it is great to be with you. i'm geoff bennett and we begin with breaking news on three new potential criminal inquiries being launched against governor andrew cuomo with that report of allegations of sexual harassment. msnbc has learned that the district attorney in manhattan

and west chester and nassau county are launching separate probes, and governor cuomo is fighting for his political life, and fellow democrats are calling for him to resign or face impeachment. and now, the attorney general's office is saying that the governor sexually harassed 11 women, and a pattern of behavior they say that included nine current and former state employees and a state trooper assigned to his security detail. now, the report details multiple accusations of unwanted touching and inappropriate comments and at least one occasion where cuomo and the senior staff tried to retaliate against the accuser. >> look at what the women went through. they were put through hell by a very powerful man. i think that ultimately he is going to have to resign. >> governor cuomo has yet to talk to the reporters about the allegations, but in a recorded response, he vehemently denied

the accusations and suggested that some to actions were misinterpreted and with us is yasmin and jeff and jessica. and so, we are learning with the new reports that were launched from the state a.g., and what are you hearing? >> well, it is seeming like a domino effect, and the hits are coming. starting from upstate albany and then hearing from manhattan this morning, and requesting the documents saying and i quote that our office contacted the a.g.'s office to begin requesting the investigative materials in their possession regarding incidents that happened in manhattan and referencing the 165-page report, and some of the other eight had not been reported up until

yesterday and one involving a state trooper in the governor's security detail, and talking about allegations inside of this report. 179 witnesses corroborating these allegations. thousands upon thousands of documents including the text messages as well. there is also the new york state assembly meeting in the new york closed session yesterday to talk about the report. i talked to the new york state assembly member pat faughey what she had to say as assemblywoman and woman. >> it is one thing to be tough, and another thing where women in particular are feeling trapped or violated or extremely uncomfortable or outright harassed with completely inappropriate comments and at alone actions. >> assembly fahy came out when the allegations were first leveled and said this governor

has to resign. she is thinking the same today and so many of the colleagues are thinking the same, and she talked about the fact of the closed door session that she felt that the majority of the assembly felt as if this governor should in fact resign and they have to conclude their investigation when it comes to the impeachment inquiry when it continues to keep growing, from the president on down, and senators schumer and gillibrand and new york assembly and legislators and i could keep on going saying that this governor has got to resign. >> and you know, it is a who's who of democratic politics there in new york. and jimmy, i want to bring you into this, because you have been following the story as well, and according to yasmin's report, you have a number of democrats in albany continuing the impeachment investigation, and give us an assessment of what is coming next. >> well, geoff, the impeachment

inquiry overseen by the judiciary committee in that chamber, and they are going to meet monday, the and members of the committee tell me that it going to take perhaps 30 days, and maybe 45 days to craft articles of impeachment. they have requested and expect to receive ms. james' report and the evidence that underpinned it and marry it with the materials that their own investigators have gathered. the impeachment inquiry is not as narrowly tailored as the a.g.'s mandate. the claims of sexual harassment which have been substantiated by the attorney general are also going to include the deaths in the nursing homes and how his administration withheld death data and how they acquired coronavirus in the nursing homes and how they withheld the state resources to produce the

governor's 2020 pandemic memoir launched as the pandemic went forward. and yasmin is correct that there is no real base of support for the governor in the chamber and the most telling was that of carl hasty who is a democrat from the bronx, and he had called not for cuomo to resign. after meeting with the flock tuesday, he issued a statement saying that governor cuomo had lost the confidence of the majority and time for him to step down, and the people of albany say it is a matter of time and procedure, and they don't see a path forward for the governor and the people talking to him today say that he is trying to figure out the path forward. >> that is interesting, because the new york city mayor bill de blasio says that cuomo is going to have to resign which echos the reporting that you shared, jimmy, but the question is will

he? the reason is because the friends at first read point out that since donald trump's "access hollywood" tapes came out, and politicians have weathered storm like this, and it speaks to the access of shame in our politicians. so, to what degree does that dynamic play out, and to what degree is he willing to put his party through this ahead of the midterms? >> i don't know what level of shame is going to push governor cuomo to action, but the governor understands political realiies and numbers. in march, we knew that 80 numbers of the assembly democrats and republicans had called for him to be impeached or to step down, and now the number has risen particularly on the democratic side, and now two more are ready to move forward

and the impeachment court is comprised of the senate and the court of appeals and somewhere close to 65 or 70 members in the court depending upon the recusals and more than 50 republican and democratic senators have called for governor cuomo to resign, and it is a simple expression of math. people in albany recall, and they are relating to me that it is feeling similar to 2008 when eliot spitzer was implicated in a prosecution scandal and ultimately ended up stepping down from his office in march. before that happened, the former speaker of the state assembly sheldon silver had conversations with him to say, the votes are there to impeach you, and you can step down or we will go through the process, and it took about a week as you will remember, but spitst spitzer uly decided to resign. so what is the path forward?

will he push for a trial? will he mount a defense? this is not going to be pretty if he goes forward, people acknowledge, but at the same time, he is going to risk his pension as for a person who spent a number of years in service is significant if he is impeached and the first governor since 1913 when william solzer was impeached in office, and that not a book that governor cuomo wants in the biography. >> he has the pension and the personal legacy and the family legacy at stake here. and katy, i want to bring you in the governor's response the this, and namely the taped response and the taped statement yesterday, because as part of the defense, the governor showed several clips of him hugging and kissing and touching people along with other politicians doing the same thing, and he said that he learned from his mom and dad, this gesture of putting your hand on somebody's

face and bringing them in for a kiss, and what do you make from the strategy? >> crisis communication, bad idea. legal point, bad idea. and it is the route of the civil lawsuits brought against cuomo and the members of the staff from the retall ti conduct or the spirit of the retaliatory that we have brought about, and the spector of the criminal exposure, and any and all admissions that are made by a person who is under investigation, and the threat of the civil litigation, that can be used against them in the future proceedings, and the burdens of proof are different, right. so in a criminal case, any type of criminal claim would have to be proven by the prosecution beyond and to the exclusion of every reasonable doubt, but in any of the situations, a 169-page report buttressed by pages upon pages, and thousands upon thousands of documents that would create the underlined

sourcing for evidence that can be used in hi of the potential cases is particularly damning for governor cuomo. >> katy phang, and daniel and thank you for joining us. and now, joining us, you say that the governor should be impeached if he does not step down, and joud been calling for this since the beginning. >> one thing that viewers should know is that upon impeachment itself, the governor is removed, removed temporarily among any trial, so you have to wonder if the governor as a temporarily non-governor and not living in the governor's mansion, and not chauffeured with the detail would want to file out a

grueling trial, and putting the victors through a lot in that situation, so i think that what we are looking for and what my colleagues in albany are telling me is that the assembly is showing that we mean business and it is going to result in a vote to remove the governor, and the long islanders that i talk to found the attorney general's report to be thorough and comprehensive and the evidence damning. >> and allegations from current and former staffers in the a.g. report, and executive assistant who said that the governor kised -- kissed her on the lips and groped her, and ran his fingers down the back, and then another personal ledged inappropriate behavior and as a former state and prosecutor, and could any of the allegations rise to criminal charges?

>> the answer is absolutely yes, and that why the nassau d.a. and the d.a.s in westchester and albany and manhattan have asked for the evidence. they have to do the work, and the cases are not certainly easy to make, and they have to speak to the victims which they may not have had to before, and they have to do the due diligence and look at what is possible. the charges yesterday shocked the conscience, and the attorney general made it clear that she had reach the end of her investigation and the evidence is there for each agency to review. >> thank you, todd kaminsky, senator, for joining us. and so for governor cuomo's career hanging in the balance, we will look at the woman who could be his successor. and the delta variant is running high in areas that have reached new highs including

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a new wave of covid-19 is threatening to overwhelm hospitals in some states where a rate of fully vaccinated people is below the national average of 50%. florida is the epicenter of the new outbreak hitting a new peak for hospitalizations tuesday, and the covid patients are filling the hospitals across northwest arkansas there, too, and prompting the governor to sound a new alarm met by hostilities by some locals. >> it is real the hospital shortage. it is absolutely very real, and what we agree on is that covid is real, and people get sick

from -- shhh. >> there is one person -- you are lying -- you know the truth. >> what is in the vaccine? give me the insert sheet. >> the primary cause of this new covid wave continues to be unvaccinated americans. 9 in 10 of the new cases, the hospitalizations and deaths are occurring in people who are unvaccinated or fully vaccinated, and so joining us now is our guests and dr. vin gupta, and kerry, we are going to start with you. how is the state of florida managing this hospitalization search? >> well, there is a real problem in the last 24 hours, more than 50,000 new cases. as you know president joe biden are emphasizing that there are

those who are getting in the way, and he did not single out the republican governor of florida ron desantis, but he made it clear that if the governors are in the way, they need to get out of the way to get this spread of covid under control. in the last few minutes, governor ron desantis directly responded to the president. let's listen. >> i just want to say something quickly, and you know, joe biden has taken to himself to try to single out florida over covid. this is a guy who ran for president saying that he would quote shutdown the virus, and what has he done? he has imported more virus from around the world by having a wide open southern border. >> that is governor ron desantis speaking a short time ago in panama city. as he finished the news conference there was a fair amount of applause, and

meanwhile, i'm here in hollywood, and this is the memorial county hospital, and as you can see, the cameras are set up, and there is a news conference here within the next 30 minutes or so where they are going to be announcing to be cutting back elective surgeries, because of the growing number of patients with the coronavirus. and we have seen the same thing in orange county, and the orlando area with the advent health, and jacksonville, and the university of florida health care system, and there is an overwhelming number of patients already and growing, but it is going to continue to get worse before it is better, and again, the health officials are urging those who have not been vaccinated to get vaccinated, because even if they have a breakthrough case, it is unlikely to be in a hospital whereas those who are vaccinated need to be in the hospital of the memorial health care system, geoff, and more than 92% of

those in the hospital with covid did not have a vaccine. >> wow. and ellison, over to you in arkansas, and a similar story there, and the audio that we played in the start of the segment captures so much, because you have governor asa hutchison, a republican, telling the folks to get vaccinated because the hospitals are filling up, and the people in the room are not wanting to hear it, and one guy is shouting, what is in the vaccine, and he is having a second thoughts of signing mask restrictions, because there is one hospital filling up, and one of the tools they don't have because there are mask bans, so give us a sense of what the recent surge has meant to folks there? >> yes, on paper, the facts are undeniable, but you saw in the town hall, there are some people who refuse to believe any of it.

on monday, the state saw some of the highest increase in covid hospitalizations since the pandemic began. ambulances are being diverted and i spoke to the ceo of one of the largest am planses in the state. in 25 years, he says that he has never seen a situation so dire. when we talked to him, he diverted ten ambulances in the past two hours. normally he said they would divert one ambulance in an entire day. governor hutchison was not the only one mocked, jeered, boo'd and called a liar at the townhall in northwest arkansas. there was one woman who was 21-year-old ashley mcfadden who went to the hospital while her brother is in the hospital, because she wanted the community to know what happened to her family. her brother trey is imm immunocompromised an last week he got very sick unrelated to covid-19. she thought that he was going to

die in her arms, and she called 911 and immediate help came, but when the paramedics came, they had nowhere to go. listen to what she told us. >> at the town hall, whenever i shared that story, people told me that i was lying. they said that the hospitals are not full. you are lying, i was there this weekend and there are eight open beds. i was like, no, i am not lying, and i saw that we had to wait, and there was nowhere for us to go. >> the closest hospital that her brother would normally go to where the primary doctor would send him would be down the road, but they were turned away from three hospitals and it took 14 hours for her brother to be admitted to the hospital. and he is still in the hospital right now on day nine. i was briefly able to facetime with him from the hospital bed, and she wants to share the

story, because people need to understand the choice to have the vaccine or not to have it causes impacts well beyond the bubble. her entire family is vaccinated and she is convinced that if more people were vaccinate and the hospitalization rates were lower, her brother would have gotten the care that he needed sooner. >> that town hall crowd would mock that woman for sharing the story is beneath contempt. dr. gupta many of the covid patients are now younger than we have seen in previous waves, and what accounts for that? something specific about the delta variant or the people under 50 are not getting the vaccine in the numbers they should be. >> good afternoon, geoff. we don't have evidence that the delta variant is somehow preying on the younger people preferentially, and this data does not exist. what is clear is that if you are younger, the demographics tend

to have less people vaccinated and we know that the delta variant, if you are infected, the more that you have in the unvaccinated body, and the more likely to be sicker, that the delta variant is seeking out the individual that not vaccinated. if i may what is happening in florida. geoff, this is a time unprecedented time that calls for unprecedented measures. privately, i am called from colleagues down there in florida all of the time from the university of miami and elsewhere, and to help reinforce what they are telling me privately and the time for the civic-minded authorities in florida to write a letter of censure to stand up in unison for what the governor desantis is doing to prohibit masking in the school districts and what we are seeing in putnam county and

duval county, and the beds that are occupied by covid patient, and geoff, i can see that the beds are needed for other things other than covid, so it is causing a strain on care, and rationing of care and not just florida, but elsewhere. so, geoff, we are at the end of the road here, we are using something called e.c.h.o., and that is a way to oxygenate the blood outside of the body. a few of these exist in the zip codes across the country. so they are sparse life-saving techniques that we can use. they are rationed in florida. we don't have to be in this situation, and actually happening what is guarantee you that the town halls that governor hutchison is facing is going to start to mitigate once people see the reality here. but people need to step up, and they have, and write the letter,

and stand up in unison against what governor desantis is doing. >> talking about the vaccine intent and how you believe in direct engagement, and you spoke to the seattle seahawks in the spring about the pitch, and i understand that 90% of the team is vaccinated fully. and good on you about that, but what does it say about the other vaccine outreach programs, and what do they need to do, and how do you scale it up, the one-on-one approach? >> well, we have to recruit more authentic messengers. most of the seahawks' team was considering the vaccination, and it was a team approach to get to the 90% engagement. we need the pharmacists, and nurses and res pr toir --

respiratory therapists, and what we are learning is that people who are not vaccinated do not have a trusted physician. they don't have a relationship for whatever reason and they have rational questions. most of the seahawks' players had reasonable, and rational questions to be answered, and so we can scale it, but it is more broadly than giving $100 to people. and by the way, for people who are going to say, to mandate ourselves out of this. and kick the can to get the more authentic messengers out there and scale this. >> dr. vin gupta bringing context and clarity to all of the conditions and kerry sanders

and barbara ellison, thank you for your great reporting as well. meanwhile, former president barack obama is scaling back his big 60th birthday party. he and his wife had faced some criticism about the extensive guest list with guests like oprah and steven spielberg and pearl jam as the musical group. and today is his 60th birthday. so, today, could firefighters be at risk? we are going to take you inside of a major battle that is bruining. stay with us. out of convenience, or necessity. we can explore uncharted waters, and not only make new discoveries, but get there faster, with better outcomes.

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answered the question and not someone else. [ laughter ] >> yes. >> and after a five-day protest from the progressives on the u.s. capitol, the democrats are celebrating a victory after the moratorium will remain in place for two months if it holds up in court. joining us is jake sherman, and we have seen the multi day organizations led by kori bush, and the punch bowl moments that nancy pelosi played inside. so you have the outside and the inside pressure game, and how did this unfold? >> well, it is interesting, because cori and alexandria ocasio cortez and mon dur jones who were on the steps protesting

for this moratorium set the groundwork and that is getting interest for the story. not that nobody was interested, but they brought it to the mainstream. people have problems with public policy on capitol hill, and they have followings. and certainly alexandria ocasio cortez has massive following, but pelosi was working the white house, and she gave the president explanationings of the moratoriums, and then talking to making the arguments, and super interesting full court press from the rank and file doing this public kind of the projection, and you know, kind of the public protest in a sense, and pelosi working the phones, and using her washington know-how to get it across the finish line. >> yeah. let's talk about the intra

structure, because there is no end to the amendments offered up on this bipartisan bill. can you explain to most americans who are not well versed in the arcane mysterious ways of the senate why this process process matters and schumer is going to say, hey, we have the votes, let's do it. >> the senators want some priorities for their states in the bill. they have priority issues, and many of them are bipartisan, and many of the amendments are sponsored by people in both parties, and so they are not part san amendments, and they need something in the bill to vote for so they have nothing nefarious, but they are public policy issues and they want to say they fought for something, so you can say that they have the amendment process that is incredibly important. chuck schumer is going to try in the next the day or so to cut down the dates of the amendments

and have a cloture vote, and you and i know that, but the rest of the world does not, and that is going to officially cut off the date of the amendments, and bring the vote on the senate or more likely monday. then it goes to the house, and it has an incredibly uncertain future. >> when you are talking about thebipartisan amendments, an easy one between two senators in texas. i read punch bowl news every monday morning and i recommend that everybody do it. turning your attention to the other side of the country, wildfires burning in 13 state, and california has seen the worst season to date, and the season has not hit the peak of the season. overnight, the strong winds hit the dixie fire, and causing

people to evacuate. and now a new ultra luxury neighborhood planned for rural california is now the subject of the lawsuit saying it is going to endanger resident whence the next fire breaks through. so jake, walk us through the controversy surrounding the community. >> well, geoff, the promise of california has always been that you canley wherever you want, and in the most beautiful place that you can afford. in the area of wildfires, a big 13,000 acre site is pitting the residents who need the money against the lawyers who say that whole thing is just too dangerous. >> reporter: mittletown, california, is in lake california which has not changed in generations. >> this is the number three worst poorest county in

california. >> reporter: this is to bring high end homes and resort to the region. >> it is going to provide a lot of amenities to the full-time or second homeowner. >> reporter: and this could bring immediate revenue to the median house income of $47,000. >> it is estimated in 2029 that it is $49 million in property taxes. so just the inflex of community jobs for the community. >> reporter: but where the wildfires are getting worse and worse, this area has a particularly history of fires. how much is the wildfires a culture? >> my house burned in 2015. as people in florida know hurricanes, we know fires. >> reporter: and now a nonprofit is suing to stop the project. what we have here is a proof the county board of supervisors that

would end this project. we are told as approved this project is going to enhance fire safety. >> how do you build fire safety in a place that could burn again in short order? >> i believe with fire planning, and fire resiliency, it can be safer than it is today. >> the development has several fire strategies and pays for a new helipad and other breaks. why would you not let it be built. >> if i thought that it would help my family, it would not be opposing it. >> reporter: but many say it is the wrong math. is it worth it that most people can evacuate, but what about 10 or 15? >> i know that you cannot

compare if the true risks are not disclosed to the public, and that is the true case here. >> geoff, this is a place where the culture is about fire. when the neighbors sit down, they are talking about the fire claim, and who is still living in a trailer after the big 2015 fire. and the lawyers are saying that the era of the authorities making the decisions here has to be over, and that is the same time that the locals are saying that we should be the ones who are making decisions about this, and that is the decision over wildfire and california. >> yes, it is a real interesting story, and thank you, jacob worth. we have heard from the attorney general's office, and the response of governor cuomo, and now we are hearing from the women who are accused him, and the woman who would take control if cuomo was pushed out. >> now, we will hear from the

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>> turning back to the breaking news on new york governor andrew cuomo. we are hearing new reaction today from some of the accusers and their attorneys. nbc kate snow is with us on the women who stepped forward. >> geoff, the harassment allegations from these women range from offensive comments to inappropriate touching to inappropriate comments, and many are saying they are speaking out after years of feeling powerless to do so. >> reporter: and charlotte bennett says that the governor should be impeached. >> we should impeach the governor, because he cannot accept responsibility for his behavior. >> reporter: she was hand picked to be cuomo's assistant, and

shared that she was a sexual assault survivor, and then the relationship became inappropriate. >> he started to ask questions about my sex life and if i was monogamous, and if i could have a healthy sexual relationship. >> reporter: what was the intent? >> he said that he was lonely and looking for a girlfriend and propositioning me for sex. >> reporter: in a recorded statement tuesday, cuomo disputed the complaints and he says that bennett's accusations bothered him the worst. >> i thought that i could help her through a difficult time, and i have heard charlotte and her lawyer say things that i did not say. >> he is victim blaming, and making a insulting, and painfully inaccurate insinewation that someone who was traumatized from a past experience cannot discern the difference between mentorship, and sexual harassment.

>> reporter: attorney maryann wong says another cuomo statement in march that prompted her clients to speak out. >> i never touched anyone appropriately. >> that is a real turning point for my clients. they really felt that he looked at the camera and made a boldfaced law. >> reporter: she represents melissa mcgraph, and she still works for him, and called his appropriate creepy, and another woman said she ran his fingers across a logo on her t-shirt. >> she did not know how the react. >> i am sad to be in the situation, but i am so proud of the 11 of us. >> and the attorney that we talked to said that they are watching to see if they can file any criminal charges that could arise. >> kate snow, thank you for the reporting. and with the calls to have

andrew cuomo resign or if he would be impeached. and the person who would replace him is a person who was caught in a sexual allegation of her own. if he resigns, she would become the first female governor in new york. and joining us is katy. and she has condemned the behavior in the attorney general's report, and she stopped short of asking for his resignation. >> she said that the lieutenant governor standing in the line of succession, it would not be appropriate to comment on the process at the moment, and so describe for us the fine line that the lieutenant governor is walking right now.

>> so, she is not going so far as to call for the resignation, and pivoting to the assembly where there is a lot of activity already around the impeachment investigation. but, you know, she is somebody who has caught a lot of attention over the last several months really as the investigations into governor cuomo began to accelerate. she is someone who has built something of a statewide network on her own. she and governor cuomo are not having an especially close working relationship. she is traveling the state, and doing all kind of economic development events and talking about the administration's agenda outside of albany. and she is a little bit of the statewide donor network, and certainly politicos have a decent sense of who she is, but there is increasing interest in the woman who would step in should she resign, or be removed from office.

>> and she has been lieutenant governor since 2015, and so the last six years, and so the a.g. was highly critical of the environment in the office, and so does any of the fallout reach out to her? >> well, the dynamics of her no question they campaigned at the same time. and maybe some dynamics there if she comes into the spotlight, but they are not seen to work together closely, and some folks in the legislature who are critical of governor cuomo, and they would rather deal with her, but we are not at the point where impeachment is happening, and he is not considering resignation. so she was supposed to be out doing an event, and she is not doing that, and so the balance

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like yes and then i was i feel like i can do it. i know i have a good beam set and i felt very confident. >> can you spain what the president bush our feels like on you? >> it feels heavy, the weight of the world on your shoulder and i'm very small and it feels overwhelming. when i have triggers i have to focus on my mental well-being. >> that was brave. >> thank you. working five years for dream and having to give it up. it was not easy at all. >> when you said that you were afraid of letting people down. >> mm-hmm. >> that's a lot to carry, too, isn't it? >> yeah, for one person, especially just like my family back home, they sacrificed so much. you work five years for something and you have a whole team surrounding you and you do it all together. i get here and it didn't work how i wanted it to. >> but it ended? >> it ended on a high so very grateful and thank full for that but i still feel like i go back home and there's still a lot of things i need to work on

internally and mentally to just kind of feel like i had success here. >> you know what i thought even after the vault when you decided you didn't want to compete, i thought if this is the last time i see simone compete it's a god day because you did something super brave. >> i thought that was brave of me, too, because if you would have asked me a couple years ago i would have kept pushing through but i'm at the age now where i kind of control my mental and my well-being and i knew that it was the best decision for the team and myself. >> hard to believe she's only 24 years old. that's a very wise woman, that simone biles. congratulations to her. and that will do it for us. aiman mohyeldin picks up our coverage coming up next. aiman mr coverage coming up next. i've been taking prevagen on a regular basis for at least eight years. for me, the greatest benefit over the years has been that prevagen seems to help me recall things and also think more clearly. and i enthusiastically recommend prevagen.

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