Why Cuomo Won’t Resign
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo faces calls to resign over accusations of sexual harassment and allowing a toxic workplace culture to persist. But to the people who know him best, it’s unlikely the governor will ever bow to those demands.
Guests: Jimmy Vielkind, Wall Street Journal reporter covering New York politics & government.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so Jimmy, it hasn't even been a month, and I feel like this story's changed. |
| 0:09.6 | Yeah, it seems like the situation here is changing not just day by day, but hour by hour. |
| 0:19.1 | The last time I spoke with the Wall Street Journal's Jimmy Veilkind, we were talking about |
| 0:23.4 | a nursing home scandal that was threatening to upend New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's third term |
| 0:29.4 | in office. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is denying that the number of coronavirus deaths |
| 0:36.3 | connected to nursing homes has been vastly underreported. |
| 0:40.4 | The governor denies that he or his staff did anything wrong here, but some who have lost loved |
| 0:45.3 | ones, they disagree. |
| 0:48.2 | And behind this scandal were allegations of a toxic culture in New York State Capitol. |
| 0:54.6 | Critics say years of bullying by the governor and his staff coming home to roost. |
| 0:59.3 | This is federal prosecutors and the FBI now looking to see |
| 1:02.1 | if the Cuomo administration's apparent refusal for months |
| 1:05.7 | to release accurate nursing home death data amounts to a crime. |
| 1:11.2 | But in the last few weeks, this scandal has kept growing. |
| 1:15.6 | And now the focus is on accusations of sexual harassment. |
| 1:19.9 | New at 6 o'clock, a former aide to Governor Cuomo accuses him of years of sexual harassment. |
| 1:27.0 | Lindsay Boylan worked for the Cuomo administration. |
| 1:29.4 | A third woman now accuses New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of harassment, adding to the... |
| 1:34.6 | New allegations against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a seventh woman now coming forward, accusing him of inappropriate behavior. |
| 1:42.4 | The governor continuing to say he will not step down. |
| 1:49.2 | What is March usually like in Albany? I mean, as a New Yorker, it's usually pretty busy in March, right? |
| 1:56.5 | It's sort of the high season of lobbying and debate around the New York State budget, which |
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