up dirt on the women accusing his brother. he texted about new potential accusers. one to two people coming out, can you check your sources? on it. he reached out to derosa, i have a lead with this wedding girl. in another exchange, cuomo texted you need to trust me, not these other people. we are making mistakes we cannot afford. cuomo then said delete thread now. the attorney general office also released the video they had with six of his accusers. also released the video deposition showing an agitated and combative governor cuomo denying the allegations. listen. did you date her? how do you want to define not? it doesn t matter how i define
he had a contract worth tens of millions of dollars a year because the show was so profitable and so many millions of viewers looked forward to starting their day with him. we see all of that tumbling down not just because of the one compliant monday night but because the new york times and variety magazine have been doing reporting about his past speaking with other potential accusers. those stories have not come out yet. we don t know the details of the allegations. nbc was aware those stories were in the works and this firing was in some ways a way to get ahead of what might be coming out next. pretty shocking stuff. brian, thank you very much. gloria and shannon are still with us. gloria, how significant is this? look, i think what you have seen over the last weeks or since the harvey weinstein stories are a lot of powerful men who have taken a very big, hard and dramatic fall. and i think what it means is that there is a reckoning going on in this country. and that bad behav
here, use all of your a lot of your power to look into this, look into this, are there other women, et cetera? it doesn t appear from what he said he did that. should he have? absolutely. there is certainly a defensible case to be made that the specific allegation in that case from the tape and, you know, i don t want to get too graphic here, but the admission on the tape was simply of an unconcepted to touching, no the a rape, which would only have been a misdemeanor, may have been other problems with the case, it s defensible that that case was not brought. however, when there is that much smoke and so many potential accusers, to simply drop the investigation because one case did not pan out, i think that s the real basis for criticism of the new york district attorney s office and now, with this incredible abundance of possible cases and the absence of a