york governor andrew cuomo against sexual misconduct. fox news media analyst and host of fox news media buzz howie kurtz has the news breaking just this hour. bret, good evening, that news coming moments ago cnn suspending prime time host top rated host statements saying newly released documents point to a greater level of involvement in his brother s efforts than we previously knew as a result we have suspended chris indefinitely pending further evaluation. this is a reference to documents that have come out about his efforts to orchestrate the defense of his brother, the then governor andrew cuomo and the cnn host didn t address it at all last night on his show and he spoke only of why his brother resigned on his sirius xm today. the criticism mounting after disclosures that chris cuomo used his media connections to help the then governor fight shower. allegations. sexual harassment. he should resign if he doesn t
cooperating with the committee investigating the january 6th riot. tonight the house committee announcing meadows produced documents to the committee. to the economy and wall street reacting to jerome powell today and what he said about the uncertainty surrounding the new variant. the dow falling 652 points, nearly 2%. powell testifying before congress. the recent rise in covid-19 cases and the emergence of the omicron variant pose risks to the economy and inflation. the market reacting to news powell suting he could remove pandemic support. we ve been following the investigation involving former new york governor andrew cuomo. tonight the news on his brother, cnn anchor chris cuomo. i help others. but i need to help protect myself.
cnn should sack him. rolling stone editor says the shocking ethical breaches would be fireable offenses anywhere else. some texts released by investigators cuomo gathering information on his brother s accusers. i have a lead on the wedding girl referring to anna rubbing who said three days earlier the governor harassed her at a wedding receptionment as for charlotte bennett, an adviser to the governor testified that chris cuomo forward add purported set of documents from her time in college. cuomo denied doing oppo research calls to reporters gather information were business as usual. he told top aid melissa derosa brother s statement about char bennett was poor and he should directly apologize to her and all new yorkers. bennett tweeted today that cuomo had tried to smear her through representable and inexcusable behavior in calling for his firing. andrew cuomo in his video testimony said it would be insane for him to grope anyone and he sparred with investigators. do you understand
governor cuomo was being extolled and chris cuomo looked like the unbeatable host. i mean, there is some basics in journalism about conflicts of interest. and they just ran roughshod over them and now they are paying the price. it s not all chris cuomo. cnn, you know, gave him the blessing to go on with his brother. bret: i want to turn topics and we will obviously follow this story and where it goes and what happens with cnn and chris cuomo. but, the omicron variant is obviously dominating people s thinking and so are these mandates and vaccine mandates. and just at the top of this show, a federal judge in the district western district of louisiana, ruled that the healthcare mandates for healthcare workers to get vaccines cannot be upheld there needs to be a stop of that. nationwide and says a higher court is going to weigh in on this. mara, this is significant in
chris admitted to us that he had offered at vice to his brother s staff he broke our rules and we acknowledged that publicly. but we also appreciated the unique position he was in and understood his need to put family first and job second; however, these documents point to a greater level of v in his brother s efforts than we previously knew. as a result. we have suspended chris indefinitely pending further evaluation. yeah. look, i think cnn is right there. look, let s be clear, cnn brought this on themselves. this is just karma coming back. cnn allowed chris cuomo, as a working journalist, to cover his brother. despite the manifest conflict of interest. now, we found out, as you pointed out, that some of chris cuomo s statements to the cnn audience about the extent of his involvement were misleading at best and lies at worse. so, they never should have been in this position in the first place. and what a come down from two years ago when, you know,