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this is can the don lemon tonight. thank you for joining us. we ve got news tonight on multiple big stories. beginning with andrew cuomo. new york s embattled governor and his seismic announcement that he is resigning his office effective in 14 days. his decision coming just one week after a report by the state attorney general that found he sexually harassed 11 women. and by stepping down the governor avoiding almost certain impeachment by the new york state legislature. the wri go were, as they say, w on the wall. and then a lot of justifications were thrown at that wall, alternating with apologies and denials. there is a difference between alleged improper conduct and concluding sexual harassment. the attorney general did a report on complaints made against me by certain women for my conduct. the report said i sexually harassed 11 women. that was the headline people heard and saw and reacted to. the reaction was outrage. it should have been. however, it was also f ....
expanding the nation s safety social net. it would be targeting climate change, education, health care and more. this latest win for the president comes hours after the senate also approved the long-negotiated bipartisan infrastructure bill. more on that in just a moment. there are also several new developments on the pandemic. texas governor greg abbott suffering a major legal setback after two judges ruled that school districts can require students to wear masks in class, at least temporarily. a new national study shows a majority of american parents support mask mandates in schools for the unvaccinated, but more than half of the parents polled say they are against schools mandating vaccines. let s get to it, starting with the overnight drama in washington. president biden s agenda getting a big boost today. cnn s manu raju is live on capitol hill. cnn s john harwood is live at the white house. manu, what is the path forward now after passing the infrastructure bill ....
be the superintendents and the school boards. the real constitutional question here is does the governor have the authority to withhold their salaries and essentially tell them what to do, or as the local home rule in the state of florida, 67 counties the governor has been hammering over and over again that if children are going to be masked that decision will only be made by the parents. it will not be made by the government. this is what the governor here, republican ron desantis had to say yet again on this issue. it s a parent s decision. if you believe in the masking during the school, you re free to do it. no one is saying you can t do it. but if you re somebody that is concerned about that, that thinks that may not be the right thing for your child, then i think you should have the right to make that ultimate decision. i don t think government should override that. i was in naples yesterday. that s collier county. first day of school, the kids are all excited ....
are hospitalized with covid right now than in the state s previous peak back in july of 2020. also this hour, the legislative victory lap for democrats continues. senate democrats just passing that $3.5 trillion budget overnight. passed along party lines, above other things it will expand medicare eligibility. we re also watching this podium because we expect to see and hear from senate majority leader chuck schumer about it. remember the once promising negotiations on a police reform bill? we just got a new interview with a key negotiator. so what s the hold up? we ll explain in a few moments. we start with a surge in covid cases across the country. shannon pettymiss is there. dasha burns is in east tennessee, and there are already dozens of positive cases among students and staff. alison barber is in a state that has just run out of icu beds. and i want to bring in a doctor. a big thanks to all of you, shannon let s start with you. 15 minutes or so from now president ....
his lawyer came out holding a separate press conference, where she refuted the new york attorney general s hreport that accused governor andrew cuomo of sexually harassing 11 women. from day one, this was about building a case. the investigators if you go through the report with a discerning eye and give it the scrutiny it deserves, it failed to collect relevant evidence. they credited people they know had had lied in the past or had motives to lie. now i want you to hear from the governor himself. i would never want to be unhelpful this any way. given the circumstances, the best way i can help now is if i step aside and let government get back to governing. so that s what i will do. because i work for you. and toing the right thing is doing the right thing for you. because as we say, it s not about me. it s about we. so what s next? lieutenant governor will take cuomo s place in just two weeks. mj lee is following these dramatic developments today. this is a pr ....