Ep. 419 — Gov. Andrew Cuomo

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Governor Andrew Cuomo was just over a year into his third term as Governor of New York when Covid-19 first reached his state. While he was a well-known political figure before, his daily press briefings became must watch television as the pandemic ravaged New York. Governor Cuomo joined David to talk about governing through Covid-19, why politicians should focus on how they can change people’s lives, President Trump’s skills as a marketer, and why he believes progressives-in-name-only are hurting the Democratic cause.

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0:00.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN Audio, the Axe Files, with
0:12.5	your host, David Axelrod.
0:20.0	Andrew Cuomo began his career four decades ago as a young campaign manager and brash political
0:25.2	enforcer for his father, the late New York Governor Mario Cuomo. In a long career as an advocate
0:31.0	for the homeless, secretary of housing and urban development, New York State Attorney General,
0:36.2	and now a three-term holder of the office in which his dad once served. Cuomo is one of the nation's
0:41.8	senior governors and a familiar face in the battle against COVID-19. I sat down with him this week
0:47.8	to talk about the election, the virus, and his new book, American Crisis, Leadership Lessons from
0:53.8	the COVID-19 pandemic. In one programming note, we will be taking Monday off, but back next Thursday
1:01.0	with a new episode of the Axe Files. And now, my conversation with Governor Andrew Cuomo.
1:06.9	Governor Cuomo, it's good to be with you, old friend. Good to hear your voice again.
1:22.5	Thank you for joining me. We both were to use a phrase more common in New York than
1:29.8	elsewhere, fetching a little bit before we started about how wearying it's been
1:37.2	this long stretch of politics and the virus. But you're having to gear up again now
1:43.2	for round two with the coronavirus. Yeah. Well, first David, let me thank you very much for having
1:50.5	me on. It's a pleasure to be with you. It's a pleasure to hear your voice. And we've had the
1:55.1	opportunity to work together in the past. And you are still the best in my book. Thank you.
2:01.2	And I know that you you were very, very helpful to me. And I learned a lot from you.
2:09.2	Yeah, the you know, it's a good news, bad news situation. We're going to have a new president.
2:14.5	That's great. There's a vaccine on the horizon. That's great. But we have to get there. You are
2:20.8	going to see a serious second wave of this COVID virus. It's not really a second wave, by the way.
2:27.2	They call it second wave. Second wave was when the virus mutated. We're still battling the first
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