Interview with Gov. Andrew Cuomo
Laura Coates Live
CNN
3.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, thank you Anderson. I am Chris Cuomo. Welcome to Primetime. Please join me tonight, |
| 0:06.4 | not spending any more time on this nonsense about the president refusing to acknowledge |
| 0:12.3 | anything should have been done differently in the handling of pandemic. Why is the media going |
| 0:17.1 | after it? Who cares? Have you ever heard him take responsibility for any mistake? What did you |
| 0:22.1 | expect him to say? He has three tools in the face of criticism. Deny, lie, and defy. And then he |
| 0:30.4 | has a rotation of robotic mouthpieces that parrot the same thing that he says. Look, in November, |
| 0:38.0 | this president will be weighed and measured by you. That's then. Right now, forget about what he says. |
| 0:45.5 | What matters is how we're reopening and what needs to be done to make it faster and safer. |
| 0:51.9 | Let's focus on that. Right? I got the governor of New York here tonight. He says, if you want to do |
| 0:56.7 | that, stop talking about the president. Focus on Congress because they hold our reopening in their |
| 1:02.7 | hands. And he says that there's one big thing they need to do and he's doing it already in New |
| 1:08.3 | York. What is it? He'll tell you. We also have the state official who is refusing to bow to the |
| 1:14.1 | president's demand that mail-in voting be stopped, even if states and their citizens want it. |
| 1:21.4 | You know, because a lot of us are worried about going out to vote in a pandemic. The interesting |
| 1:26.4 | part is Trump's threat. If you have mail-in voting, I'll defund you. We have the truth of what a |
| 1:33.4 | president can do and the reality of why Trump is doing all of this in the first place. You're ready |
| 1:40.2 | to fight the good fight? Let's get after it. |
| 1:42.2 | Mr. President, with 4% of the world's population and 30% of the outbreak, what would you have done |
| 1:55.2 | differently facing this great? Well, nothing. If you take New York and New Jersey, which were very |
| 2:00.4 | hard hit, we were very, very low. And in terms of morbidity and in terms of, you look at the death, |
| 2:09.3 | relatively speaking, we're at the lowest level along with Germany. |
| 2:14.4 | This is how easily you dispense with this, okay? Relatively speaking, to use the president's own |
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