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Alyssa Farah: Cuomo gave the ‘worst public relations defense of all time’ - YouTube
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jackie joining us now to discuss it more
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former white house strategic
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communications director alyssa farah
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and former dnc deputy press secretary
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jose arista munoz
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jose alyssa we've got a lot to talk
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about thank you for taking time on a
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saturday alyssa let me start
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with you we heard that press conference
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from
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sheriff apple clearly this is moving on
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two tracks
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one a criminal investigation
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but then of course the rapidly moving
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fallout on possible impeachment from the
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new york assembly
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what do you see as governor cuomo's
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future
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so things keep getting worse for
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governor cuomo but mark my words he's
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going to fight it
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so after what i'd consider probably the
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worst public relations defense
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of all time when he essentially argued
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listen i'm inappropriate with a lot of
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people not just these victims
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his attorneys seem to have pivoted to a
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new strategy which is making more of a
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process
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argument so that's what they're going to
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try on the impeachment side of things
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but this is a
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major development that now he's under
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criminal investigation as well
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but i'm familiar enough with the cuomos
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these are very arrogant people he is
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going to fight it and he is going to try
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to ride it out and hold on to political
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power
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but the walls are closing in on him jose
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if you were advising governor cuomo
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what would you be telling him because it
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just
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in in terms of just the impeachment
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process with some two-thirds of the new
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york assembly
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publicly already calling for him to
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resign
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what is the the outcome that the
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governor thinks is
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politically possible but other than to
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step down
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sure well look i think the piece of
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advice is pretty simple
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governor don't go through the political
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embarrassment of going through an
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impeachment
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you should resign the attorney general
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of new york has been clear
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the evidence has been cleared this is
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not a democrat or republican issue
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the evidence is there he should resign
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today alyssa politically
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what does this mean for democrats in new
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york
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so it's a hugely uh significant moment
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and i would argue not just for democrats
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in new york
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many people believe that joe biden might
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not run for a second term and if that
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were the case and it were an open field
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a governor cuomo was a top-tier democrat
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candidate for a 2024.
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this is the end of a political dynasty
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it's the end of his rule
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soon i hope in the governor's mansion
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but it also spells the end of a
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potential presidential ambition well
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jose let me ask you because
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the president wasted no time on the same
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day on tuesday when this report came out
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the president called for governor cuomo
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to resign
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politically smart
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well look i think he's doing the right
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thing and he's standing uh
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you know by the american people look you
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know we know
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i don't think i agree uh with your
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guests that i think
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governor cuomo's political career career
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is pretty much over
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but then you got people on the
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republican side who have been accused of
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similar things president trump has been
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accused
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of doing similar things and he was
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president of the united states doesn't
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make it right by the way let me be very
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clear
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uh but but i think look um in terms of
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who's you know
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that the election you know in four years
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you know from four years from today we
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still got a lot of time the president of
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the united states today is joe biden
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we'll have plenty of democrats uh to run
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in for or whenever the time may come
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alyssa you you talked a little bit about
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cuomo and what's known about his
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ego and that sort of stuff it's it's
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worth pointing out
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that the reason why this report from
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attorney general letitia james
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came about was because the governor
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under new york's law did authorize
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for these investigations of sexual
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harassment to be
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looked into was that a mistake
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ultimately was that cuomo's fundamental
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mistake
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it's hard to say one way or the other i
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will give him this it was the right
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thing to do though
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i think he's got an invincibility
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complex your network has extensively
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covered the nursing home
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controversy over 10 000 seniors died
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under governor cuomo's care
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and he managed to get away with that but
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this is one that i don't think that he
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can escape from
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he may think he's invincible but he has
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not and i i
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commend these women for coming forward i
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commend the process and frankly
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democrats who have swiftly come out and
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condemned him
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that is a good thing it's the right
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thing but the walls are closing in he
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does not have a lifeline here
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i think he's going to be gone pretty
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soon but if he's not jose and if he is
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as alyssa says thinking he has this
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invincibility
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complex and if hypothetically he
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ultimately is arrested and criminally
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charged
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how much more damaging for new york
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democrats
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is that as opposed to him just simply
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resigning tomorrow
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look um you know i think first and
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foremost uh he might have done what he'd
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done and it's obviously it's wrong and
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he's gonna face the consequences
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but governor cuomo is a smart man he's
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been you know he's been in power he's
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been a governor for
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for a long time um he's gonna do the
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right thing i'm very hopeful
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uh and all right let's look into the
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crystal ball
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alyssa your prediction for how this
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plays out politically for governor cuomo
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he will ride out the impeachment inquiry
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he will put up a strong defense but
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there is so much mounting pressure
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around him
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he's ultimately either going to be
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removed from office or resign
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what do you think happened jose
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i think i think he's not going to be
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able to handle the political pressure
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from the president of the united states
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from democrats republicans and the
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country
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as a whole i don't think he'll go
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through uh the impeachment procedures i
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think he'll resign before that
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well we shall see and we will come back
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here and talk about it alyssa farah jose
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arista muno thank you very much for
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taking time on this saturday
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