janice dean as new york state assemblyman ron kim call for justice at the memorial for new york nursing home covid-19 victims. take a listen. >> i know that his rein of abuse of power will end soon. >> i am an expert in trying to find answers and accountability for their death. jillian: a new york times podcast leaked audio from 2018 reveals how far governor andrew cuomo has gone to threaten critics. >> if you were to say -- i'm going to say better than a child rapist, how of about that. jillian: the democrat's remarks comes after lackluster support in the general election. carley: today a chicago suburb is set to vote to begin reparation payments for black residents. they will vote on the first $400,000 round of payments, it

fors fox news senior meteorologist janice dean and new york state assemblyman ron kim call for justice at the memorial for new york's nursing home covid-19 victims. >> i know that his reign of abuse of power will end soon. >> i am an expert in trying find answers and accountability for their deaths. jillian: a new york times podcast leaked audio from 2018 revealing how far governor andrew cuomo has gone to threaten critics. listen to this. >> i'm going to say you're better than achild rapist, how about that. jillian: democrat's remark comes after lack husband at thet in the general election. tom reed said he will not run for re-election next year. this comes a week after he was accused of misconduct by a female lobbyist in 2017. robinhood apologized to the

i took a democrat among those on the new york assembly ron kim to come forward against the governor and say he was bullied. and having to do with what he called the coverup of the numbers and all of that in the nursing home scandal. it took more voices. i want to wednesday the young woman and we will move on. she says journalists are often told not to let themselves become part of the story. more than five years ago i left albany for a new job in florida. but many of my former colleagues and friends are still there trying to retain objectivity. everyone after enduring harassment. so she -- even after enduring harassment. she indicates that there are more. she says, "i can speak out because i have survived camp cuomo. the others are still living it." emily. >> emily: thank you, harris. we will bring this story to you. obviously as it unfolds with the news conference coming up at 1:00 p.m.

jillian: fox news senior meteorologist janice dean and new york state assemblyman ron kim call for justice at the new york memorial for covid-19 victims. >> expert in trying to find answers and accountability for their deaths. jillian: kim joined us earlier to weigh in. >> for 10 months to give these families the voice that they lacked and that in one second the governor wanted me to lie and cover everything up to protect him. jillian: new york lawmakers are preparing an impeachment investigation. a fugitive pulled a gup on a florida deputy and his canine. watch this. >> i said stop. stop. >> no. no. no. no. >> put your hands behind your back. >> put your hands where you can see it. >> i can't. >> drop the gun. get down now. >> the marion county sheriff's office says the suspect choked the dog and bit the canine cop's ear. he now faces multiple charges

ron kim is a member of the new york state assembly representing a district that includes flushing queenshich is home to more than 30,000 chinese immigrants. and joining us from open, california, is kim tran, an anti-racist writer and organizer based in the bay area. currently writing a book titled "the end of allyship: a new era of solidarity." a subliminal cam, let's begin with you. can you talk about this increase in asian american hate crimes? >> thank you for having me on. there is a long history of asian americans in this country feeling targeted. whatever we experience economic downturns or racial injustice, almost 40 years ago murder because of workers lost their jobs to japanese car manufacturers to got their anger on him to the l.a. riots black d korean communities were pitted against each other. i think the knee-jerk reaction -- i get that. it is heartbreaking and makes peop feel so angry when they say videos -- see the videos. the 20-year-old nanny would have gone out with a bat. you feel like your people are violently targeted, the immediate reaction is to respond with more v

>> well, i love ron kim, by the way. ron kim has been by my side from the very beginning. it's not about politics. right? i know he's a democratic lawmaker. this has affected his family personally and he's one of the loudest people in the room. i adore him and his family. he's really trying to see this through and maybe try for an impeachment with this governor. to your point, i've been bullied by this governor and his administration from really the beginning. they call this death cult. they told my sister-in-law to get a life. as you said, quoted his top -- i call him spokes troll because he's on twitter all the time. he said i wasn't credible about anything except the weather. i think today spokes volumes. i think the fact that there is a federal investigation, an fbi investigation and hopefully the doj investigation continues into this governor. i think what he's done is criminal. >> martha: janice, thanks very much. good to have you here on "the story." you continue to make your own sunshine. i encourage everybody to take a look at the bright side of your story as well

as you pointed out, state lawmaker ron kim, cuomo accused of bullying and threatening him.cused of trying to do a smear campaign against another accuser, lindsey boylan, that is the new yorker magazine reporting that. what is going on here, will this be added to the impeachment resolution? >> that is certainly something we would look at doing. going back a few weeks ago we originally proposed a impeachment commission, focused on the nursing homes but as the sexual allegations have come out we added that to the mix. this past monday we introduced this impeachment resolution. i think all of these things have to be put in there, it really shows just all around just the lack of, you know, trust that we should have in the executive at this point f they're going to conduct themselves this way with somebody who is alleging sexual harrassment, inappropriate sexual behavior what would they not do? >> yeah. so you're saying, it should be put into the impeachment resolution. so that, you're making news right there. let's listen to cuomo's accuser ana liss explain what happened when cu

assemblyman ron kim is with me now. mr.thanks for having me on, brooke. >> i want to stay on what athena was reporting out, the fact that the governor has said he's, quote, truly sorry to those who, quote, might have misinterpreted the remarks as an unwanted flirtation. what do you make of the governor's choice of words there? >> that is not an apology, brooke. we all know anyone who has taken a sexual harassment class there's a big difference between intention and outcome. the outcome is that women were hurt. they felt abused and threatened by the governor and that's all that matters and he should be issuing a genuine a jian and thinking about resigning as soon as possible. >> you heard the sound a moment ago from congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. we've also heard from speaker nancy pelosi and senator kirsten gillibrand all saying that these appear to be credible charges. you know the governor. what did you immediately think when you read about these allegations? >> the governor is an abuser. i think we all know that

assemblyman ron kim who you mentioned when he recounted that phone call, i don't think there was anyoneeither had covered albany, covered the governor in an elected position that didn't believe that that call happened exactly the way ron kim recounted it. i have never received a phone call like that but i know many colleagues who have and so, look, it's a reap what you sow, like my mom used to say when i was a kid, what goes around, comes around. this is someone who didn't have a lot of friends. people did things because they were afraid or they thought it was their advantage to be aligned with him. that is no longer the case. i think that's why you're seeing democrats and republicans uniformly saying you need to go, he's a huge distraction. we should be talking about reopening our economy. we should be talking about getting people back to work, getting people vaccinated. we should be talking about the state budget. instead, we're talking about all of his scandals and the investigations and that's why he should resign and again, if he refuses to do so, we have an obligation to begin to

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seeing my colleague ron kim being threatened like they that, i understood what was going on.hat's the way he does things. jillian: were you ever threatened? you said you were on the receiving end of the call, what was that like? >> it's a scary thing. you don't know what to do. it's coming from the governor's staff, that they're not -- don't like what you're doing or don't like what you're saying, essentially trying to silence you and having been through something like that, when i heard about what was happening to ron kim, i knew exactly what was happening because it had happened to a number of other legislator that probably don't want to speak up about it because they're concerned with the governor's style of doing things, the governor's bullying. it's something that's a long pattern, a long history. everybody at the capitol knows that this governor has a pattern of threatening and bullying, controlling and manipulating, he's not interested in being in a he co-equal branch of government. he doesn't like to be told what to do. he doesn't like oversight. we saw that with the

working families and other organizations like that predict the new york democratic is a movement ron kim tweeted this and he says that cuomo should do the right thing and resign while the investigating wrongdoings if not we now have a constitutional duty to pursue impeachment. that is not coming from a republican, as a fellow democrat in the ark legislature. claudia: so the working family party is critical for most democrats to get elected in the district. the working family would put up somebody one of these democrats the primary, he could not be the only way to take them out where new york city is largely donated by the democrats printed them and calling for it for several weeks now. and of the nursing home scandals, this is just icing on the cake. and you have to question a lot of women are coming out in support of this impeachment and certainly kudos to ron kim and janice and others who have been standing strong in this. the words the lieutenant governor, and hasn't really come out and taking a position. in the event that the governor resigns, or is impeached, kathy with santa be the

ron kim as you mentioned is actually the chair of a committee.the power to subpoena witnesses, compel testimony and investigate what has happened with this nursing home situation. and the governor intimidated him or attempted to. for me that's a crime and what i would support impeachment for. i encourage these women to share their stories and for more to come forward, please, we want to hear what you have to say. >> harris: assemblyman smith thank you very much from the great state of new york. good to see you today. we'll have you back to update us. new concerns and new details on the surge at the border. you know, the crisis. migrants with covid-19 now coming in. you heard that from the lieutenant governor of texas dan patrick just moments ago and then they will be allowed to fan out across the united states, so we're told. president trump's border chief will join us on the growing danger. plus 43 days and counting. he promised transparency but president biden has gone longer than any president in nearly the past 100 years without holding a new

you heard my colleague ron kim getting a call like that, you're right, it crosses a line.overnor interfering with the legislature the way this governor has a history of doing. ashley: when is enough enough? i guess we'll find out but it is you know, head-scratching that he is continued to remain where he is, to remain defiant. we'll continue to follow it. thank you so much, assemblyman angelo santa barbara, thank you very much, assemblyman. >> thank you. ashley: just made, retired army lieutenant colonel james carafano. he is talking about reports that iran is threatening to attack a top american general and as well as military base on u.s. soil. we'll get into that. ♪. - hello, friends, michael youssef here. to some people, the cross is a symbol of division and hatred. to others, the cross is an offense. only those who place their whole trust in the christ of the cross will receive forgiveness of all of their sins and guilt and receive eternal peace. will you come to christ today? - [announcer] visit findingtruepeace.com to find out more. i knew about the tremors. but whe

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new york assemblyman ron kemp says governor cuomo's rein of abuse will end soon. mr. kim powerful politician in the state of new york. ♪ ♪ >> when i got that call from governor cuomo threatening me and my career and livelihood to lie for him, i wasn't scared of his bully tactics but i was afraid that he would escape accountability. this is about decency. this is about decent human beings coming together, taking on the most powerful politician in the state of new york. together, we will get to the truth. steve: and that's what so many people want. as you can see it was a solemn sunday in new york's brooklyn. that was democratic assemblyman ron kim demanding answers as new york families mourn the losses of more than 15,000 residents who died in nursing homes. but, their despair was joined by determination to hold governor andrew cuomo accountable for down playing the death toll after his deadly executive order and assemblyman ron kim joins us live this morning. assemblyman good morning to you. >> good morning. thank you for having me on. steve: hearing you talk yesterday br

assemblyman ron kim spoke with bloomberg. >> i don't think he deserves the privilege of governing inork state, after he chose to abuse his power, to not only cover of life and death information of nursing homes, but now woman after woman is coming out accusing him of his abusive behavior. we need to move the state forward. in order to do that, i think you should step down. mark: governor cuomo issued a statement sunday saying that his actions were misinterpreted as unwanted flirtations and was sorry "to the extent anyone felt that way." italy's new government may soon ask parliament to approve more stimulus spending. a sluggish vaccination campaign and new coronavirus strains have extended the nation's reliance on fiscal support. italy has spent more than $120 billion to support its virus -battered economy. a group of lawmakers is urging secretary of state antony blinken to appoint a new special envoy for the venezuela crisis. officials are looking to inject new momentum to remove nicolas maduro. the job has been vacant since elliot abrams left. secretary blinken has appointed new en

>> ron kim who had an uncle dina nursing home has been doing just that, speaking out and trying to rally troops and bring a course of lawmakers to make sure that this never happens again. i think this governor and all the people around him that tried to cover the sub need to go to jail. todd: every time we do these stories, this is not a democrat or republican thing, it is a bipartisan situation, individuals saying the governor needs to go and more than anything it is a human situation. >> janice: it is about what is right and what is wrong and what happens to our loved ones in nursing homes was evil. steve: get the full truth and nothing but it and all the answers you and thousands of family members, victims of the old ones -- love the ones who died across the country. members of the biden administration heading to the border to look at the influx of minors crossing into the us. hhs report revealed on average 321 children are entering the us every day up from 47 per day when donald trump was in office, the latest numbers also showing the agency has 7700 unaccompanied minors in custody.

ron kim responding this is criminal, they pushed health officials to strip a public report of the datawing more nursing home deaths, the changes to the report revealed they had a full accounting of nursing home deaths but a senior advisor to the governor pushing back saying the facilities it was omitted after the city could not be adequate be verified. this did not change the conclusion of the report which was and is that the march 20 fifth order was not a driver of nursing home infections or fatalities. state officials say 15,000 presidents of nursing homes died due to covid-19 and all of this is happening is governor cuomo is facing sexual harassment allegations from three women including charlotte bennett who spoke out in a televised interview. >> without expressly saying that he implied to me that i was old enough to him and he was lonely. >> reporter: did you watch his apology? >> i did. it is not an apology. it is not an issue of my feelings. it's an issue of his actions. the fact is he was sexually harassing me and has not apologized for sexually harassing me. he can't even use

democrat assembly man ron kim told fox news that female lawmakers are demanding the governor step down in light of these new details. a senator released this statement tonight: nothing on the schedule for the governor tomorrow, but this will be all over the headlines. it will dominate the news here in new york. >> shannon: calling for resignation grow and talk of impeachment as well. breaking tonight the biden administration is caught between calls from the progressive left to deband "ice" and the illegal immigrants grossing our southern border. kevin cork has more tonight. >> a key biden administration said in spanish by mistake that the border is not closed instead of saying it is. regardless of what may have been lost in translation every day millions of people are coming to our southern border and this administration is unable or unwilling to put a stop to it. >> surges tend to respond to hope. there was a significant hope for a more humane policy after 4 years of the pent-up demand. >> pent-up demand to immigrate to the united states and skip the line ahead of millions who are pla

as we've seen with the threats to ron kim, the new allegations and willingness to cover up data, he can'tivate independent review, a private lawyer to review the facts of the case. what's his play there? >> his initial play was to try to hand pick the person who would investigate him which was ridiculous. i know he saw pushback from the legislative leaders and probably every person in the legislature. now it does look likely at thisa james will get the probe into this with subpoena power. i think his back is against the wall and looks like we're moving in that direction, we'll get some answers. ashley: another thing that's contradicting a move on cuomo is he fund raised for the me too movement in 2018. i want your thoughts on this and what message or of mixed message this gives to the public. >> it's basically just the height of hypocrisy. like you said, he fund raised off the me too movement. meanwhile, he was creating an awful, toxic work environment for the women in his administration. he mandatedsexual harassment tr. he didn't attend it himself. he should have reflected on himself and

to donald trump but now the knives are being sharpened from within because he treated people like ron kimd him a bear de blasio said he's bullied him and others so the sharpening the knives and governor cuomo is up for election in 2022 and looking pretty vulnerable right now is beware the other big issue with play with the issues of two young women the manner in which the cuomo administration his own office handled them we learned from the new york times investigation not today, the latest employee went straight to her boss in the cuomo office where she worked including the chief of staff at the time they responded to her complaint by promoting her big time she went from being an executive assistant to an administrative job to be no policy advisor on health issues and this is how they essentially handled her complaint is it's a good standard to set for dealing with women's complaints of sexual misconduct and the workplace. >> there's nothing good about this and obviously they have built up andrew cuomo and they thought he could get away with denials from these accusations but actually he

nursing homes and under-reporting that number, the stonewall of the state legislature, the bullying of ron kimernor because he lost his kell in a nursing home. we know there's a double standard. you know what? they can't deny it for much longer because they're seeing public pressure mount. you're seeing even people like speak i pelosi come out, alexandria ocasio-cortez and kirstin gillibrand just said something. she dragged her feet but she is finally saying something. that's the key point. i've been calling for this governor to resign for months now. he has to go. people can add their name at enoughcuomo.com if they agree with me. whether by resignation, prosecution, i don't think he makes it to the ballot box next year for sure, the governor is going to have to leave because this is piling on and it's way too much for new yorkers to tolerate. todd: we've got about a minute left. you were in albany. now you're in d.c. doing the federal thing. a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill passed the house, headed to the senate this week. does it pass or does your fellow colleague from new york, chuc

. >> democratic lawmaker ron kim. you have been working with him.s not a partisan issue but you both of suffered losses and trying to get answered. he said this in a tweet today, quote, i'm thinking of writing a book about what we went through, four days after the report's released. his first public comments about a possible book. he says this is criminal. impeach. what do you think will be the end result for him at this point? >> we have come this far and we have always known there has been dishonesty with this governor and his administration. we have known they were undercounting the numbers. we knew putting covid-19 patients in a nursing home was not based on science but i am optimistic. there is a federal investigation, an fbi investigation, hopefully that doj investigation started by the trump presidency and hopefully the biden presidency will continue with that. i think people are starting to see the the sunlight is the best disinfectant and this governor has been nothing but corrupt and i think a lot of these charges are criminal. >> these al

democrat assemblyman ron kim tells fox news a group of female lawmakers are circulating a letter demanding the governor step down immediately in light of these new allegations. these details. senator michelle and she releasing this statement, in light of these allegations coupled with deliberate mishandling and withholding of information in regards to the nursing home crisis, she said i believe it is in the best interests of the people of new york for the governor to resign. nothing on the scale for the governor tomorrow but you can surely bet that this will be all over the headlines, dominating the news in new york. >> calls for resignation growing talks impeachment as well. thank you. >> breaking tonight the biden administration appears to be caught between calls from the progressive left to disband ice and the reality of a massive surge of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border. kevin cork is tracking at all, the very latest for us tonight. >> perhaps we could get a chuckle out of the fact that a key biden administrator today said in spanish presumably my mistakes at the border

and then after that, his character started to get called into question with ron kim saying he has threatenedxual harassment allegation in december and people barely blinked. after this came out, they took her more seriously and now a sixth woman that just came out as well. i would venture a guess that it may be more. >> martha: could be. we've seen the snow ball effect of these kinds of allegations before. the other thing that stuck out to me is that the -- with the nursing home situation, there's now this indication that we just heard bryan talk about that there was also a home for disabled individuals that they also on april 10, the other one was march 25, april 1 to to lead the coronavirus positive patients in these disabled homes as well. >> it's the same directive. the only difference is the directive for disabled individuals is still in act today. it's still on the books today. you have to wonder why that is. the nursing home allegation was so big that they forgot about -- >> martha: didn't get any reporting until it was broke here on fox news last night. carley, thanks very much. good

quite frankly reminiscent of the reported call, threatening call of my colleague, assemblyman ron kimng committee. he was basically told by the governor he didn't want him to tell the truth. that his office was covering up the deaths of covid-19 nursing home residents from covid-19 and potentially intention to obstruct justice. elizabeth: okay. so, he was lauded and applauded by the international media and by democrats as the next presidential contender, for his pressers last year, thought to be straight-shooter, kind of events, went behind the scenes. he was covering up covid-19 nursing home deaths and sexually, allegedly sexually harassing state workers under his, under his purview. so publishing no plans to reprint or publish his book on leadership. he said to want a spot in the biden administration. that is why he wrote the book. what do you think of this angle of the story? >> i think the context for when he started talking about potentially writing a book, it was right around the time that we were looking for answers for covid-19 -- and how has it affected the newsing home resid

answers and we will not stop, we have been shouting for ten months, ten months and i am grateful for ron kim i am grateful for for him because he was brave enough to stand up and want accountability for all of us, that's why a lot of you are here and i'm grateful for the coverage. but we will not stop, we will not stop even when the cameras stop rolling. we want answers and i hope we get them, i think we are getting closer so we remember everyone today the 15000 plus that we lost, many of us were not able to mourn in the traditional ways so i thank you my family, i think you and let's remember them, let's remember them because they risk their lives and we cannot let them die in vain. thank you. mike: you could hear the heartbreak in janice's voice, we will have live coverage throughout this hour and throughout the day and a live report with alex hogan just a few minutes, you can stream it live on foxnews.com. ♪ when you have metastatic breast cancer, what does it mean to be a thriver? it means we grab a hold of what matters most. we sweat the details. ask for what we want. get what we need.

you could say the same thing about his call to assemblyman ron kim. threatened retaliation, i think that's an impeachable offense as well. he's going to use what he can to leverage, and i don't want him using the budge. we have close to a $190 billion budget in the state of new york, and we can't allow the governor to use his executive powers through this budget process which is due april 1st to impede or interfere with any investigation. elizabeth: okay. you know, we've got an impeachment trial coming up in the state of new york. it's been green lighted. it's going to get nastier and uglier. when you see democrats stepping forward today, friday after jerry nadler broke the silence in washington, the silence of the democrats in washington though had been deafening. they pounded the table for brett kavanaugh to step aside, we're talking vice president harris and kirsten gillibrand, also nancy pelosi. as we just reported minutes ago, gillibrand finally called for cuomo to resign. they were vehement that brett kavanaugh not sit on the supreme court. watc

kennedy: how dare he breed is why will ron kim a democrat has come out and said this governor need toquestion you think new yorkers are jealous that california has a mechanism for throwing the bums out with the ballot process? >> i am jealous or sure. i don't know. it was a sad, scary thing is i think governor cuomo could win a fourth term. it is not implausible in new york. it really says something sad about my statement here we are. super alright i'm living hereto for now. man what a bunch of dumb domes, karol markowicz you are awesome your writings been fantastically reporting as always thank you. coming up covered governor gavin newsom accused of dying indoors again despite banning indoor dining across much of the state. will he practice what he preaches? or will this just speed up the recall? recall? my memo is recall? my memo is recall? my memo is ♪ ♪ ♪ recall? my memo is when it comes to your financial health, just a few small steps can make a real difference. ♪ ♪ ♪ guidance on your terms. confidence feels good. chase. make more of what's yours. if you have postmenopausal osteo

you take those two incidents, plus the bullying allegations from state lawmakers ron kim earlier thiswhole lot of trouble. >> anne thompson, thank you very much. thank you for being out there for us today. >>> and meanwhile, the first shots of johnson & johnson's coronavirus vaccine could be in american arms starting tomorrow, as doses of the newly approved vaccine left kentucky just moments ago. the company said it will be shipping out a million doses. you can see the first part of those doses on that u.p.s. truck heading to the airport in kentucky. all good news for the administration, and 20 million would be out by the end of march. at a critical time with growing news over variants. savannah guthrie said today, the vaccine offers stronger protection to what matters both, the south african variant notably and serious illness and hospitalization. >> 40% of our patients were from latin america and about 15% were in south africa, where over 90% of those patients were infected with the south african variant that we really didn't even fully understand or appreciate earlier in the year.

. >> shannon: so the democratic lawmaker out of new york ron kim, you've been working with him togetheru say this is not a partisan issue but they've suffered losses and trying to get answers. he said this in a tweet today. talking about writing a book what we went through. mr. cuomo said four days after the report is released, his first public comments about a possible book, he said that this is criminal grid mph. do you think, janice, will be the end result for him at this point? >> we have come this far and we have always known that there has been dishonesty with the governor and his administration. we knew when we were undercounting the numbers, we knew that putting b26 positive patients in the nursing homes was not based on science. but i am optimistic that there is a federal investigation, there is an fbi investigation, hopefully a doj investigation that was started by the trump presidency and hopefully the biden presidency will continue with that. you know, i think people are starting to see that the sunlight is the best disinfectant, and this governor has been nothing but corrup

he has a pattern -- we saw him with ron kim. that behavior shouldn't happen at the state capitol.here's changes needed there and begins with finding a governor that wants to work with the legislature, not just push them aside and try to consolidate power to his office. >> neil: so you have given up on the governor? >> i think at this point for the good of the state, allow us to move forward in this critical period, i think the governor should resign at this point. a lot of my colleagues, you're finding more and more are calling for his resignation. a lot has happened. we want this investigation to go forward. the a.g. has a lot of work to do. hopefully the investigation will go quickly. but keep in mind, there's an fbi investigation out there on the nursing home dates that. that speaks to his credibility as well. he withheld that information. we're working on a nursing home reform package as we speak in the state assembly. we could have been working on that six months ago had he responded. the commissioners came to hearing after hearing with answers like that we don't have the inf

senators they say came out and not one by one because if one comes the and say it is besides brave ron kim are afraid govan will go after him and if everyone says you have to go he's going to take on whole democratic establishment? >> that's right but so far, if you noticed the white house has not joined that call. president biden has been silent about this. and so far the official line seems to be in certainly from albany let's let these two investigations both of the nursing home disaster and which he not only had people killed in nursing homes and that they were exposed to a virus which we subsequently learned was spreading through nursing homes but new york or might frif him for that eric but it was the attempt to cover up the deaths to lie about the numbers. that is really hurting politically that coupled with the seven women who have come forth make this a very difficult, political road for him -- >> should he be held more responsible for those nursing home deaths? >> you know, i think he was acting on the basis of information we had at the time. i really don't blame him for that. i

and the covid-19 nursing phim deaths and as you point ot state lawmaker ron kim cuomo accused of bullyingnd now he's accused of trying to do a smear campaign against another accuser lindsey boylan that's a magazine reported that, what's going on is is good to be added to the impeachment resolution? >> i think that is something going back a few d weeks ago wih the impeachment commission a bipartisan commission that was focused on the nursing homes in the sexual harassment allegations that came out and then this past monday we introduced the impeachment resolution so i think all of these things have to be put in there because it shows all around the lack of trust we should have in the executives ft this point if they will conduct themselves with somebody alleging sexual harassment and inappropriate sexual behavior, what would they not do. elizabeth: i you say it should e put into the impeachment resolution so you're making news, let's listen to cuomo's accuser explain what happened when cuomo's spokesman phoned her out of the blue on her honeymoon. >> i'm just saying it was not a safe space

continued criticism, new york assembly member ron kim, calling for impeachment. congressman lee zeldin should not remain in office. >> allow the person to be able to defend themselves and tell their story too. that's the way our process -- that's who we are as a country. everyone deserves that opportunity. >> reporter: the new york state legislator voted to remove governor andrew cuomo of his pandemic emergency powers and that will go to the governor himself. he will have 10 days to sign off on this bill. eric, arthel. eric: alex, thanks so much. arthel. arthel: president biden's nearly $2 trillion coronavirus relief package bouncing back to the house this week after the senate passed the bill on a party line vote. if all goes as planned, house democrats will send it to the president's desk for his signature in a matter of days. and get those stimulus checks in the mail as soon as possible. >> the plan will get checks out the door starting this month to the american people who so desperately need the help. many of whom are lying in bed at night, staring at the ce

control of the state senate for years he threatened to destroy democratic member of the state assembly, ron kiming his handling of nursing homes. and last year at the same time that he was wining plaudits for his covid briefings, he was also proposing massive cuts to medicaid, which included $400 million in cuts to hospitals. in the middle of a pandemic. that's like showing up to a burning building with that month's water bill "oof this is going to be a hefty one. cuomo also saw an exodus of public health officials from his administration after he all but declared war on his own public health bureaucracy, according to the "new york times," seizing control of the state's vaccination program, sidelining experts, and ignoring their advice and cuomo even went so far as to make this stunning remark. >> when i say "experts" in air quotes, it sounds like i'm saying, "i don't really trust the experts. because i don't. radio call-in energy "jets are going all the way next year don't trust the experts. i bet my house on it okay, it's in my wife's -- i live in it i live in it." also, you think you know be

ainsley: assembly man ron kim says that's what cuomo would do. he would call him up and bully him and we also heard de blasio say that that that's what he does. ron kim is friends with janice dean and been working on the nursing home deal and he's trying to get to the bottom of it to find out what the incentive was to put sick people in nursing homes. must be removed in public office so he can no longer cause abuse or can abuse powers while preying on other female staff members. brian: you need leadership in new york and suddenly things are opening up. isn't that amazing? suddenly kids can go back to school and restaurants opening and suddenly he's seeing the light. steve: i'm seeing stack of stuff. today there's a list, i wasn't just new york that sent people back to the nursing homes, it was also 4, 5 other states including pennsylvania, i believe, michigan, new jersey and others. so, you know, you have to figure that the department of justice is looking that into new york. brian: not florida. ainsley: they owe it to the families that lost love

left those patients out because those numbers had not been verified, but democrats like assemblyman ron kimreact. >> we get information that we knew all along was, you know, this is what it was. we knew there was something not correct. >> reporter: meanwhile, the governor is facing more blowout over sexual harassment accusations as former aide charlotte bennett told cbs last night the governor propositioned her for sex. >> and to be clear, what made you think that he was trying to sleep with you. >> without explicitly saying it, he implied to me that i was old enough for him and he was lonely. >> reporter: now, there are, of course, growing calls for the above to resign. he says -- for the governor to resign. he says he is not going to step down. state lawmakers expected to vote today to strip him of his emergency pandemic powers. of course, republicans believe this is simply symbolic, it really doesn't have a -- neil? neil: all right. thank you, very thorough report. appreciate it. we'll keep you, you know, abreast of these latest developments on the governor here, but, man, the news goes

now democrats like assemblyman ron kim have come out and gone after him.n albany are coming out against him. i have been saying he should resign for several weeks. i called for his resignation a long time ago when i was a member of the assembly when he created a commission to investigate corruption and yet when it got close to him he shut down the commission to avoid having to expose what his liabilities could potentially be. there is a lot. >> bill: you mentioned brett kavanaugh. in 2019-2018. then kamala harris, hillary clinton, elizabeth warren. i don't believe they've made statements yet. this is what they said then. >> allegations such as these, multiple allegations, should be pursued. >> i found her very credible. i found her presentation to be very convincing. that she would be willing to put herself out there under these circumstances. >> republicans are playing politics with the supreme court and they are willing to step on anyone, including the victim of a vicious sexual assault in order to advance their agenda. >> bill: this would seem to be the

. >> bill: ron kim is a democrat. here is his quote based on the latest allegation.against andrew cuomo a case of sexual assault. must be removed from public office to no longer abuse his power and preying on other staff members. his abuse of power is evident and undeniable. he works out of queens in new york. talk to lawrence jones on this and more a little bit, too, about the contradiction we're hearing based on history about where we've been on this issue over the past 10 years and where some politicians are today. stand by in dallas. breaking news on the border. the rio grande valley is ground zero for the border crisis. thousands of migrants surging into the u.s. across that southern border on a daily basis. texas governor greg abbott laying the blame directly on president biden's border policies. griff jenkins on the front lines is in mcallen, texas today. griff, what have you seen? >> good morning, bill. along the wall here in mcallen but i want to go to our drone team in the sky and show you something you may see here behind me. along this wall a gaping hole

that's good, but it really makes you want to say kudos to assemblyman ron kim and some of the others speaking up early. the nursing home cover-up resulted in loss of life. >> dana: thanks for being with us today. >> bill: every day has brought a new angle on this. cnn anchor chris cuomo breaking his silence on the accusations. he says he knows allegations are out there but can't cover them on his program. he said this last night. >> obviously i'm aware of what's going on with my brother. obviously i cannot cover it because he is my brother. now, of course cnn has to cover it. they have covered it extensively and they will continue to do so. >> bill: that explanation coming after the cnn anchor conducted numerous lengthy interview with his brother on the covid pandemic. >> i called mom. she said i was her favorite. >> i can't believe you are lying to my office. you've blown the credibility. >> you've always been the meatball of the family. do you think you are an attractive person now because you are single and ready to mingle? >> some say i shouldn't come on this show because you har

i'm grateful for ron kim, democratic lawmaker who lost his uncle in a nursing home who has been rightge on this governor and the fact that he put over 9,000 infected patients in nursing homes and covered up the numbers. i knew pretty early on in may that he was covering up those that died in the hospital, but got covid in elder care facility because my mother-in-law, that's what happened with her. she got the virus in her assisted living residence and transported to the hospital and died in the hospital and governor cuomo did not help those who died in the hospital. that's what we have been trying to raise awareness on. he obviously has more charges now. sort of the me too kind, listen, no one should be subjected to that kind of behavior but it's not surprising to me. he's a bully and sexual harassment is not about sex, it's about power and making people feel intimidated. making people feel small and the level of power that this man has had over the pandemic is just extraordinary. neil: obviously not surprising to hear that the governor and his folks say that there was nothing untowar

while there is growing criticism, assembly member ron kim even calling for about his great leadershipg this period of time. so i do take these sexual harassment cases seriously, but there is due process. >> reporter: meanwhile, the governor faces a second investigation. the "wall street journal" reporting that his administration convinced state health officials to alter their report on nursing home deaths. the governor's office is responding to that saying that it couldn't verify the numbers at -- adding, quote, there was no undercount as total deaths irrespective of location were always disclosed and the methodology of how data was being presented was accurate. now, the new york state legislature says that it passed the vote to repeal the governor's pandemic emergency powers, but next from here it'll actually have to go to the governor himself to sign often on that. griff? griff: alex in new york, thank you. as we sort of bounce back between new york and washington, we want to bring you back here to the floor of the senate where, after more than 25 hours, you see this chamber now vot