roberta kaplan, the chairwoman of the time's up legal defense fund, abruptly resigned today after shed rather of helping to discredit one of cuomo's accusers, the organization in saying that kaplan's resignation was quote the right and appropriate thing to do foxes, brian yanis with more on the cuomo controversy from new york. melissa derosa, a longtime supporter and top aide to new york governor, andrew cuomo, has stepped down from her post in a statement to rosa says serving as cuomo's aid was quote the greatest honor of her life. but the statement did not address the allegations against cuomo. the move comes nearly one week after new york state attorney general leticia james released bombshell findings following an independent investigation into cuomo. it concluded he sexually harassed 11 women during his tenure as governor. meanwhile, one of cuomo's accusers is going public for the first time, accusing the governor of groping her while she served as an executive assistant on his staff. i then felt while taking the selfie his hand go down my back onto my butt, and he started rubbin

. >> yeah, you mentioned already, roberta kaplan for time's up who was advising governor cuomo about all of this. explain to people who may not understand, time's up is supposed to be in women's corners. >> so, this is the really complicated interesting situation. time's up founded to fight these problems, who becomes one of their biggest allies? governor andrew cuomo. this organization gets really substantive stuff done with the governor in the course of doing that, they develop a relationship that gets him -- that gets them in trouble, not because they were working with him on legislation, there's nobody who really thinks that was the wrong thing to do but because once these allegations started to dribble out, time's up got a little bit too involved in advising essentially roberta kaplan and tina tchen, the head gave some feedback on a kind of op-ed letter that is now coming under question in the a.g. report and also roberta kaplan who is this powerhouse progressive attorney, she helped get gay marriage established, it turns out that one of her firm's clients is melissa derosa, the

. >> in national news time's up leader roberta kaplan is resigning over fallout from her work advising new york governor andrew cuomo. this is the governor. of course, us facing a string of harassment allegations in a statement, kaplan says in part to reluctantly came to the conclusion an active law practice is no longer compatible with surfacing on the board at times up at this time. kaplan was the chair of the board of directors. she co founded the legal defense fund time's up is a charity that raises money to support victims of harassment. it began in response to harassment accusations against harvey weinstein. >> new york state lawmakers, meanwhile, are now moving forward with articles of impeachment against cuomo. a group of lawmakers are now trying to determine if there is grounded to remove him from office. some say they want to see an impeachment vote in a matter of days. but it's likely not going to be the case. that's because the assembly judiciary committee says their probe could take up to at least a month. the group says they still need to review additional evidence that c

today roberta kaplan resigned from time's up a national organize formed to fight workplace sexual misconduct. according to the state attorney general's report, kaplan offered advice on a letter from cuomo's team intended to take issue with the credibility of at least one of his accusers. >> this process will be concluded very soon, and when i say "very soon" i'm speaking about several weeks. >> reporter: and this afternoon, the state judiciary committee met to discuss potential articles of impeachment for sexual misconduct. also being considered whether the governor lied about the number of covid-related nursing home deaths, his possible use of state resources for a more than $5 million book deal and whether the governor prioritized covid testing for family and friends at the beginning of the pandemic. is it fair to say that the sexual misconduct allegations are taking precedence in this probe? >> it is fair to say. those eleven allegations were moved forward as being credible by the state attorney general. >> reporter: brittany commisso says that should be enough to convince the governor to

will roberta kaplan is a lawyer and she's one of the co founding members of the times up shower seats, organization that defends and supports the victims of sexual harassment and sexual abuse. it's a charity that raises funds for that legal costs and their main slogan. the slogan behind their mission is that no woman should be left behind, nobleman should be left voiceless. they should be able to tell a story and get the support they need. no matter how powerful they accuses. are you deserve more than just you are showing others at no one has the right to strip your voice. no matter how known and powerful they are. well, you can even buy merchandise, clothes and other items with that mission statement on limits. very well run organization. that's no doubt, help many, many women in the darkest hour. so what was cap plans, involvement at all this? well, report by the new york attorney general lateesha james mentions are multiple occasions saying she actually helped to review and draw the letter written by under quote, by which allegedly calls out attacks and diminishes the allegations p

from lateesha james, who is the new york state attorney general, indicates that that basically roberta kaplan, this lawyer from this organization, helping edit and put together a letter that was in support of new york state governor andrew while mon communicate the new york state governor andrew cuomo and new york attacking diminishing the allegations of the victims and attacking the victims, essentially, saying that that, that he was not, not, and surprisingly the revolution didn't go well with sexual assault victims who penned the letter calling on capital to go, they referred the letter as victim shaming. ah, and now we have caplin essentially stepping down from her leadership of the times of charity. now, this is what she said in her resignation letter. take a listen. i can't offer the degree of transparency about my firms matters now being demanded since that would be contrary to my responsibilities as a lawyer. now, ironically enough, kaplan is actually representing elizabeth jean carol, who is one of the accusers of donald trump, a writer who has accused donald trump of sexual assault

how embarrassing are roberta kaplan's ties to quote for this whole women's movement? do you think this could be damaging to the time's up side of it? of course it was canceled damaging as damaging to the democratic party, and the, and the democratic party mil. yeah. which, which encompasses, you know, the, the feminist movement, entertainment, publishing, journalism, etc. you know, the democratic 1000000 is very broad and it's very, you know, it's very influential. and the chattering classes, especially in the northeast where, where do york is as located. so this is acutely embarrassing to have cuomo, who was a cheerleader for me to movement down to fall victim to the movement. kind of suggest that the, that the, the, the monster is eating its own young. right. daniel lazar journalist and author, thanks for being with us. in helping us kind of unfold us as it's happening on auction international. thank you. or another scandal surrounding quote, most harassment case became even bigger after a group fighting sex abuse got involved. you heard us talking about just they'r

and we know when you had this kind of scandal you should resign, which is what roberta kaplan did, but i would argue that he should not have been there in the 1st place because the mission of me to was not her priority. protecting governor cuomo was and you know, there in the lives the problem on next story for years he's appends again. it has been routinely bullying hollywood movie makers into betraying the us military and a favorable light according to newly obtained documents. it also often demands script at it with one tv series, even getting its wings clipped by the us top brass constantino's golf reports propaganda on the silver screen. so the d o. d 's been waging war. the creative freedom is scrape writers and directors. perhaps the most blatant case is the 200-1900 c b s trauma serious decode about marine corps lawyers, which was canceled soon after elise got back. we're headed towards the as it turns out, the military saw the 1st after i was before they went on air and was upset about his story line showing a marine turned congress magic. he's the brutally execute and then ir

as a lawyer, roberta kaplan's mentioned in the report has left sexual assault victims. furious wrote open letter indeed, and which they call for capitan resigned from the times a board which she subsequently did before the candidate for new york city council destroyed, under coleman's administration as being like a bully. he was so universally disliked held himself above the law and got away with bad behavior for so long that when it came time for people to take him down, no one really came to his aid. so i think when this actually happened, i wasn't really surprised because everybody in politics kind of knows that the cuomo administration is the administration of a bully. this is a pattern that you often see in politics, that even though people act badly, they're actually rewarded and they're not held to the same standards of regular people. and this is why, you know, ordinary folks are so sick of politics and sick of the 2 party system. and they want other choices for leaders. you know, choices, you know, where they can actually vote for the ordinary person that has the same concer

so the ag report found that roberta kaplan reviewed a draft of a disparaging op-ed letter aimed at attacking org. of any says said this of kaplan stepping down. we and she agree that it's the right and appropriate thing to do. the events of last week made it clear our process should be evaluated. we will do just that. we need a more inclusive process to engage the broader survivor community, many of whom spent years doing the nobel work of -- noble work of fighting for women. kaplan responded. she said recent events that our apparent allies in the fight to advance women can turn out to be abusers. ed to, you said -- todd, you said it, this is an unbelievable situation, with kaplan, co-founder of the time's up organization, working with governor cuomo. todd: where was her apology in that statement? did i miss it? >> carley: i think you may have. jillian: can we call you nice? carley: you can call me nice. can i call you nice? jillian: you can. carley: apparently people need to watch out when they call folks nice because white house press secretary jen psaki told vogue magazine she thinks the

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prominent lawyer roberta kaplan has resigned from the times of charity after she advised andrew cuomo on how to respond to sexual harassment claims. she chaired a nonprofit founded by hollywood woman to fight sexual harassment. it comes a day after the governor's top aide also stepped down. by the way, cuomo denies any misconduct. global news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm vonnie quinn. this is bloomberg. shery: the fed's 2021 tape recorders is growing. the atlanta fed president's is the central bank should move to taper after another strong month or two of employment gains, and proceed with the process faster than in the past. he argues that bond purchases are no longer helping to create jobs, but instead are hoping to drive up prices on things like homes and cars. that, as the inflation debate continues to divide officials and consumers. >> number one, we're heading in that direction. >> you should be worried about overheating. and instead we hear much too m uch of the rhetoric of t

. >> roberta kaplan is known as a woman's advocate.fice used to attack the credibility of the first woman to step forward to accuse him of wrongdoing lindsey boylen. with mounting pressure kaplan resigned from times up me too. the organization said it agreed with her decision and held themselves accountable for lack of transparency. but adding insult to injury is what roberta kaplan said a few years ago regarding the legal counsel she contributed to the case against security justice brett kavanaugh. what we've learned from me to and times up today is that women should be believed. and that women have no reason, no rational reason to put themselves through this unless what they are saying is true. so she clearly took the opposite point of view when it came to at least one woman accusing governor cuomo of sexual harassment. and a prominent lgbtq advocate president of the human rights campaign also under fire to resign for allegedly providing legal counsel in that same letter to discredit lindsey boylen. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: didn'

. >> i have to ask you particularly about the relationship between roberta kaplan and miss derosa becauseosa, so do you think -- should roberta kaplan step away from time's up. do you have any -- do you feel uncomfortable about that, the link between the two, especially now that it's involving these 11 allegations against the governor. >> well, i'm not going to speak for robbie kaplan and those events will unfold. the person who we should talk about who should resign is andrew cuomo. this is the distraction that is going on, part of a pattern i believe has been going on from this governor, from the beginning. which is to look for cover from people like us, and distract now by using us as a distraction from the moment, because the resignation we should be focusing on is the resignation of andrew cuomo. >> we have -- don't have enough time to play this sound from the governor's attorney yesterday on cnn. but basically she's denying the fact the governor is trying to blame the victims and is saying that the governor -- that the attorney general's report is shoddy, it is biased, it omits evid

two high-profile resignations in cuomo's circle, roberta kaplan, chairwoman of times up, she was implicatedt for reviewing an op-ed that was never published that was critical criticizing trying to discredit one of cuomo's first accusers and melissa derosa, a top aide to cuomo and secretary also stepped down, but in her statement made no mention of any of the allegations. she denies any wrongdoing though she was also named in the ag report for an alleged retaliation campaign. pretty quiet at the albany strait capitol, a protester holding up signs calling for his resignation. i talked to committee members at the new york state assembly. they met yesterday to discuss impeachment proceedings. friday we have a big deadline for cuomo, when he can submit any defense documents to the judiciary committee and then the judiciary committee will present findings to the assembly. the assembly will vote on whether to proceed with impeachment and the governor has 30 days to respond. after that, the trial would go to the senate. we are talking about hundreds of thousands of documents. they look in detail th

amy: in related news, the prominent report -- the prominent lawyer roberta kaplan has resigned from the times up group. times up is the organization that helps women who have been sexually harassed, abused or assaulted. meanwhile, the human rights campaign has launched an internal probe into reports that its president, alphonso david helped cuomo discredit a woman who accused him of sexual harassment. david is a former legal advisor to cuomo. we will have more on this story leader in the broadcast with alessandra biaggi. a competition program for the survivors of convicted predator and sex trafficker jeffrey epstein has finished its claims process. the epstein victims compensation program said monday it had awarded $125 million to about 150 people out of 225 people who filed claims. in related news, in new york, virginia giuffre, one of epstein's accusers, has filed a federal lawsuit against prince andrew, accusing the british royal of sexually abusing her at epstein's mansion in manhattan, and other locations in 2001 when she was a minor. giuffre also accuses prince andrew of intention

roberta kaplan, a prominent u.s.ted a letter of resignation, amid growing criticism with her close ties to governor cuomo, and i will just read an excerpt of that letter. i cannot offer the degree of transparency about my firm's matters now being demanded since that would be contrary to my responsibilities as a lawyer. and just a couple of days ago the attorney general came report came out and was released to the public. it shows that investigators referenced kaplan for reviewing a disparaging op-ed that essentially attacked one of governor cuomo's accusers. so that was something that was detailed in this report, which led to the outcry and then came today's resignation. time's up also issued a statement in the wake of the letter that came down from their former leader. it reads, in part, our staff does incredible work and contributes to change every day, so we are counting on our sisters and allies not to lose sight of the broader work and let a man's treachery be overshadowed in any way. we do not ask for a pass. w

which is supposed to be about defending women from sexual harassment and sexual assault at work, roberta kaplano after the women who were accusing him of doing all these things and corroborated in this report we saw come out. so there's that layer too, this time's up hollywood movement on the left supposed to be standing up for women and the woman running the show was actually helping to smear the reputations to women coming forward. >> this is really a continuation of the story we've been seeing in the aftermath of, you know, the beginning of time's up where people realized actually these stories are incredibly textured and they're different in cases, like you remember the beginning suddenly harvey weinstein and al frank inare the same person which is ludicrous and i think al franken is sitting there saying i cannot believe i resigned after seeing what we saw happen there. so it was right for her to resign and i do as someone, the only member of the liberal party at the table, i can tell you people who have the same politics as me has shifted away from believing in organizations or shifting in

the times up leader roberta kaplan is resigning over fallout from her work advising new york governor andrew cuomo. this is the light of several harassment allegations made against him. in a statement released today kaplan states. she has, quote, reluctantly come to the conclusion that an active law practice is no longer compatible with servicing on the board as time's up at times. up. kaplan was the chair of the board of directors of time's up and co-founder of the times up legal defense fund time's up is a charity that raises money to support victims of harassment. it was founded in response to harassment accusations against harvey weinstein and the me too. movements. meanwhile, selection began today in new york city in the trial of r kelly. more than 2 years after he was first indicted, he's facing racketeering charges alleging he ran a criminal enterprise recruiting women and underage girls for over 2 decades. prosecutors also say he may child and made hush money payments to silence his victims. prosecutors say they want to tell jurors about several additional allegations involvin

roberta kaplan, head of times up has stepped down from her work advising andrew cuomo when the firstnt allegations were made against him. omaha, nebraska, flash flooding trapping several people in elevators. some in water up to their necks. others helped pry open the elevator doors allowing them to escape unharmed. nearly five inches of rain fell in the city. >>> in france, residents and tourists have to show proof of vaccination before they can travel across the country or get served in restaurants and bars people must show a qr code or risk a fine. some restaurant owners are already refusing to request proof of vaccination >>> in greece, volunteers helping firefighters battle a massive wildfire that's been burning fora week. thousands of residents and tourists have already fled the fires. on the news, california's dixie fire growing to become the state's largest wildfire ever. and a key climate report shows why the impact of global warming is still accelerating. tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern scott, back to you >> we appreciate that. >>> before the break i mentioned somebo somebody e

we have a story, roberta kaplan, cofounder of times' up, legal defense fund.ually resigned from that organization. she was mentioned in the state ag report assigning off on and approving a letter and op-ed written by andrew cuomo and his team to discredit cuomo accuser lindsey boylan. when you see that happening what does this tell you about the state of the "me too" movement? >> you know, obviously there is some hypocrisy and double standards. the reality the governor was very quick to call for others to resign including three assembly members of his own party accused of sexual harassment before any investigation was taking place as well as you remember the attorney general schneiderman who was accused by an ex-girlfriend of assault. so the governor has to resign at this point. if he doesn't resign he have will be impeachmented. i think that is the bottom line. i said all along would be by criminal conviction, prosecution by, by resignation or at the ballot box. it seems more and more likely it will be impeachment because the governor just seems to think he i

more fallout tonight from the harassment scandal surrounding new york governor andrew cuomo, roberta kaplan. >> resigned today from her position as board of directors chair at times up. that's an organization that aids women who've experienced harassment in the workplace cap and received harsh criticism for advising the cuomo administration and his top aide, melissa derosa when the harassment claims first surfaced last year, de rosa, who was cuomo secretary resigned from her position yesterday report by the state attorney general accused her of helping retaliate against one of the governor's 11 accusers, a longtime accuser of jeffrey epstein is now suing prince andrew, virginia. giuffre says the 61 year-old british royal sexually abused her at jeffrey epstein's new york mansion. a number of times when she was under the age of 18. she filed the suit nearly 2 years ago to the day after epstein died in new york. a new york city jail while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. the lawsuit accuses prince andrew of assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress. a spokesperson for

also today, roberta kaplan, the chairwoman of the time's up legal defense fund, abruptly resigned afterlping to discredit one of cuomo's accusers. the government is investigating ford for how it handled last september's recall of more than 700,000 vehicles around the world that includes more than 620,000 in the u. s called back over faulty backup cameras, the national highway traffic safety administration probe is looking into both the timeline and scope of that recall to see if the company acted fast enough to fix the problems for documented the issue after may 12th meeting but issued the recall in september. after two weeks. the 2020 tokyo olympics have officially come to an end. last night, a spectacular closing ceremony there were virtually no fans in the olympic stadium for the show. but the presentation as you can see, there was still incredible. taking a look at the final media account. you can see that the us had 113 total medals. 39 of them were gold. china was not far behind with 38 gold medals and a total of 88 medals over all their followed by russia, great britain and japan

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meantime, roberta kaplan, an attorney for the #metoo organization has resigned. lgbtq organization, actually under investigation. his name is alfonso david. they are both accused and the attorney general's report of helping governor cuomo retaliate against one of his sexual harassment accusers. >> john: the onion just keeps getting peeled back, layer by layer. brian, thanks so much. we are expecting the speaker of the assembly as well as chairman of the judiciary to come out later on this afternoon and sort of explain next apps and all of this. >> anita: you've got two things going on. the judiciary committee meeting, and now you have the criminal complaint, so like you said, the heat is getting turned up. >> john: moment by moment. >> john: moment by moment. >> john: joining us in a little bit to talk about this, make sure you stick around for that. >> anita: moving on, new covid case is now averaging 100,000 cases per day. confusion is growing as schools prepare to reopen with the varying rules on masks and vaccines here now one of the nation's largest teachers

governor cuomo's most trusted adviser melissa derosa and the chairman of time's up, roberta kaplan, wereing involved in an effort against the first cuomo accuser, lindsey boylan. tim o'brien is still with us and joyce vance is with us. tim, i will get to you in a moment. joyce, is there something that could force the governor's hand into resigning before he is impeached? >> i think it is politics more than law that comes into play here, nicolle. of course, there are reports albany has started a criminal investigation into one of these allegations. that appears to be a misdemeanor sort of investigation, and it is unlikely that it can move more quickly than the political proceedings. so i suspect we are looking at questions of politics, not law, at least in the short term here. . >> so, tim, the politics of this are pretty stark. i mean i don't know that the governor has any defenders left, not just in new york but in democratic national politics. how do you see this playing out? >> i see him as having to resign, and if he doesn't resign he is going to get impeached and forced out of offic

meantime roberta kaplan an attorney for the mutual organization times up has resigned in the human rightsd both of them are accused of helping cuomo staff and a retaliate against some of his accusers. jackie: thank you troubles for the governor mounting will bring you all the details as they become available. driving cost of behind the wheel we will break down the potential mileage tax that can charge you for hitting the road. we may come back. new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. when you sponsor a job, you immediately get your shortlist of quality candidates, whose resumes on indeed match your job criteria. visit indeed.com/hire and get started today. in business, it's never just another day. it's the big sale, or the big presentation. whose resumes on indeed match your job criteria. the day where everything goes right. or the one where nothing does. with comcast business you get the network that can deliver gig speeds to the most businesses and advanced cybersecurity to protect every device on it— all backed by a dedicated team, 24/7.

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