Turns out I wasn’t the only one who thought Matt Lauer’s performance in last night’s “Command in Chief Forum” was simply awful. CNN’s Brian Stelter reports that NBC executives are calling it a “disaster.”

One executive, speaking anonymously, was blunt about it: “Disaster.”

The morning after Lauer’s back-to-back interviews of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, several high ranking sources at the network said they hear the criticism and agree with at least some of it.

Lauer was widely criticized for failing to fact-check or follow up when Trump falsely claimed that he was opposed to the Iraq war when it started. Some viewers thought Lauer held Clinton to a higher standard than Trump. Several people who were sitting in the audience told CNN that they were frustrated too.

And I have a sinking feeling this was just a preview of what’s going to happen in the debates between Clinton and Trump. The bar for Trump has been lowered so much it barely exists any more.