The End of Andrew Cuomo?

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This episode contains descriptions of sexual harassment. After accusations of sexual harassment against Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York surfaced early this year, an independent investigation was begun. And while people around the governor — and his critics — expected the ensuing report to be bad, what came out this week was worse. There have been widespread calls for Mr. Cuomo to resign, but will he go? Guest: Shane Goldmacher, a national political reporter for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is Adelaide.
0:10.0	Today, from the White House to the state legislature,
0:15.0	Democratic leaders are demanding that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
0:19.0	resign or be removed from office for sexually harassing 11 women.
0:25.0	I spoke with my colleague, Shane Goldbacher, about the explosive report
0:30.0	that could end Cuomo's career and what happens next.
0:44.0	It's Thursday, August 5.
0:47.0	Shane, the last time we talked to you back in March,
0:52.0	you told us the story of Andrew Cuomo's political rise
0:57.0	and what started to look like the beginning potentially of his political fall.
1:00.0	Can you briefly remind us of the outlines of that story?
1:04.0	Yeah, Andrew Cuomo is a three-term governor of New York,
1:08.0	the son of a three-term governor of New York.
1:11.0	And last year he built a big national profile,
1:15.0	seen as effective and decisive during the pandemic.
1:19.0	Emerge kind of as an anti-Trump for the Democratic Party,
1:22.0	but as 2020 turned to 2021,
1:25.0	he started to face two twin crises.
1:28.0	One was about the nursing home deaths that occurred during the pandemic in New York,
1:33.0	both the number of them and whether his administration had intentionally covered up
1:39.0	just how many people had died.
1:42.0	And the second was a growing number of accusations from women who had worked with him
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