we have prior to governor cuomo a governor in this state.been many politicians in new york state who have been pro life and not anti-gun as governor cuomo would have the world believe. you talk about the importance of respecting minority rights, and the troubles it leads to when we don't do that? >> governor cuomo sounds a little like the governor of alabama when he was talking about the freedom bus, and saying that martin luther king, and those who want to march with martin luther king and march on the freedom bus should get out of the state, there's no place for those people here. i mean, where would the disenfranchised of the world in history be if we didn't have that push back. here's a group of people, and governor cuomo would be all for tenure at schools. but we can't fire a teacher because we need to protect that discourse. but in political life, we can't have a free exchange of ideas because you don't belong here? we were one of the first on the scene -- my charity organization which has given millions away in the last 18 months. we

cuomo declares storm emergency, all conservatives need to evacuate. follow me on twitte twitter @megynkelly. we got there. >>> welcome to hannity, tonight governor cuomo does not have the nerve to face me after saying extreme conservatives, you know, people who are pro life, pro traditional marriage, they're not welcome in the state of new york, yet he still wants my hard earned tax dollars. i am not alone, and that is coming up on this edition, tonight of hannity. >> are we fired up today? >> andrew cuomo calls out extreme conservatives. >> they have no place in new york. that's not who new yorkers are. >> we hit the streets of new york to get reaction to his comments. >> i think the governor is off base. >> the lovable liberal tackles the top five. >> don't you ever talk about me. don't you open your mouth about the best. >> tonight you the viewers get the unique opportunity to ask me anything you want. no topic will be offlimits. megan mcdowell is here with the first installment of #asksean. >>> and our great, great american panel revisits some of

that is the way we would beat governor cuomo by putting forth bold ideas. >>> all right, rob astorinoyou're pro life, pro second amendment, and rick, if you have barack obama's position on marriage two years ago, i know he flipped and flopped. the cardinal dolan, st. patrick's in new york, he now spoke out about it for the first time today. here is what he said. >> most unfortunate at best, inflammatory and outrageous, at worst. the extremists are really on the other side, the extremists are those who want to radically expand abortion, are not happy with the way things are. resist the constitutional restraints that have been legally placed upon abortion. deny the fact that abortion on demand up until the last moment of -- right before birth, funded by the government. the vast majority of american people don't agree with. >> three and a half million people have left the state of new york, most of them are going to southern states, low or no taxes. and on top of that, for the first time, gallup shows a change, more americans are pro life than are not pro life. what has happened? >> well

i also held it against his son, andy cuomo. >> against his son, andrew cuomo. now today we reached out to the governor's office asking for a statement, and once again, no response. and here to react, geraldo, dick morris, you were there at the time. >> i was, and it was awful, they sliced ed koch in little pieces. and it was really shocking, new york is two states, it is the blue new york city area and then the red upstate. down here, you know, we were shocked to look at what they were doing because it really played up in the conservative areas of new york state. where a homosexual gay man running for office was death for ed koch in that race. it was terrible. >> do you believe he was involved? >> he was the tough as nails campaign manager, as i recall, andrew was. this was an awful thing that he said. working at fox, i'm not a person who is pro-life, and anti-gay, but i come to understand there are people who have deeply held beliefs. >> you will put up with me. >> in other words, he -- >> i'm not wanted in my own state where i grew up in. yeah. >> sean, it is

what governor cuomo did was the playbook of the progressives. let's appellant the broadbrush for candidates and people. it is a fake retraction. who cares about his apology? i understand that ed cox calls for a apology and so should other people in the state, but let's look at the policies and what he's really doing in the state. >> what ed cox told us yesterday on the program, if you don't get an apology he believes that is what the governor thinks and feels. how many people voted for dpof goff romney. >> one- third of new yorkers voted for governor romney. and so apparently governor cuomo in a free country can't decide where americans live. it is a typicical playbook for cuomo. he's simply playing to his base. he has 33 million and he wants to run for president and bill diblasio in new york city which is the anchor because of population, he is the new hero for the progressives and cuomos is playing his political cards. >> i hear you sighing? >> it is distorted by conservatives saying he was saying that anybody who believes this shouldn't live

is it governor cuomo or is it king cuomo? just ahead, we'll show you how the governor is tonight trying to defend those remarks. wait until you hear this. stay tuned for that. >>> we're also following a developing story from washington as the new yorker publishes an interview with president obama with top picks ranging from terror to pot use. but the -- when the president turned the conversation to race. chief white house correspondent ed henry has more. >> reporter: good evening, megyn, some of the bluntest comments on race, because usually he does not touch this sub subject, it is just so hot politically. a series of interviews over the last few months, this is over 17,000 words in the story itself. and the president was talking not just about his own role in history, but specifically why his poll numbers have been coming down so hard in recent months. clearly republicans believe it's because of health care and other issues. the president was saying that race is at least a factor here. so he quickly added that sometimes rac

cuomo holds the cards at the state-level. you have seen a situation where cuomo had a run-in with the cardinal over a quote he had given -- that he actually misquoted. in terms of saying, -- >> pro-life, pro- weapon, and -- he is talking about candidates. >> slow that down. what did he say? >> if you are pro-life, pro- assault weapon, and anti-homosexual, you have no place in your. he is talking about candidates running for political office. >> it is not a winning platform in new york. >> you might wish to wipe the slate clean, but the comments were called, the best example of extremism heard for a long time. what do you think of that? >> i think that is a statement that has no basis in fact. >> it is not terribly inclusive to say, candidates who agree with ronald reagan and billy graham and pope john paul ii, have no place in new york state. if i recall correctly, reagan carried new york state. >> i think a pro-choice candidate, a pro-gun control candidate who supports gay rights, would not fare very well in a number of stat

i think america needs to know what andrew cuomo believes, dana. andrew cuomo and his women's equality believes at any point in a woman's pregnancy, she can terminate it, and a majority of democrats do not believe with that. he also believes gender selection, you're having a girl, you don't want a girl, have a boy? do that. he's the most extreme. only 16% of new yorkers agree with him. so only 16% of people are allowed to stay in the empire state? >> that just drives me crazy. that's what conservatives do, they get us crazy. >> aside from those issues, basically, new york and new york city in particular has been practicing economic hostage taking for years. this is the place where people need to be to do business, if you want to be in media, publishing, now finance, hitech. this is where you have to be. so i can't wait for the day that i don't have to be here. i mean, i love this show. i want to be a part of fox news. but if i didn't have to live in new york city, people are so mean here, i can't believe how people are horrible. >> how about we mov

>> he doesn't know you are married and has no idea the cuomos are related even with a name like cuomo. you would think it would give it away to a spy. i am a better spy than mike baker. >> i want him on my team when we play clue. >> andy, here is my angle. it sucks to be famous like ralph lauren because your name will be dragged into anything your relatives do. it is his niece. it is ralph lauren's niece. >> i figured she was 18, 19. she is 41. at that point you are not ralph lauren's niece. you are a grown woman. >> you are an angry lady. >> the dumbest thing about this, her lawyer in court referred to the drug she took. it was stimulants. who takes stimulants before a flight? >> mixed with alcohol. isn't that like can selling each other out. >> you need to be taking xanax. you don't need to take stim lapts before you -- stimulants before you get on a flight. >> you don't want to miss a single moment. >> xanax when mixed with alcohol can be a stimulant. >> i always pop a couple viagra before my flight to make it uncomfortable on the plane for everybody else. >> the best part of this

clearer skin is possible. >>> dennis rodman went ballistic with cnn's chris cuomo. this. >> people around the world, around the world do one thing, you're the guy behind the mic right now. we are the guys doing one thing. we have to go back to healthcare and take the abuse. do you have to take the abuse that we are going to take? do you? let me know. guess what. one day, one day, this door is going to open because ten guys here, all of us. everybody here, we could just open the doors for people to come here. >> chris cuomo joining us now. what an amazing interview. what was your intent here? walk us through what was going through your mind as you were interviewing dennis rodman? >> wolf, certainly no anticipation of what happened in terms of rodman's outburst, somewhat inexplicable. the interest was the obvious, trying to figure out if this cultural basketball game, the way being pitched by carl smith and other ex-nba players could be used to help the situation with kenneth bae. because of dennis rodman's odd somewhat difficult to explain relevance with the ruler of

neil: in the meantime, governor andrew cuomo releases his new budget.ay i show you ground zero in the battle for the democratic party >> i think those can afford to help a little more. >> we lost the very wealthy to pay a little bit more in taxes. taxes incree by an average of $973 per year. >> we think it's fair and appropriate test those with donald a little more. neil: don't say we didn't warn you. no matter what, new york city's mayor is going to do his best to raise taxes on the rich. by the way that is getting to be a less rich group by the day. but i digress. my point is that the new york democratic governor, he isn't exactly going on for the ride in his most vocal statement yet. laying out a state budget with a series of tax cuts. he says it is key to bringing business to new york. and if so, the sign of a very big progressive pushback. so ron, what do you say? >> i say that i think that governor cuomo is waking up to the political reality and i in new york, but the social warfare policy doesn't work and obviously he doesn't care about taking pe

. >>> governor cuomo said extreme conservatives aren't welcome in the empire state. the right to life march are calling for his head and questioning his tolerance. >>> a 20-year-old sensation on social media signs with a big sports agent with no formal fitness training? how does she do it? our female power panel weighs in. spectacular plot by al qaeda targeting u.s. embassy in tel aviv. israeli security forces arresting three palestinians they say recruit bid an operative working for the head of al qaeda. the multi-layer terror plot called for bombings, shootings and terror at several locations. the terror cell planned to launch simultaneous attacks sending foreign militants to attack our embassy and storming a conference center in jerusalem. more to come on that. >>> after reports of shots fired at university of oklahoma, school officials saying there's no evidence of shots fired, no word of any injuries. the campus is 20 miles south of new york city. word went out telling everyone to stay where they were and avoid one building, gould hall. the school website saying

julie, why would governor cuomo say this? i mean, he has aspirations potentially for bigger office than governor of new york. this is very damning. how does he know who's in his state? >> it is intolerant. it's unacceptablunacceptable. in fact, it gives lie to exactly the kind of people i guess he thinks they're intolerant and therefore they shouldn't be here. he's showing how intolerant he is by saying they shouldn't be here. i agree with him on all the issues, of course, but i'm anti ever saying that people who disagree with me on those issues have no place in my state. i'm a new yorker. we welcome everybody. it is the melting pot. it is the microcosm of america. there's no room for anybody leading the state of new york who doesn't think the same as him have no place here. it's wrong and reprehensible he saidjulie's agreeing with you today. >> unfortunately, this is the common operating model for progressives. this wiis what you have with governor cuomo. he's looking at this presidency. after the newtown massacre, which was

. >> well, what about new york's democratic governor andrew cuomo who got into trouble for saying this? >> and if they are the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of new york. >> so this -- >> because that's not who new yorkers are. >> that's gotten plenty of coverage on fox, but barely been mentioned by msnbc or cnn or the "new york times." >> andrew cuomo's shocking comments about extreme conservatives like those who oppose abortion rights having no place in his state. >> i think cuomo had a bad choice of words, but he did not say conservative. you all are conservative and i don't think it suggests you should leave the state. >> bob mcdonald drew heavy coverage after he and his wooich were indicted for accepting lavish gifts from businessmen receiving favors from the state. >> mcdonald was riding high and being touted as a presidential contender. now, bob mcdonald is hoping to retire instead of facing a maximum of 30 years in prison. >> i have to say, what was he thinking? what were they thinking? >> but "the washington post" has been reporting these details for mo

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in some ways i wouldn't be surprised if he called cuomo an extremist.he is trying to do in new york as far as i can tell, the new york city that i grew up in, is he is trying to go back to the wonderful years of the 1970s, where new york put out movies like "death wish" and the french connection, which he is nostalgic for. in terms of intolerance, you know this as well as anybody. the left these days defines tolerance as being incredibly warm and receptive to people who completely agree with them already. you know, diversity is to have lots of people who come in lots of different shapes and sizes in colors and sexual orientation, but they have to all agree on the same thing. >> that is very well said. i don't want to interrupt you, let me ask this question, it is very interesting, i just had had governor scott on, i talked to lieutenant perry and talked to governor dewhurst of texas. look at the difference between the states. why are the republicans in congress advancing that solution had oriented agenda with a passion like considering the success of al

you want me to defend cuomo. i'm not going to defend cuomo. i think what he said is wrong.sn't owe an explanation. he owes an apology to everybody, whether you make a lot of money, you pay a lot of taxes or you don't make any money and don't pay any taxes, i don't know. >> jedi yeah. that is the statue of liberty in the harbor. we welcome difficuversitdiversi. >> folks on the left like to say we're champions of diversity. but when it comes down to it, this is not toll rant. this is not respecting people who may disagree with you. he calls people who are pro life are extremist. if you aspire to national office, you've just insulted people who want to protect the second amendment. >> is every priest not allow 20d stay in the state. >> i wouldn't be surprised. >> you're pro second amendment, right? >> yes. >> he actually said and passed the bill and raided the limit that in a magazine, if you carry a legal gun in new york, you can only have seven bullets in the gun. and his rationale was nobody needs 10 bullets to kill a deer, that's what he said. >> and you know what happened

it began last week with remarks from governor andrew cuomo. >> it's the republican party in this state a moderate party or an extremely conservative party? who are they? are these they extreme conservatives who are right to life, pro-assault weapon, anti-gay? is that what they are -- who they are? [laughter] >> jon: i didn't know there were that many sill liables -- sill -- sylallsble circumstances in gay. either he is spending way too much time with senator schumer or he is my grandmother. who are they, gaaaay? >> if that's who they are, if they are the extreme conservatives they have no place in the state of new york. >> jon: whoa. that's a little rough. cuomo wasadvising new york's republican party to clarify the identity to stay viable in this left leaning state but it accidentally came out as (bleep) (bleep), (bleep) (bleep). [ laughter ] not he's best moment. as we know minority groups in new york can be very sensitive. one type of new york are not in particular. >> -- minority in particular. >> no place in the state of new york. governor, you don't want me. tell me specifically

governor cuomo still won't make a decision about allowing frac'ing in his state. we will hear from the national petroleum institute about why it decided to go after cuomo and blast him. >>> later, we have been waiting to find out who exactly is signing up for obamacare plans and how old they are. just a few hours ago, team obama released that information and it wasn't good. not near enough enrollment overall and way too few young and healthy signees. this means we are getting closer t to a federal bailout for insurance companies. even the "new york times" and a.p. and reuters are not being fooled by the white house happy talk. we will take a closer look. as always, don't forget, free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. i think cultural issue we raised about marriage and responsibility and character and by the way, it's never too late to reform. i'm kudlow. we'll be right back. that it's given me time toabout reflect on some of life'seen biggest questions. like, if you could save hundreds on car insurance by making one simple call, why wouldn't you ma

governor christie according to the report called up governor cuomo of new york. he has a good working relationship with him, and basically he says call off the dogs. stop all the investigating. play it down, whatever. now there is a real dispute whether that happened or not. but i think the two papers are basically reporting this together now that it did happen. and of course, christie now denies it, which he would, because if it ever gets out that he told cuomo to shut this thing down, he would look like he wanted it shut down. >> reasonable assumption. >> that would be completely consistent with the behavior that chris christie exhibited in november, in december, right up until last wednesday. again, we have talked so much about whether chris christie was in on it from the beginning or whether he just had -- he put two and two together in his head and he had an inkling of it and he figured it out and didn't want to know. whichever one of those versions that you accept, i am pretty sure he was thinking ahead to january 14th, and can i just get to january 14th wh

cuomo. >> he stepped in it this time. ed said quote moderate republican have a place in this state and other kinds don't have. remember, 2.2 million new yorkers voted for mitt romney, some of them were conservatives, about 30 pierce of the state is pro-life. i mean, and, remember, after election, of the winner always says and now i will be governor of all of the state. >> everybody. >> i'm governor of everybody he is saying no i'm not. get out of here. >> making analysis of the election. maybe i bought his walk back but that he was saying that if you want to run in the state if you are extreme to the right, as he defines it you don't have chance. you are better off being middle of the road moderate guy more like pataki. >> this is a politician trying to set himself up nationally and trying to reach out to moderate republicans. tone deaf on the level of one is barack obama and famous liberal moment of saying deriding those people who cling to their god, guns, and religion. but there is another historical president which wa

deblasio has to deal with fellow democrat andrew cuomo. he has a much easier path than obama did in dealing with congress. so if he isn't able to come up with policy ideas, building on, you know, starting from pre-k and going forward, and -- we are looking at, you know, sort of an empty term as far as delivering on policies, i think that would be a big setback for progressives. >> i mean, jonathon, the -- it is interesting. this is a city that has 22,000 homeless children and 389,000 millionaires. i mean, the average rent, $3,049 which sun heard of to people around the country. it is a city tin equality gap is so stark and the problems are so difficult but they are so concentrated in new york city, what is the incentive in albany to help deblasio be a success as a progressive mayor? >> right. that is a good point. the issue statewide is different. in some ways they are similar. they are within deblasio's own coalition because a lot of the things that liberals in cities like new york viscerally want, don't necessarily advance liberal goals.

governor cuomo is running for ee re-election.ne of his top aides questioned the mayor's logic. >> if the money is there, why raise money on anybody to pay for something when you don't need the money for it. >> reporter: conservative critic amy holmes says mayor de blasio is being disingenuous. if, in fact, his goal was to get universal pre-k, well, he got it. >> he's a progressive leftist and his agenda is to raise taxes. i think it exposes his ideology and his true agenda. >> reporter: the mayor can't raise taxes without getting the approval of state lawmakers. he says he needs dedicated revenue immediately and not an inconsistent money stream subjected to the whims of state politicians. >> when we've had our own revenue dedicated and consistent, we've been able to achieve consistent outcomes. >> reporter: the governor's team questions what happens to what happens to those k and pre-k after-school programs when it ends. >> what's going to happen after the five years? >> reporter: a spokesman says he's happy to use the governor's

that's not what governor cuomo was saying.enger in the fall from calling the comments, quote, just the kind of intolerance that is directly opposite to what dr. martin luther king preached. candidates with those views have zero chance of getting elected. new york is controlled entirely by democrats, but it is far from the only state governed by a single party. three quarters of the country is controlled by one little party. the most worrying thing about cuomo's comments isn't that he was saying something offensive, but he might have been saying something true. joining me now is sam stein. sam, before we get to andrew cuomo and how this plays politically, i do want to start with this idea that the president came in and said we weren't red or blue america. we were just the united states of america. it seems electorally speaking, that's not true. the divisions are getting deeper. i think we are a stronger democracy when they are dissenting viewpoints and we're forced to discuss and debate our ideas. >> that's crazy. >> in terms o

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mayor, we will get into the issue of gofer vernor cuomo comments. >> who are they?hey extreme conservatives that are right to life? pro assault weapon? anti- anti-gay? is that who they are. if that's who they are, and they are extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of new york. that's not who new yorkers are. >> i think the governor will regret those remarks. i'm surprised because he has not really acted that way, he has really been a moderate. i think maybe he is trying to define himself as left wing. people who are pro life are not extremists, that is a perfectly legitimate point of view. people who are pro second amendment are not extremists. and you don't have to agree with them, but they have every right to be in the state. we're now going to throw people out of the state because they're conservatives? i'm pro second amendment, pro-life, and i believe in traditional marriage, and i have to go. you'll have to move with me to florida, but i have to run, mr. mayor. >> talk to you soon, sean. >> a busy night tonight coming up next on hannity. [ male

. >> cuomo comments about extreme conservatives has no place in his state. >> he used a bad choice of words. you are conservative but i don't think he is suggesting you should lebanon the state. >> another republican governor, grew heavy cover after being indicted if accepting gifts and lavish loans from a businessman seeking favors from the state. >> he was riding high and counted as a potential presidential contender. now, he is just hoping to retire rather than facing a max of 30 years in prison. >> i have to say, what was he thinking in what were they think ing in the "washington post" has been reporting 9 details for months with little exposures. joining us now is fox news contributor who writes the top twitter column for the fox website. and columnist for national review online and columnist for "the guardian." what andrew cuomo wasn't a scandal. >> cnn did a segment and msnbc covered it on friday and "new york times" did not did a news story but an opinion piece and the "washington post" know news story and one opinion column. >> not not waited six days and did a story in the m

he's written a personal letter to governor cuomo who is getting a lot of attention.check that out in prime time this evening. >> indiana police have someone in custody and one person is injured after a shooting in purdue university in west lafayet, indiana. it happen in the electrical engineering building and that police have cleared that building while the area is being searched. students are told to shelter in place. we'll bring you more details on this after the break. plus, there is new olympics terror fears and hunt for black widows as they are called for the worst terrorist bombings. why the whereabouts of one of these women have security officials very worried at this hour. it can help provide the power for all th natural gas. ♪ more than ever before, america's electricity is generated by it. exnmobil uses advanced visualization and drilling technologies to produce natural gas... powering our lives... while reducing emissions by up to 60%. energy lives here ♪ mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here! aah! [ female announcer ] the complete balanced nutrition of g

but his remarks to chris cuomo, basically saying, do you know what he did? in other words implying that he did something wrong, which is the north korean line, is wrong and inappropriate. so if he's advocating privately, that's good. but we don't know if he's doing that. i mean, he seems to be extolling kim jong-un, saying it's his dear friend. he's playing basketball the day of his birthday. he's now talking about kenneth bay, while he's saying this is basketball diplomacy. he's getting into politics in the wrong way by suggesting that kenneth bay might be guilty. so he's crossed the line. i think the time has come for the nba players to play their game, you know, bring back some goodwill from the common people in north korea. but basically, be very restrained about pursuing this kind of diplomacy right now with dennis rodman at the lead. >> governor richardson, thanks very much for joining us. >> all right. >>> by the way, the nba commissioner, david stern, will join us live during the 6:00 p.m. eastern hour in "the situation room." we'll talk about dennis

there's no conflict between governor cuomo and i, we have always been able to resolve them. buts this tension, and always has been, between new york and new jersey on allocation of resources at the port authority. let me be clear. there are some battles that have happened in every administration over the course of my memory, but you can't connect that -- that's kind of the ongoing nature of that agency, and i think most of the bistate agency, because of the resources are greater and the demands greater, there's nothing more. but i do want to make clear to people that there is tension that goes on between the employees of these agencies. not everyone of those issues of tensions, thank goodness, are raised to my level and governor cuomo's level. but the people of new jersey, when those issues have been raised in the last three years, to my level and governor cuomo's level, been able to amicably resolve it and move on. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]. >> okay, let me answer that, and then i'll let you follow up. i don't know what makes a legitimate traffic study. it's not my area of

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right now, governor cuomo is proposing a stiffer ethics regime in new york. but whether the reforms that come about in albany are as tough as some of the reform groups would like remains to be seen. in new york, there's been a particular problem with state legislatures who then have nonprofit groups that they found or they are heavily involved in, and then because of their position as legislatures they are able to steer public money to those nonprofit groups that then employ a lot of their friends and relatives. that's been a particular problem in the empire state. host: let's stay in new york. diane on our line for republicans. caller: good morning, gentlemen. you touched on my question a couple of times while i was on hold. i was wondering, in your research the states that were graded the highest did the leadership of those states tend to be

and now reaction on the remarks by new york governor cuomo.mothy dola n not thrilled and called the governor's words unfortunate at best and inflammatory at worst. the governor's office said the words were distorted and they stand by that and said new york is to moderate for an extreme right- wing candidate to win. ed, welcome back to the program. >> you were here 48 hours ago, two days ago and you called for an apology. have you gotten it? >> no apology and he doubled down on the remarks and called a leading journalist in albany and extreme conservative. and he had his council write that in a letter. his council and his lawyer. that is a threat to that leading journalist. this amounts to real bullying of people he doesn't like. it is intolerant and for him not to apologize for the remarks that are divisive. and he needs to apology not only to pro-life and pro second amendment folks and for the people of new york in a time when we need to be unified because of the economy in new york. >> i know you know this over the weekend on sunday, he said

take a listen to this. >> i agree with governor cuomo's remarks. governor cuomo is right.remist views against woman's right to choose in favor of the proliferation of guns in our saturday and i stand by that 100%. >> that not surprising. he's a big lefty. but when you look at governor cuomo's comment where he said extreme conservatives who are right to life, got no place here. you know when an extreme conservative, who is right to life? the cardinal of new york city and new york archdiocese, cardinal dolan. he was on the radio yesterday, the satellite radio, sirius. does he not appreciate what the governor of his state said. >> most unfortunate at best inflammatory and outrageous at worst. the extremists are really on the other side. the extremists are those who want to radically expand abortion, are not happy with the way things are, resist the constitutionally legal restraints that have been reasonably placed upon abortion. >> there you got the cardinal speaking on sirius on wednesday. >> yeah. cuomo going to come out and further explain this? >> if he's smart, he won't