need one. thanks, brett. thank you for joining us. i'm dana perino. i'll see you on "the five." john roberts, injury in for bill hemmer. i was just remembering this i'm too when my sister came to visit me and we took her to this bar. she loves a mimosa. it was like the afternoon or even the evening. she spent $24 on these mimosas. i had to stop her after the second one. >> you know, dana, you're always full of wonderful holiday stories. i love a good mimosa, too. but $24 for two mimosas is a lot of money. not to mention you should stop at two. >> it's a lot. >> thanks, dana. see you at 5:00. >> dana: 24 each! >> that's insane. see you at 5:00 for more store is with dan in and alcohol. >> hi we're trying major developments on the covid crisis. congress expected to vote on a

$900 billion package as early as today. a key part of the bill, payments up to $600 for most americans. meantime, the first moderna vaccination is happening today. president-elect joe biden will receive pfizer's vaccine this afternoon. we're monitoring that and we'll bring it to you live if it happens this hour. concerns are growing about a new strain of the virus in the united kingdom. some experts say it's easier to transmit. we have complete coverage. dr. marc siegel standing by. greg palkot has an update. first, chad pergram has the latest on the pending coronavirus relief bill. hi, chad. >> good afternoon, john. covid relief is on the way to the american people. it's a matter of when congress passes the bill, likely tonight. we have the bill text in the past hour. talks were stalled for months. house speaker nancy pelosi refused to accept a smaller bill before the election but changed

her tune. >> it was all or nothing. but a few days ago, with a new president-elect of their own party, everything changed. democrats suddenly came around to our position that we should find consensus, make a law where we agree and get urgent help out the door. >> the bill is a compromise, $600 in direct payments for many americans. liberals and some republicans pushed $1,200. the checks should be in the mail next week. there's a month-long moratorium on evictions and $300 in jobless benefits but for ten weeks. pelosi says she's glad she rejected the bill that mcconnell wrote in the summer. >> it's a good bipartisan bill. it does -- it's different from bills that had been proposed on the senate side by the republican leader. it does things that his bill never did.

>> lawmakers had to wrap this up by christmas. extra unemployment assistance was due to expire december 26. both sides wants more. that's why there's discussion about a bill come january. democrats want help for state and local governments and republicans a liability shield. john? >> thanks, chad pergram watching it from capitol hill. thanks so much. >> why don't we act intelligently for a change? why don't we mandate testing before people get on the flight or halt the flights from the u.k. now? many other countries have done this. >> new york governor andrew cuomo calling for travel restrictions as a new and potentially covid strain spreads like wild fire in the u.k. the british health secretary says the strain is out of control around london.

greg palkot reporting live from lyndon. hopefully you're safe, greg. >> staying safe but there's danger around for christmas. u.k. is dealing with a new covid-19 problem, maybe elsewhere as well. started over the weekend it was revealed a new mutant strain of the coronavirus had been detected in and around london. they said officials said it was responsible for 60% of the new cases and that it is 70% more contagious than the old virus. so they issued a new lock down and a ban on foreign travel. that triggered a rush by thousands to get to train stations and airports as other countries have followed suit, the number now about 40 countries, many in europe issuing the ban as well as canada, india and russia and banning anyone from entering the u.k. more trouble for trans. they banned all trucks from britain, disrupting cargo traffic between the u.k. and

europe. thousands of trucks have been backed up for miles at the ports here with warnings of shortages at the stores in the coming days. officials are trying to get the trucks moving again. this as the vaccines do continue to be rolled out here as in the u.s. scientists say the new variant is not necessarily more deadly. probably not resistant to the vaccine but they don't know for sure, so they're checking more in the laboratories. washington is not calling for a full u.k. travel ban, john. but officials are still looking at it amid new reports that we're seeing throughout the day this new variant mutant strain of covid-19 being detected elsewhere in europe and possibly in the united states. back to you. >> yeah. good chance it could be already here. greg palkot for us in london. links bring in dr. marc siegel. a fox news contributor and

author of "covid, the politics of fear and the power of science." good to see you this afternoon. what do we know about this strain in the u.k.? according to admiral girar, we have known about this september. >> yes, we have. i heard about this weeks ago at the nih. a couple things to tell you about. first of all, this virus is changing all the time. it's always drifting, always making new proteins because it doesn't repair itself. over the time of a pandemic, you know what is happening? viruses like any other thing are trying to survive. it has a survival advantage if it's more transmissable. greg palkot just pointed out what they think but that is based on mathematical modelling. they have not confirmed it. there's no evidence it's more deadly. in terms of the vaccine, it

would likely take months if not years before enough changes would occur to the virus before it would resist the vaccination. the vaccine hit a very strong target, the spike protein. almost impossible that it would infect vaccination at this point. >> i wanted to ask you about this idea of it being more virulent or not. you suggest it's not. you said vaccines have to adapt north to survive. viruses have to adapt in order to sur vie, rather. if a virus starts killing every host, it's not going to survive. could this be less virulent than the original strain of covid-19? >> a really smart point, john. that's what happens a lot. that's what they should look for. in fact, the virus doesn't -- it doesn't think, the virus. there's an advantage for a virus to not be as deadly. there's an advantage for it to jump from host to host without killing the host. that is what tends to happen in the pandemic.

may very well be less deadly. the big concern i have here -- by the way, i have no problem with governor cuomo's point about a test-in strategy. as we get more rapid tests going, there's no reason we couldn't test people from the u.k. or restricting travel. i'm concerned about the fear this spreads. you hear the word "mutation" or shape shifting and suddenly you're in a sci fi movie. we have enough fear already, this is a new strain to take seriously, but we shouldn't be panicking about it. >> okay. in terms of a travel ban, we know this is already in italy. suspected it could be here in the united states. if you clamp down travel now from the u.k., could you stop it in its tracks or if it's already in italy, will it spread throughout italy and the rest of europe and if it's already here, how quickly could it spread by the number of people that have it in this country. >> indeed, john. as usual, you answer your

question. in the question is the answer. if it's already here and spread beyond the u.k. borders and already partly in the united states, we won't be aable to stop it in its tracks by cutting off travel. we have to identify it and try to contact trace faster. i like the idea of more testing. you're probably right that it's here already and certainly in italy already. it has a survival advantage. if it spreads faster and further, we won't stop it in its tracks. >> all right. the lastest vaccine tracking. we're in 1 a, which is healthcare personnel. we're moving to 1 b, personing 75 and order and front line essential workers and seen to c, other essential workers. what constitutes a high risk medical condition that would constitute someone for a vaccine

and who constitutes other essential workers? >> i'm happy with the cdc's guidelines. i like how they identified this. in 1 b, you have the firemen and police officers and teachers and move into postal workers and transit workers which are really important. pre-existing conditions are number 1 is obesity. that gives you the highest risk. i like that they identified over the age of 75. that is 25% of the hospitalizations. and then you're looking at diabetes and chronic lung and heart disease. those are big players in this. >> dr. seagle, great to see you. >> and cancer. >> thanks for joining us. appreciate it. attorney general bill barr says he sees no reason to have a special counsel to oversee the hunter biden investigation. andy mccarthy will weigh-in on that. a california restaurant owner whose restrictions went viral. now taking legal action against the governor. and an elite manhattan school facing backlash over a proposal

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>> good afternoon, john. the transition team says president-elect joe biden is still weighing who will be his attorney general. a person that will likely oversee a justice department with an investigation into his son. jen saki says whoever leads it, they will lead and independent justice department. >> no decision has been made about who he will nominate to be the attorney general. he's emphatic that they will oversee an independent department. he won't discuss the case with hi son with an attorney general candidate, he won't discuss it with a future attorney general. >> now, in the running for attorney general, former deputy attorney general, sally yates, alabama senator doug jones and merrick garland. that's the same judge that president obama chose to fill a supreme court vacancy who senate republicans denied. president trump and republicans say regardless of who biden

selects as his attorney general, there should be a separate independent investigation into hunter biden. >> his son walked away with millions and millions of dollars worth of contracts. the appearance that that gave -- i'm not saying there was any illegality but the appearance that it gave is american's foreign policy can be bought. >> however, attorney general bill barr just a couple hours ago said the current ongoing investigation from the justice department is sufficient and he will not appoint a special counsel. john? >> john: rich edson for us in wilmington. let's bring in former assistant u.s. attorney andy mccarthy. i had been hearing rumblings that there might have been a special counsel in store for the hunter biden investigation. what might have been going on with china, whether or not there were any connections to joe biden. looks like that won't happen

now. >> looks like that at the moment. it's always possible that president trump can order the next acting attorney general to appoint a special counsel. >> john: you think he would do that? how would jeffery cohen respond? >> i don't know. i don't know what the the president would do. i imagine that jeffery rosen agrees with attorney general barr on this. what they think is that the investigation is being handled well at the moment. you know, it does have a history, two of hunter biden's business partners have been convicted in federal court on a separate fraud in which he came up in the evidence. that is a case that started under the obama justice department and was prosecuted under the trump justice department. so the attorney general looked

at this and basically said, you know, look, this investigation has been going on for a while. it's been handled competently. when the senate judiciary committee whoever biden nominates to be attorney general can get guarantees that there's no interference in the investigation. otherwise, that person won't be confirmed. he doesn't see a reason to do it. >> john: this idea from jen saki that hunter biden won't come up in considerations, as a father knowing that your son is under investigation, that your nominating an attorney general, that is compartmentalization that would look like bill clinton look like child's play. >> it would be beyond me if it were one of my sons. the great thing about our system, we don't rely on people's good faith. we hope for it. we hope that they conduct

themselves honorably. what makes the system work is the fact that there's checks in place. the senate will grill whoever the nominee is and they're going to maintain oversight over the justice department and the history of administrations that have not appropriately handled investigations where there's an obvious conflict of interest is not a happy one. the clinton administration in particular had lots of problems with that. >> john: so the u.s. attorney looking into hunter biden is the u.s. attorney for the district of wilmington. it's pretty much standard operating practice for a new incoming president to get rid of all the current u.s. attorneys and appoint new ones under their administration. if biden were to get rid of the u.s. attorney that is looking into his son, i mean, would that be the sort of conflict of interest that could really raise some problems for biden? >> i do think that that is so, john.

i think it would be politically explosive to do that. from what jen just said over the weekend, i take it that what they're planning at least is that the attorney general, whoever that will be, will have the main control over which u.s. attorneys get replaced by biden u.s. attorneys. >> john: we have to jump in here, andy. thanks. joe biden, the president-elect, is in newark, delaware where he's about to receive the covid vaccine. we're told this is the original pfizer vaccine that was approved about a week ago. the moderna vaccine also got approval over the weekend. so that will be a vaccine that many people across the country will be given. looks like if this was going according to the way that it normally does. they just did a questionnaire. dr. biden standing there beside him. she would have just gone through

a series of questions with biden asking certain things. let's listen in for a second. >> the whole staff, incredible. >> everybody is watching! >> i know. ready? >> i'm ready.

all right. >> [question inaudible] >> go ahead. any time you're ready. >> [question inaudible] >> doesn't matter. okay. what i want to say is we owe these folks a lot. the scientists and the people who put this together, the front-line workers, the people what were the ones that did the

clinical work. i wish we had time to take you through the whole hospital to see how busy and incredible you all are. we owe you big. we do. one of the things is that i think the administration deserves some credit, getting this off theground, operation warp speed. i also think that it's worth saying that this is great hope. i'm doing this to demonstrate that people should be compared when it's available to take the vaccine. there's nothing to worry about. i'm looking forward to the second shot. so is jill. she had her shot earlier today. she loves shots, i know. but i've had so many. and but the important thing is that it's worth stating that, you know, this is just the

beginning. it's one thing to get the vaccine out and now moderna is going to be on the road as well. but it's going to take time. it's going to take time. the meantime, i know i don't want to sound like a sour note here, but i hope people listen to all of the experts from dr. faucis on talking about the need to wear masks during this christmas and new year's holidays. wear a mask, socially distance. and if you don't have to travel, don't travel. don't travel. it's really important. we're still in the thick of this. it's one thing to have the vaccine show up at a hospital, but it's another thing to get the vaccine from that vile into a needle, into an arm. there's millions of people out there that are going to need this. front-line workers first.

i want to thank everyone for all that they have done. they're real heros. real heros. you're among them. thank you. >> john: the press corps shouting questions at the president-elect after getting his coronavirus vaccine. we assume that his wife, jill biden, got it as well. we didn't see her being administered the vaccine. it was interesting that we heard really for the first time the president-elect giving some credit to the current administration for the development of the vaccine and operation warp speed. don't forget his vice president-elect kamala harris said she wouldn't trust anything that donald trump said about the

vaccine. yet we had the president-elect giving some credit to the administration for bringing this vaccine to market. dr. marc siegel is with us. dr. siegel, you have followed operation warp speed. from everything we heard from the vice president-elect and president-elect and many democrats that it's a change in tune there. >> i was so happy to see that, john. didn't that sound good on our ears to hear that? operation warp speed a combination of involvement in the military, private and public partnership with pfizer in this case and moderna, cvs, walgreen's, fed ex. it goes on and on. very happy to hear that. very happy to hear him message now is the time to wear masks, distance and restrict travel. we're in a window period before we can vaccinate hundreds of millions of people.

with the virus spreading, it's more important to hear that message. i was very encouraged. you're right. it's not been that way all along. >> john: somebody he said i was puzzled at, he said we don't have a plan to get the vaccine out of the ball into arms. everything that i've heard from operation warp speed and general perna is that they have that nailed down. >> they have that nailed down. they've been meeting with every state, governors, state health authorities across the country. that's why you heard the state health authority say hey, we got 30% less than we were told. then you heard general perna say i take full responsibility for that, which is another breath of fresh air, to hear somebody taking specialty. clean messaging. decreases the fear and increases confidence. happy to see that.

but no, the states are involved and the roll-out has gone if not according to plan at least to the idea where we're getting 10 million doses out by christmas, can is unbelievable. >> john: perhaps mixed messaging but there good to see himmer couraging other people. in his final weeks, the trump administration is taking action on china including putting dozens of chinese companies on a trade black list. so what do we know about president-elect biden's policy. jackie deangelis. >> joe biden took to the campaign promising being tough on china. he said he would do it differently though. he said he would ratchet on china's human rights issue. president trump not only fought

a tough trade war with china, but to make sure it didn't have an unfair advantage and to bring u.s. companies and jobs home. even in his last days, the administration is black listing dozens of firms from china and banning investors from buying shares in chinese companies and sanctioning senior chinese lawmakers. what about the pandemic? president-elect joe biden hasn't made any comments on china and how they handled the coronavirus. we do know covid-19 came from wuhan, china. we know that restrictions were in place in that country for travel, but not for the rest of the world, this morning on "fox and friends," nikki haley summed it up. >> that's exactly what china does. perception is everything to them. they don't want anyone to paint them in a negative light. china has wanted to dominate the world for a long time. they want to bring down america. they almost did that with the coronavirus. >> so what would the president-elect do about

everything that has happened? a pandemic that has brought the country and the world to its knees? at this point, john, unclear. >> john: jackie deangelis. thanks very much. bill barr saying there's no need for a special counsel in the hunter biden investigation. we are finally expecting a vote on covid relief. broth sides blaming the other for the delay. it's mo and mark on a monday next. >> the republican leader's accusation that the blame for this bill's delay lies totally open one side is ridiculous. >> i think what held it up is they didn't want to do anything before the presidential election. (gong rings) - this is joe. (combative yelling) he used to have bad breath. now, he uses a capful of

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>> we believe there should be a special counsel for the allegations against hunter biden. >> i have not seen a reason for a special counsel and i have no

plan to do so before i leave. >> john: attorney general bill barr saiding the hunter biden investigation is being handled responsibly and professionally. let's bring in marc thiessen, a former speechwriter for josh bush. marc, you heard the attorney general say there's no reason to bring in a special counsel for hunter biden. sounds like words that president trump is not going to like too much. >> probably not. but i agree with attorney general barr. it wasn't that long ago that all republicans were against special counsels. we thought the mueller probe chased nothing but a conspiracy theory. so there's -- to turn around and start appointing special counsels, not one, not two but three special counsels would be hypocritical. there's a good reason that barr decided to appoint john durham to be a special counsel because he wanted his investigation into the origins of the mueller probe

is pretty well advanced and he wanted to give him protection and independence. the hunter biden probe is being conducted professionally and partially and there's no evidence of systemic fraud that changes the result of the election. the trump administration has lost every case in court of the to appoint a new special counsel would be doing to democrats what they did to him with the mueller problem. >> john: he said it's being handled professionally and appropriately and by the u.s. attorney in wilmington, delaware. should joe biden leave that u.s. attorney in play? >> i think joe biden said he's not going to get involved or talk to his potential attorney general or get involved in any of that. i don't think the president-elect will do anything to raise even the spector of doubt of white house interference in the justice

department. he was critical of the current administration for doing that and made it very clear he won't do that. he will remain true to that. i think the attorney general on his way out the door has pulled the rug out from under his boss three times in the past few days between this, hunter biden, not appointing a special counsel, saying that he sees no evidence of widespread voter fraud and in his press conference today saying that it is clear the evidence points towards russia being behind this major cyber attack after the president and his tweets tried to deflect it to someone else possibly. so i think the attorney general is laying down a clear marker that the president has gone too far on a number of things. he's doing a good job those. a great attorney general. >> john: you might be safe in saying there's three reasons why the attorney general is on his way out the door. on covid relief -- >> you might be right about that. >> john: $900 billion covid

relief package expected to be approved. $600 in individual payments and $300 in unemployment insurance. $25 billion in rental assist taps. the question is, what took so long? here's what mitch mcconnell told dana perino last hour. >> i essentially put that bill on the floor of the senate in september and october. not a single democrat supported it. their view is give us everything we want or we won't give you anything. so it's note worthy that at the end, they finally gave us what we could have agreed to back in july. >> john: marc, the senate majority leader makes a good point. they were well beyond $900 billion eight weeks ago. what took us so long to get to where we are now? >> first of all, if mo and i had been doing it, we would have had the bill done in july. look, he's right. the bill could have been enacted

in the up summer. in july, the senate republicans had $200 billion for small businesses and $105 billion in state and local governments in exchange for liability reform. they dropped the liability reform and state and local governments but the bill is the same. the democrats said no. in september the white house raised it to $1.6. the democrats said no. in october, the president increased it to 1.8. the democrats said no. they didn't want to do anything to help donald trump's re-election. now joe biden is about to come into office and he doesn't want to inherit a economy tanking and you have the democrat governors in places like new york and california that are forcing businesses to shut down while democrats are blocking progress on covid relief and that's bad political optics. the pressure was on them. >> john: mo, nancy pelosi said something to that effect. she's not worried about covid

relief now. we have a new president. we can do this in a smaller version and do more next year. >> look, let us start by saying, you know, i'm glad this is past -- about to pass. if marc and i had tried to do this, i'm sure i would have come in with more, he would have come in with something didn't. but they're there. that's a good thing. let's clear the air on a few things though. the president did ask for more actually and senate republicans that pulled back on that. they didn't have enough votes in the senate. >> he said he would have twisted arms and got it done. >> but he said. but it didn't happen, right? he didn't go to them and twist arms to get it done. mitch mcconnell put forward a bill that didn't have anything in it for up employment insurance for direct payments.

so, you know, i think that this should have been done sooner. politics got in the way. but we're there now. this is not the bill that will solve everybody's problem. but it is a good start and i think a new congress and a new president can continue to move the ball down the field come january. >> john: clearly this will happen again in the new year. mark and mo, we'll put you in charge with it. thanks. it will happen quickly. happy holidays. georgia election officials say 1.4 million people have already cast their ballots in the state's run-offs that will determine the control of the senate. jonathan serrie is live from atlanta. that's about 25% of the number of the people that voted in the presidential election. >> this is huge. normally the room is empty in a run-off. this shows a level of engagement that is rivalling what we saw

during the november general election. people from both sides of the aisle are trying to keep that interest up going up to the january 5 election day. earlier this afternoon, vice president-elect kamala harris was in columbus, georgia urging democrats to do for the senate what they did earlier for the white house. take a listen. >> everything is at stake when it comes to the need, to elect reverend raphael warnock, to elect jon ossoff. >> today ivanka trump was in suburban atlanta campaigning for the republican incoupumbentincu. >> i'm confident david purdue and kelly loeffler will keep the senate republican and win a victory for american liberty.

>> senator loeffler's opponent is pushing back on his sermons of police violence. he said her attacks are hurtful to black churches across georgia. loeffler said nobody attacked the black church. she said we exposed your record in your own words. president trump announced that he will return to georgia january 4 for a bill rally for the republican incumbent senators here. that is the day before the actual run-off. back to you. >> john: see if he can push more people to the polls. a new district attorney dismissing charges against accused killers suspected of throwing a man off a cliff. what that victim's mother is saying, a new york city private school facing backlash over a proposal to address racism. why some parents are pulling their kids out of that school. stay with us.

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>> a mother in california says she feels like the justice system let her done after the l.a. county district attorney dropped some charges against her son's suspected killers. the suspects beat jillian andrade until he was unconscious and threw him off of a cliff. william la jeunesse reporting live in los angeles. this doesn't seem to make any sense. >> because the enhancements were dropped, the accused killers could get out in 20 years. you have to hear what gaston

told the mother and only to be told to shut up because she was uneducated. >> we don't have people that can keep their mouth shut. anyway -- >> my son can never speak again because he was murdered. >> we learned three of the accused is seven years in the state pen. under the policy, prosecutors cannot use the priors to increase time behind bars. the mother of another victim is complaining after gaston dismissed charges that allegedly beat her son and tossed him over a cliff because he thought he stole their weed. >> i ask you to please think what you're doing. this is not right. this is not fair on so many levels. >> in another case, he's dropping a special circumstance charge against the killers of a

police officer from 1983. >> instead of a life without parole, we're taking 25 years to life in state prison. you know, that can be easily 85% of that and it's up to a parole board to decide what happens. >> so last wednesday, gaston said he allowed some exceptions, this is not going away because it applies to future and current cases. >> john: thanks, william. thanks. a private school in new york city facing a backlash after faculty members row posed a list of so-called anti-racism recommendations. lauren ingle reporting live from long island. what is this about, laura? >> hey, john. some people have called these recommendations demands. school officials say they're just trying to put forth their

best anti-racism vision for their staff and students. but this has caused a huge backlash. the back and forth has landed one of new york city's most prestigious skills in the my of a major controversy leading some parents to pull their kids from the school where tuition costs over $54,000 a year. the dalton school posted their commitment to anti-racism page in june after massive blm demonstrations and students allegations of racism. some members of the school's faculty suggested additional changes according to one parent's blog, which is widely circulated including ensuring there's no correlation between race and placement in advanced classes, including courses on black liberation. overhauling the entire curriculum, reading list.

paying the student debt of black faculty and having all employees have a anti-racism statement. the k-12 school says they welcome debate but doesn't support all of the language and ideas by the faculty members but does support the debate telling fox this. what is erroneously being referred to as faculty demands is a set of soft starters created by faculty and staff responding. the equity and inclusion director had a statement last week online. >> everybody has a different vision and definition of what an anti racist institution like dalton can become. and each of us will see process and progress towards this vision indifferently. this is okay and a part of the journey. >> and dalton is not the only school to propose such changes. we have seen this throughout the united states this year.

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azar will bet the moderna vaccine tomorrow. and 3 million people traveled through u.s. airports over the weekend. the cdc continues to urge people to stay home for the holidays. joining us right now, kevin burke. kevin, the airline industry seems to be one place in this country that really does it right. we're told that air travel is very, very safe. i see people going through airports. i've been through a number that are fully protected, adhering the rules. to you believe it's not really safe to travel this christmas? >> john, thanks for having me. yes, i do believe it's safe. airports have done everything possible to make sure that the

travel experience is safe. i'd say right now the airports are cleaner than they ever have been. the first thing is, make sure you wear a facial covering. the airport employees are trained to make sure people are socially distant. make sure the employees are safe, wearing masks and the tsa and customs and border protection are wearing masks and protocols are taking place. despite the fact that you mentioned, three million people went through airports this past weekend on an average day in 2019, anywhere between 2.5 and 2.7 million people traveled through our airports daily. so our business is down about 60%. we hit a low in april of 87,000 people on the beginning of april that went through our airports in one day. we're up a bit. nowhere near last year. >> john: a lot of people will be traveling. full disclosure, i have to visit

my mother-in-law in california next weekend. we'll do everything to keep ourselves safe. thanks, kevin. >> merry christmas to you. thanks for having me. >> john: bill hemmer reports is done for the day. i'll see you tomorrow. "your world" with neil cavuto is next. >> neil: all right. thanks, my friend. we're watching britain right now and charles dickens is not. the concern, a mutating virus that has prompted a 51% increase in cases from a week ago. now, could be more testing going on there. it's already hitting potential travel into and out of britain. a number of countries saying we don't want to see you if you're from britton. boris johnson saying britts, stay in place. new york governor andrew cuomo is telling