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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast. I am US managing editor Matt McDonald in for Freddie Gray this week, who is sidelined with the coronavirus. He'll be back next week.

We will be discussing the collapse in Andrew Cuomo's reputation with our guest, who is

the senior meteorologist at Fox News and author of the forthcoming book, Make Your Own

Sunshine, Inspiring Stories of People Who Find Light and Dark Times.

Janice Dean, hello Janice.

Oh, it's nice to see you, my friend.

So if we revisit the heart of the pandemic last year, and we think of the popular perception of New York

Governor Andrew Cuomo, a lot of the major newspapers in America and the cable news networks are being overwhelmingly

positive about Cuomo almost in contrast to Trump. They're talking up his daily briefings

and his handling of the virus. That's now a dramatically different picture to how New York Governor Cuomo's handling of the virus is being characterized now.

What would you say the major differences are?

And why do you think potentially then he was maybe not as closely scrutinized as he is being now?

Okay.

So in the beginning, he was the pandemic prince.

You know, he was doing his daily briefings with his PowerPoint presentation, and he was

delivering it in his calm, queens, accents.

And that's what the viewers wanted.

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