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can work, as he promises to bring it across the finish line. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. welcome to the lead. and we begin with our politics lead and a truly historic day in american politics. embattled new york governor andrew cuomo is resigning exactly one week aer the new york attorney general s investigation concluded he sexually harassed 11 women. cuomo maintains his innocence, even as he resigned today. the three-term governor will leave office in two weeks. my instinct is to fight through this controversy because i truly believe it is politically motivated. i think that given the circumstances, the best way i can help now is if i step aside and let government get back to governing. and therefore that s what i ll do. this can only be described as an abrupt and dramatic fall from grace, a little more than a year ago cuomo received high praise for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, holding daily press conferences. you may remember, which tu ....
referenced that way in the new york attorney general s bombshell report which found governor cuomo had sexually harassed 11 women. her personal and now public account comes as the governor adamantly denies the allegations against him, along with resisting calls to resign. i want to get to polo sandoval in albany, new york, near the governor s mansion. polo, who is this woman, and what is she saying? ultimately, as you said, the governor remains defiant. it was just yesterday that his attorney in an interview with pamela brown said that she isn t aware any of potential plans for him to resign. the woman did step into the public eye today, into the public light. in an interview, said the governor basically broke the law. new york governor andrew cuomo facing what will likely be another trying week. on monday, legislators on the state s judiciary committee return to albany where they are expected to meet with independent investigators to review evidence related to the go ....
will: is the sunrises east to west we replicate westies from st. louis to wildwood, new jersey there s your national anthem brought to you by the marine corps band. welcome to fox and friends on saturday morning. with us this morning is ashley strohmeyer. good morning, excellent color. i was referencing myself. i m here so good morning to you guys. will: great to have you back. pete: i m somewhat disappointed not it being back and work, i loved my vacation. i did go all the way to hawaii, the furthest west state but i was disappointed that i am only rivaled by a new jersey poolside pantomime left. much tanner than you. i m just in new jersey pool boy. i will take it. hope you recharged the batteries a little bit. pete: a great time. will: and you return and it turns out the whole world changed in about a week. pete: it went insane by returning to something we are familiar with and that is the height of insane covid protocols. we are looking at mask mandate ....
inappropriate behavior by the governor and a hostile work environment. it was a culture where you could not say no to the governor. 11 women describing their encounters as disturbing, humiliating and uncomfortable. we found all 11 women to be credible. there was corroboration to varying degrees. charlotte bennett talked to people and texted people contemporaneously. some of her texts were practically in real-time. a former aid and health policy adviser to the governor first told her story to the new york times in february. investigators shared one of her texts renouncing the report s findings. well, the verbal abuse, intimidation and living in constant fear were all horribly toxic, dehumanizing and traumatizing. on tuesday, she called on the governor to resign. he later addressed her in a taped statement. i have heard charlotte and her lawyer, and i understand what they are saying. but they read into comments that i made and draw inferences that i never ....
99.99% of people who are fully vaccinated have not had a break through case. and evidence that if you re vaccinated, and you get a break through case of covid, you will be fine. more than 816,000 doses were administered on saturday. that is the fifth straight day above 700,000 and that is the highest number of doses administered in a month. that is good news. but where country is now is not good. the delta variant continues to spread like wildfire, averaging nearly 80,000 new cases per day. the number of people sick enough to need hospital care is rising. again almost exclusively among the unvaccinated. and officials are warning the surge is just beginning. particularly in the nation s trouble spots, mostly concentrated in the south. cases have gone up about four-fold in the last couple of weeks. we re pushing up towards 100,000 cases aday now. and particularly so in those hot spots where vaccination rates are still quite low, maybe 30%, that would be missouri and ark ....