Jane Hanson, who co-hosted “Today in New York” with Matt Lauer before his promotion to the national “Today,” spoke out about the veteran NBC News star’s sudden termination on Wednesday following reports of sexual misconduct in the workplace. “We’ve all heard these rumors for years have we not,” Hanson told Erin Burnett on CNN’s “OutFront” Wednesday night — before quickly clarifying that she was talking specifically of consensual relationships. “I was the first person that he worked with when he came to NBC and when he came he had been at a number of different programs, none of which had been.