of the NBC Universal News Group sees our Conde, who we both know very well.

He sent a memo that we all got as employees here rescinding the hiring of Rana Ramey

McDaniel.

And I know I felt very strongly about it.

I know you felt very strongly about it I know you felt very strongly about it I think

everyone from 4 o'clock on from Nicole all the way to midnight we all felt very strongly

and said so on our respective shows yesterday and I just have to say when somebody does the right thing I feel like it

should be acknowledged as publicly as we acknowledge our outrage and so I know how I feel about it

I am grateful to Caesar for actually making the right decision I think think it was the right decision, but I want to get your take as well.

Well, thank you for asking me about it. I still feel like I still feel like a little

it always feels wrong to talk about things you know in the

company as if it's news and I you know it's just this it's not the way either you or

I or why I know but I will just say that journalists are a fractious bunch and in our big

company with all sorts of different journalistic entities you have all sorts of different

people working in this business doing all sorts of different kinds of work and to see the essentially

unanimous feeling among all the journalists in this building and all sort of senior staff and all the producers

and everybody in this building about this was

one thing but then to see the executives and the leadership hear that and

respond to it and be willing to change course based on it based on their respect for us and hearing what we

argued I I have deep respect for that I do I mean what I said on the air last night

on my show that I think that acknowledging that you might have gotten

something wrong is a real sign of strength a real show of strength and I think it's a show of

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