happened. you left the u.s., went to qatar to go over there, to try to rescue them from afghanistan. tell me the details. the fact that i went to the middle east, it s been reported i jetted into kabul, i never left oklahoma city. but that doesn t detract from what happened. sometimes the press gets it wrong. you guys always get it right. on august 3rd, which was a tuesday, i woke up in the morning and had a bad feeling that something was wrong with these girls, that they were in danger. at that time afghanistan a was not in collapse but i couldn t shake it. so i reached out to them, i reached out to their mentor and leader and we began just to try to do our very best to reach out to influential people and find a way to get those girls out. jillian: a lot of them are out and i understand there are still more that you would like to try and rescue out of afghanistan and get them to safety? jillian, there are other members of the robotic team and in addition with all the media
i know you first got to know this team of extraordinary young women a couple years ago. but when you realized they were in trouble, tell us about the steps that you decided you were going to take. well, as you may know, i m the mother of 11 biological children, and nine of them are girls. so i had a special connection to these girls when i met them at a conference in washington, d.c. in 2019. i m part of a board of directors for explore mars. and we chose to fly these girls over from afghanistan to be part of our conference and to help them pursue their dreams to be in the engineering and space field. so, you helped them and got to know them and stayed in touch with them as you got to know them at this conference. at what point did you think, hey, maybe i can do something here? well, on august 3rd, tuesday morning, a couple weeks ago, i just woke up with an overwhelming feeling that
i do hug and kiss people casually, women and men. i have done it all my life. and i think given the circumstances, the best way i can help now is if i step aside and let government get back to governing. therefore, that is what i will do. a reminder the governor has not been charged with any crime, the lieutenant governor unnerved, kathy hochul will take over august 3rd. she will be the first woman to hold the state s highest office. today president biden was asked for his reaction to cuomo s resignation. what impact does his resignation have on the democratic party? i think the impact is all on andrew cuomo and his decision to make that judgment. with that let s bring in our lead off guests on this tuesday
because of what has happened since august 3rd, with the press conference and a report that there is no question in my mind was designed and meant to devastate governor cuomo and his chamber. and for the last eight days it has been a pile-on with people judging facts when they didn t have all the facts. and as we sit here today, the investigators have not provided me, the lawyer for the governor who is being asked to give a submission to the assembly, a single transcript to allow him to respond. they haven t even given him his own. they have not responded to my letter of last week asking to get access to the evidence. and i m willing to do it under
sought her out. he kissed her and then put his arm around her and took this photo. that s the photo. that photo is included in the report as evidence of some type of sexual harassment because miss liss talks about being uncomfortable and the thought about this photo later on that the governor had put his arm around her and then she talked about her experience working with him. and the governor has said yes, he has called people darling and sweetheart. he has had to change with the times. yes, he hugs and he kisses his staffers. he has had to change with the times. and as he said on august 3rd, after the attorney general s report, that he slips and he