Will Cuomo step down?

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🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Calls for Andrew Cuomo to step down grow as the New York governor faces allegations of sexual harassment from multiple women. The billionaires whose wealth ballooned during the pandemic. And, what the fencing around the Capitol means for our democracy.

White House reporter Josh Dawsey discusses the controversy surrounding Cuomo and his refusal to resign.

A handful of tech titans made more than $360 billion during the pandemic. Tech culture reporter Nitasha Tiku discusses how the past year is shattering the myth of the benevolent billionaire.

Art and architecture critic Philip Kennicott writes that the danger of right-wing mobs is real. Fencing at the U.S. Capitol won’t help.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, Washington Post is Colby.
0:11.2	Hi, it's Stephanie McCreement from the Washington Post.
0:14.2	This is Post Reports.
0:15.7	I'm Martine Powers.
0:19.9	It's Tuesday, March 16.
0:24.5	Today a moment of reckoning for the governor of New York.
0:27.9	The billionaires thriving in the pandemic and the optics of a chain link fence.
0:34.9	My name is Josh Stalsey.
0:38.4	I am a political investigations reporter at the Washington Post.
0:42.2	I cover New York politics from 2014 to 2016 for the Wall Street Journal.
0:51.6	So the allegations against Governor Andrew Cuomo come from a range of women.
0:55.6	Some current and former employees, some other women that he has encountered.
1:00.6	They go from inappropriate touching in some places to sexually suggestive comments, to workplace
1:08.2	toxic culture that weath them feeling quite uncomfortable at many times with how he treated
1:15.2	them.
1:16.2	We've now heard from six or seven different women who have given their stories, their experiences
1:22.4	with Governor Andrew Cuomo.
1:23.9	He has denied most of them while saying that he apologizes if anyone ever felt uncomfortable
1:29.2	but he did not mean anything and appropriate in his actions.
1:32.8	And now we have two different investigations that are probing his actions.
1:36.4	One by the Attorney General of New York and then one in impeachment investigation by the
1:41.8	House in New York State in Albany.
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