once an insider in his office, she knew how powerful cuomo really was.cended from an absolute dynasty and she did not want 20en in his war pat. >> i thought like most people do this doesn't help me this is embarrassing and humiliating and harm those whom i love to speak up. >> janice: companion piece to the book. many more interviews in there. if you enjoy the special i would like to do more because these stories deserve to be told. >> brian: go get them on fox nation right now. "i am the storm" just download it. >> janice: download it on fox nation. >> ainsley: what gave her the courage to come forward? >> janice: she saw he was being hailed as a presidential candidate and she decided in december of 2020, when i was, you know, going up, trying to talk about nursing homes, she was going to lend her voice. it was abuse of power not only with nursing homes but with the people he worked with. >> steve: the beauty of the title is so perfect "i am the storm" when you try to take on something bigger suddenly you are the eye of the storm. >> janice: thank you.

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you know who has to be happy is chris cuomo because don lemon stabbed him in the back when cuomo gotsaid why are we paying him because he got a severance. why should we be paying him. so cuomo must be smiling ear to ear. that was weird i did that with my finger. little update, george santos agreed to do the show on twitter. but on one condition, and, of course, he won't tell you what it is. what a freak. it's like as long as he doesn't tell me the condition, he can't be on the show. i would love to do your show but on one condition. what is it? i'm not telling you. we're not going to dinner, george, if that's what you think >> kat: i'll go to dinner with him >> greg: if you're going i'm going >> up next striking fears with big old spears. clearly, you're a safe driver. you could save hundreds for safe driving with liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need! [sfx: limu squawks] whoo! we gotta go again. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ (psst psst) ahhhh... with flonase, allergies don't have to be scary. spray f

you know, it's got to be happy as chris cuomo because don lemon stabbed him in the back when cuomo got fired. right. didn't he say something like, why are we paying him if he doesn't? because he got left with severance? why should we be paying so that so cuomo must be smiling ear to ear. >> that was weird that i did that with my finger. a little update before we go up. jorge santos, the congressman agreed to do the show on twitter, but on one condition. oh, and of course, he won't tell you what it is . what a freak it's like as long as he doesn't tell the condition, he can't be on the show. i'd love to do your show, but on one condition. what is it? i'm not telling you we're not going to dinner, jorge , if that's what you think. maybe some dinner with the first. well, if you're going, then i'm going. up next, striking fears with big ol sfeir, a must in your medicine. cabinet. >> less sick days calls coming on cycads. a number one called shortening brand. highly recommended side fans love like unique zinc formula. it shortens colds. zakim zinc that could save up to 80% buying factory di

nothing in the report about governor cuomo's home order. do we know what happened there. the tragedy situation? the tragic things that happened there. nothing in their part about cdc colluding with the teachers union. nothing in the report about the impact of the vaccine mandate on our country, the impact of the vaccine mandate on our military, nothing in the report about that. i will be voting no on this report. i don't think it got to what this committee should have focused on. frankly, i think a lot of americans think the same way. i appreciate the chairman. i will yield back my time. i need an anonymous consent request if i could? >> are you asking for? >> that all members have two counter days including minorities -- >> mr. jordan, for we get to that. >> thank you, mr. chairman for recognizing me. i wanted to thank you and the committee members for their participation in the subcommittee. particularly for your leadership over the past two and half years. you conducted diligent oversight. that is reflected in this committee's final report. it captures the challenges t

know cuomo spent a dollarno on that bridge? no. cuomo built the bridge. >> they're not architects. they're not laborers. politicians dos do not deserve to be honored for the least impressive people. of impressive people. three hundred and fifty million .frastructu >> so why arre oute we naming our infrastructure out of the least deserving? >> because they're in charge. bill and hillary clinton have their own airport. >> harry reid, the recently deceased senator from nevada, the nastiest people in the united states has his ownor airport. harry reidt in las internationas vegas. barack obama, one of the worst presidents in american history, has his own roads. barack obama weighed dna.in cal barack obama boulevard in california. what how much did he spend a on that? sprea >> no, he saved all his money to buy a spread in hawaii. martha's vineyara'd, evene joe biden the worst president in our entire two hundrersd fifty year history. e? has the president, joseph r. biden, express what he's notve even qualified to drive on it. he shouldn't even have m a driver's license. now,ichell as this

cuomo new.virus got into. >> sean: i hope you sue them, ia class action suit. >> by the way, sean, before we y this, all the media, they suppos book while he used taxpayer fune can't get a review of her book a companies. it is sad, they are k because she tells the truth. tht happened in the nursing home scy should buy the book, see the sts a friend of not only this netwo. not everyone has a mega phone lt just a weather woman, she is a t her husband. she was a daughtere for that. >> thank you, guys. >> sean: amazon.com. hannity.coe country. great to see you both.. you get the last word, it's theo grade me. was it a good week onm hoping i do better. straight ah. hashtag still not coughing?! mucinex dm gives you 12 hours of relief from chest congestion and any type of cough, day or night. mucinex dm. it's comeback season. >> sean: it's time for me to go back to my bartending days, called last call. this audience gets to grade the show, what they like them i don't. the first question is from some gu

was it andrew cuomo or dr. fauci? both going with cuomo. >> isn't he a hamptons guy?would wear loafers. >> jesse: good deductive reasoning. let's see if you are right. ♪ ♪ >> you got to stop cupping my answers, failla! >> jesse: so that was cuomo at the boat show. we don't know what shoes he was wearing but we assume those were boat shoes. january sex. which person had a slip of the tong and referred to it as the january 6th erection? joy behar andrea mitchell? >> for the record, it was only time joy behar has been around and erection in 40 years. >> from the january 6th erection. election. i'm sorry. [laughter] >> jesse: this is critical. do you solemnly swear? the georgia special grand jury foreman spoke very highly of the senator's testimony, calling him personable and forthcoming. was it rudy or lindsey graham? >> lindsey graham. >> jesse: both with lindsey graham answers! what is it? >> give it to me. speak of the suspense was killing me. >> he was personable, he was forthcoming. >> jesse: we've got a minute left in the show. we going to the tiebreaker. how much

they had a hospital that wasknew built for them and he knew .id >> cuomo knew .woul he said many times it would be like fire through dry grass if the virus got inthoy the nursingrg. >>g he always knew it could be deadly. i hope you sue them and i hope you win. i hope it's a class action suit. and everybody it lost, an>> by elderly relative will all be compensated properly. by the way , sean, before we go , i think it's because janice would never say thi thes >> all the media, they supported andrew cuomo hand his book, why he used taxpayer funds to do that. they created reviewswsal and everything for the book. janice can't even get a review her book by all of these media companies. it is sad they're tryingr bo to sink her bookok because she tells the truth and some of them are complicit. and what happene ened in thd in thesei thin nursing home scandals because they wanted to prop them up? i think everybody shouldshould y t onbook, see the stories that took place. she's a friend of not only thisa network, but the american people, because not everyoneke has a megaphone like janis did,h it

governor andrew cuomo blasting president biden over the migrant crisis. would see saying?rnment was completely unprepared for this. i will quote the former new york governor, it was a mistake for president biden to open the border without having a plan to handle the tremendous flow of people. president biden said he would do it in the campaign but you can't change a policy unless you have a program to manage the change. the southern states were right that open the border created attornment is hardship for them to handle. they were right that the federal government was not prepared and then he lashed out at new york governor hochul, it is a federal problem but our state isn't even handling it. new york city mayor, everyone is coming to new york city, 43,000 instead of being dispersed across new york state. ashley: we will leave it right there. this story, conklin jim jordan firing back at aoc for accusing republicans of weapon icing the house oversight committee, listen. >> we are focused on the first amendment, the right to free speech, the right to speak in a way that you

i remember during governor cuomo's press conference he was having, talking about how he was being held up as a model for the rest of us as governors to follow, i did the sunday morning shows once a day and they had him on right before i had to come on. they asked him, george the novelists asked the governor to give the governor of south dakota some advice because she needed it on how she was handling the pandemic. and then i just remember thinking how that was how ostracized i was about time. that they were asking governor cuomo, who killed thousands of people by taking unconstitutional actions, asking him to give me advice because i needed it. no, i think that at the end of the day, we all have the same type of environments and different places in our states. it was not appropriate for me to make mandated decisions from the state level. i may have a town of 500,000 people over here that has heavily congested areas or families where four generations are living in apartments, but it would be different from a small town 200 miles away where there were 300 people in that town all living o

shot since chris cuomo got the boot.ing at. it could pave the way for a lebron james children's show where he teaches them how to make shoes for nike. a cnn rep says they're having conversations with dozens of culturally relevant individuals in the world of news, sports, entertainment and comedy. yep, dozens, that's like one for each viewer. so, kat, we haven't talked about cnn for a while. i'm very excite i had. are you excited? doesn't it make you happy >> kat: not as excited as you. >> greg: i think they're figuring something out because charles barkley is a human being. he talks. he talks. he's not an anchor. that's -- i think they're finally figuring it out >> kat: especially in the morning. you don't want someone yelling at you in the morning. >> greg: well he would be prime time right >> kat: i'm surprised he's not doing well. in general you don't want to be preached at watching tv. i like to watch tv that's stupid or mindless to kind of get my head out of my life. you know how many people in our lives we already

. ♪ cccccc ♪♪♪ andrew cuomo: the president said this is a war. i agree with that, this is a war.act that way and let's act that way now. karishma vyas: as new york rose from the ashes of 9/11, first responders became america's heroes. now they're under attack again, this time from a hidden enemy. male: yo, mike, close the truck, close the truck. karishma: new york is a key battleground in the global war on covid-19. megan pfeiffer: there's been a lot of deceased people, a lotta people just waiting to die.

that's the same kind of thing that we advocated. dopey was actually inspired by cuomo chroma. so in terms of his foreign policy was in the air to kwan the chroma in trying to champion and they kind of pan africa, security architecture. isn't there a problem? clearly there's a problem with anyone who advocates that who has power not in an academic way, not in any way by a politician. often they get killed. well i, you know, my view is really got out there wasn't killed, but champion then african, they get overthrown, new crew, me a new cream. it didn't do well either. nor did chrome or the patrice. lemme yeah. that they actually, i'm going to live. there has been a recent literature that shows that with the i was involved in getting rid of the crew ma and that's been very meticulously document that in a book called white miss g class recently just come out. but i would argue that it was not necessarily a fascinated champion in africa and he was not in a full of pose in west position and issues like locker b and the other. ready issues from the past. i think that's okay. but we

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♪♪ andrew cuomo: the president said this is a war. i agree with that, this is a war.n let's act that way and let's act that way now. karishma vyas: as new york rose from the ashes of 9/11, first responders became america's heroes. now they're under attack again, this time from a hidden enemy. male: yo, mike, close the truck, close the truck. karishma: new york is a key battleground in the global war on covid-19. megan pfeiffer: there's been a lot of deceased people, a lotta people just waiting to die. karishma: over two weeks, we'll take you to the frontlines. arlene meertens: it's gonna be a bleed-out, a massive bleed-out. karishma: emergency workers fighting for survival as the pandemic peaks. male: just cover the mouth. cover the mouth. karishma: it's a crisis that is laying bare the fault lines at the heart of america and its iconic city. arlene: enough is enough. give us what we need to fight this coronavirus pandemic. ♪♪♪ [siren blaring] male: updating you on the current numbers this morning. the worldwide death toll of covid-19 has now surpassed more than 100,0

well, this was a prominent cnn report, a chris cuomo, that western media and he's not alone are essentially glamour rising. and i use that word specifically because it, it was a her rick at peace. it was seemingly that these people are protecting their country. but their children, child soldiers. what's the implication behind it? i mean, part of this whole story. i think it's the hard jercker type of thing to try to hit at the, at the emotion. i think the support for the hospital is going on in ukraine and the bottomless black hole for us resources. i think starting to wayne and the public and, and, and the truth is starting to leak out, especially when you see writing from seymour hersh on the roles with the pipeline. and you hear about some of the, the different things planning and sanction way, months before hostility began. things are starting to leak out, not in the mainstream media, the media job as he, he the public on the narrative. and so this is kind of keeping, trying to hear their support. oh, it's so random, so bad. and so the, glorifying the teenagers fighting for their countr

cuomo then cnn plus blew up, costingal the company hundreds, millions. and then brian stelter got can. if it was ever a firing to celebrate, it would have been his. celeb but even we didn't celebrate it. now, to wreck our day, it looksd like mr. don lemon, the source ma of endless entertainment foremoh us , for many, many years,e is out. he made the mistake ofstake sas that women over 50 are not inyey their prime. >> they can have babies. ng sids >> so without even taking sides in that debate or being tooe is looks like it's over for don literal about it, the bottome ai line is , looks like it's overhd for don lemon. he was not i on the air today, which is bad if you're a tv host. >> here's how his co-hosts explain why he wasn'takes their president. biden makes a surprise visit to ukraine. i'm poppy harlow in new york here with sara sidner. caitlin collins is live in warsaw, poland, where the president will be shortly. don has the day off. i mean, you know, no offense to the ladies on the set, but gg are we on it?o mi >> let'sss be honest. don are we goi

was having a meeting in washington, d.c., i called then governor larry hogan, and then governor of cuomoon't think they could figure out why secretary of state wanted to come, but when i was there, it was a sleepy saturday ar afternoon, i told them i had a recently declassified report where chinese communist party was tracking, them, following them, evaluating them, every one of them wanted to see what i had in my hand that sends message this is not over there it is in the gates, they are tracking a lot of americans in the business world. and senior leaders in government not just federal, they are working to godo propaganda and collect secrets, we have to do better, that day i alerted governors to that risk. mark: you dealt with leadership of that regime, what did you make of it? are they cold-hearted, power hungry. >> all. cocold harted, power hungry, they don't give a whip about human rights it all about power and making xi jinping calls it the great struggle. to build what they call middle kingdom, that is middle of this earth. he is consolidated power in ways no leader in 40 years ha

crickets read something only worth what peopl are willing to paper that's why news nation plays chris cuomogoing up to $33,000 freight its trump chang for me, but lifesaving operatio for the orphan he claims he's m son. even the cheapest seats will cost you over $4,500 freight that is for seats in the men's room, the third stall from the right. and they game loops looser, the disparity between the ruling class and average americans couldn't be more apparent. obviously regular folks can't vote to attend the super bowl great i will be going but my writers will be watching from a window outside buffalo wild wings. >> operates. does it seem weird that all of the bands can't afford to see they game. the people they go to see the games are just rich people? doesn't that bother you? or am i sounding like a marxist? >> this is a first-class problem , i don't have to worry about because the buffalo bills just completely collapsed at th end of the season and they don' get to go to the super bowl. i would gladly play for thousands of dollars to pay to see the buffalo bills if they ever made it to the

first, their top star, chris cuomo was fired. and cnn blew up. and brian steltzer got canned. if there was a firing to celebrate, it was his. even we didn't celebrate. now to wreck our day, looks like many don lemon, the source of entertainment for many years is out. he made the mistake of saying women over 50 are not this their prime. yeah, they can have babies too. without taking sides in that debate, the bottom like is it looks like it's over for don lemon. he was not on the air today, which is bad if you're a tv host. >> president biden makes a surprise visit to ukraine. kaitlyn is live in warsaw. don has the day off. >> i mean, no offense to the ladies, but let's be honest. are we going to miss don lemon? a little bit. steve has covered television for a long time and really well. he's the author of "uncovered". hey, steve. what's going on? again, we're not gloating. i know you would know the answer. seems like the place is on the way to collapsing. >> yeah, tucker, i was a colleague of don lemon as you say not too long ago. it seems like there's been a real fundamental sh

and get answers rather than be a show horse like the secretary of transportation or like governor cuomoot caught up in his own power and sits home now crocheting alone because he was found to be a fraud. governor desantis is not show, he is substance, they may not like it. the book is "the florida blueprint," and he's saying this will work for the entire country. >> ashley: what is coming up on "fox and friends"? >> brian: okay. amongst my guests, johnny von zandt sheriff waters, mark kay, one of the big personalities on wokv, and senator tom cotton will be live and you have to be saying tom cotton on our show said this wuhan lab thing, that is where this virus came from, and i think this is a problem. nancy grace on the murdaugh murders and governor santos is day one of his book deal and "new york times" doesn't like the book, whatever the "new york times" doesn't like the american people will probably find pleasurable and interesting. >> todd: apologies for wearing the same out fit as you, brian. >> brian: you got dressed first. >> todd: have a great show, tomi lahren is here next. i

president of the company that had to step aside because of allegations, was at the top rated show cuomonceled because of lies and coverups over allegations. it was her own legal analysts would no problem as a lies about me and us to step aside because he was doing unspeakable things on resume broadcast. i'll take my ps and qs from the mainstream media for the last two years i've been fighting for my constituents in the mainstream media largely has been like a refuge for scoundrels and weirdos. >> laura: a lot of people at the time said when the charges were made against you that they were picking you off. they targeted donald trump with russian collusion a whole bunch of conservatives would be similarly targeted smeared, maligned, until they just gave up. what was your message tonight to effective conservative communicators time to pay attention what is going on? >> we off the watch our back that's for the target as i can say that i drew great inspiinspiration the way president trump didn't let the process become the punishment, he forged ahead to institute policies regarding our border

that really is the brothers cuomo are pissed at you. that's their name dammit.e it to hillary. hillary may have taken jeffrey epstein out in a row boat and had him say a hail mary. but, look, kamala has been a train wreck. everybody knows it. there's a reason why she has been given one and only one job responsibility in the biden presidency and that was kamala, you are in charge of the southern border. now, you don't give your vice president the biggest mess in your presidency unless you really dislike your vice president. and that's what joe biden was saying. he handed her that big steaming mess. and said it's all yours. and she proceeded to do absolutely nothing with it. she has yet to go to the rio grande valley even once. the epicenter of this crisis. beyond that, they do everything they can to hide her. you know, joe is in a basement. i think they put her in a different basement undisclosed location. and it's because she usually wears peppermint flavored shoes. she sticks her feet in her mouth every day. now, this "new york times" article, listen, when demo

dana, i've been suffering from cnn anorexia ever since i got rid of stelter and koo cuomo.nd thank you, thank you don lemon. do you think he did this deliberately because his shows are tanking? no one watches it. maybe people will watch him now because he says more. >> dana: there was a suggestion i saw headline somewhere that says, "yes, it is so bad over there in the morning that it has become must watch tv because you can't believe what you are actually seeing. it is that bad of a train wreck" we were in the news from this morning and i was looking at my phone come of course, janice dean on instagram. surely not. and i said a word that i thought i would get in trouble for. and i might get in trouble for saying this but this whole reaction was interesting from me. i will be the same age as nikki haley and a couple of months. and my first instinct was rage. i said a word. >> greg: did you? what did it rhyme with? >> dana: bach. i was mad. and also, it is one thing to say it wasn't just a ridiculous comment but it was interesting the rage. i did wonder if any of the women's

dean shares inspiring stories of people who fought against overwhelming odds battled corruption in cuomo's the storm" fox nation special starts today on fox nation. judge? >> judge jeanine: and shannon bream has the book "the love stories of the bible." >> greg: scathing. >> judge jeanine: biblical lessons on romance, friendship and faith. go preorder now with a qr code on the screen and you will be entered into a sweepstakes to win a signed copy of shannon's previous book a bible -- a book, a bible and a barnes & noble gift card. >> greg: read from it now. >> judge jeanine: about genesis? >> greg: no get to the bath bata part. >> jesse: waitresses mad about uncle sam picking their pockets down in florida. also kellyanne, josh hawley and tray classifies. >> dana: harold? >> harold: lebron james broke the all time scoring record. he is now 33890 points. second to m.j. lebron has played 20 seasons. 38390. great feat. i'm an m.j. man. >> dana: i can't believe we did that in that amount of time. thank you for the salad and a fork. if you need a fork, let us know. >> greg: plastic, too. >> dana

coalition, and linda coberly is cccccc ♪♪ andrew cuomo: the president said this is a war. that, this is a war. then let's act that way and let's act that way now. karishma vyas: as new york rose from the ashes of 9/11, first responders became america's heroes. now they're under attack again, this time from a hidden enemy. male: yo, mike, close the truck, close the truck. karishma: new york is a key battleground in the global war on covid-19. megan pfeiffer: there's been a lot of deceased people, a lotta people just waiting to die.

about this for decades that you're going to have -- that people are going to leave so you can thank cuomoathy hochul for being the number one realtors for the state of florida. you have an attack on private enterprise in the state of new york. in addition to all the covid insanity and then you have a state of florida with great infrastructure, beautiful weather, no state income tax, budget surplus, and so it makes sense for a lot of people to be down there. you're seeing it on massive corporate levels, especially on finance and people like myself. maria: kathy hochul just released the proposed budget. i don't think that will get anybody to change their minds. she wants a ban on gas stoves and more money in terms of the migrant crisis as well. we'll be watching all that. dennis, good to see you. thanthank you so much. quick break and then the house of representatives voted to quick congresswoman ilhan omar off the foreign affairs committee. their reasons, coming up and what her squad members had to say about it. complete meltdown, next. ♪ she's got electric boots. ♪ a mohair suit. ♪ you kn

we reached out to cuomo's office for comment, we have not heard back.d daily beast reporter who broke the story roger sullenberger. roger, let's start with this camera going first. what can you tell us? >> well, what appears james comer appears to have some of a glass houses -- right? he is going after the program, left covid relief funds with what he says is fraud, abuse, mismanagement, and we hear that phrase quite a lot from especially republicans who are aiming to tackle excessive government spending. in this case, you know, there is ample room to critique this program. 800 billion dollar program, the -- listeners are grateful for it for tightening them over through the pandemic, right, but there's also a lot of criticism, fellow criticism about having jobs this program has saved, and whether the oversight was too lax, and open up to abuse and some -- right? what we have with comer is that he actually voted to pass this program which is pretty minimal oversight basically automatic forgiveness of loans, so he cosponsored that legislation. it has its

owner of the stock, that would be fantastic i want to touch on a couple points erik made back to the cuomo experience with so many handsets in the marketplace, apple is focused on continuing to enhance the user experience when we think about where are they investing, it's to make sure we continue to be on our phones, so i do agree that services is the path forward in terms of revenue generation. if it affords them a higher multiple in a future state, that's fantastic but we have to get to the second half of this year, the back half of this refresh cycle, and see if we can get demand back from china and others, which has been backward, in order to get momentum back in terms of investor sentiment >> at some point, joe, you need to look past the ebbs and the flows of the near-term movement of the stock and look out over the horizon like erik does and suggest, you know what, they can unlock that level of success in the stock that you could get another trillion dollars in market cap through that hardware subscription service i raise the question to you that way because you sold out of it not th

fighting for your family and his parents that were in the horrific nursing home scandal against governor cuomoe fought against goliath, right? >> and you talked about the parents. there's a chapter about covid, parents standing up for their kids. covid brought a mama bear and papa bear out in all of us. we were seeing what was going on in the outside world and say that doesn't seem right. that's what happened with my inlaws and seeing them dying and finding out the governor put over 9,000 covid positive patients in new york for 46 days. we don't know why. he had government facilities provided for him to bring covid patients -- >> martha: hospital ships in the hudson. >> gillian: they went unused. then he tried to cover it up. we don't know why. i wanted to find others, rising up against incredible odds but doing the right thing for other people. >> martha: what do you think it is that brought out that momma bear in people? that made them angry about the situation? >> because it was happening to their family. they saw the truth and what was going on with some of our elected officials, that they

velasquez was released from prison after his sentence was commuted by former new york governor, andrew cuomoes, he did have the opportunity to participate in a presidential forum with president biden to discuss his incarceration, during which he received an apology directly from the president. >> on behalf of all society, i apologize it for 23 years. my good. >> joining me now is nbc news investigative producer, dan -- it's great to have you with us. he is the host of letters from suing saying, which will be released this coming monday. an incredible story, just absolutely incredible, help us understand how you came to meet j.j. 20 years ago? >> thank you so much for having me on, a man. it started 20 years ago on thanksgiving day in 2022. i was at a prison in new york, a maximum security prison covering a different story of a claim of wrongful conviction. and i walked into the lobby, and a woman was standing there. with these two little boys on each hand, she said, my name is maria velasquez. my son, john adrienne, j.j., is innocent. can you help us? she heard about the other story was work

he still haven't replaced chris cuomo, and the ratings have been pretty awful.u again like in the old days. >> and it's especially hard to make that turn when you're reshuffling the talent that was already there, that's been there during the trump years. howard: right. >> that's generally what's happening so far. i think that the mandate to get back to news, to objectivity, if you will, is the right one. but right now the talent shuffling has not borne that ou- howard: a la reinventing don lemon who had been such a hard liberal as a perky morning show guy? >> i don't think it's worked out at all, certainly not on the ratings side but also not on the journalistic side, and that's what you need to do. don't worry about ratings right now, fine. get back to the journalism. get back to the people, bring some new people in that can actually fit that mission. howard: tough on trump stories got you celebrated by the left, and positive stories about trump got you hated by the heft. >> right, yeah. positive or even just neutral stories got you hated by the left in the tru

t wasn'tions, was at their top ray cuomo that had to get canceled f because of lies and cover ups overtions and then itwol was their own legal analyst who had no problem opining as to the lies about me. then has to step aside because he was doing unspeakable things on a resume broadcast. th i don't really take my p's and q's from the mainstream media. for the last two years, i'vestrm been fighting for my constituents and the media ls been like a refuge for scoundre mainstream media largely has been like a refuge for scoundrels and weirdos. >> well, congressman gates, a lot of people at the time said when these charges were made against you that this was f they they were picking you off and they targeted trump with russian collusion. and then a whole series ofn a wl conservatives would be similarly targeted, smeared,d whatgned until they just gave up. what's your message tonighastatt to effective conservative communicators? time to pay attention to what'sn going? >> well, we all have to watch our back because that's where the target is . but i can tell you that i drewip proct inspiratio

the parallel between that moment and the andrew cuomo moment in early covid is striking.e bullying. a lot of things that republicans find unpleasant of them but in that moment when people needed clarity, leadership, someone was in charge and strong and clear. willing to push everything aside and people were like andrew cuomo, he is just doing great in contrast to donald trump. they benefited from a moment when people are willing to say we don't care except for clarity epa strength and interesting to me that they are both new york stories tells you about the political culture of this state. >> absolutely. >> not just the state. let's put it in context. people remember george w. bush on top of the pile of debris. >> sure. >> be the bull horn and seemed to take control of the crisis and understand the grasp of the crisis but between 9/11 when the planes first went in to the towers and that moment when bush finally found his voice fact is rudy giuliani was the person americans were looking to because he was the only guy who seemed to like know what he was talking about. he wa

. >> just one month after nikki was found guilty, new york's governor andrew cuomo signed the domesticlear that the abuse was a material cause of the crime for which she was convicted. >> nikki is facing 25 years to life in prison. now, under the new law, that could be reduced to as little as five years. her case is among the very first to test the new law. >> after a three-day hearing and months of waiting, nikki addimando is once again facing the dutchess county court awaiting her fate. >> the court found that she didn't qualify under the law. the court was unconvinced by nikki addimando's contentions that chris grover was abusing her. she was sentenced to 19 years to life in new york state prison. >> 19 years to life is unimaginable in the life of a mother. even if you started when your child was a baby, their whole >> the judge stated quote, someone who made the choices you did is a broken person. >> it was upside down to hear the judge tell her that she was a broken person when it was clearly the system that was broken. >> part of the judge's reasoning is that nikki, to his mind,

and true cuomo rejected a similar law in new york saying he didn't want to, quote, make the same mistakes kale. the liberal rail "do daily kos" likewise warned other state, don't make the same mistake california's gavin newsome did with the founder calling the law naacp said it was a terrible law and gut punch to our community. the c.e.o. of the black chamber of commerce called it a catastrophe responsible for enabling and defending systemic racism. 200 ph.d. economists reported the law is doing substantial and avoidable harm to the very people who now have the fewest resources and worst alternatives available to them. one said it is the most malicious and harmful law ever passed in california. ab-5 banned being your own boss. governor gavin newsome spanning hundreds of professions unable to earn a living in our state. transcript nists, interpreters and engineers, analysts and consultants and musicians, writers and editors and coaches and trainers, teachers and tutors, the lists goes on, many companies disclaim that they can no longer work with california freelancers. hardly an industry

. >> governor cuomo took this on.going to be a partner with new york city. a new project to repair and build new tunnels under the hudson river that will help train traffic not just commuter rail in new york but as goods travel up and down the eastern sea board, billions of dollars. every time you're stuck on the expressway or the cross bronx you realize new york has a long way to go but there seems to be improvements. >> we're getting deep in new york traffic here. you can land at jfk at midnight and sit in bumper to bumper traffic. but van wick, here we are. >> it doesn't matter when you land, you're on there for 30, 40 minutes. 30, 40 minutes before you then can merge into start moving towards manhattan and then be stuck there for another hour. >> okay. >> it doesn't matter the time. here's the deal. here's the deal and i'm glad president biden was here yesterday -- >> in new york. >> yeah. in new york, not here but in new york. i'm glad that they're talking about this. but here's the reality. new york city is the