Television journalist Matt Lauer hosts NBC's "Today" program in New York City in January 2014. RW/MediaPunch Inc./IPX/AP

Lauer poses for a photo in June 1986. New York Post Archives via Getty Images

Lauer on set after anchoring the NBC local news in June 1993. New York Post Archives via Getty Images

Lauer on the set of the "Today" show in January 1997. NBC via Getty Images

Hosts Bryant Gumbel and Lauer cheer together during Gumbel's last appearance on the "Today" show in 1997. NBC via Getty Images

Lauer receives his bachelor's degree from Ohio University in June 1997, eighteen years after he was a student there. Steve Kagan/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images

Lauer and Annette Roque pose together at the GQ Man of the Year event in New York in October 1998. Steve Eichner/Archive Photos/Getty Images

Katie Couric and Lauer host the 2000 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. NBCUniversal via Getty Images

Former NBC "Today" show hosts Jane Pauley, left, and Bryant Gumbel, second from left, appear with hosts Katie Couric and Matt Lauer at Rockefeller Plaza in New York during a three-hour retrospective observing the show's 50th anniversary in January 2002. STUART RAMSON/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Lauer interviews swimmer Michael Phelps on the set of "Today" in Athens, Greece, during the 2004 Olympic Games. Scott Gries/Getty Images

Co-hosts Katie Couric and Lauer introduce a segment of the "Today" show in August 2005. RICHARD DREW/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Hosts Al Roker, left, Lauer, and Couric admire each others' costumes during the show's annual Halloween segment in 2005. HENNY RAY ABRAMS/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Lauer with Meredith Vieira, second from right, the show's weatherman, Al Roker, and news anchor Ann Curry at a New York news conference in April 2006. RICHARD DREW/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Lauer shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, in July 2006. DMITRY ASTAKHOV/AFP/Getty Images

Lauer reacts as his new co-host, Meredith Vieira, smears cake frosting on his nose during her first day on NBC's "Today" show in September 2006. JASON DECROW/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Lauer speaks with Elmo at the Sesame Workshop's Fifth Annual Benefit Dinner in New York in May 2007. AP Photo/Seth Wenig

Lauer appears on set during the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia in February 2014. Paul Drinkwater/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Lauer looks on as then-Democratic presidential nominee and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the NBC News Commander-in-Chief Forum in New York in September 2016. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to Lauer during the Commander-In-Chief Forum in New York in September 2016. Heidi Gutman/NBC News/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Lauer speaks at the Matrix Awards in New York on April 24. Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images

Lauer takes a selfie photo with fans on May 31. Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images