The Resignation of Andrew Cuomo

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🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York announced yesterday that he would resign from office, exactly one week after a searing report found that he sexually harassed 11 women. What convinced him to step aside, how did the scandal bring about such a rapid and astonishing reversal of fortune for one of the nation’s best-known leaders, and what happens next? Guest: Shane Goldmacher, a national political reporter for The New York Times.

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0:42.0	Today, the resignation of Andrew Cuomo as Governor of New York. I spoke with my colleague, Shane
0:51.0	Goldbacher, about what convinced him to step aside, who replaces him, and what happens next.
1:01.6	It's Wednesday, August 11th.
1:06.8	Shane, the last time we talked to you, and it was not very long ago, was right after this very
1:11.7	damning report came out from the office of the New York Attorney General, laying out very credible
1:16.9	allegations by 11 accusers claiming that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo had sexually harassed them.
1:24.5	And in that conversation, you told us, Andrew Cuomo would never leave office unless he was shoved
1:31.6	out. And that seemed pretty far off. So what changed? Well, he was shoved. And I think that he
1:39.9	was shoved faster than I or he expected it to come. And from all different directions. It started
1:49.0	on Sunday, he got a shove from inside his own administration. And we begin with breaking news in
1:55.6	Albany, where the governor's top aide, Secretary Melissa Derosa, has resigned. From his senior most
2:03.3	advisor, a woman named Melissa Derosa, who has been his right hand for years. In a statement obtained
2:10.0	by 13 WAM News, Derosa says the past two years have been emotionally and mentally trying. Her
2:17.1	resignation comes as Governor Cuomo faces mounting calls for him to step down. It's really hard to
2:24.4	overstate how important Melissa has been to the Cuomo administration. And you can see it in part
2:29.9	by the fact that her name is littered across the Attorney General's report with more than 100
2:34.4	mentions of her involvement from what they called retaliation against one of the accusers,
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