'm making space for - she has had the life,' Kotb said. 'She was with Lance Armstrong - very public breakup, and she had breast cancer and adopted two kids. In the wake of the MeToo movement, Couric shares her clear-eyed reckoning with gender inequality and predatory behavior in the workplace, and downfall of Matt Lauera colleague she had trusted and respected for more than a decade. Katie Couric and Matt Lauer on NBC 'Today' program in New York on May 31, 2006.

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