mario cuomo served those three terms, andy cuomo, 14 days from now, did not. a failure in every way. >> kayleigh: no doubt about it. i've got to ask about the timing of the decision. i don't think it was coincidental. this is my surmising. i don't think it was continental he chose to do this just as the senate was voting on infrastructure, big win for the biden administration. it seems a revenge shot at schumer while schumer is on the floor of the senate, getting infrastructure through. almost a shot at his party who threw him under the bus. you make anything in the timing of the decision? >> dagen: he is petty, very petty. it wouldn't put it past him. however, i think that with the call so far and wide for members of his own party all the way up to president biden for him to resign, that he would start picking up. it was a cheap shot at schumer. but he might be expecting more and more calls for his resignation particularly with victory behind the democrats down in washington. one other thing, the state is in disarray because his micromanager. this states rent

his father was new york governor mario cuomo and then andrew cuomo followed behind him as governor. do you think the cuomo era is over? >> as i said, i do. never say never, right? we cannot predict how things will work, what people will think about this for years on, eight years on. he is still not particularly old , early 60's. a comeback eight years from now is not the question. i think it is over. this is another point i was trying to make in the call, i used to cover and have observed this cuomo era and it has lasted almost 50 years. it was i think in 1973 that jack newfield of the village boys wrote a piece bringing to the public's attention this lawyer from queens named mario cuomo. ed was always marry a, not mario -- mario, not mario. he did a good job there. that is how he became famous and ran for mayor in 1977. he lost narrowly, but then governor of 1982, he ran against koch and eat him. that beat him. then he lost to a republican, than there were others in between, but his son andrew finally took over in 2010i guess it was. host: looks like some of our viewers -- let's le

>> my resignation will be effective in 14 days >> reporter: the son of famed new york governor mario cuomo andrew cuomo became a regular national presence on tv during new york's peak covid outbreak but he's since been embroiled in scandals over nursing home deaths, the publishing of his book and allegations of sexual harassment, all allegations he continues to refute. >> in my mind i've never crossed the line with anyone. but i didn't realize the extent to which the line has been redrawn. >> reporter: cuomo's resignation comes exactly one week after the release of a scathing report from the state's attorney general, alleging the governor sexually harassed 11 women. democratic leaders welcoming cuomo's decision to step down. >> i respect the governor's decision. >> reporter: but president biden, who had called on cuomo to resign, also saying this when asked about cuomo's performance as governor aside from his personal behavior. >> he's done a hell of a job. >> reporter: cuomo's accusers today also reacting to the news >> it feels like a weight is off of my shoulders, and hopefully i can mo

into mars new york post speculating as to whether or not the cuomo name, in this case governor mario cuomo should come off would we old-timers refer to as the political grave dancing going on already. does andrew cuomo in your view have a political future at all or is it best for his party to go away and do so silently? >> well, bryant he has $18 million in his campaign war chest, there is money there if he so chooses to use it for a quote, come back. i don't think that will be possible, mostly because he has built a career on other people's backs, and he has not made friends on his way out, and people are very happy to see him on his way down. i don't see him moving forward in any meaningful way, he also has other investigations that mario cuomo bridges is one of them, it's a serious investigation as far as construction and other issues. he has his hands full, i don't think he will be coming back. >> and finally doctor irwin redlener, the last word goats to you, i can't ask you to endorse a third shot for people on a broadcast like this one, but i can ask you for your opinion of people wh

you unsited mario cuomo, the governor's father. you were a little known. but the governor then talking to the governor's father, governor cuomo had pushed it too far. is there such a thing like after three terms that you're setting yourself up for people to say enough already? >> yeah, i think there is that. people don't get tired of you. on the other hand, it really comes down to whether or not your policies work or not. in the case of mario cuomo, his policies didn't work. we were the most dangerous state in america. highest tax burden. 1 in 11 on welfare. there was that teague but his policies. and andrew cuomo, if he resigned, if he run again, he would have been beatable because of his policies. look what is happening in new york. the crime is through the roof. the schools falling apart. the homeless roaming the streets. we don't know what will happen with schools in a few weeks. so i think his policies were such that it's better that he saw the light and resigned in the face of impeachment. but i think either way, he would have been gone at the end of

that mario cuomo is one of them.s a serious investigation as far as construction and other issues. he has his hands full. i don't think he'll be coming back. >> and, finally, doctor, the last word goes to you. i can't ask you to endorse a third shot for people on a broadcast like this one. but i can ask you for your opinion of people who are finding a way to finagle a third shot, in effect a booster, whether or not they're going into doctor's offices or pharmacies. do you endorse the notion of them? do you have any problem with people getting that third pfizer or third moderna? >> yeah, you know, brian, this whole issue with covid in the pandemic, it's really getting increasingly dangerous to make predictions. but i do predict this, i do predict that we're going to come down on the side of allowing or permitting or even encouraging people with certain very high-risk conditions, immunocompromised, very elderly people, people with certain kinds of ailments that should get a third dose most likely. the counter convening

mario cuomo i really like mario cuomo personally but he had some really sharp elbow as well.h guy or tough woman in new york is not exactly unique here. where i think it's different for andrew cuomo was this other dark side of him, whether it's true or not, the evidence is pretty damning, though. i read the report. and i read the appendix as well which is kind of scary stuff. howie: of course, it's an investigation that he asked for because -- now he's attacking the investigation. last question, i've got about a minute. now that the other democrats are coming out, when it's people like bill de blasio the new york mayor, saying yes, cuomo should he resign today and he should be tarred and a feathered and all that. does the press have a responsibility to say some of this is payback for the relations an threats that governor cuomo issued even against some of his nominal allies. >> yeah. and if you read the new york post where i have an affiliation with them, i'm a columnist for them, people have been saying that and i think it's -- listen, none of these guys are perfect. think a

you know, i'm a center-left person because of mario cuomo.ee what his son has done to the faly name is sad. >> woodruff: i covered that convention, a mesmerizing speech. to wrap this up, david, a lot of people are watching, men and women, and saying how much of this goes on in american political life. >> people go into politics out of vanit power, some are remarkable people and they want to serve the country. there are a lot of emotionally damaged people in publix who have -- as shawn said, they know how to suck up ad kick down, theyon't have horizontal friendships. they're nely, get more pathetic and nedy and eventually treatveryone around them, men but especially women as objections who do not have feelings on the other side of the relationship, and that the a single sort of person, not all people but some to have the people that politics attracts. >> woodruff: we don't know how it's going to end. we think we know but we'll wait and see, but what a sad and terrible picture emerged this week. david brook jonathan capehart, thank you both. >>

answer will mario cuomo survives is this harassment scandal, this taking place in new york. >> now and this year that he resigns, though, right now. if it's just going to get worse and worse for him in these resign and understand that what he did was unforgiveable and the need to move on. >> political analyst michael yaki, as always, thank you for being with us. we certainly appreciate your insights. all right. let's shift gears and look at our weather live look outside from our sutro tower and looks like the fog that lawrence talking about is already rolled in. can the sales force tower? looks like a little a squirrel peeking out from only thing that's out there that you can see above the fog line, lawrence. yeah. just over a 1000 feet. the sales force tower and you will see that fog really deepening and thickening up and moving. >> well on shore. so that's been nice for the bay area that we've had a nice westerly wind that sea breeze kicking in that has kept our air fairly fresh. not so in other parts of the state. the check out your latest smoke tracker. you really get a good look a

and ripping between 2 brothers, seemingly vying over who their daddy, the late new york governor, mario cuomo, loved more. it was amusing, at times, perhaps a brief respite from the doom and gloom at the height of the pandemic. cuomo, so popular and powerful at one point, many thought he would for president in 2020, 24. but how quickly the tide turns. cuomo is now facing sexual harassment and assault allegations and calls for his resignation, swallowed by the off in turbulent political time. with more on this ortiz natasha suite and investigation has found new york governor andrew cuomo, sexually harass multiple current and former state government employees. but the governor hope's implementing new sexual harassment training even for himself will be enough to keep his job should impeach the governor because he clearly cannot accept responsibility for any of his behavior. charlotte bennett is one of at least 11 come all accusers claiming to be sexually harassed by the new york governor. some are sharing their story while others are remaining anonymous. on tuesday the attorney general announced

there are a lot of veterans of the mario cuomo and andrew cuomo administration, part of the larger political family, who are shaking their heads. they're devastated by this. saying this will affect the legacy. you've asked me each night, what would it take for the governor to just walk away? the answer is, his blood family, his brother, mother, sister, daughters. if they say, listen, this is doing damage beyond just you. beyond just your attempt at re-election, beyond even your legal problems. there's the question of what the cuomos have meant to new york. that's something we know that the governor takes very, very seriously. where others have not been able to get through to him, that particular argument might resonate with him. >> errol, fascinating conversation, as always. thank you, sir. and i see your tan suit, and i raise you an almost tan suit. >> thank you. >> thank you, brother. got to stay cool. >> thank you very much. >>> is this the next superspreader event? hundreds of thousands of people expected at south dakota's sturgis motorcycle rally. hear from some of the bikers, next. - [

cycle, might have been 1998, every election cycle from 1974 to 2018, one or another of the cuomos, andrew or marioallot in new york state. it's an amazing thing. just the pervasiveness and the dominance of the cuomo, the names in new york politics, and yet as you say, so different. you know, the way you just described mario cuomo is the way i remembered him, but also as a poet. mario cuomo famously said you campaign in poetry, govern in prose and he was an extraordinary orator. he was poetic, he was philosophical, he engaged in the thorny nuanced and kind of the moral philosophy around government, right? no one will remember a speech that andrew cuomo could quote. not a thing that he particularly cared about. now, on the plus side, you know, people will despite all of this, people will -- some people will look back on that moment in the early part of 2020 when the other side of andrew, you know, giving those daily briefings on covid, trying to present people with the facts, trying to do -- to show the country what a leader would do. now we all know he did not -- he made a lot of mistakes in covid

if you include mario cuomo and andrew cuomo taken together, one of them has been on statewide ballots970s. so this is very, very significant. andrew cuomo is the dean of governors. there's no governor serving anywhere in the country that's been there longer than he has, which is over a decade. for it to end so quickly when just last year he was riding high, regularly on national television, talked about a presidential candidate, much like his father was. for it all to end so quickly is really quite extraordinary. >>> nancy, i want to play one of the moments from cuomo's announcement, really just about 24 hours ago, where he's explaining himself and he talks to a generational shift, as he calls it. >> in my mind, i've never crossed the mind with anyone, but i didn't realize the extent to which the line has been redrawn. there are generational and cultural shifts that i just didn't fully appreciate, and i should have. no excuses. >> nancy, what do you think of his resignation, that announcement, what he said and what it says about where we are as a country? >> well, what he said is fals

i knew mario cuomo, and mr.,, you are no mario cuomo.ost: to valley forge, pennsylvania to hear from pat. caller: good morning. my opinion is no. everyone needs to take a backseat and calm down and let the chips fall as they show. if this person is guilty of this situation, let their people, the administration do their voting and do what they have to do. let's not jump the gun too fast. thank you very much. host: and we will hear from sam in crystal springs, mississippi, who says yes, the governor should resign. caller: yes, he should resign. i'm disappointed that you should have challenged this lady. this is not about donald trump. this guy is a mafia clown that needs to be impeached, period. host: up next, more of "washington journal." we are going to turn our attention to the state of the economic recovery. we will be joined by mark zandi, talking about president biden, congressional democrats pushing for additional government spending. either we will turn our attention to capital security and the january 6 investigation. russel honor

there were a lot of veterans of the mario cuomo and andrew cuomo administration who are part of the larger political family who are shaking their heads. they're devastated by this. they're saying this will affect the legacy. you've asked me each night, don, what would it take for the governor to just walk away from all of this. and really the answer is his blood family, his real family, his brother, his mother, his sister, his daughters. if they come to him and say, listen, this is -- this is doing damage beyond just you, beyond just your attempt at a re-election, beyond, you know, even your legal problems, there's the question of what the cuomos have meant to new york. and that's something we know that the governor takes very, very seriously. so where others have not been able to get through to him, that particular argument might resonate with him. >> errol, fascinating conversation as always. we'll have you back. errol louis, thank you, sir. and i see your tan suit, and i raise you an almost tan suit. thank you very much. >>> is this the next superspreader event that you're looking at ri

i think misspoke, mario cuomo, andrew cuomo's father who you pop telled. >> right.e three-term thing, enough already, no matter who you are, that people tire of you? do you think that was part of what was undoing governor andrew cuomo? i don't want to take leaps here. i am just curious it has not been a good track record for those after three terms going for a fourth? >> neil, i think that is absolutely right. there is truth to that, voters get tired of you after a period of time. i think next year the democratic party will have a brutal battle. in hochul continues her background presenting her as a more centrist, moderate democrat, there is going to be, there are going to be primaries from the left. i can see bill de blasio, who is a horrible mayor, primarying her, having a chance of winning if he is the only candidate from the far left. if one of those candidates wins the democratic primary, i say there is a good chance they could, a republican has a tremendous opportunity to win the governorship. i wouldn't give it up, write it off, when i look at the future of t

has been a big controversy for the cuomo administration looking at safety issues, even, at the mario cuomo bridge. the bridge named after andrew cuomo's father. so there are questions that i think they can expect to face from their constituents about accountability, right? the governor has resigned, is going to be resign anything 14 days, will no longer be in office. but is there a duty these assembly members have to get to the bottom of these important questions. that is the question they will have to answer in the coming weeks as they decide how to move forward with this investigation. >> yeah. and what do we know about the lieutenant governor who will take over and become the governor in just two weeks, will face a host of challenges right at the start? >> let me start because i'm talking to you, wolf, by saying she is from buffalo, new york, like you, wolf blitzer. and she came up really through the ranks in politics in the state of new york, worked in local government for quite some time and then was a member of congress briefly. and she, you know, just to give an example of how this

harassment count or the other counts that are also being investigated, like the nursing home and the mario cuomostill figuring out what is the best approach. as you know, there's no pr precedents for this. at the end of the day, the committee has to come up with all the documents and it has to be a strong package of evidence that will be impeachable to present to the senate body and the court of appeals for a strong argumentative procedure. it might take a little bit more time. >> thank you. >>> up next, covid cancellation. how plans for a splashy 60th birthday for former president obama have been upended by the pandemic. tors, microwaves, gas ranges and grills. and if you're looking for... he used to have gum problems. now, he uses therabreath healthy gums oral rinse with clinically-proven ingredients and his gum problems have vanished. (crowd applauding) therabreath, it's a better mouthwash. at walmart, target and other fine stores. hey, i just got a text from my sister. you remember rick, her neighbor? sure, he's the 76-year-old guy who still runs marathons, right? sadly, not anymore. wow. so

learned from his parents, what he learned from his mother and from his father, who himself, the late mario cuomo was also a governor of new york. governor andrew cuomo says, frankly, a generational or cultural different he hadn't fully appreciated. >> today we are living in a super heated, if not toxic, political environment. that shouldn't be lost on anyone. politics and bias are interwoven throughout every aspect of this situation. one would be naive to think otherwise. and new yorkers are not naive. >> it's interesting that in this statement from the governor, as you point out it was prerecorded, the governor makes no intention that he will resign or in any way step away from the office. but he does say in one instance where he was accused of having a conversation with one of his staffers who were a survival of sexual assault, he says he did have a conversation with her because he has a family member who was a survivor of sexual assault. he says he thought he could help, but quote, her says, i was wrong. >> wendy murphy, i want to get your take-aways on this report. when it comes to sexual ha

she feels like she doesn't want the other issues potentially intervening in maintenance on the mario cuomo bridge, she doesn't want those issues to go overlooked either. >> i'm not buying it. i've been following this governor for too long. it left a bad taste in my mouth, the rest of the people are going to have to say what they think but i didn't find it genuine at all. i think when he was starting to choke up, i think he's crying for himself. >> reporter: one of her colleagues on the committee tells me he expects they will still meet on monday if not sooner. >> i just want folks to know it's the same on the local level as the federal level if in fact they were to pursue impeachment and find the current governor guilty, he would not be able to pursue office. joyce, i want to play for you some sound from the governor's attorney, who spoke before he announced his resignation. >> and she claims that as he went through the rope line, he touched the logo on her shirt, which was her energy company logo as he was greeting her. the governor did not mean to grope her and certainly there were pictu

neil: i'm going to get my producer here but i want to follow-up i know you knew mario cuomo very well your face-a type of a guy. there are huge stark differences between that behavior then and the alleged behavior now, with the son. did you think that was appropriate? >> you mean the behavior that governor andrew cuomo is being accused of? it's not appropriate. neil: comparing it to his father comparing it to his father. >> oh, okay, well to me -- neil: to be throwing his own dad under the bus. >> yeah, well, you know, i don't think he was throwing his dad under the bus. he was probably reaching to his dad's memory for kind of life line, and that's just human and i can't condemn him for that , because his life, when you think about it, aril more than a year ago, governor cuomo was giving us daily press conferences. he was the alternative to president trump. he just was totally in charge, things were going well here in new york, smart, tough, practical, and then it all collapses beings and it looks like it's going to be hard for him to hold on to the governor's office. this is a proud

millions of dollars, and then there is a possible coverup when it comes to the construction of the mario cuomo several topis that the judiciary committee will be tackling today. meanwhile, the governor has until friday to submit any more evidence in his defense. >> what are your thoughts from the accuser in that cbs news interview? >> a couple of things. from the perspective of a prosecutor, you are looking for how credible is the witness and what is she saying. on the first score, she was a sympathetic, credible witness. she made two statements i think are relevant if you are considering whether or not to charge cuomo with a crime. first of all, she said that he got sexual gratification out of this encounter and one of the things you have to prove in order to prove the crime of forcible touching is that it was done either to degrade, abuse or to get sexual satisfaction. so that was a key point. another thing she addressed was this potential defense that cuomo might raise which is, look, if she was really all that upset about this going on, if it wasn't consensual or if it happened at all, why

i am the center-left person because of mario cuomo. done to that family name is sad. judy: yes, it was a mesmerizing speech. to wrap this up, a lot of people watching, men and women are are saying how much of this goes on in american political life. david: people go into politics out of vanity and power. there are emotionally damaged people and politics. they know how to kick down. they don't have horizontal friendships. many people we know in this profession. they are lonely. they get more pathetic, more needy, and eventually treat everyone around them as objects. and that is just a single sort of person, not all pple, but some of the people the politics tracks. judy: we don't know how it will end. we think we know, but we will wait and see. what a sad, terrible picture emerge this week. david brooks and jonathan capehart, thank you. ♪ born and raised in jamaica, june grant knew that architecture was her calling from the age of five. today, she is a founder and design principle at an environmentally conscious and social justice orient

like joe biden who were friends with andrew cuomo's father, the three-term governor of new york, mario cuomo, would was widely add miranda in the democratic party for many years. and it was a politically difficult day for the highest ranking woman in the government of the state of new york, lieutenant governor kathy hochul of buffalo. she is the only democrat who decided not to call for the governor's resignation today, not out of loyalty, but to avoid any appearance of a political motivation because lieutenant governor kathy hochul would immediately become the governor of new york. if andrew cuomo followed joe biden's suggestion today and resigned. the resignation of andrew cuomo would immediately produce new york's first woman governor, democrat kathy hochul, who would serve the remaining year and a half of the governor's term. if the state legislature simply begins the impeachment process against andrew cuomo, the governor must, by state law, be temporarily removed from office while the impeachment process proceeds, and during that time lieutenant governor kathy hochul would become the ac

so i think that's why you see mario cuomo -- >> andrew. i've been doing it, too.matilda. >> he has not one democratic defender. that's the difference between clinton and others. there are no democrats defending him. >> he's a particularly callous kind of abuser. it's one thing to be a sexual harasser and never talk about it. it's quite another -- both are terrible. but it's quite another to be on the forefront to have the most aggressive legislation, to have the most aggressive language flanked by hollywood actresses, you're the standard bearer for what is right in america, and then to have this come out? >> jake, some interesting insiders who have been very much prominent on the me too movement have gotten caught up in this. this has really dealt a little bit of a credibility blow for some of these folks. >> absolutely. i think what's most stunning is just the chuck schumer, all of his longtime political allies are taking the opportunity to throw him under the bus and to ask him to move on. i just think back to what amy said. if he says i'm not running again, i s

state resources for personal gain and allegations of a coverup over damage bridge bolts on the mario cuomo bridge. the meantime lieutenant governor kathy hochul will become the state's 57th governor and the first woman in new york to hold the post reporting live. ken, wayne, back to you. ken, thank you. new video tonight shows the dixie fire as it approached the town of greenville last week. this is a look along. >> main street in the tel shortly before flames destroying everything in its path. tonight. the dixie fire has now scorched more than 490,000 acres across northern california governor gavin newsom has declared a state of emergency as tonight, folks in nearby communities now wait and see if their homes will be destroyed next in that path. kron four's jennifer mcgraw live for us tonight in greenville with the very latest on the firefight. jennifer. >> finally firefighters. get a break in the weather cooler temperatures. but that thick heavy smoke never moved out there for a grounded. all air attack. the problem. the wind started picking up this evening in just a couple hours ago. th

he unseated mario cuomo, andrew's father in 1994. thanks for joining us. we appreciate it. this quote. >> trace: is that your feeling? is he posturing to see what the appetite is in the state assembly to impeach him the first time in 100-plus years? >> i think you saw in this videotaped response after the attorney general put out the report that he's not remorseful, he's not apologizing. he's saying nothing untoward happened. so long as he takes that position, yes, he's going to hang on as long as he can. let me say, i'm disappointed in the assembly. they said they had looked at this for months. they have the attorney general's report. one of the most thorough. now they're giving cuomo another eight days to submit information? the longer this drags out, the worse it is for new york. governor cuomo can't function as governor. when we have a covid resurgence. talk about shut down. people going back to school. how do you get people to go back to offices in new york and he can't function as governor. so the quick they are is over, the better it is for the people of new york. >>

the mario cuomo bridge and seems those are continuing on. a couple day tosses look for. one friday.ne for the gorner to submit his countermaterial for the impeachment investigation and then monday, the judiciary meets. more information then. talking about the criminal investigationing in five separate areas of new york state. criminal complaint filed in albany continues on. this resignation doesn't affect that. criminal investigations in five separate areas of new york continuing on as well. this resignation does not affect this. then you ask, what is ahead for new york state? >> yasmine have to set aside new york state for a moment as the president of the united states is at the podium. let's listen. >> -- seventh largest month of job creation in u.s. history. making the administration the first ever to add 4 million jobs in the first six months in office. and then in the past 24 hours, we've seen the senate advance two key pieces of my economic agenda. the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the budget resolution that is the framework for more build back better plan. today i'm plea

his father was new york governor mario cuomo and then andrew cuomo followed behind him as governor.think the cuomo era is over? >> as i said, i do. never say never, right? we cannot predict how things will work, what people will think about this for years on, eight years on. he is still not particularly old , early 60's. a comeback eight years from now is not the question. i think it is over. this is another point i was trying to make in the call, i used to cover and have observed this cuomo era and it has lasted almost 50 years. it was i think in 1973 that jack newfield of the village boys wrote a piece bringing to the public's attention this lawyer from queens named mario cuomo. ed was always marry a, not mario -- mario, not mario. he did a good job there. that is how he became famous and ran for mayor in 1977. he lost narrowly, but then governor of 1982, he ran against koch and eat him. that beat him. then he lost to a republican, than there were others in between, but his son andrew finally took over in 2010i guess it was. host: looks like some of our viewers -- let's let some o

impeachment, they'll wait for a response from andrew cuomo regarding not only sexual harass mnlts, issues with nursing homes, his book, and the construction of the marioor cuomo has until the 31st to respond. he has not been changed, denies any wrongdoing, and he says he will not resign. >>> melissa derosa was mentioned multiple times in the report alleging the governor had sexually harassed multiple women. she said the last few years have been emotional and trying and she thanks her colleagues. in a new quinnipiac university poll, 70% say it's time for cuomo to step down compared to 25% who say he should stay in office. even 57% democrats who elected him to the highest state in office three times say he should resign following the attorney general's report. >>> coming up, vaccines for educators. plus, will covid booster shots be needed, and if so, who's going to get them first? we'll have that when dr. patel joins us in a moment. >>> before we go to break, email us at waytooearly@msnbc.com or tweet me @aliciamenendez. we're going to read your answers later in the show. to read your s later in the show. with a fresh face for a fresh start. for a limit

steered more than $850 million in state-funded contracts to cuomo's allies and eight cover-up of new york's new for billion-dollar bread, dub the mario, found to be plagued by dozens of failing which engineers secretly replaced to hide faults from inspectors under the guidance of the one and only, andrew cuomo. and when things bubble over as quickly as it did for governor cuomo, sometimes the other headlines are overlooked. >> is not only wanting innocence, the common policy or support desert with maximum aggression it and maximum self-righteousness an ace articulate i will say. >> giving him the benefit of the doubt, is a gross incompetence which resulted in the loss of thousands and thousands of lives and affected thousands of families. >> but his biggest scandal yet would soon catch up with an invite january 2021, cuomo is trying to explain why 12743 nursing home or nursing of him including 4000, not previously recorded that same day, new york attorney general, the teacher james city undercut is much as 50 percent snowing. knowing that the visitation had not been launch at than a bomb dropped. and just one month later, in february

mario -- liar. he saw this in his mother matilda -- liar. i've coupled with this chris cuomoeak out to defend the honor of your father, who is no longer with us, and your mother, thankfully, matilda who's alive and living at 89. he's blamed his groping on being taught by the italian-american culture, his dna? in the streets of brooklyn where i was raised, we call that -- [speaking italian] neil: you're quite right about that, i think what he's trying to say is people mistake his actions for being a touchy-feely person. certainly, these 11 women who have charged him with harassment and much worse disagree, this is quite different. but i am curious about where you see this going. i mean, let's say he keeps fighting this. you become mayor, he could still technically be governor. you have to work with the governor whether it's going to be governor cuomo or the lieutenant governor. how's that going to go? >> well, my adversary, eric adams, the democratic candidate -- and he hasn't been coronated yet -- has been an enabler of andrew cuomo and his many ways not just in terms of perv

still with us right now, jackie, this notion with bringing up his father and i remember governor mario cuomouchy feely guy he was but i don't remember incidents like this ever coming up. it might have been a different time, it might have been all of that but the kind of things that are alleged here were nothing like any of the things that came up from a very in your face, very different kind of a leader, that is the governor's father, than the governor of present day himself, but having said that i think harkening back to his mother and father and this is just accepted behavior, i think that's going to be a very tough sell for people, but again, this is a guy whose political fortunes have looked dicey before and the chance of even getting a second term let alone a third term didn't look very good at different times. maybe he's in the depths of something just as problematic now but from which you can recover i can't see how but what are you hearing from folks? >> well i think you're right in the sense he's kind of like a cat and he's had a few lives and he's bounced back before so i believe t

as far as mario cuomo is concerned, i think he would not be gone if the democratic party did not wantim gone. also the media. the media is one in the same as the democratic party. host: you made andrew cuomo -- you mean andrew cuomo? caller: yes. host: continue on. caller: the horrible things he has done are nonetheless bad, they are not worth defending too much. i think he is no harvey weinstein. the charges the women have brought could have been defended by the democratic party, by other people, perhaps, but it is funny how he has been lauded by the powers that be, by the media and the democratic party for so long, and now all of a sudden he is thrown under the bus. i think his real sin is what he did with those nursing homes. the nursing home crisis. that is what they do not want to come out. it is not just tea that has done that, but are governor infant -- it is not just he that has done that but our governor in pennsylvania, the way the other governors have handled the covid crisis. host: that is michael in pennsylvania. we set aside a line for republicans, democrats, and indepen

the cuomos are a family, mario cuomo, these are not dummies, they first of all have operated by being savvy, smart, then competence, right, part of what makes a governor work again, as you know, governors, mayors, people at the state and local level is are you getting it done for your constituents, and i think of a lot of people, partly because andrew was, he understood how the bureaucracy worked, how the administration worked, he would promise tangible things for state and then deliver them. when you think back to what people liked about him during covid, even back then, and this is before we knew about some of the nursing home scandal, but you think back to last march and april, you looked at cuomo and said, what everyone said was, yeah, he's a jerk but there are moments when being a jerk is a good thing, centralize authority and get stuff done and be competent and keeping the trains running on time. if you put intellectual savvy and you put competence together, and then you understand that there is a way that's not a way of putting politics together that's not about coalition build

examining hundreds of thousands of pages related to the nursing home scandal, related to safety on the mario cuomoormation should be disclosed to public. let the public also be able to have access to this information. will: right. >> they need to do what is in the best interests, if it is impeachment they should move forward and consult attorneys. that is why we have judges in the state. will: we'll watch for accountability and what development it takes place. you were booted off of youtube. you posted announcement of a lawsuit against mayor bill de blasio here in new york city over vaccine passports. now i guess, i don't know, i will have to ask you, what standard, what violation did you commit talking about vaccine passports, pushing back on vaccine passports? why were you booted off of youtube? >> you know what? that is the question i want to know and i think millions of americans who have been victim of arbitrary decisions of big tech to take content off their platforms. the reality is i was specifically announcing a lawsuit against the mayor relating to privacy rights and mandates on our smal

well, chuck, i've been covering the cuomos through mario and hud leadership and he's been a toxic presence and abrasive presence throughout his father's career and is an enforcer and throughout his tenure in the clinton administration and he found he had no friends anywhere in the democratic establishment and had no alternative. what's your take? >> he didn't. i had talked to somebody very close to him last week who said they thought eventually he would get to resignation because he would not want to -- part of the punishment if he was convicted in an impeachment trial that he would no longer be able to serve in office in the state of new york. cuomo believes he can go and live another day. there was a lot of assumption that cuomo would stick this out and fight this as long as he could and buy time, delay, delay, delay. there was one other time when andrew cuomo took the politically pragmatic path and it paid off for him and it was the first time he ran for governor he quit mid-campaign when carl mccall was a state comptroller and that had started to get nasty and it had become clear, if c

cuomo is a fighter. i knew his father, mario, before that. tionship with andrew, as good as anybody can have. i'm against impeachment. i voted against bill clinton and donald trump. even though cuomo has a right to defend himself, cross examine the witnesses, find evidence, i don't think it's going to have an impact. every democrat i spoke to, he's called for andrew cuomo to resign. i'm taken to senators and the republicans are against him to begin with and virtually every democrat. i don't know what he's hoping to do by prolonging this. impeachment is a dangerous thing. you're removing a duly elected official. if he's incapable of governoring, i don't know why he will stay on unless it's part of a negotiating process that would involve him resigning and the criminal matters being resolved at the same time. the impeachment is primarily a political issue. it's whether or not people think he can govern. it's separate. it's very specific. it will be subject to cross examination, grand jury testimony and the rest. >> trace: you make a good point,

mario. liar. he saw this in his mother, matilda, liar. i've also coupled this with chris cuomoend the honor of your father that is no longer with us and your mother, thankfully, who is alive and well at 89.he's blamed his groping and his perverted ways on being taught this through the italian american culture through his dna? in the streets of brooklyn where i was raised, we call that a -- >> neil: there's a lot we tonight know and you're right about that. what he was trying to say, people mistake his actions for being a teachy feely person. i understand that. certainly these 11 women that have changed him with harassment and much worse disagree. this is quite different. i curious where you see this going. let's say he keeps fighting this. you become mayor. he could still technically be governor. you have to work with the governor whether it's going to be governor cuomo or the lieutenant governor. how is that going to go? >> my adversary, eric adams, the democratic candidate, and he hasn't been coronated yesterday, has been an enabler of andrew cuomo and his many ways. not just