Why Cuomo Won't Go - Irishman In America Scandals Series With Marion McKeone (Trailer)

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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This week Marion didn’t need to go into the archives to find a scandal worth talking about. As we recorded this episode, the Andrew Cuomo scandal continued to unfold before us. The New York Governor has fallen from grace after almost a dozen women came forward to say he sexually harassed at work. Even President Biden has weighed in to urge Cuomo to step down. This seems less and less likely, as Marion explains, partially because of his fight tooth and nail attitude. He has attempted to dismiss the claims pointing to his track record in supporting women’s rights and a zero tolerance approach to sexual harassment. He has tried to explain them away as misunderstandings but is there a bigger toxic cultural issue here that could threaten the President? Biden has long been accused of getting too “handsy”. Marion looks at her own experience with men in Washington over the years and makes a bold forecast for what is to follow. To hear every episode in full and to gain access to the entire back-catalogue of over 500 Irishman Abroad episodes that are not available on iTunes for just the price of a pint every month visit www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad Supplementary research provided by John Meagher. Our charity partner is jigsawonline.ie. In these tricky times, Jigsaw provides a range of resources, advice and care for your people to help them strengthen their mental health and the skills needed to navigate life. Please visit their website and consider making a donation. For updates on future episodes and live shows follow @jarlath on Twitter, visit www.jigser.com or email the show directly on [email protected]. Disclaimer: All materials contained within this podcast are copyright protected. Third party reuse and/or quotation in whole or in part is prohibited unless direct credit and/or hyperlink to the Irishman Abroad podcast is clearly and accurately provided.

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0:00.0	My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be President of the United States, I could be, I could be vice president.
0:06.9	Former Vice President Joe Biden has been elected President of the United States.
0:13.1	It is my greatest honor and privilege to have been your president.
0:17.3	We will be back in some form.
0:19.3	We are still deeply divided.
0:24.6	Public health experts warned this was coming unless more was done, and here we are now. Are you proud of what happened here today?
0:26.6	Absolutely.
0:27.6	Never before in American history, has there been an uprising like this?
0:31.6	Of the 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump, I don't know how many today are feeling,
0:38.2	dear God, what was I thinking? But I would wager a lot more our thinking, let's carry on this
0:43.5	fight. Character matters. It matters. Tell them the truth matters. The 21st century is going to be
0:50.4	the American century, because we lead not only by the example of our power but by the power of our example.
1:00.0	That is the history of the journey of America.
1:04.0	How has Andrew Cromo, the longtime governor of New York, gone from one of the most admired members of the Democratic Party to a pariah whose best friends haven't just abandoned him. They've called the removal vans to get him out of office. In a nutshell, the state's top investigator determined that he illegally harassed multiple female co-workers, including state employees,
1:29.0	within days party allies, including his old friend, Joe Biden, called on him to resign.
1:35.6	Cuomo is using what I call the Dustin Hoffman defense in that he denies the allegations
1:41.4	and has blamed the complaints on cultural and generational misunderstandings.
1:47.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of an Irishman in America with me, Jonathan Riegan.
1:51.4	I'm joined as always by our US correspondent to the brilliant Marion McKeown.
1:55.6	For the last six months, we've turned our focus to the biggest scandals in the history of the Union.
2:00.5	And we've gone deep into everything from the Tulsa Massacre, the Lewinsky affair, Iran-Contra.
2:05.6	Today, we get to delve into something much more recent.
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