investigator, a former federal prosecutor in new york in manhattan had previously gone against had previously had cases against a former assistant of the governor and had also been prosecuting the cuomo administration for a 2014 corruption case as well. you can see what the they re asking for here and they re trying to put coals into that press conference tuesday by saying look, the a.g., letitia james could run for governor. there could be bias there. the independent investigators can not be trusted. we believe that s the case because they have not released all of the transcripts and all of the 74,000 documents that they said that they relied on building this report. one of the other revelations that we found in this, neil, is that she said that the governor intends to speak, which is the first time we heard that from the attorney. the governor wants to speak. we heard this from people in the cuomo camp, this is part of his
was going to co-op the governor s pre-k push, then he didn t. what happened? well, there was a story sunday what looked very much like a trial balloon from the cuomo camp, floating the notion that the governor in his state of the state speech today would be proposing statewide universal pre-k, but paid for out of state budget funds, which essentially preempt or co-oped what s been a signature issue both in the mayor s race in new york city and now that bill de blasio won, a core part of his push as the new mayor, which is to impose a new slightly higher tax on people making over a half million dollars in the city to pay for universal pre-k and an expansion of after school programs in middle school. then, the governor seemed to have backed off, i mean, his
back sunday s comments to that jewish groups he may have added fuel to the fire. he criticized his democratic opponent andrew cuomo for bringing his daughters to a gay pride parade. young people should not be exposed to that at a young age. they don t understand. it s a very difficult thing. and exposing them to homosexuality especially at a gay pride parade and i don t know if you ve ever been to one but they wear these little the speedos and they grind against each other and it s just a terrible thing. now cuomo has most definitely reacted to that. his campaign sharply criticized the republican candidate s statements and said he was out of touch with voters. here s what we have from the cuomo camp. mr. paladino s statement displays a stunning homophobia and disregard for basic equality. these comments make it clear he is out of the mainstream and unfit to represent new york. end quote. paladino s controversy comes as