making a formal complaint to the police. if she s lying, she could be prosecuted. that seems to me to be something very consequence. what i m directing myself to, defense lawyers try the case on the courthouse steps, that s kind of part of the gig. law enforcement people are supposed to confine themselves to the public record and not supposed to assume the guilt of the person about whom the complaint has been lodged because that undermines the presumption of innocence. he could very easily have called the woman this would have been totally accurate. could have called the woman who had come forward the complainant. he called her the victim. she s only the victim if she s telling the truth and could he mow como is laying. he s denying this. law enforcement are not supposed to undermine that. andy to your point, there
figures he might as well fight hard and see what happens. neil: we ll watch very closely. jim, thank you very much. just to update you, waiting to hear from the albany county sheriff concerning this criminal complaint of a woman who used to work for governor cuomo, griff jenkins and jacqui heinrich to take you through that. that will do it and more. griff: welcome to fox news live. the albany county sheriff is holding a press conference at this moment. let s listen in. not that i m aware of at this time. again, we re in the very infant stages. to the governor we have not talked about that at this point. sheriff, can you tell us approximately when this incident occurred? i d rather not, sir, at this point. again, we re in the infant stages of this investigation. i do not want to go any further on that. we have a report on file it
any of these, the attorney general reports there, that would fall but any concerns of that? none whatsoever. again. i thank you for coming out. i hate to break up your saturday, but again, we re just starting to get moving here. so, thank you all for coming. . griff: that was albany county sheriff addressing the media confirming that a criminal complaint against governor andrew cuomo has indeed been filed. he would not say who it was or specifically what the details are, saying it is under investigation, but in taking questions from the press he said it could lead to an arrest. he will wait for the information and materials, he says, from attorney general latisha james. welcome to fox news live. i m griff jenkins. jacqui: hey there, griff. i m jacqui heinrich. yeah, the albany county sheriff
not at this point but again, we got this complaint thursday night, thursday afternoon. a question and is this the kind of case that could lead to an arrest? it would be premature regarding questioning him, but, obviously, yes, it could lead to arrest. and would our agency be effecting that arrest, absolutely. and the behavior i d rather not get into this. department has some involvement in it? is it going to be a joint investigation due to overlapping of law enforcement? i m not sure what theirs is, partnered up with the albany district attorney and david and i have bounced messages back and forth. how it expands, i cannot answer that at this point. do you think the timing of this with the attorney general s office? well, i would think living in a digital age we could get
i have no timeline on that. we re not going to rush that because of who he is, we re not going to delay it because of who he is. we re going to conduct a comprehensive investigation and when the evidence is compiled we ll make a decision at that point. besides getting the attorney general material, what other things do you need to have happen first before you reach out to the governor s office? do you need her types of materials or other yes, we do. i d rather not disclose exactly what we need, but, yes, we ll need more than just information from the attorney general and don t forget, there s going to be an interview conducted at some point with our victim. and why won t the criminal complaint be released, perhaps to protect her identity. in addition to the identity i was asked by our district attorney general not to release it until we have a meeting to discuss exactly what we ll be able to gather. we didn t want singular pieces of paper out and about and