tonight president joe biden joining a growing list of federal and state officials

calling on new york governor andrew cuomo to resign. this follows the release of an investigative report by the new york attorney general saying the governor sexually harassed multiple women. the report saying cuomo's conduct violated multiple federal and state laws. the democratic governor denying the allegations. also tonight, president joe biden calling on republican governors in states where covid cases are spiking to do more to help stop the spread or get out of the way of people trying to save lives. and cnn projecting two big winners in two special congressional primaries tonight in ohio. i want to bring in now cnn's paula reid with the latest on the report detailing a pattern of sexual harassment by governor andrew cuomo. >> reporter: tonight, new york's governor andrew cuomo loses the support of his most powerful political ally, president joe biden. >> i think he should resign. >> reporter: this comes after the new york attorney general's office said earlier today that the governor sexually harassed

multiple women and violated federal and state laws. >> the investigation found that governor andrew cuomo sexually harassed current and former new york state employees by engaging in unwelcome and nonconsensual touching and making numerous offensive comments of a suggestive and sexual nature that created a hostile work environment for women. >> reporter: investigators concluded the governor sexually harassed 11 women, including a new york state trooper assigned to his protection. >> in an elevator while standing behind the trooper, he ran his finger from her neck down her spine and said, hey, you. another time, she was standing holding the door open for the governor. as he passed, he took his open hand and ran it across her stomach from her belly button to the hip where she keeps her gun. she told us that she felt completely violated to have the governor touch her, as she put

it, between her chest and her privates. >> reporter: another accuser described similar inappropriate touching. >> on november 16th, 2020, in the executive mansion, the governor hugged executive assistant number one and reached under her blouse to grab her breast. there were also several occasions on which the governor grabbed her butt. >> reporter: the report states, we also conclude that the executive chamber's culture, one filled with fear and intimidation while at the same time normalizing the governor's frequent flirtations and gender-based comments, contributed to the conditions that allowed the sexual harassment to occur and persist. cuomo was quick to respond, denying the allegations. >> i want you to know directly from me that i never touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances. i am 63 years old.

i've lived my entire adult life in public view. that is just not who i am, and that's not who i have ever been. >> reporter: the allegations against cuomo ramped up earlier this year when charlotte bennett, a former aide, alleged that cuomo had asked her questions about her sex life during a june 2020 conversation in the state capitol. she also hinted at a pattern of retaliation. >> do you believe that he was propositioning you? >> yes. >> for what? >> sex. >> reporter: tonight, bennett says cuomo must resign. >> he sexually harassed me. i am not confused. it is not confusing. i am living in reality, and it's sad to see that he's not. >> reporter: cuomo addressed bennett personally in his remarks today. >> i did ask her questions i don't normally ask people. i did ask her how she was doing and how she was feeling, but i was wrong. i've heard charlotte and her lawyer, and i understand what

they are saying. but they read into comments that i made and draw inferences that i never meant. >> reporter: paula reid, cnn, new york. >> paula reid, thank you so much for that. joining me now, cnn senior political analyst john avlon and legal analyst jennifer rodgers. she's a former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. so good to have both of you on. thank you so much. good evening. jennifer, i'm going to start with you. 11 women now speaking out against governor andrew cuomo, and investigators say that they interviewed 179 people and reviewed 74,000 pieces of evidence. cuomo is denying any wrongdoing, but this is an extremely thorough investigation. am i wrong? >> no, you're not wrong, don. and that's really what puts the lie to this notion that charlotte bennett or another woman just kind of misunderstood what he meant. you know, 11 women, and the experts who were the investigators in this case and know the law better than anyone agree that it's clear-cut sexual

harassment. so you're not wrong at all. this clearly was harassment. and today those women i hope felt some vindication from these experts finding just exactly that. >> john, there were a lot of people waiting on this report saying, hey, let's wait and see what the report finds, and here it is, or what the investigation uncovers, here it is. he lost a lot of allies today. president joe biden says that he must resign, meaning cuomo. not only is this coming from the president and leader of the democratic party, but biden is a close personal friend. how significant are his comments? >> it's huge. look, this report is detailed. it is damning, and it cuts the legs out from any argument of just straight denial. it's too broad a pattern. even if it covers a broad array of accusations, they all fall under the rubric of sexual harassment. i think, you know, democrats -- you know, some had felt in the wake of al franken, for example, that you didn't want to rush to

judgment. but this is not a rush to judgment anymore. this is detailed. and when you have the entire new york congressional delegation, all the regional governors, and the president of the united states who you say is also a friend and former ally of andrew cuomo all saying resign, the situation is just untenable. >> i go on to add you've got speaker pelosi, senator schumer, gillibrand, governors of new jersey, pennsylvania, connecticut, and rhode island. i mean the list just seems to go on here. >> yeah. >> do you think he can hold on politically, john? >> no. i think he's going to have to make a choice about whether he is willing to risk impeachment and already, you know, the vote count is coming in, but it's not looking good for him even though we haven't had a governor impeached in new york since 1913. >> wow. >> or resign or possibly there's some scenario where perhaps he promises not to run for re-election and has an

orchestrated time out the door. but i don't the political winds are going his way. the lieutenant governor who wa take over on his impeachment today announced his behavior. >> you're making a very good point, but it's not like what we see with the presidential impeachment. you don't stay in office, right, and then they decide. he has to temporarily step aside and then let, i think, the lieutenant governor. >> correct. >> until they figure out what to do. then if they vote not to convict him, he remains governor until the end of his term. but if they do, he's already gone. >> exactly right. so this is not looking good or tenable for him. and i must say, you know, for all his offensiveness in many respects as governor -- it's a challenging position -- he has not engendered the kind of interpersonal loyalty that might normally insulate a politician from this. that's why the accusations, whether you call it a tough environment as he would describe it, or a toxic environment, there's not that interpersonal good will towards him and that i think is proving to be the final straw when it comes to andrew

cuomo. >> some of the quotes here, scared and uncomfortable, freaked out, deeply humiliated, completely violated. this is how women describe the way governor cuomo made them feel. it is stunning. what does it say about the workplace culture in the governor's office that this -- that it went on like this? >> well, the report is very clear about that too. i mean they interviewed 179 people, and it said that effectively everyone who had knowledge about the environment in the executive chamber, with the exception of a few of his top aides, all said consistent things, which was it was a bad environment. it was a toxic environment. people were afraid. people were uncomfortable. i mean that's really stunning. so not just these women who were actually harassed, but the entire atmosphere of the executive chamber was this negative place to work, this negative environment. so i really think it speaks to, you know, not just his actions with respect to these women who have accused him, but his ability as a leader to, you

know, create an environment where people want to work. you just can't be an effective leader if people are saying that about the place that you run. >> look, norah o'donnell today, of cbs news, the evening news, spoke to one of cuomo's accusers about the governor's video response to the report. this is charlotte bennett. >> his propaganda video was not only uncomfortable and inappropriate but downright weird and unnecessary. >> why do you call it a propaganda video? >> because it's not about anything other than protecting him and his office. it is not protecting new york. he is not speaking for new yorkers. he is not trying to do anything other than maintain the power that he has currently. >> in that video, cuomo showed multiple pictures of himself embracing people over the years to show that this is how he acts with everyone. i mean but it comes nowhere near answering the accusations of

groping, intimidation, retaliation that he is accused of. what did you think of his response in this video and then her response after seeing this video? >> i thought the cuomo video was designed to try to put one specific photograph that "the new york times" put on its page in context. he is a touchy-feely politician. there's plenty of examples of touching foreheads, grabbing faces, et cetera. but that does not get to, it does not address the heart of these accusations, particularly with regard to that young woman, charlotte, who worked in his executive office, where there is an accusation of, you know, grabbing her butt and reaching into her breast. it's not the same universe. so while he was trying to basically say the old bill clinton argument, i want to go back and work for the american people, we're trying to say, look, there's a generational cultural divide i have not been sensitive enough to. it does not address the specifics of that particular complaint, and that was tone

deaf, i thought. >> and what the definition of "is" is, right? is that what we're dealing with in this situation? >> not even. >> exactly. jennifer, what's next based on what we're learning? do you think that cuomo could be in criminal jeopardy? >> i don't think so, don, because, you know, you have to obviously violate a criminal statute to be in criminal jeopardy. the only one that seems to apply here in new york is something called forcible touching, and that requires touching of sexual or intimate parts of the body, so genitals, breast. there is one complaint by executive assistant one that alleges groping under the top. but, you know, again, you're now talking about a claim that's been credited by these investigators. it's a very different matter to prove beyond a reasonable doubt at trial that someone is guilty. so i expect -- and that's a misdemeanor by the way, that offense. so i expect that they will not bring charges here. there will be civil lawsuits. there will likely be impeachment, but probably no criminal jeopardy. >> all right. >> yeah. >> jennifer, john, thank you

very much. i appreciate it. >> be well. >> you as well. >> i want to bring in new york state assembly memo yulin new. >> thank you for having me. >> the new york state assembly, the speaker says that governor cuomo has lost the confidence of the democratic majority and can, i quote here, no longer remain in office. if the governor does not resign, should he be impeached? >> absolutely. i mean i've been calling for his impeachment for a while now. but, you know, i think that governor cuomo has previously called for the expulsion and prosecution of elected officials accused of much smaller offenses than he himself now stands accused of. and by his own quote, unquote, zero tolerance rhetoric, i believe that he should be gone immediately. but there are, as some of your previous interviews have said, there are two sets of rules in cuomo land, one set for him and one set for everybody else. >> if he is impeached, dids you

that mean that the lieutenant governor essentially takes over all of the governor's responsibility, even if it's just temporarily? >> yes, for the rest of his term. >> assemblywoman niou, do you expect governor cuomo to fight an impeachment trial? it seems like that's in his nature to fight, because it doesn't seem like he is backing down. >> yeah. i don't think that he's going to be resigning or not fighting. i think that he's definitely going to be fighting this. i think that, you know, the assembly today when we were discussing things, there was definitely a discussion of how he might do that. you know, i think that it's very much to his nature. >> this report describes a toxic culture in the governor's office. do you think anyone else besides governor cuomo should be held accountable for this environment? i spoke with the attorney of two of the accusers, and she certainly believes so. what do you think? >> i think so. i think that, you know, it is a

systemic thing, but i also think that he should be held accountable for his own actions and for creating that environment. you know, this is a culture of abuse and of systemic, you know, abuse that is very, very jarring. you know, reading this report, i'm still digesting it because there is so much there. i mean his own formal counsel, who is even mentioned in the investigation, is calling for his resignation. so there's a lot there. i mean it took 179 witnesses and a statewide investigation by the attorney general to, you know, to actually come to these conclusions. but, you know, i think. >> finally, did you see his video response? >> i definitely saw his slideshow, which was very interesting. i feel -- i don't even know what it would be like to be that staffer to have had to collect

all of these photos and then put them together like this. it's a weird concept to think about. but, you know, let's be very clear about what that was. it was gaslighting, right? it was gaslighting new yorkers the same way that he gaslighted the women that he abused and he harmed. it was -- you know, it was actually what charlotte bennett has said. it was propaganda, and it is a way to hurt and continue to hurt the people that he's already hurt. and i think that, you know, we have to stop it, right? this is a powerful man who used his power to sexually harass, grope, and intimidate women who worked for him. my heart goes out to all of the women who told their stories. my heart goes out to those who are still remaining silent, some of whom i know.

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breaking tonight, cnn projects shontel brown beats nina turner in ohio's 11th congressional district special election to replace marcia fudge in the house. turner conceding in an emotional speech earlier tonight. >> tonight, my friends, we have

looked across the promised land. but for this campaign, on this night, we will not cross the river. we didn't lose this race. >> joining me now to discuss is former obama campaign manager jim messina and mark mckinnon, the former adviser to george w. bush and executive producer of "the circus." good evening to both of you gentlemen. jealous of the hat, but that's okay, mark. we'll talk about my hat jealousy later. jim, what's your reaction to how this race played out? >> on one side you have kind of national folks wanting to make this a race between a liberal and a moderate. but those of these were progressive candidates. this was really about political positioning and the winner tonight, who by the way started out 35 points behind and was badly outspent, positioned herself as a supporter of joe biden, as someone who could work together to get things done, and went back to the old axiom that

mark and i really believe in, which is all politics is local. and she said, i will deliver for my district. i'm going to focus on getting things done, and i'm not going to be a lightning rod in this race. and her opponent, who had way more money, ended up kind of blowing the lead because she nationalized the race and wanted it to be about a greater fight inside the democratic party. and voters just don't do that. democratic voters did exactly what they did in 2020 primaries when they picked joe biden. they chose someone who could get along, who could get things done, and she won a major comeback victory tonight, which i hope is a wake-up call to folks in d.c. that need to remember that we're doing historically big things, and we've got to work together and work with the president and get things done and not fight amongst ourselves. >> mark mckinnon, progressive senator bernie sanders was battling it out with the house majority whip, jim clyburn, for their candidates in cleveland. listen. >> they are afraid of her. they're afraid she's going to stand up and fight and take them

on. >> i need somebody i can count on. >> don't mess with jim clyburn because you know what happened after jim clyburn said, i think you all should vote for joe biden. look who is president of the united states today. this will be seen as a victory for congressman clyburn and the establishment wing of the party. is this a sign of where the party is going or where the party is, and maybe we lost track of it or maybe the folks in washington have lost track of it. i don't know. >> well, listen, i hope it's a sign of where the party is and where it's going. i think this is just an example of why joe biden won the primary, because of where he stands politically. i think that's where most democrats in the country are. lots of independents are as well. and i think there was this narrative that there was this huge -- you know, the physics of the drift in the republican party was going to be so

progressive that people were going to be leaping off a cliff like lemmings -- >> you said the republican party. you meant the democratic party. >> the democratic party. colleagues have been reminding me all the time that it's the people who are really winning races and did in 2020, in those congressional races, were really moderate mainstream republicans. and by the way, given the outcome of the republican race in which the trump-endorsed candidate won, but the trump-endorsed candidate is a coal lobbyist. so i think that if we look at what kind of democrats are being elected and what kind of republicans are being elected, it says a lot about where the parties are headed. >> mm-hmm. i agree. amen. i've been saying the same thing about the democratic party. i actually think that, you know, people pay too much attention to the right's characterization of the republican party, which is of course in itself political, and also the folks from social

media, which is really progressive and really far left, and it's not where the democratic party really is. you look at the people who are actually winning races around the country. jim, you know, we've got results from another ohio special election tonight. president trump's pick, mark carey, winning -- mike carey, excuse me. what does that say about trump's influence in the party? >> it's no longer the republican party that mark grew up in and is part of. donald trump now completely owns this party. you see this every week. there's a parade of planes flying to mar-a-lago to beg for his endorsement. you have missouri's u.s. senate race is all about who can get trump's endorsement. and most of his candidates are winning these elections, and it says to the republicans, don't be brave. don't go out there and cross him because you're going to get whacked. you look at what he's trying to do to liz cheney as well in wyoming right now. this is just a party that cannot

grapple with its past. and until you grapple with that past, you won't walk into the future. and, you know, in 2022 in these congressional races, if they're going to run these kind of candidates in these swing seats, republicans are going to get their butts kicked, and they should. instead, they need to do what the democrats did tonight and find candidates who will go to the center and work with both parties to get things done. but so far, you're not seeing the republicans kind of learn the lessons of mark mckinnon. >> well, mark's hat is shaking up and down in agreement with what you're saying. yeah, mark. yes, jim may be correct. ah, but texas, because there was that same defeat for trump's candidate in a texas election. how do you square these two results? >> well, the nature of the races were different, don. i think when you have a situation like you did in ohio tonight, which is a big multi-candidate field, i think there were between people running, an endorsement from the former president is going to have an impact, and it did. but it's a very stratified race

with lots of people running. the race in texas was much different where you had kind of two front-runners and trump endorsed one and former mayor rick perry and congressman crenshaw endorsed the other candidate. certainly, you know, people are going to say that trump still has some juice because of today, and he does obviously. but, again, i just stress the fact that this was a multi-candidate field, and i think that no question trump's going to be a factor through 2022 and beyond. we see how much money he's raising for the republican party. but in my view, that's the problem with the republican party is that they can't quit him. and until they quit him, there's not going to be a long-range future for the republican party. >> mark, jim, thank you so much. mark, i need a hat. keep that in mind. >> thank you, don. >> thank you, sir. mark, real quick because i'm going to be talking about covid. give me an update on your brother-in-law. >> my brother-in-law is out of the hospital and home after three weeks, and hallelujah.

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the cdc warning 90% of the country is now in counties with high or substantial spread of the coronavirus. but 1 in 3 cases are coming from two republican-led states whose governors are banning safety measures like mask mandates. president joe biden ripping into them today. >> and worst of all, some state officials are passing laws or signing orders that forbid people from doing the right thing. as of now, seven states not only ban mask mandates but also ban them in their school districts, even for young children who cannot get vaccinated. i say to these governors, please help. but if you aren't going to help, at least get out of the way of the people who are trying to do the right thing. >> joining me now to discuss, cnn medical analyst dr. jonathan reiner, the director of the cardiac catheterization program at george washington university hospital.

and it's our nightly house call that we had with him previously when we were in quarantine in the height of the pandemic. and here we are doing it again. doctor, good to see you. thanks for joining. >> my pleasure. >> you really think these governors are going to listen to joe biden, president biden? what is it going to take for them to take the safety of their citizens more seriously is the question. >> you know, what's so sad about this, don, is it doesn't have to be this way. it shouldn't have to -- it doesn't violate the rules of physics for a republican governor to do what's necessary to contain this pandemic. look, i live in a state, maryland, that has a republican governor, larry hogan, who has done a terrific job during the pandemic. he prioritized masking early on, had mask mandates in the state for quite a while, prioritized testing. and, you know, right now maryland is averaging eight new case per 100,000 residents.

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of new york laying out the very serious facts, and i think that the governor has disqualified himself. >> yeah. that simple, right? >> that simple, yes. >> yeah. let's talk about the coronavirus. obviously the story that we have been following now for two years almost. you know, you're a maryland senator. it's one of 20 states that hit that 70% goal of adults receiving at least one dose. but i want you to take a look at this. it's up on the screen now for our viewers. these are current transmission rates in your state. almost all of your counties are experiencing moderate to high levels of community transmission. "the washington post" reporting now that maryland doctors are bracing for a covid surge in the coming months. they are really concerned. what's your concern level? >> so, don, i'm concerned too. i mean the delta variant is on the rise. it's on the rise in maryland and

around the country, which is why i also agree with the statement president biden made today about how we have many of these governors, republican governors, taking the reckless position of banning a mask mandate. it's one thing not to impose one as the governor. it's something else altogether to say to businesses or to local school districts or to local officials, you may not require masks indoors as the cdc may recommend. so i think we've got a long way to go clearly to finally defeat this virus. the president's right to call on everybody to get vaccinated and get vaccinated yesterday. we've got to beat this thing. we had more vaccine available in our country than anywhere else in the world. and now we see many european countries having a larger share of their population vaccinated

first because we have so many of these reckless statements here in the united states. >> yeah. listen, new york's mayor is mandating vaccines for some indoor activities. do you think maryland should follow suit with any of these kinds of restrictions? >> i think that has to be left to the local officials. as i said, no governor should be prohibiting local officials based on those local circumstances from making recommendations. so i do think that that should be left to local officials. i support president biden's decision to require federal employees going back to the workforce to be vaccinated. so my view, don, is you've got to look at what's happening at any particular place at any part time. >> senator, you know if you watch this program that we have been covering the january 6th insurrection since it began almost every -- every night on this program because i don't believe it's over.

i know it's not over for the officers who were involved. we just learned that a fourth officer who responded to the capitol on january 6th died by suicide. senator schumer is saying that he is going to ask the senate to award the congressional gold medal to officers who defended the capitol and saved lives, a stark contrast to the members of congress who are trying to whitewash what really happened on that day. >> yes, and the good news, don, is in all the terrible news about another officer losing his life -- and our hearts go out to his family -- we were able in the senate today to get bipartisan support to award the congressional gold medal to both the capitol police officers as well as to the d.c. metropolitan police officers. we did that by unanimous vote in the united states senate. i'm still disgusted by the fact

that in the house of representatives, you had a number of republican members who really disgraced themselves by opposing awarding those congressional gold medals. we see the continuing toll of the trauma from that day. the very least we can do is recognize the heroism of those officers. and beyond that and beyond the gold medals, as those four officers who testified in the house asked, we need to get to the bottom of everything that happened on january 6th and hold people accountable. >> yeah. listen, we've covered a lot. i got one more thing i want to talk to you about, and that is about the president's infrastructure bill. senator schumer is hoping the final vote will come this week. do you see that happening, senator? >> i don't know the exact timing. what i do know is we're going to get it done, and i'm confident we'll have the votes to pass it.

right after we pass that important bipartisan infrastructure bill, we will in the senate pass the budget resolution to set up that process so that we can also enact the other part of president biden's "build back better" jaagenda, not just the american jobs plan, which is essential, but also the american family plan, which extends those child tax credits for years to come. it wouldn't end this year. to cut the cost of prescription drugs, to make sure medicare can cover things like vision, hearing, and dental and much more. so in the coming days, we're going to pass the one and then pass the resolution to set up the other effort as well. >> senator van hollen, thank you so much. i appreciate your time. >> good to be with you. thanks, don. simone biles with a balancing act today, taking home the bronze and speaking out about a family tragedy that happened just days ago. stay with us.

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