Will Andrew Cuomo Say Sorry?
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🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has attracted national praise for his buck-stops-here leadership throughout the pandemic. But he's made some major missteps in his coronavirus response - the lack of transparency around COVID-related deaths in nursing homes is only the latest example. And his efforts to evade scrutiny have drawn fire from critics and constituents.
Guest: Jimmy Vielkind, reporter for the Wall Street Journal covering New York politics and government.
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| 0:29.6 | Jimmy Veildkind covers New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:34.7 | And for the past year, he's been showing up at the state capital in Albany for the governor's press conferences. |
| 0:36.5 | They happen usually in what's called the red room of the state capital. |
| 0:40.7 | And this is the governor's ceremonial office. |
| 0:43.2 | It's where Franklin Roosevelt worked. |
| 0:46.0 | It's where the governor's father, Mario Cuomo, worked. |
| 0:49.7 | Good morning. |
| 0:51.6 | Happy Friday. |
| 0:53.7 | For the first half of the pandemic, these junkets would happen every day. |
| 0:59.4 | Ostensibly, the governor was there to give an update on the state's coronavirus response. |
| 1:03.8 | But he would also dole out dad jokes, show off his penchant for graphic design. He reportedly makes his own PowerPoint slides. |
| 1:12.9 | One day, the governor rolled out a giant styrofoam mountain range |
| 1:17.0 | that his staff had crafted. |
| 1:19.6 | It was a visual metaphor for the coronavirus surge in his home state. |
| 1:24.5 | This is the mountain that New Yorkers climbed. |
| 1:30.3 | You know, I keep showing the curve. |
| 1:33.3 | This is the curve. |
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