A Resistant Gov. Cuomo Could Face Impeachment
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🗓️ 5 August 2021
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Cuomo has categorically denied harassment and groping allegations. And he said that people have "sought to unfairly characterize and weaponize everyday interactions."
Multiple high profile politicians have called for Cuomo to step down, including President Biden. Meanwhile, NPR's Brian Mann discusses how Democratic leaders in New York state legislature plan to move forward with impeachment proceedings.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, consider this listeners. Before we get to today's episode, just a word of warning, |
| 0:05.0 | it contains descriptions of sexual harassment and misconduct that may be difficult for some listeners. |
| 0:11.7 | Charlotte Bennett was an executive assistant to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo last year. When she |
| 0:16.8 | says he cornered her in his office during the workday. The governor asked me if I was |
| 0:22.6 | sensitive to intimacy. That's Bennett talking to Nora O'Donnell of CBS News back in March. Bennett |
| 0:30.4 | says that Cuomo asked her a bunch of really personal questions about her sensitivities around |
| 0:36.4 | intimacy because he knew that she was a sexual assault survivor. You have been quoted as saying |
| 0:42.3 | that he also asked you about if you'd ever been with an older man. Yeah. He asked me if age |
| 0:49.6 | difference mattered. He also explained that he was fine with anyone over 22. And how old are you? |
| 0:59.6 | 25. Bennett says Cuomo told her that he was lonely, bored, and looking for a girlfriend. |
| 1:07.6 | What were you thinking as he's asking you these questions? I thought he's trying to sleep with me. |
| 1:14.7 | The governor is trying to sleep with me. And I'm deeply uncomfortable. Bennett is now one of 11 women |
| 1:23.4 | who talk to independent investigators and have accused Cuomo of sexual harassment and misconduct. |
| 1:29.7 | Nine of those women are current or former state employees. The independent investigation has concluded |
| 1:36.4 | that Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal |
| 1:43.5 | and state law. On Tuesday, after conducting a nearly five-month-long investigation, New York |
| 1:49.7 | State Attorney General Letitia James released a scathing 165-page report detailing Cuomo's past |
| 1:57.2 | behavior. Specifically, the investigation found that Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed |
| 2:06.5 | current and former. New York State employees by engaging in unwelcome and non-consensual touching |
| 2:14.4 | and making numerous offensive comments of a suggestive and sexual nature that created a hostile |
| 2:20.8 | work environment for women. The report included nearly 200 interviews, thousands of texts, |
| 2:28.6 | documents, and photos that corroborated the stories that these women shared with two outside |
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