impeachment process and then win. some new york state legislators are reeling after the state assembly decided to drop governor andrew cuomo's impeachment probe. assembly speaker carl heastie saying the investigation is now moot since cuomo will be stepping down august 24th, adding that the constitution doesn't authorize the legislature to impeach andrey move an elected official who is no longer in office. >> the purpose of the impeachment of the investigation was to investigate whether there were grounds to remove the governor. so it would really just be a tremendous waste of government resources and millions of dollars. >> reporter: but speaker heastie said the inquiry did under governor'ses made against the government which could likely have resulted in articles of impeachment had he not resigned. the evidence concerned accusations of sexual harassment, misuse of state resources to write his book and the misleading data about nursing home data during the pandemic.