Katie Couric Speaks Out on Matt Lauer's 'Painful' Firing

Katie Couric is speaking out about Matt Lauer's firing.  The 61-year-old journalist, who served as Lauer's Today show co-host from 1997 to 2006, has kept relatively quiet since he was fired in late November for sexual misconduct, but is finally ready to share her story.  In a new interview with People, Couric calls the scandal surrounding Lauer "painful" for her, and says that she was unaware of the claims made against him both while she was working at Today and afterwards.  "The accounts I’ve...

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