why is that? look, it s both unsurprising and surprising, just to be clear. i don t think he had a choice. i think that he assessed the situation, he ran the string as long as he could and realized this was the best option because the other option was going through a pretty painful impeachment hearing. it s clear that the votes were there to remove him and to go through about hearing not just about these allegations but potentially about nursing home deaths or about his book deal. but it is surprising if you covered andrew cuomo and you know how much he likes to fight and how much he doesn t like giving in and how he generally goes kicking and screaming when he does back down. so the fact that he basically right after that combative statement from his lawyer and himself was, like, and i resign. it is a seismic shift in new york. right. i agree with you. i think, you know, he clearly wanted to defend himself and also that s what he was doing with his lawyer. and then he said a coupl
after the resignation what efforts were made to reach out to mr. flynn of seeking immunity. i don t know what is after the resignation part, talking about flynn of the pardon and immunity is obvious obstruction. what did you think of the russia election interference. james comey wrote a book where he detailed that. that s when american intelligence agencies, their conclusion that russia had interfere inside the election to try to help trump, that was briefed to not only the president at the time president obama but also president-elect trump. this was the moment that mr. comey breached mr. trump of allegations related to him of
sexual harassment. the resignation part of deal that the mayor struck with the city that sent him to therapy for a couple of weeks. he has apologized for his behavior. joining me from san diego with the latest is nbc news joe fryer. joe, good morning. the mayor filner lawyers said there will be a public announcement today following that session. what will happen? reporter: we have to see what happens. we know it s a closed door session with the city council this afternoon. all signs indicate that filner s resignation is part of that deal. the big question is really what is the mayor getting in return some some speculate it could be have financial help with legal fees or settlements in the future. that may not sit well with everybody on the city council and may not sit well with everyone in the public so that could be a sticking point when the city council votes on this this afternoon and filner s resignation would be tied to approval of that deal so we will
they re pretending they re shocked, just shocked with the big explosion. we talked about the incredible links that fox news channel went to to hype the scandal after it was broken by the conservative website that fed lots of stuff to fox in the past. breaking news on being caught on tape making racially charged comments to media audience. the skin color couldn t decide any assistance. an obama administration official resigned a short time ago after she was caught on tape appearing to tell an audience she had used her position to racially discriminate against white farmers. none of which is true, except for the resignation part. fox news channel jumped on it instantly without having any of the facts straight about what happened. almost like the whole thing was coordinate. a few hours after the original article and videos were posted
for the resignation part. fox news channel jumped on it instantly without having any of the facts straight about what happened. almost like the whole thing was coordinate. a few hours after the original article and videos were posted on that right wing website, an identical version of the story literally just about verbatim appeared on the fox news website under the totally misinformed headline, caught on tape: obama official discriminates against white farmer. she didn t discriminate against a white farmer. she wasn t a obama official caught on tape doing anything. you did spell everything right, so good job. fox news forced this story like the fake acorn scandal, the fake van jones controversy. fox news cooked it up and sold it out of context as we found out. after having done that, after having lit that fuse, here s the fox news take on the matter. now that the real story has come