this resignation. it is important to note, of course, she will be the first female woman in this top position in new york state government. she said in a tweet earlier today, i m ready and we re going to hear from her tomorrow. she will hole her first press briefing here in albany tomorrow afternoon. anderson? all right. appreciate it. joining us now, cnn political analyst, new york times washington correspondent and devout new yorker, maggie hagerman. and john king and kimberly, a former federal prosecutor. currently teaches law at the university of baltimore. so maggie, you ve covered governor cuomo for a long time through all sorts of phases of his political career. i m wondering what you made of his remarks today? it was stunning. andrew cuomo had one speed generally which is fight. when he s not fighting, he does survey the land scape and decide his options are better off not fighting. that s what he decided to do.
expanded the repercussions for such behavior. to describe himself. i m old-fashioned. i didn t know. it was a grab bag approach. he wanted to say i take full responsibility. he did say that. then he questioned the credibility. women. he questioned the credibility of the investigators. and he got into the well, it s a generational thing. to borrow a phrase from bill clinton, forgive me, that dog doesn t hunt. it shouldn t hunt for anybody. to the point maggie made moments ago, he signed the law. we all know, read before you sign. he changed the rules. he changed the rules for the better in the state of new york. he is the chief executive of the state of new york. read what you sign. follow rules you enacted. yeah. we ll pick this up when we come back. this governor s future, whether a future is a possibility. the prospects for the first
for now, he s done. maggie, you heard the governor complain the whole controversy was unfair, politically motivated, the politics has gotten too hot and extreme. i mean, as though he is not the quint essential political animal. i think it was you who pointed out, he is the son of a governor, the cabinet member of the clinton administration, married to a kennedy. to hear him complain about how politics works seems sort of interesting. yeah. there is been an approach the whole time which suggests these forces are coming after me because i m fighting for you. he said a version of that today. it is identical language to a lot of language we heard donald trump use about investigations into himself when he was in office. so there is that piece of it, to hear him talk this way. i think you will hear him say this was unfair. i think you hoyt a bit of jiu jitsu.
hear the governor who has she said, expanded those rules. expanded the repercussions for such behavior. and punishments for. to describe himself. i m old-fashioned. i didn t know. it seems hard to believe. it was a grab bag approach. he wanted to say i take full responsibility. he did say that. then he questioned the credibility. of the women. he questioned the credibility of the investigators. and he got into the well, it s a generational thing. to borrow a phrase from bill clinton, forgive me, that dog doesn t hunt. it shouldn t hunt for anybody. to the point maggie made moments ago, he signed the law. we all know, read before you sign. he changed the rules. he changed the rules for the better in the state of new york. he is the chief executive of the state of new york. read what you sign. follow rules you enacted. yeah. we ll pick this up when we come back. this governor s future, whether
there are different rules for how it can be spent, but certainly makes him enormously formidable and hard to ignore. it s going to give pause to a number of republicans who are looking at running for 2024. trump is going to try to make it very hard for people to move forward. he is not as big a fundraiser not donating to other candidates number one. his name for fundraising lists for fundraising appeals for other candidates is not as helpful to them as it is to him but he remains this singular drive of donations to himself. he has raised that money in part by continuing to talk about even in a fresh appeal last night help me fight this, quote unquote, fraud. there is no actual money that he is spending on these efforts to try to undo the election results. so at the end of the day, he is taking money from people who believe that something maybe not all of them, but some of them who believe something is going to happen that just isn t going to. maggie hagerman, great to see you. th