I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Wednesday, August 4th.

We'll begin with Governor Cuomo. If there's any Democratic politician left who is not calling for him to resign, they are being

very quiet about it.

You've probably heard by now that the collapse of support for him remaining in office after

the Attorney General's report came out yesterday includes Assembly Speaker Carl Hastie, who

had not previously called for the governor's resignation. New York

Congress members, Hakeem Jeffries, Mondair Jones, and Gregory Meeks. They were in the wait

and sea camp. They've now seen enough. Rodney's Boshote, the Brooklyn Democratic Party

chair and prominent assembly member, who had previously said she was waiting for more

information. Now she says resign. A joint statement calling for Cuomo to resign was issued yesterday.

Did you hear this by the Democratic governors of New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Rhode

Island? Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, too. And yes, as of

yesterday, even President Biden. I think he should resign. I understand that the state legislature

may decide to impeach. I don't know that for fact. I've not read all that data. So President Biden, that's a big deal. But maybe in its way an even bigger deal, Cuomo's

lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochel, who of course would take over as governor, but has been loyal

throughout, she issued a statement saying, quote, the Attorney General's investigation has documented repulsive and

unlawful behavior by the governor towards multiple women. I believe these brave women and admire

their courage coming forward, unquote, from Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochel. So the governor's support

from his party for remaining in office

has completely collapsed. And an overnight Marist poll of New Yorkers out this morning finds

59% say he should resign, including 52% of Democrats. Just 32% said he should remain in office.

But one more thing before we bring in our first guest.

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