But neither party could be present Wednesday morning on NBCsTODAYfranchise.

Broadcast news abhors a visual vacuum.

The hosts speak to the camera, but theyre not supposed to monologue.

It was weird and uncomfortable and great TV, like so many weird and uncomfortable things amorally become.

You dont envy any of the women onscreen.

Addressing sexual harassment in your own workplace is difficult.

Addressing the harassment in your workplace to a global audience?

How do you say the right thing?

Is there any not-wrong thing?

Theres no real way to do this, said Guthrie.

We are still processing all of this, said Guthrie.

The processing, Kotb said in the last hour, is gonna take a lot of time.

Theres something to learn here, I think, from the immediacy of these responses.

Maybe thats true and maybe not; showbiz is a gossip industry, costars know more than viewers.

But the sentiment is a familiar one, this year more than most.

2017 implies that the opposite is true.

(Twist: Its our dimension!

The only one well ever know!)

Kellys in a strange spot at NBC, her show not a rating success and not particularly good.

I am thinking of those women this morning, she said, And hoping they are okay.

Kellys strength or weakness her defining trait, one shared by most pundits is to make the news personal.

A news organization is bigger than any one person.

The good ones stay standing and forge forward, fulfilling their core mission: journalism.

Then it was time to talk about haggling on prices during the holiday, the core mission: capitalism.

These co-hosts are off the cuff by trade.

Should I even share something?

Gifford said, I guess I really should.

The sheer act of surviving in media for over four decades is a testament to some sort of willpower.

Belief in something helps.

There is honor in confusion, though.

Maybe there was honor in those myths.

Something about her openness in this moment spoke to me, though.

We are all so broken, she said.

We need somebody to put us back together.

I dont believe in any gods, but I do believe in Kathie Lee Gifford.