there was no way that he was going to survive an impeachment process. and hearing would have just dragged out more and more detail. and again, today we ve been focusing so much on the issue the harassment issues, the sexual misconduct issues. we haven t even talked about the issue of nursing home deaths and how the cuomo administration allegedly manipulated those figures to make it seem better than it was and how at the root of that was a policy of allowing nursing home patients to return to their communities after they had tested positive and after they have had covid rather than having them stay in a hospital. it s a complicated situation. but the bottom line is that the heart of the allegation is that the administration manipulated these figures and allowed for this process of transfer in a very insensitive callous way. they maintain they were gielded by the science, they were guided by other things. but i can tell you from talking
would never want to be unhelpful in any way. and i think given the circumstances the best way i can help now is if i let step aside and let government get back to governing and therefore that s what i ll do because i work for you, and doing the right thing is doing the right thing for you. because as we say it s not about me. it s about we. kathy hokel, my lieutenant governor is smart and competent. this transition must be seamless. we have a lot going on. i m very worried about the delta variant and so should you be, but she can come up to speed quickly and my resignation will be effective in 14 days. to my team, melissa de rosa, robert mejica, stephanie benton,
msnbc legal analyst barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney general, and susan del percio who also served as special adviser to governor cuomo. ron allen, susan del percio, tom winter, let me start with you about the accusations and the way he tried to re-cast them today. let s fact check him and his attorney who preceded him before we get into the politics of it. sure, andrea. a couple of things. this is the first time we heard the governor address specifically the allegations made against him in that independent report released by the attorney general s office as it pertained to trooper number 1. this is a member of his protective detail who she says was the subject of, rather, sexual harassment and claims in statements made by the governor about her attire and about her dress and about the idea that
i see the world through the eyes of my daughters, kaya, mariah and micaela. they are 26, 26, twins and 23. i have lived this experience with and through them. i have sat on the couch with them hearing the ugly accusations for weeks. i have seen the look in their eyes and the expression on their faces, and it hurt. i want my three jewels to know this, my greatest goal is for them to have a better future than the generations of women before them. it is still, in many way, a man s world. it always has been. we have sexism that is culturalized and institutionalized. my daughters have more talent and natural gifts than i ever had. i want to make sure that society allows them to fly as high as
they thought eventually he would get to resignation because he would not want to part of the punishment if he was convicted in an impeachment trial that he would no longer be able to serve in office in the state of new york. cuomo believes he can go and live another day. there was a lot of assumption that cuomo would stick this out and fight this as long as he could and buy time, delay, delay, delay. there was one other time when andrew cuomo took the politically pragmatic path and it paid off for him and it was the first time he ran for governor he quit mid-campaign when carl mccall was a state comptroller and that had started to get nasty and it had become clear, if cuomo could win it could have been a scorched earth and ends up basically stepping aside. it cleared the way for him to eventually become attorney general and then become governor, and it was the one