of 2020. concluded it definitively. and that the attorney general s press conference on august 3rd one of the investigators ann clark said it definitively to the world that governor cuomo groped the breast of an executive assistant in the mansion during the work day. but what was so apparent when i read the report, is that the investigators didn t bother to collector review evidence about november 16th to determine if their conclusion was correct. and everyone has to ask themselves why didn t they do that? why didn t they get all of the emails from that day? why didn t they get the records about when miss
arm around her and took this photo. that is the photo. in that photo it was included in the report as evidence of some type of sexual harassment because miss list then later talked about how she was uncomfortable and thought about this photo later on. that the governor had put his arm around her and then she talked about her experience working with him. and the governor has said, yes, he has called people darling and sweetheart. he has had to change with the times. yes, he hugs and he kisses his staffers. he has had to change with the times and as he said on august 3rd, after the attorney general s report, that he slips and he does. but this does not rise to the
since august 3rd, with the press conference and a report, that there is no question in mie mind was designed and meant to devastate governor cuomo and his chamber. and for the last eight days, it has been a pile on with people judging facts when they didn t have all of the facts. and as we sit here today, the investigators have not provided me the lawyer for the governor who is being asked to give a submission to the assembly a single transcript to allow him to respond. they haven t even given him his own. they have not responded to my letter of last week asking to get access to the evidence and i m willing to do it under an agreement that protects
briefing. let s listen in. the problems with that report, biases that i think came with that report, and i want to spend a few minutes today on behalf of the governor walking through that report, and the issues that we have with the report. because what happened between tuesday, august 3rd, when this report came down, was that dozens of people called for the governor s resignation. the governor had no opportunity to respond, and a press cycle ensued. journalists were saying things that he had groped and fondled 11 women, and that was not true and that was not in the report. over the last eight days, the media frenzy contributed to what the report was, which was the investigators acted as the
way. he is sorry. with respect to charlotte bennett, the governor addressed in detail in his video statement on august 3rd. it is important to know that any claim that he was grooming this young woman who is a sexual assault victim or that he had a romantic interest in her could not be further from the truth. his experience with a very, very close family member who is about the same age as charlotte bennett, that provided crucial context to the conversations that he had with miss bennett. the governor testified in detail about this to the attorney general s investigators but they did not include his detailed testimony in the report.