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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Friday March 5th 2021.

I am John Pobbor. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor

Abe Brimwell. Hi Abe. Hi John. Associate editor Noah Rothman. Hi Noah. Hi John.

And senior writer Christine Rosen. Hi Christine. Hi John. So as our readers have continued listeners

sorry our listeners who are also one hopes our readers have continued to email in saying please

do go ahead and focus on your obsessions with Andrew Cuomo in schools and and say whatever

you want to say we're going to say whatever we want to say and this is not just a story that deals

with our obsessions the governor of the third largest state in in the country is is under fire on

on two fronts and there was a major story that broke last night. Weird kind of thing because it

looked like it was kind of an investigative report released by the Wall Street Journal and then

the New York Times followed up on it pretty much the same story with some different angles to it

but indicating that the wheels are coming off the tricycle the Cuomo the Andrew Cuomo tricycle

because the the enemies of Cuomo or the people who feel abused or are hard done by Cuomo are now

coming out of the woodwork and retailing stories that are very very very bad for him and possibly

suggest criminal negligence and criminal liability. No let's start with that criminal liability

story as as potential as laid out in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Yeah so it's

kind of complicated but the the journal came out first and essentially confirmed to the extent

that can be confirmed that governor Cuomo's office was leaning on health officials and his health

department to massage the numbers they had hard data coming out of nursing homes about deaths

in nursing homes and were putting substantial pressure on officials to revise downward those numbers

so that they could make him look better that's essentially the allegation and the journal has a

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