meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Brian Lehrer Show

NYC Mayoral Primary Debate: Cuomo Sexual Harassment and Public Safety

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

Arts, Lerer, Radio, York, Wnyc, News, Media, New, Npr, Nyc, Bryan, News Commentary, Politics, Daily News, Public

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The leading Democratic candidates for mayor discuss Andrew Cuomo's sexual harassment scandal and their approaches to public safety.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Brian Mayer on WNYC, we are re-airing most of the Democratic mayoral primary debate that I co-moderated last night with Aura Lewis from New York One and Katie Honan from the news organization,

0:25.1

The City. Near the end of the show this morning will open up the phones for you to name something that you learned in the debate or if it changed your mind on anything. The seven

0:30.3

candidates in alphabetical order once again, and for those just joining us, were Adrian Adams,

0:35.7

Andrew Cuomo, Brad Lander, Zeranmanani, Zellner Myrie, Scott Stringer, and Whitney Tilson.

0:41.5

We pick it up in the next section, moderated by Errol, on the Cuomo sexual harassment scandal, and then on public safety and crime.

0:50.7

This question is from Mr. Cuomo, because it did come up earlier.

0:53.8

Many voters are grappling with how to disqualify you or not after the sexual harassment

1:00.6

findings that led to your resignation as governor.

1:03.7

How do you argue people should consider that factor and we'll let the other candidates

1:07.0

give their take?

1:08.1

Yeah.

1:09.1

I would ask them to look at the facts and not the political

1:14.1

rhetoric that you hear on this stage. I'm just correcting myself. Obviously, this section of the

1:19.3

debate is moderated by Katie Honan, not Errol. So go Katie, and we'll pick it up where

1:25.0

Andrew Cuomo left off. I said when the report was issued, it was all political.

1:32.1

That's what I said.

1:33.5

And I said nothing was going to come of it.

1:37.0

Four years later, we've had five district attorneys, Democrat Republicans, upstate, downstate, they've all looked at them.

1:46.1

Nothing has come of them whatsoever.

1:48.8

There has been one civil case that's been resolved.

1:51.6

I was dropped from the case.

1:54.1

So absolutely nothing has come except political fodder for my opponents and political fodder at the time.

...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 25 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from WNYC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of WNYC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.