biden joe biden joined the chorus of the investigation. >> are you now calling on him to resign? >> yes. >> and if he doesn't resign, do you think he should be impeached from office? >> let's do one thing at a time here. i think he should resign. >> it includes chuck schumer and gillenbrand. they said the governor can no longer remain in office saying they will expedite the impeachment investigation. and yet cuomo was defiant today, digging in his heels despite the damning revelations unveiled by attorney letitia james. >> andrew cuomo sexually harassed current and former new york state employees by engaging in unwelcome and nonconsensual touching and making comments of a suggestive and sexual nature that created a hostile work environment for women. the investigators found that governor cuomo's actions and those of the executive chamber violated multiple state and federal laws. none of this would have been illuminated if not for the heroic women who came forward. >> the evidence backing those conclusions is documented in a scathing report of more than 160 pages. investigators conducted 179 interviews, 41 of which were under oath. they received 280 tips and gathered 74,000 pieces of evidence. they found cuomo sexually harassed 11 victims who described being, quote, violated, humiliated and terrified. according to the attorney general's office, it was all part of a disturbing pattern of conduct. >> 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. the governor also, several times, inappropriately touched a state trooper assigned to the unit to protect the governor. he took his open hand and ran it across her stomach from her belly button to the hip where she keeps her gun. the governor pressed and ran his fingers across the chest of a woman while reading the name of her company whose logo was on her chest. the governor crossed the line many times when speaking with charlotte bennett. he told her he was lonely and wanted to be touched. >> those findings open up cuomo to possible impeachment and even prosecution. but bear this in mind, because this was a civil investigation, any decision on criminal charges must be left to law enforcement agencies. and, in fact, the albany county district attorney today announced they have an ongoing investigation into cuomo's conduct. for months cuomo has denied any wrongdoing, and he did so again in a pretaped address that he released after the a.g.'s findings were made public today. >> i want you to know directly from me that i never touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances. that is just not who i am. and that's not who i have ever been. >> in a signal that he won't go quietly, cuomo and his attorneys released an 85-page rebuttal. i'm not sure if that's going to help him. what's worse than an executive? one with no friends. maya wiley is a former candidate for new york, and a former special advisor to governor cuomo. kim, let me start with you. i want to play what governor cuomo said in denying the allegations from charlotte bennett. have a listen. >> i have 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. charlotte, i want you to know that i am truly and deeply sorry. i was trying to help. obviously, i didn't. >> okay, now hear charlotte bennett respond to governor cuomo in an interview late this afternoon. >> do you think he's gaslighting you? >> absolutely. he is trying to justify himself by making me out to be someone who can't tell the difference between sexual harrassment and mentorship. 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. >> at one point he said that he was trying to help you work through a difficult time. did that seem like that was his intention? >> no. his intention was trying to sleep with me. >> assembly member kim, how on earth does governor cuomo think that he can remain governor of the state of new york one more minute after something like that? >> it's absolutely ridiculous. i want to first acknowledge charlotte and the other woman who bravely and courageousing stepped up. especially at a time when we have a culture where we do not believe women. they stepped up and took a responsibility to hold this executive accountable. there is a clear conduct of abuse of power and it is our duty to hold him accountable. if he doesn't step down, we must impeach. >> susan, you know, in the montage that we showed, the prosecutor mentioned executive assistant number one. in the report, there was something in there that you, as someone who has been a staffer for principals and also governor coe, i want to read something. the governor claimed that it was executive assistant number one who was the initiator of the hugs while he was more in the reciprocal business. he testified that he would go along with tight hugs that executive a assistant 1 initiated because he did not want to make any one feel awkward about anything. there is no way that a staffer would initiate this from anyone, especially a governor of a state. >> i have not ever seen that happen. anyone who knows andrew cuomo would know it's not something you would do. i can't imagine at a moment during my tenure with the governor reaching out and hugging him and him thinking that would be acceptable behavior. it's just absurd on its face value. but what's more important is that what makes him think that that is an acceptable thing to say? how does he think he can get away with his behavior blaming these women? first for saying they don't understand when they're being sexually harassed, then to claim that they reached out to him? there are so many things in this rebuttal which are disgraceful and that the governor -- it just has to stop. it's time for him to step down. he probably won't, but this is going to go down a bad road for him even worse. he has no friends in albany tonight. and i would also like to just kind of give a shoutout to assemblyman kim. he in many ways started this calling the governor out as a bully. you don't see that with a state legislator ever with governor cuomo. he called him out hard, and i think that gave a lot of credibility to these other women coming out, because they saw how he went after them and they didn't stop -- and he didn't stop. i really think he deserves credit for opening up the door for the toxic environment of this governor's office. >> assembly member kim, do you want to respond? >> people in albany have known about the governor's abusive style of governing for years. >> we're having trouble -- >> -- if they weren't going to take anymore -- >> we're having trouble with assembly member kim's audio. we're going to try to get that fixed. and i want to say it is so good to see you again. i want to play what the albany district attorney played today about the possibility of criminal charges. >> based on what you've seen in this report, is any of the behavior described and attributed to the governor, would any of that be considered criminal? >> well, the allegations early on certainly led myself and other prosecutors with concurrent jurisdiction to believe that criminal activity, in fact, had taken place. but we will conduct our own independent investigation. it will be done expeditiously and we will arrive at those concludes. >> maya, you're former u.s. district attorney. what do you think. >> first i want to the -- use his power and there's nothing surprising or new in that from governor cuomo. it is actually criminal. read the investigation report and the allegations, and frankly, we knew this back in the spring and even march from leslie boylan's complaints. the accusations are at a minimum forcible touching. that is a crime in new york state. it is a misdemeanor, but each individual incident is its own count. there are a lot of counts in this case. there is also the issues of many. ly. we have two saying these women are incredible and they have corroborating evidence for each claim, and secondly, we should all be disturbed that the most powerful man in the state is willing to use that power, frankly, to abuse women. that's what this report concludes and it's not new. >> right, a lot of evidence in the report is text messages and everything else done contemporaneously. the idea that the governor is pushing back and saying, no, this nooefr happened. or it can be misconstrued. ly. >> many many accountability of an executively, a mandate accountable, so we can learn what we did wrong. not only is this above women, but i'm not sure how. we need to hoimd accountable so we can fix it and not make the same mistakes moving forward. >> i i -- >> i do it with everyone, black and white, young and old, straight and lgbtq. powerful people, friends, strangers, people who i meet on the street. >> susan? i kind of get what he was trying to do. see, no big deal, i kiss everyone. would you have -- just your reaction. i can't even -- >> that's basically my reaction, i can't even. but here's the thing. he's trying to use an excuse that, oh, that's how i was brought up, his father did it before him as governor. you are not allowed to make any kind of advancement, touch anyone as an employer to an employee without their consent. this is just absurd, because even if he thinks there is nothing wrong with it, that just shows that he's ill equipped to be governing right now in this day and age. he may be at work 30 years ago when he saw his father doing it, but in this day and age, the governor or any employer should know they cannot go around kissing people. and if they don't see anything being wrong with that, and he used the offense, oh, i know. >> these ex, i was in the governor's office every day and he didn't come over and kiss me, and i'm grateful for that. >> maya, i'll give you the last word as someone who sought public office in new york city, but if you were the next mayor, you would have to deal with andrew cuomo. what's your message to viewers tonight, knowing what they have now about our governor. almost everyone in new york is trying this right now. i grab everyone's breasts. no, he doesn't. in the allegations, he would not be the loorgs candidate, baent doing it to the men p. but it comes at the cost of the tup trust. ly this is about abuse of power. this is about abusing office and this means abusing the people of new york and we just can't have it anymore. >> maya anderson, thank you to come to the forefront. >>> they came to washington pho fight for voting rights. >>> they were ordered to be turned over as someone slammed his door when he was left with covid patients. we're experiencing the darkest day of the pandemic. the read dvlsly. many many for your best back to school smile, crest has you covered. nice smile, brad! nice! thanks!? 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all across this country, we know what this is. this is the delta variant of jim crow voting and the nochl -- movement. you it mpl. >> not only are they trying to foam once people jump through all tho hool -- first of all, thank you so much for having us. it's funny because we continue to talk about voter fraud. the only fraud i see are the republicans. the republicans in georgia, the republicans in texas, the republicans in florida, the republicans in arizona. because let me tell you something. our elections administrator was a republican. that was our secretary of state. that's who oversaw our elections in texas, and she also said that they were safe and secure. and the fact that you would go ahead and say duly sworn-in president. so the only fraud we have in this country is reg scans. judge michael kemp wrote, defendant fann has the authority and statutory obligation under the public records law to compel and its subvendors to produce all internal e-mails and correspondence outlined in the proposed order. how much longer will this go on? >> john, i'll tell you how long this is going to go on. as long as they're grifting people, they're sending e-mails out donate 10, 15, $20 to people who don't have an extra 10, 15, $20. they're swindling them toly you know, you did. probably one of the most even-keeled men i've ever met. for him to do do this shows how american this senate is. >> one of the knocks on democrats here in washington, my colleague nicole thomas saying srpgs they don't seem to have thimpltd you've been here in washington now for -- it hasn't been quite a month yet, but you've been here for a long time. dooupg do you think that democrats have their hair on fire about what these suppression bills mean for american democracy, and are they willing to go every step of the way to ensure that the right vote is we figured out this need to be an inside/outside type of attack, right? i got the impression we're starting some reversed pipes. i'm not sure we have pressure from all of it? if you give them water, that will be against the law. it wasn't enough that we saw they want to do these audits in arizona. so we again left the threat frlt seemingly it may look like we started again, we have lawyer, we have pastors, and when these new lines come out, we won't have the majority in the house. when they get done with these new laws they're talc few tothe most. >> and you say new lines will come out, you're saying the new districting lines because the senate and the new population and everything, state legislatures across the state, new lines have been drawn and one forecast, rachel bencaff in the stamplts the governor as a whole sees this as urgentals you two. >> i met the senator there. we are on the ground with people. we see them every day. we are knocking on their doors. i am talking to them in advance. i see a con constituent wasn't of whether it's the governor abbott in texas where they push these draconian lines. as you say, our hair is to fire from this, and we've seen it every day. we would know what the outcrops are they want the ability to have fabl whim folks in my sdripd. so we see it and that's why we're in d.c. now so weblg tell those stoerds like paem tho fmpld and now our brothers and . we need a baseline voting procedures nationwide. >> real quick, yes or no answer. representative crockett, given everything that you've been doing, what's your gut telling you? 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