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of course. of course. all right, kathy park in albany for us. kathy, stick around. tom winter, let s talk about what we saw today before the resignation. and it seems as if now in hindsight it appears to be hey, don t pursue these you know, don t pursue him legally and here s all the different ways we think we can push back on this. is he out of legal trouble? and if not, where does he face the most trouble? he s far from legal trouble here, chuck. basically, the governor s legal position has not changed at all, even in light of his resignation, which takes effect in 14 days. he will no longer be able to use the official governmental livestream, the governor s office in new york city to put out his personal attorney s statements and what she says she believes about the independent

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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 false. cuomo s resignation comes as every democrat in new york s congressional delegation as well as the state s two democratic u.s. senators, as well as president biden, all of them were urging him to step aside. is it was hard to find anybody with a d next to their name saying he shouldn t just yet. the resignation will make the current lieutenant governor, kathy hochul, the first female governor in the history of new york state. all right. let s break all this down. we ve got our investigations correspondent tom winter with us. kathy park is in albany, where the news was just broken there. by the governor himself. and nbc news political analyst

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And former democratic congresswoman donna edwards, who was with me on sunday, is here to break it down. and from the new york state assembly we have state senator james scufus who chairs the government operations committee. kathy, let me start with you in albany. look, i had talked to plenty of people close to the governor who indicated he d eventually get to this place. i think what is a surprise is right after sending out a lawyer to do some really questionable pushback on everything it did seem to surprise folks that today was the day he chose resignation. hey, chuck, i think you re absolutely right. i watched this press conference extremely closely as well. initially, we all thought it was just going to be his attorney, rita glavine, announcing news of these allegations and basically discrediting the accusers who had come forward. but to see governor cuomo himself and then to announce his

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Report released by the attorney general. that s no longer a quiver that he has. but as far as his exposure continuing forward, nothing changes with respect to the five district attorney s offices who are looking at specific elements of that independent report as they try to determine whether or not the governor violated any sort of criminal statute, the most serious of which is occurring in albany. the albany county sheriff s office is looking into this allegation that the governor groped one of his employees, identified she s since become public, but identified as executive assistant number 1 in the report. they re looking into that in conjunction with the albany county district attorney s office. so they ll make a determination there. the conclusion of their investigation as to whether or not the governor would be charged there, the most immediate charge that comes to mind is a class a misdemeanor. it would not result in the governor having to register as a sex offender. but it is