new york attorney general letitia james, whose office led the investigation, denounced the decision saying her office had presented "the most comprehensive case possible." in a statement, james said tuesday -- "daniel prude was in the throes of a mental health crisis and what he needed was compassion, care, and help from trained professionals. tragically, he received none of those things." in georgia, the mother of ahmaud arbery, the 25-year-old black man who was chased down and shot to death while out for a jog, has filed a multimillion-dollar civil lawsuit against the white men who killed her son. the lawsuit also accuses law enforcement officials and local prosecutors of attempting to cover up evidence during the investigation. the suit was filed on the first anniversary of ahmaud arbery's killing as people around the country marked his memory by going on a run and using the hashtag #runwithmaud. in california, a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of angelo quinto -- a 30-year-old navy veteran who died in december after police officers kneeled on his neck -- has revealed gruesom

which is a stunning admission and seems to jive with the report last month with attorney general letitia james that says the administration undercounted deaths among nursing home residents by as much as 55 -- 50%. from california, this is cheryl, democrats line. caller: thank you for taking my call this morning. i just wanted to express my views on, you know, everything that happened with the trial. and what we have been experiencing as a country. i hate to label democrat and republican, but i hear the republicans constantly talk about the democrats and the socialist programs of the democrats. but the thing is, if you look back to every democratic president that we have had, this country has benefited, and everyone in this country has benefited when we headed democratic president. every time we get a republican in the house, we go through an upset. you can take it back to ronald reagan, you know. you can take it back to this cloud that we recently had an office. -- this clown that we recently had an office. we would not be on lockdown in this pandemic if it was not for his ignorance. let's be

notice so many democrats are highly critical, so the democrats are highly critical, including letitia jamesho has ambition to become governor herself, so you can imagine it is going to be very aggressive investigation done there. >> judge jeanine: are you questioning her numbers? >> juan: no, i -- >> judge jeanine: okay, go ahead. >> juan: no, his best defense is that the total numbers are not wrong, but i don't think there's any question from all that i've seen that the nursing homes were not right and he should apologize for that. he should officially apologize to families that were impacted by this, but i think you've got to understand the nature, i'm sorry. >> judge jeanine: why don't we go to greg because we don't have a lot of time, is an apology enough, his own party seeking to impeach him and remove the emergency powers and the feds as well as the state are on him? >> greg: i think you need an investigation, i don't think an apology is enough. the magic word obviously today was void. the problem is it works, but as juan point out, he's playing a game with the argument numbers. no on

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but the good thing is it's not just my lawsuit, it's not just cy vance, not just letitia james.aplan, has two other lawsuits going on. we have potentially an investigation in georgia looking into voter fraud, and i know that doesn't have to do with the finances, but what we've learned is that donald has a tendency to get away with things. so the more we pile on, the more avenues of investigation there are, the more likely it is that we're finally maybe going to get some justice. >> what is your sense of how your uncle deals with having so. irons in the fire against him? >> he probably doesn't think about it very much, honestly. i think at the moment, he's probably focused on cpac, he's probably looking at that as his way to get back into the conversation, and let's be clear, cpac -- his speech at cpac is going to be an endless list of grievances about how the election was stolen from him, the election was stolen from his voters, and regardless of what other republicans may or may not say, they're going to be enabling that extraordinarily dangerous rhetoric. so, you know, it's un

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with a hood officers say he was spitting and saying he had covid-19 new york's attorney general, letitia james, saying the officers should have been held accountable. >> i know that the prude family will rightfully be disappointed by this outcome, but ultimately we have to respect the decision >> reporter: prude was visiting relatives in rochester. his brother had called 911 asking for mental health professionals, concerned prude was having a breakdown an autopsy provided by the family said he died days later from complications of asphyxia and the setting of a physical restraint. >> they could not show no type of respect for a human life >> reporter: tonight the attorney general saying the criminal justice system is broken >> the system too often allows officers to use deadly force unnecessarily and without consequence. >> reporter: tonight in a statement rochester police calling for calm and respect for the grand jury's decision, adding that the seven officers remain on leave while an internal investigation continues. ron allen, nbc news. >>> the wife of notorious drug kingpin el chapo made h

the company argues letitia james exceeded her authority in seeking to penalize amazon over its covidty protocols and the firing of one of its outspoken workers. in a complaint filed friday, amazon says james threatened to sue if amazon didn't agree to her list of demands, including rehiring the worker and paying him large sums of cash. james calls the lawsuit a sad attempt at distracting from its safety record. >>> starting today, more people will be able to hit the slot machines in las vegas. nevada's governor says he's rolling back covid restrictions in phases. in november, capacity was capped at 25% at venues. that will jump to 35% today at places including gaming floors, racetracks, and restaurants. capacity at these venues is also expected to increase to 50% in march. nightclubs and strip clubs will remain closed. people must still wear masks and socially distance. >>> and "the croods: a new age" remains a box office hit since the u.s. release last fall. >> we are the bettermans -- >> reporter: the animation movie grossed just over $2 million. it's brought in nearly $50 million

todd: there is one democrat who appears to have gone out on a limb and that is letitia james in new yorkbpoena these records? >> it is possible. i'm proud of what attorney general james did. anyone watching this program knew the story already, talking about the numbers and how they were obviously flawed because they were only counting nursing home deaths that happened in nursing homes, nursing home patients taken to hospital wasn't counted, died on the way to the hospital wasn't counted so we knew for so long this was flawed. her investigation puts the story front and center, this is well known already and not just something that came up. todd: the midst of the media didn't report and instead praising governor cuomo and his any winning press conferences including this little ditty we dug up from the archives, tweeting this from the middle of march last year, quote, people will watch the new york governor cuomo presser when they study crisis leadership especially his remark about misinformation being more dangerous than the virus. do you think the media will hold him accountable? >> they

the truth death toll was revealed after letitia james issuinged a scathing report accusing the stateg deaths by some 50%. by only publicly reporting those who died on site, not those admitted to hospitals and died there or elsewhere. >> whether a person died in a hospital or died in a nursing home, it's the people -- people died. i wish none of it happened. i wish there was no covid. i wish no old people died. >> reporter: cuomo has faced criticism over a march 2020 state health department advisory that required nursing homes to admit and readmit patients with covid. something critics say may have further fueled the outbreak in those facilities. cuomo has said the policy was in line with federal guidance. >> it was the absolute worst decision anybody could make in a time of a pandemic. >> reporter: the controversial directive was scrapped in may. the associated press reporting more than 9,000 recovering coronavirus patients were transferred to nursing homes from hospitals early in the pandemic. what hakes this so challenging for the governor is that this is someone who was put on a p

the true death toll was revealed after new york attorney general and cuomo ally letitia james issued a scathing report last month accusing the state of undercounting death in these facilities by 50%, by only recording those who died on site, not individuals who died there or elsewhere. they were counted in the overall death toll but were not attributed to nursing home facilities. >> whether a person died in a hospital or died in a nursing home, people died. i wish none of it happened. i wish there was no covid, i wish no old people died. >> reporter: the associated press reporting more than 9,000 recovering coronavirus patients in new york were transferred to nursing homes and hospitals early in the pandemic, including more than 6300 previously disclosed admissions directly from hospitals and more than 2700 readmissions of patients sent back to nursing homes. cuomo, who was among those meeting with joe biden, has expressed criticism of a health advisory who required nursing homes to add smit and readmit cd patients. cuomo said the requirement was in line with federal guidelines. howa

and now new york attorney general letitia james is reviewing a letter from five g.o.p. seeking an investigation. cuomo's office denied her claims. now the group, the foundation set up by hollywood celebrities has

the democratic attorney general, letitia james put out -- sorry, the report that faulted the cuomo administrationesenting how many died in nursing homes, how many nursing home residents died. so the politics line doesn't really hold water anymore. that being said, the governors spoded to speak at 2:15 today. we'll hear what he has to say. >> we're going to track that as well. thank you for sharing your insights with you. >> thank you for having me. >>> coming up, discussing the fate of the post master general and vowing to shake up the postal service. >>> and home-grown variants of the coronavirus is growing with more than half a dozen mutations in the u.s. so far. in aurora. (doorbell) rock on. tonight i'll be eating lobster thermidor au gratin. really? sh-yeah, and monkeys might fly out of my butt. make it two calzones! new projects means new project managers. sh-yeah, and monkeys might fly out of my butt. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a short list of quality candidates from our resume database. claim your seventy five dollar cred

talking about democrats attacking democrats, attacking cuomo, the name that keeps coming up is letitia jamese attorney general in new york in the first to reveal that there had been cover-up of the number of deaths at the nursing home. do you think she is running for office here? people say she'd be the first woman governor of new york. >> jesse: maybe, she was in on it because she slow walked in and everybody knew what cuomo was doing for nearly a year. look at the time line, in march or early, dr. fauci last year said the most vulnerable population where the elderly. a month later, cuomo comes out and mandates they stuff covid-infected patients into nursing homes and waits until may after covid has scorched through like wildfire into the nursing homes to rescind the order, hides and numbers all summer until the feds opened an investigation and he didn't want to interfere with his soaring favorability ratings that the media had manufactured so we obstructed an official investigation and he waited until biden won the election, then they dropped at the doj the investigation. and then letitia

cuomo but last time around, cynthia nixon ran against him, this time around they are looking at letitia jamese attorney general who really broke the scandal and you have the assembly mentor said, you know, cuomo bullied him. do you think there's anybody that could beat cuomo in a democratic primary? 's >> dana: i don't care, really, about the democratic primary. i think the republicans could win. think back to other governors of new york's past, governor of new york at 9/11 who worked hand in glove with rudy giuliani and made new york a much stronger state, a lot of mid-atlantic and new england states might have quite democratic populations but they often will have republican governors and that's the case right now in massachusetts and new hampshire. one thing i think is interesting about this as there is sort of reporter up in albany, i had this great point to make. found it. i wrote it down, she said that there have always been democrats who were willing to trash andrew cuomo on background because you hear about him being a bully, those are true but it's, there's been a remarkable change in

refused to indict, despite the calls the charges to be brought by new york's attorney general letitia james whose office led the investigation. she said most recently, daniel prude was in the throes of a mental health crisis and what he needed was compassion, care, and help from trained professionals. tragically, he received none of those things. can you talk about the refusal to indict? >> yes. it is regrettable that many times because a grand jury proceedings are secret we don't know what evidence was offered by the prosecutor to the jurors in making a determination. we must remember breonna taylor's case and michael brown in ferguson, missouri, case, one of the rare instances where we saw the inner workings of the grand jury, we saw that the prosecutors put forth a very weak case. when you put forth a weak case to get a prosecution, then you won't get the grand jury to decide. amy, it has been said that a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich because 99.999% of the time when a prosecutor once an indictment, a prosecutor gets an indictment. oftentimes the prosecutors, because they have a s

over documents related to their work with the trump organization to the state's attorney general, letitia james. her office is investigating whether trump's businesses made false claims about the value of their assets in order to receive tax breaks and secure loans and investors. an immigration news, a federal appeals court in washington, d.c. is allowing the government to continue deporting unaccompanied children without a court hearing or asylum interview. the court on friday overturned a previous ruling that had blocked a policy which stripped asylum seekers of due process, citing public health concerns around the pandemic. some 13,000 unaccompanied children were deployed -- deported between march and november. all three judges who reinstated the policy were appointed by trump. in more immigration news, a survivor of the 2019 mass shooting at the el paso, texas walmart was deported to mexico last week. the woman identified only as rosa had been cooperating in the investigation into the shooting. local outlets report rosa was apprehended after a traffic stop due to a broken brake light. in ge

this follows where we found the attorney general from new york state, letitia james who looked into thisty of 8000 nursing home deaths. turns out the numbers 56% higher. close to 13,000 of them. andrew cuomo, again, to your point, has been relishing in kid glove media coverage which has treated him extraordinarily well in the face of a lot of unanswered questions about the deaths of people loved one in his day. apparently at the direction of his government. elizabeth: only new york state counted nursing home deaths if they occurred inside the nursing home. not nursing home patients that went to the hospital and died in the hospital. that is what cuomo administration knocked out of the numbers. only new york state counted it that way. new york state was like a war zone here. the trump administration responded would cuomo complain. they sanded and comfort. that ship, that navy ship was hardly used. massive amount of ppe, beds put inside the jacob javits center. hardly used. people responded. at the same time he is covering up this information. why not just be honest about it. why not just

if i were trump, i'd especially be concerned about letitia james, the new york attorney general. investigating bank fraud, insurance fraud. joy, i've got to point out, she's an african-american woman. trump's defense this week dealt the race card from the bottom of the deck. their videos were full of women of color playing in all these racist, sexist tropes about angry black women. particularly problematic in a senate of 100 people with not one african-american woman. what poetic justice, if trump is finally brought to justice by an african-american woman. >> because in georgia it's a black woman, as well. neal, you know, i believe that inevitably, if all of this happens, you're going to see mitch mcconnell switch sides and say, how dare you, leave him alone. so, we know he'll flip the minute it happens. so, i wonder if all of the potential ways in which he could be held accountable wind up falling into the same hole. even the 14th amendment. that senators can go after him to make sure he doesn't run for office again. that doesn't seem likely, either, does it? >> well, i think th

lot of officials including senate majority leader chuck schumer and new york attorney general letitia james. had an are you seeing? >> reporter: there are a lot of notables here and the asian-american community has come out in force because of the escalation of anti-asian crime. mayor bill de blasio was just speaking. before him was the attorney general of new york, leticia james. he says an attack on asian-americans is an attack on all of us. senate majority leader schumer spoke also, reiterating that. as you said, in 2020, according to the police department, there were 29 cases of anti-asian crime. in 2019, there were three. let me just tell you, thursday night, right in this vicinity, and we do have some video of this because surveillance video is catching a lot of this, an asian-american man was just walking along and a perpetrator came and stabbed him in the torso from the back. the asian-american man is now in critical condition in a hospital. now, three hours later there was an arrest. the alleged perpetrator is in custody at this point. but one night later, friday night, last night,

. >> reporter: the death toll was revealed after the new york attorney general and cuomo ally letitia jamesreport accusing underlying the deaths in facilities by 50% by only publicly recording those who died onsite. not residents who died in hospitals or died elsewhere. the deaths were counted in the state's overall death toll. >> whether a person died in a hospital or died in a nursing home, it's -- the people died. i wish none of it happened. i wish there was no covid. i wish no old people died. >> reporter: the associated press reporting more than 9,000 recovering coronavirus patients in new york were transferred to nursing homes from hospitals early in the pandemic. including more than 6300 previously disclosed admissions directly from hospitals and more than 2700 readmissions of patients sent back to hospitals from nursing homes. cuomo has faced criticism over a health advisory that required nursing homes to admit and readmit patients with covid, something critics say may have further fueled the outbreak in those facilities. cuomo said the policy was in line with guidance. the cuomo ad

attorney general letitia james is echoing the family attorney saying daniel prude was in the throes ofthe deadly force laws utterly failed daniel prude and many others before him. >> that poor family. athena jones, thanks so much. >>> still ahead, johnson & johnson is one step closer to distributing a single dose vaccine to combat the coronavirus. it will be three now with pfizer and moderna. how effective will it be? we'll have details next. how much you'll need, and build a straightforward plan to generate income, even when you're not working. a plan that gives you the chance to grow your savings and create cash flow that lasts. along the way, we'll give you ways to be tax efficient. and you can start, stop or adjust your plan at any time without the unnecessary fees. talk to us today, so we can help you go from saving...to living. so you're a small business, talk to us today, or a big one. you were thriving, but then... oh. ah. okay. plan, pivot. how do you bounce back? you don't, you bounce forward, with serious and reliable internet. powered by the largest gig speed network in ame

>> it seems as though at this point, letitia james will be able to choose a lawyer.ersion governor cuomo came out last night where he was going to name a friend of a friend to oversee that investigation. >> all right. thank you so much. >> of course. >>> and tonight we have breaking news in the fight against the coronavirus. americans now have three covid-19 vaccines. details on that just ahead. stay with us. (vo) ideas exist inside you, electrify you. they grow from our imagination, but they can't be held back. they want to be set free. to make the world more responsible, and even more incredible. ideas start the future, just like that. ♪ hey now, you're an all-star, get your game on, go play ♪ ♪ hey now, you're a rock star, get the show on, get paid ♪ ♪ and all that glitters is gold ♪ get 5 boneless wings for $1 with any handcrafted burger. every time we pre-rinse we waste up to 20 gallons. only at applebee's. let's skip the rinse. with any handcrafted burger. finish quantum with activeblu technology, cleans without pre-rinsing. switch to finish and skip the rinse

and now new york attorney general letitia james is reviewing a letter from five g.o.p. state senator seeking an investigation. cuomo's office denied her claims. now the group, the foundation set up by hollywood celebrities has finally started an investigation as well. leading democrats are staying silent despite their own fiery calls to "believe all women." but now justice brett kavanaugh, or then was accused of sexual assault. you remember it, let's watch. >> i believe her. to testify in the united states senate against someone who is being nominated to one of the most powerful positions in the united states government takes an extraordinary amount of courage. >> i found her very credible. you have to ask yourself, why would anybody put themselves through this if they did not believe that they had important information. >> we are here to show our solidarity. we are here to show our respect for all women who have a case. >> i just want to say to the men, shut up and step up. do the right thing. >> harris: you are watching "outnumbered." we won't shut up but we will step

i am grateful for ron kim and letitia james. i need the fbi and of course the federal government to continue with their investigation into this governor. >> harris: and i don't want to, for a second, forget the beautiful loved ones that you have lost. i say it to you every time. i pray for your families into the families of more than 15,000 who mourn their loved ones today too. i do want to get something that oftentimes people in the building know this. i don't know if outside fox they feel that as much as we do, but janice blesses us with sunshine whenever she is around us, and if they were ever a time when americans, for so many reasons need to make their own sunshine. how do we brew that batch of sunshine? you have a brand-new book coming out. it comes out tuesday. "make your own sunshine." give us the recipe, janice. >> i will tell you, writing this book brought light during a dark time. it is all about kindness, and i will tell you the stories that you will hear about are from people who want to spread light on others, and

fees while forcing people to wear electronic tracking bracelets, which new york attorney general letitia james called shackles. libre would then recoup the bond when trials started. libre also threatened borrowers who were not able to repay with deportation or re-imprisonment, even though they had no power do -- had no power to do so. federal prosecutors have charged former new york city police officer thomas webster for assault with deadly weapon during the january 6 insurrection. prosecutors say webster went after a capitol police officer "like a junkyard dog -- teeth clenched and fists clenched," beating him with a metal pole and trying to gouge out his eye. webster is a former u.s. marine and a 20 year veteran of the new york police department who once helped guard city hall and the mayor's mansion. in immigration news, president biden has reversed the trump administration's ban on green cards issued outside the united states. the move paves the way for certain family members to reunify in the u.s. with relatives who are citizens or permanent residents. biden's executive order also restore

notables were there, from the secretary of state of new york, the attorney general of new york, letitia james, and the senate majority leader. and it was to bring awareness. the facts and figures cannot be at this point taken into consideration, because it was found that 29 people of asian descent had crimes against them committed in 2020 and 2019 only 3. a vast difference. let me give you an example. just this week, thursday night, an asian man was walking downtown near chinatown. someone came up from the back, stabbed him in the torso. and we have learned from the district attorney's office that his liver was punctured. the last we heard he was in critical condition. and the night after that, which would be last night, four asian-americans were stabbed in brooklyn. i spoke to community members. and what they had to say was that they are really at this point afraid. >> i walk out the door and i brace myself. i prepare myself. and just i make sure i no longer listen to music when i'm walking around, no longer listen to pod casts or am distracted in any way. i want to pay attention to whatever

reported, the purported cover-up in the actual decision, the actual decision that his own e.g., letitia jamesooks like that led to the deaths of some people. with all of that that's evidence that they will be looking at. >> emily: you are so right and i think this is just the beginning of uncovering all of those facts. outrage from parents over this video. take a listen. >> are we alone? [bleep]. you're going to call me out, i'm going to [bleep] you up. speak of the video of the school board officials appearing to mock parents desperate to get their kids back into school just ahead, plus crisis in texas, nearly half the state is under a boil water order due to frozen or busted pipes, people are running out of gas and grocery store shelves are bare team and bear as supplies dwindle statewide. has president biden been doing enough? that's ahead. ♪ ♪ only tylenol rapid release gels have laser-drilled holes. they release medicine fast for fast pain relief. tylenol rapid release gels. ♪ ♪ learning is hard work. hard work requires character. learning begins in faith. it must move upwards toward the

gigantic coverup this follow as week where we found out from the attorney general of new york state, letitia jamest a second new york state is reporting they have somewhere in the vicinity of 8,000 nursing home deaths. the number is 56% higher. it is much closer to 13,000 of them and andrew cuomo again to your point has been relishing in kid glove media coverage which treated him extraordinarily well in the face of a lot of unanswered questions about the deaths of people's loved ones in his state. apparently at the direction of his government. elizabeth: you know, here is the thing. only new york state counted nursing home deaths if they occurred inside of the nursing home, not nursing home patients who went to the hospital and died in the hospital. that is what cuomo's administration knocked out of the numbers. only new york state counted it that way. new york state was like a war zone here. the trump administration responded when cuomo complained. they sent in the usns comfort. that ship, that navy ship, hospital ship was hardly used. the jacob javits center, massive amounts of ppe, beds put ins

>> this actually dates back to a report from the state attorney general letitia james about three weeksgo which showed the quomo administration had been undercounting nursing home dets by about 50%. they began to release thousands more deaths which raised the death toll here in new york from about 8500 to over 15,000 which ishere we're sitting now. the quomo administration said that the reason they were slow to put out this data is they were worried about an investigation from the trump doj which they thought was politically motivated. but lawmakers have been skeptical about that because the quomo administration had responded to that request back in september but didn't give up data until february. so there's been a lot of skepticism about that explanation. >>nawaz: of course, governor koh mo has been addressing a lot of this, first from a press conference. here is what he said. >> i am in charge. i take responsibility. we should have provided more information faster. we were too focused on doing the job. and addressing the crisis of the moment. and we did not do a good enough job in pr

meanwhile, new york attorney general letitia james sued amazon on tuesday for failing to adequately protects during the pandemic. in the lawsuit, james argues -- "amazon's extreme profits and exponential growth rate came at the expense of the lives, health and safety of its frontline workers." we go now toessemer, alabama, where we are joined by two guests. jennifer bates is a worker at amazon's bessemer warehouse who has been part of the union drive from the beginning. michael foster is an organizer with the rwdsu -- retail, wholesale, and department store union. he is also a poultry worker at a chicken plant in alabama. upwards of 80% of the bessemer workers are black and the majority are women. we welcome you both to democracy now! jennifer, let's begin with you. you work under the plan. we're so glad to speak to you right now. talk about why you are organizing. what are the conditions in the plant? >> the reason why we are organizing is we need an even playing field. some of the conditions are being ignored by human resources, long work hours with only two breaks, long walks upstairs an

a new report from new york's attorney general, letitia james, accuses the state of undercounting covidlf. last week a top aid to governor cuomo told democratic lawmakers the data was withheld because it could be used against us by the former president's justice department. this week a group of democrats in the new york state assembly circulated a letter among themselves seeking support to strip governor cuomo of his emergency powers. one of those lawmakers was queen's assemblyman ron kim. he told "morning joe" about a conversation he says he had with the governor after he accused mr. cuomo of participating in a coverup. >> for ten minutes he berated me. he yelled at me. he told me that, you know, my career would be over. he's been biting his tongue for months against me. and i had tonight, not tomorrow, tonight to issue a new statement essentially asking me to lie. >> governor cuomo's office has denied that he threatened mr. kim and accused the assemblyman of lying. good evening. >> good evening, joshua. >> let me play one more clip from "morning joe" of bill de blasio chiming in on th

higher death tolls were only revealed after a report by the democratic state attorney general letitia jamesdministration's failure to include nursing home residents in the reports of people who died at hospitals. can you respond to this? >> i haven't kept up with the details of it but clearly, nursing homes were a place of initial spread. and it matters where people got infected. not only where they died. so the fact the data were not moavailable in a transparent shion is a problem. we need to know how important being a resident in a nursing home was to the risk of getting covid. and we know elders are at very high risk of dying of covid. so those data should be available. we need data transparency. that is something that should be embraced by every jurisdiction, something that the biden administration has talked about. and it doesn't seem to have been the case in new york. it matters not only were people died, but where they got infected. amy: dr. mary bassett, thank you for being with us, former u.s. commissioner of health, now the director of fxb center of health at harvard university. o

the true death toll was revealed after new york attorney general and cuomo ally letitia james issues a scathing report accusing the state of undercounting deaths in these facilities by 50% by only publicly reporting twhhose who died on site, not those who died in hospitals or where else. >> whether a person died in a hospital or died in a nursing home, it's -- people died. i wish none of it happened. i wish there was no covid. i wish no old people died. >> reporter: cuomo has faced criticism over a march 2020 state health department advisory that required nursing homes to admit and readmit patients with covid, something critics say may have further fueled the outbreak in those facilities. cuomo has said the policy was in line with federal guidance. >> it was the absolute worst decision anybody could make in a time of a pandemic. >> reporter: the controversial directive was scrapped in may. the associated press reporting more than 9,000 recovering coronavirus patients in new york were transferred to nursing homes from hospitals early in the pandemic. and what makes this so challenging

they say they own claim clean after democratic attorney general letitia james reported they are undercuttinghis by 50%. you're not counting nursing home patients that died in hospitals. i want to get to the story of ronald kim in new york. he says cuomo threatened to destroy him. watch ronald kim here. >> the governor's mother is well off, protected in her home. she does not represent the thousands of, you know, minimum grant and minority and all sorts of community loved ones still stuck in nursing homes worried that the governor and the administration is hiding information about life and death. why did it take so long for the executive to change course when every other state recognized the fatal mistake that they might have made by sending covid positive to nursing homes. they immediately rescind it. they immediately changed course. it took us almost two months before the governor decided to change. in fact a month later, at a press conference he said he didn't know about it. he lied. just like he is lying right now. elizabeth: what do you say, jim? >> when two politicians are fighting it i

up and then suddenly a trove of information from the attorney general of the state of new york, letitia jamesernor didn't report the right number of covid deaths in nursing homes which his policy affected. his own ag. as you get more information, you ask more questions. with this we are getting details and asking more questions. no doubt if this has legal legs, they will talk with some of the other women that not only does lindsay boylan talk about in her medium essay. she names a few. kennedy. >> kennedy: she also said it was a pattern of abuse and abusive environment. the same kind of thing we're hearing from democrat lawmakers in new york state and also the media. this is a very clear pattern of bullying, and that's a tactic that was used for a long, long time by this governor that he probably learned from his political family that he employed very effectively. that's why people like ron kim are probably hesitant to come forward in the beginning because he knew that he was going to be maligned by a governor that was protected by the media for so long. it's scary because you're really putti

we can also tell you tonight that new york attorney general letitia james says her office is lookinghis and "it is deeply disturbing and wholly unacceptable based on what we already know deploying that kind of spray against a child." her statement as you see there says that should never happen. and one more note. all of this is only known because of this particular police video becoming available. as we've reported, many different departments have resisted making videos and releasing them. how often this kind of potential misuse of force happens outside of the video surveillance is an open question for police reform. we're growing to fit in a break. we have a lot more on the program including joe biden pushing forward on covid relief potentially with or without republicans. and tonight a special conversation with the acclaimed author of "american psycho" and many other great works. bret easton ellis. it's his debut on "the beat." eb. are you managing your diabetes... ...using fingersticks? with the new freestyle libre 2 system, a continuous glucose monitor, you can check your glucose

and we know that number, because of pressure from new york attorney general letitia james, who issuedcathing report last month, accusing the state of undercounting nursing home deaths by some 50%, by only counting those who died on site, not counting residents who were admitted to hospitals and died there. the associated press are reporting through public records, they have reviewed that more than 9,000 recovering coronavirus patients in new york state were released early in the pandemic under that controversial directive that was later scrapped amid the criticism. alisyn? >> athena, thank you very much for all of that reporting. >>> we want to take some time right now to remember some of the more than 745,000 americans lost to coronavirus. 75-year-old angela salazar taught elementary school and was a school principal in new mexico. she enjoyed introducing students to performing arts like theater, op opera, and ballet. her family says she was also a great cook, who enjoyed trying out new recipes. >>> richard tehara was a welder by trade and a drummer by passion, playing in many bands

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trying to explain allegations that they covered up covid deaths after new york attorney general letitia jamesa factual disparity in the data, and said after this report that cuomo vastly undercounted nursing home deaths. cuomo's administration had initially claimed there were about 9,000 nursing home residents who died of covid. but after the james report, over 15,000 deaths of nursing homes was revealed as the true number by cuomo's administration himself. now they first tried to call this an accounting error, but cuomo's top aide has now admitted a cover-up of sorts, saying they basically froze and were worried about a probe of this very issue. this entire story has been gaining traction. the report first came out last month. we've covered it several times here on "the beat" as have many other news organizations because of the import of this. now there are new allegations by a democrat of cuomo pursuing retaliation and new york state senate democrats are on the way, "the new york times" reports, to potentially stripping cuomo of his emergency powers. the story has been escalating. we're sta

that admission came just weeks after attorney general letitia james issued a reporting finding that the york department of health undercounted deaths by about 50%, by essentially leaving out the death of resident who is had been transferred to hospitals. cuomo's current predicament is a far cry from months ago when he was hailed for his leadership. now they're looking to strip him of his expanded emergency powers and 20 are calling for the national academy of television, arts, and sciences to vacate his international emmy award in light of this controversy. and we also know that republican members of congress are calling on the senate judiciary committee to investigate this matter. so this is not at all over yet. jim? >> expanding. at at athena jones, thanks very much. joining us, david chalian, also with us, cnn political analyst, margaret talev, managing editor at axio. good to have you both on this morning. david, for the new york governor, this is not just a political issue, damaging his political position. this is becoming a legal issue. how serious? >> well, listen, he's in full-o