Welcome to Beg to

Defer. The Bullworks Weekly Roundtable discussion featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right. I'm Mona Charon,

syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bullwork and I'm joined by our regulars

Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution in the Wall Street Journal, Damon Linker of the week, and Linda Chavez of the Niskanin Center.

Our special guest this week is Washington Post columnist Megan McCardall,

making a return visit, and we're always thrilled to have her.

So let us start with the woes of Governor Cuomo. The report came out this week by the New York Attorney General,

Letitia James, documenting accusations against Cuomo,

not just from the original women who had come forward, but from a grand total of 11. There were 179 witnesses that they heard from and it

paints a pretty bad picture of Cuomo's behavior, including hitting on and really sexually harassing in the grossest way,

his one of members of his security detail and others.

So I'm going to start with you, Damon Lincer.

This, we've seen this movie before in different iterations of course.

What do you make of the comparison to say

Ralph Northam or Bill Clinton or Donald Trump who all decided that they were going to adopt a strategy of just fighting it, denying it, denying everything and bullying their way through?

Well, that clearly is what Cuomo appears, still eager to try to do. We shall see how successful it would be. I don't think in any

of those cases you had quite the preponderance of people in his own, in the person's own party lining up so quickly to say, yeah, gotta go.

And that includes a majority of the Democratic majority, it includes the Democratic majority in

the New York State Assembly and that of course is where the rubber really is going to

hit the road but to have the president of the United States himself say on the very

day that this report was released that Cuomo should resign, that's a lot of pressure. So I think

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