I will simply remind you, that the topic of conversation was spelled out (Promised) BEFORE the interview happened. That promise was broken and she called them on it. If this topic had been told to her before the interview, I suspect she would have not given the interview, Laure knew this, and she called him on it. Proof is the second interview, where he was nowhere to be found. He was going for SHOCK journalism, and making a name for himself. IMO he failed. And he should have failed.
So if this was Gore endorsing Clinton and one of his kids had a domestic situation and Gore had inferred it was Bush policies during that endorsement that was at the root of the k8ds problem you’d be happy that if Lauer didn’t ask about it?
There would be all kinds of claims of spiking, coverup, favoritism etc. by the elites.