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Cuomo vs. Everyone

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is back on his heels again, following the release of the state attorney general’s extensive report on his pattern of sexually harassing women working around him. Now, even former allies of the governor are calling for him to resign or face impeachment. How long can Cuomo hang onto his office?

Guest: Brigid Bergin, political reporter for WNYC. 

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0:00.0

Can you describe the New York political press corps today?

0:09.8

Like if you had one word to do it?

0:15.4

Frenzied?

0:19.0

Bridget Bergen is a senior reporter at WNYC in New York.

0:23.8

It's one of those days where you'll see a lot of people recirculating that classic

0:28.5

onion story, it only Tuesday, because it's been a really, it's been a really busy day.

0:39.0

Bridget's busy day started with a press conference.

0:43.0

We were told that New York State Attorney General, Letitia James, was planning to hold a press conference around 10.30.

0:52.6

Did you know what was going to be about?

0:54.0

It was for a major announcement,

0:55.8

but she did not specify what. Good morning. This presser turned out to be about the governor,

1:06.3

Andrew Cuomo. He's been under investigation for sexual harassment allegations for months. Attorney General

1:13.4

James, she was plain when she laid out the findings of her 168-page report.

1:18.7

The independent investigation has concluded that Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple

1:26.5

women, and in doing so violated federal and state law.

1:31.7

And then, she and her staff went beyond a simple top line summary.

1:36.8

Our investigation revealed that these were not isolated incidents. They were part of a pattern.

1:45.9

I think what was so surprising about it was the level of detail

1:50.9

that they revealed even in the press conference.

1:55.1

It's one thing to have an intellectual understanding

1:58.0

of the allegations against the governor.

2:00.7

It's another to listen as one investigator, and then another lay out the specific stories of nearly a dozen women, where they were touched, what nicknames Cuomo gave them.

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