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Cuomo aide tells NY Democrats their administration hid nursing home data to keep it from DOJ · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: You had Governor Cuomo, aided by his brother Chris Cuomo,
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  Speaker 1: telling a fantasy, a fantasy that New York was doing
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  Speaker 1: it right, that New York was saving lives, that New
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  Speaker 1: York was protecting people like no other state in America
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  Speaker 1: from COVID nineteen. The New York was making the tough
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  Speaker 1: and hard decisions to shut things down before anybody else
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  Speaker 1: was even thinking about it. And then there were people
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  Speaker 1: that started to praise Governor Cuomo as this amazing leader
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  Speaker 1: and they were giving him these, you know, big media
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  Speaker 1: hugs on TV about what an amazing, incredible job that
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  Speaker 1: he was doing. And then in the middle of a pandemic,
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  Speaker 1: when people were dying left and right, Governor Cuomo decided
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  Speaker 1: to ink a book deal where he would make himself
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot of money and write a book about
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  Speaker 1: his leadership, right, write a book about how amazing he
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  Speaker 1: is at fighting COVID, like he was a superhero. So
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of all this, while people are actually
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  Speaker 1: dying in New York and the numbers are going up,
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  Speaker 1: he's writing a book. Now. I doubt he wrote a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the book. I want to be clear about that, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I just I don't see it. I highly highly highly
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  Speaker 1: highly highly highly doubt that he wrote a book. He
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  Speaker 1: had a ghostwriter. But he's spent a lot of time
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  Speaker 1: working on the book, he said, a lot of time
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  Speaker 1: sitting down talking about the book. Right, He spent a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time just going over this book and chatting
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  Speaker 1: about this book and explaining what he wanted to say
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  Speaker 1: in this book. And then he got awards for his
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  Speaker 1: handling and did this tour which was like a victory
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  Speaker 1: lap while people were still dying from COVID, and the
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  Speaker 1: media praised him. Then the whistleblowers, and this is five
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  Speaker 1: six months ago now started coming forward saying, hold on
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  Speaker 1: a second, guys, this is not okay. What are you doing.
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  Speaker 1: Why are you doing this? Why are you acting like
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  Speaker 1: everything is okay when clearly everything is not okay. Why
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  Speaker 1: are you acting like this guy did an amazing job
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  Speaker 1: when he didn't. But but nevertheless, they were trying to
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  Speaker 1: turn him into Governor Cuomo, into what Rudy Giuliani became
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  Speaker 1: after nine to eleven. They were trying to turn him
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  Speaker 1: into America's governor the same way that organically, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: not through propaganda, Rudy Giliani became America's mayor. Forget whatever
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  Speaker 1: you think about Giuliani. Now Giuliani was America's mayor. I
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  Speaker 1: remember seeing him speak at a major conference after nine eleven,
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  Speaker 1: and he was a rock star. And he was a
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  Speaker 1: rock star. Not because of propaganda, Okay, he was. He
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  Speaker 1: was a rock star. Not because there was a book
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  Speaker 1: that he wrote while they were still trying to get
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  Speaker 1: people out of the rubble down at you know, down
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  Speaker 1: at it ground zero. He was a rock star because
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  Speaker 1: he had a real response that was authentic and organic,
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  Speaker 1: and he did an amazing job. And when you do that,
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  Speaker 1: you deserve to get praise. When political leaders do something right,
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  Speaker 1: they deserve to get accolades. But what we saw with
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  Speaker 1: Governor Cuomo was not accolades. It was one propaganda because
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  Speaker 1: you already had people out there that were dissenting, explaining, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you're making terrible decisions, you're not paying attention, you're destroying
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  Speaker 1: people's lives, Governor Cuomo, your lockdowns are hurting people. We
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  Speaker 1: saw suicide rates go through the roof. We've seen homicide
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  Speaker 1: rates go through the roof. We've seen violence go through
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  Speaker 1: the roof, child abuse go through the roof. In New York,
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  Speaker 1: all of this was happening, But there was a bigger
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  Speaker 1: issue than any of the things I just mentioned. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: there was an even bigger issue. And the bigger issue
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  Speaker 1: was an issue that everybody in the media should have
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  Speaker 1: been paying attention to, and that was the unbelievable rate
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  Speaker 1: of death that was happening in nursing homes. And there
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  Speaker 1: were some that tried to sound the alarm. I'll give
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  Speaker 1: you an example, a full disclosure. A lady who I
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of respect for, who I would consider
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  Speaker 1: to be a friend, Jannisteine at Fox News Channel. Both
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  Speaker 1: of her in laws died in nursing homes, and they
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  Speaker 1: died because of an order of a mandate from the
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  Speaker 1: governor that if you were COVID nineteen positive and we
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  Speaker 1: need to get you out of the hospital, then what
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  Speaker 1: we would end up doing is taking you back to
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  Speaker 1: a nursing home, and then you were infecting everybody in
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  Speaker 1: the nursing home, and then people were dying in the
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  Speaker 1: nursing home. And even after they knew that this was
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  Speaker 1: a bad decision, Okay, even after they knew that it
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  Speaker 1: was a terrible decision to do this, they still kept
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  Speaker 1: doing it. Even after they knew that people were dying
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  Speaker 1: because this decision, the governor continued to move forward and
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  Speaker 1: do it. And you have to ask yourself the question,
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  Speaker 1: why why would you keep doing this? Probably because you're
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  Speaker 1: not paying attention, Probably because you're too busy writing a book,
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  Speaker 1: Probably because you're too busy patting yourself on the back
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  Speaker 1: and giving yourself a love fest to yourself. And the
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  Speaker 1: media is having you on TV talking about you're America's governor.
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  Speaker 1: You're doing it right. Look how amazing New York is,
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  Speaker 1: when actually New York was failing, failing miserably. And then
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  Speaker 1: people start giving you awards, and you're flying around the
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  Speaker 1: country to get these awards, all of course liberals giving
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  Speaker 1: accolades to liberals because that's what they do, all while
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  Speaker 1: people are actually dying. Then you have the media start
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  Speaker 1: turning on conservative governors that we're doing the opposite of
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  Speaker 1: what Governor Cuomo was mandating in New York. Insert a
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  Speaker 1: guy that most of you didn't know the name of,
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  Speaker 1: a guy by the name of De Santists Governor to
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  Speaker 1: Santis in Florida. The media started to turn on him,
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  Speaker 1: trying to write stories about him, saying that his decisions
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  Speaker 1: were causing it costing people their lives, that his decisions
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  Speaker 1: were disastrous, that his decisions people were dying because of
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  Speaker 1: and Governor de Santis decided, guess what, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: fight back. I'm going to fight back with the stats.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to fight back with the reality of what's
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  Speaker 1: happening on the ground. I'm going to fight back and
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  Speaker 1: tell you what's really going on, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: tell you why we're doing what we're doing. We're being responsible,
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  Speaker 1: what we're keeping people open, We're being responsible, but we're
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  Speaker 1: not ruining people's lives. And the media continued to pound.
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  Speaker 1: The media was doing everything they could to find horror
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  Speaker 1: stories in Florida's they could blackmail or shame publicly shame
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  Speaker 1: to Santists and the other Republicans, talking about how stupid
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  Speaker 1: and evil they were and how dumb they were, how
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  Speaker 1: they were costing people's lives, except the stories didn't materialize.
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  Speaker 1: While this was happening, there were more whistleblowers coming forward,
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  Speaker 1: more healthcare workers coming forward, more people trying to tell
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  Speaker 1: the stories that the governor in New York was actually
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  Speaker 1: his policies were actually responsible for people dying. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: overstating that that's a fact. Well, then then there were
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  Speaker 1: people that came forward and said, hey, Governor de Santis
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  Speaker 1: is the real you know, look over here, this Florida
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  Speaker 1: guy is terrible, not not Cuomo. Right, they started this
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  Speaker 1: misinformation war from the media. Of course, it's always based
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  Speaker 1: out of you guests at New York and as Then
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  Speaker 1: liberals in New York started to say, hey, these policies
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  Speaker 1: are really hurting the city and the state of New York,
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  Speaker 1: and you guys are responsible for people dying. What did
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  Speaker 1: they do? They double down? How dare you question us?
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  Speaker 1: How dare you attack us? And then people said, well,
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  Speaker 1: hold on, these numbers don't seem right. And then they said,
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  Speaker 1: you're a conspiracy theory. I'm talking about death count numbers.
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  Speaker 1: People were saying, there's no way that these numbers are accurate.
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  Speaker 1: Now you had healthcare workers that were saying, there is
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  Speaker 1: no way that these numbers were accurate. The media is
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  Speaker 1: still refused to port on the story a story that hey,
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  Speaker 1: maybe more people are dying and assisted living facilities because
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  Speaker 1: of the policies of Governor Cuomo than are actually being reported. Well,
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  Speaker 1: insert a whistleblower. Now a governor Cuomo aide has told
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  Speaker 1: New York Democrats and the administration that their administration. Cuomo's
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  Speaker 1: administration actually purposely hid the nursing home data to keep
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  Speaker 1: it from Donald Trump and the Department of Justice. This
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  Speaker 1: newly released data shows the nursing home desk were much
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  Speaker 1: higher than previously being reported. While everybody was talking about
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  Speaker 1: how amazing Governor Cuomo was doing, why I was writing
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  Speaker 1: a book while he was getting awards, while he was
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  Speaker 1: touring the country as this propaganda of America as governor.
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  Speaker 1: A top aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told
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  Speaker 1: leading state Democratic lawmakers that the administration had, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: on purpose withheld data on COVID nineteen deaths at nursing
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  Speaker 1: homes to avoid federal scrutiny. According to a new Bombshell
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  Speaker 1: News report, the revelation is prompted condemnation and even talk
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  Speaker 1: of impeachment. In Albany, New York, the state's capital representatively, Zelden,
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  Speaker 1: wants the Department of Justice to open an obstruction of
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  Speaker 1: justice investigation. Quote, the families of thousands of dead New
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  Speaker 1: York seniors deserve accountability and justice for the true consequences
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  Speaker 1: of Governor Cuomo's fatally flawed nursing home policy and the
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  Speaker 1: continued attempts to cover it up. It's clear what's happening
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  Speaker 1: here is criminal, he went on to say. The New
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  Speaker 1: York Post first reported that Melissa de rosa secretary to
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  Speaker 1: the governor, told leading Empire State Democrats, that the administration
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  Speaker 1: fear the data could quote be used against us by
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  Speaker 1: the Justice Department. During a video conference call. She said
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  Speaker 1: this on a video conference call. The DOJ began investigating
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  Speaker 1: nursing home coronavirus desks in four states back in August,
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  Speaker 1: and New York was one of them. Quote. We were
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  Speaker 1: in a position where we weren't sure if what we
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  Speaker 1: were doing, what we were excused me going to give
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  Speaker 1: to the Department of Justice, or what we give to
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  Speaker 1: you guys, what we start saying was going to be
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  Speaker 1: used against us while we weren't sure if there was
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  Speaker 1: going to be an investigation, DeRosa told the lawmakers. According
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  Speaker 1: to the Post report, a senior QUOMA advisor placed some
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  Speaker 1: of the blame on the Trump administration in the call, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 1: we explained that the Trump administration was in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of a politically motivated effort to blame Democrats and Democratic
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  Speaker 1: states for COVID deaths. This is how they're spinning it
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  Speaker 1: last night, and that we were cooperating with federal document
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  Speaker 1: production and that was the priority. And now that it's over,
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  Speaker 1: we can address the state legislature that said we were
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  Speaker 1: working simultaneously to complete the audit of information that they
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  Speaker 1: were asking for. Now, let me explain to you how
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  Speaker 1: egregious the offense is here by America's governor. Is how again,
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  Speaker 1: CNN and abcnbc's MSNBC, you know where they I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this was the guy, right, Cuomo was their guy. He
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  Speaker 1: was the guy that writes a book in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the pandemic talking about how amazing his response is.
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  Speaker 1: What we now have been told is that the New
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  Speaker 1: York State, the Governor's office, on purpose, undercut nursing home
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  Speaker 1: coronavirus death by as much as fifty percent, by as
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  Speaker 1: much as fifty percent to save face. They didn't give
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  Speaker 1: a crap if you died. This goes back to the
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  Speaker 1: whistle blowers the state, by the way, and the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: said everything they could silence the whistle blowers. I'll go
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  Speaker 1: back to Jenisteine. Many of you know her from Fox
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  Speaker 1: News channel as the meteorologist there. They blocked her from
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  Speaker 1: actually testifying before the State Assembly in Albany because they
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  Speaker 1: said she was political because she worked at Fox. She
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  Speaker 1: wasn't speaking on behalf of Fox, She's a meteorologist. She
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  Speaker 1: was speaking on behalf of her two dead in laws
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  Speaker 1: that died because of this rule by Governor Cuomo to
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  Speaker 1: take highly contagious COVID nineteen page who were still contagious
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  Speaker 1: and forced nursing homes to put them back into the
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  Speaker 1: center where they then infected staff and other elderly people
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  Speaker 1: who died. And then once they knew it was a disaster,
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  Speaker 1: instead of fixing the rule, they covered it up by
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  Speaker 1: underreporting the number of deaths by up to fifty percent.
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  Speaker 1: And his staff is just talking about it openly on
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  Speaker 1: these calls. Right, Hey, we had we had a lie,
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  Speaker 1: We had a lot of the citizens. We had to
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  Speaker 1: cover this up. We had to underreport. We didn't want
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  Speaker 1: the DOJ to use us against us, and we figured
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  Speaker 1: we could wait it out till Biden got an office.
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  Speaker 1: Then we wouldn't have to worry because we knew they
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  Speaker 1: would cover it up for us. Right, That's what they're
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  Speaker 1: basically saying here. News of the call is sparked outrage
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  Speaker 1: among state Republicans and other critics of Cuomo's conduct already
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  Speaker 1: and senced over his March twenty fifth directive that ordered
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  Speaker 1: thousands of virus infected seniors back into assistant living facilities,
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  Speaker 1: nursing homes and other long term care locations. The second
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  Speaker 1: most powerful person state government and top a to Governor Cuomo,
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  Speaker 1: admitted on video to the premeditated and willful violation of
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  Speaker 1: state law and what clearly amounts to federal obstruction of
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  Speaker 1: justice is what the state GOP chairman Nick Langworthy said.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo has abused his power and destroyed the trust
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  Speaker 1: placed in the office of the governor. Prosecution and impeachment
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  Speaker 1: discussions must begin right away. Freedom of information data released
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday revealed that the nursing home death toll was far
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  Speaker 1: higher than the Governor's office was reporting, and those numbers
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  Speaker 1: emerged just two weeks after the state Attorney General found
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  Speaker 1: that the numbers released before the end of January were
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  Speaker 1: also significantly underreported. Quote. It seems every decision coming out
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  Speaker 1: of the Governor's office is about Team Cuomo protecting its
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  Speaker 1: own image and an interest is what a State Assemblyman
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  Speaker 1: William Barclay said more than one thousand, excuse me, more
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  Speaker 1: than fifteen thousand seniors died in adult care facilities in
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  Speaker 1: New York State. But the governor was clearly more worried
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  Speaker 1: about his image and adj investigation and political finger pointing,
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  Speaker 1: and of course, writing books and talking about how amazing
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  Speaker 1: he did as a governor. In a response to a
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  Speaker 1: separate freedom of information request this week, state health officials
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  Speaker 1: told the Associated Press that more than nine thousand virus
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  Speaker 1: patients had been sent into nursing homes in the state
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  Speaker 1: before Cuomo reversed the directive on May the tenth. So
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  Speaker 1: you took nine thousand seniors that had COVID nineteen, you
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  Speaker 1: forced them back into nursing homes in the state, and
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  Speaker 1: you didn't reverse it, even though everybody was telling you
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  Speaker 1: to do it. You didn't reverse it. A nursing home
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  Speaker 1: plan that was killing people. You didn't reverse it even
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  Speaker 1: though everyone was telling you to do it. The question
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  Speaker 1: is why why would the governor be so arrogant, so ignorant,
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  Speaker 1: so incompetent. Once pretty clear they weren't running the Governor's
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  Speaker 1: office for the people of New York. Every decision coming
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  Speaker 1: out of the governor's office was about team Governor Cuomo,
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  Speaker 1: protecting his image and his own interests. That's what State
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  Speaker 1: Assemblyman William Barclay is now saying. More than fifteen thousand
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  Speaker 1: seniors died, the governor didn't care about them. He was
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  Speaker 1: more worried about his image. In a response to a
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  Speaker 1: separate freedom of information requests this week, state health officials
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  Speaker 1: told the Associated Press that more than nine thousand virus
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  Speaker 1: patients had been sent into nursing homes in the state
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  Speaker 1: before Cuomo decided to stop. This administration intentionally withheld information
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  Speaker 1: from the public, from the press, from lawmakers, and from
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  Speaker 1: thousands of families who lost loved ones. This is why
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  Speaker 1: closed to our conversations won't cut it. If this doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make it painfully obvious that we need to issue subpoenas
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  Speaker 1: and hold public hearings, I don't know what will. Even
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  Speaker 1: Democratic lawmakers are agreeing with what Republicans are saying, like
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  Speaker 1: the one I just read you. That quote from Democratic
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  Speaker 1: lawmakers on the call even pushed back against the administration's excuses.
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  Speaker 1: Quote in a pandemic when you want the public to
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  Speaker 1: trust the public health officials, and there is this clear
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  Speaker 1: feeling that they're not being forthcoming with you. This is
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  Speaker 1: really hard, is what State Center Rachel May said during
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  Speaker 1: the call. She's a Democrat. So what is Team Quomo
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  Speaker 1: doing now? We're being told that he's doing everything but
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  Speaker 1: being honest. He's trying to get Democrats to back him,
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  Speaker 1: to support him, to not have this thing spiral out
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  Speaker 1: of control. I go back to the very beginning of
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  Speaker 1: this story. This scumbag governor was writing a book making
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  Speaker 1: money off of COVID, making money off the pandemic, making
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  Speaker 1: money off of a false pretense by the way, that
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  Speaker 1: he was somehow the silver bullet to saving people's lives.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Governor Cuomo was. Remember, Governor Cuomo understood the
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  Speaker 1: value here. He understood what a great value COVID could
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  Speaker 1: be to his legacy if he could sell it that.
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  Speaker 1: He understood it and did it better than anyone else did.
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  Speaker 1: He understood how amazing this could be for him. He
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  Speaker 1: understood the upside to this. But even as things are
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  Speaker 1: spiraling out of control, he just said, I don't have
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  Speaker 1: to admit it, right, I don't have to look backwards.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to go backwards. I don't have to
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  Speaker 1: act like this isn't happening. I'm gonna keep moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep moving forward as fast as I can.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna keep moving forward and make sure
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  Speaker 1: that no matter what I've got this that I'm in charge,
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  Speaker 1: that this keeps moving in this direction. Because there's a
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  Speaker 1: certain point where he also knew that this information came out,
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  Speaker 1: his book career would be over right, there was a
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  Speaker 1: certain point where the book would be done. So I
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  Speaker 1: would argue that in this criminal investigation, which I do
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  Speaker 1: believe should happen, that one of the main reasons why
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  Speaker 1: Governor Cuomo refused to crewed up is he needed to
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  Speaker 1: get the book out there, and the book was would
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  Speaker 1: not be out there. There would be no book tour,
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  Speaker 1: there would be no money being made if he came
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  Speaker 1: out and said, hey, we really screwed up, because then
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  Speaker 1: the whole entire book would be ruined. How can you
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  Speaker 1: throw a book out there that says that you did
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  Speaker 1: an amazing job when you walk out and have to
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  Speaker 1: admit that we screwed up in a bunch of people died,
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  Speaker 1: like fifteen thousand people died because the incompetency of our
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  Speaker 1: administration can't do it. That book won't sell. Actually take
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  Speaker 1: that back. I think some people would still buy it
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  Speaker 1: because they're stupid. But the publisher may have even had
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  Speaker 1: to pull the book if that is the case. If
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  Speaker 1: that is that, if that was what the governor actually
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  Speaker 1: decided to do, so instead they said, oh the hell
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  Speaker 1: with that, will cover it up instead. What we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do is, we're gonna cover it up, and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: make it and we're gonna act like it never really happened.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna fix this, right, We're gonna we're gonna fix it,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna make sure that we'll make it through this,
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  Speaker 1: and the media will cover for us. The media will
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  Speaker 1: take care of us, because that's what they always do, right, right.
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  Speaker 1: The media always gets her back on this kind of stuff,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: don't they. They're always the ones that support us when
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: these types of things happen, and they've done it so far.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: When you've got a top aid coming out and saying
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: this on this call, telling the states leading Democratic lawmakers
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: that the administration had on purpose with held the data
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: on COVID nineteen deaths at these nothing homes for one
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: reason to avoid federal scrutiny. The New York Post first
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: reported that Melissa DeRosa, the secretary to the governor, told
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: the leading Democrats in New York State, that the administration
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: fear the data could quote be used against us by
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the Justice Department. During a video conference call. The DOJ
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: began investigating nursing home coronavirus death in four states back
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: in August, New York. One of them quote, we were
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: in a position where we weren't sure if what we
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: were doing going to give the Department of Justice or
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: what we give to you guys, what we start saying
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: was going to be used against us, while we weren't
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: sure if there was going to be an investigation. So
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: therefore we just said, screw it. We're gonna lie to you.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: If you think the Democratic Party cares about you. This
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: is the lead of the Democratic Party of Governors, right,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: this is this was America's governor. This was Rudy Giuliani
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: two point zero. Use a crisis to your advantage. Except
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: when Giuliani became America's mayor. It was authentic, it was original,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: It wasn't planned, it wasn't coordinated by his staff. Right,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Giuliani wouldn't have there trying to sell a book while
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: they were still going through the rubble at ground zero,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: which is exactly what Governor Cuomo was doing. Hey, Hey,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: let's tell everybody, I'm doing a great job. Great, Hey,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: let's get us a book deal out of this. Great Hey,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: oven or people were SOI dying right now, Shut up,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I gotta write the book. Can't tell that story. We're
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: gonna tell everybody for my own political gain. And I
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: got a brother on CNN that will help me do it,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: and Chris Cuomo, and I got other people in the
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: media in New York that will do the same thing
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: for me. They'll tell everybody I'm doing a great job,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: and maybe this will help me run for president one day.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Because if you don't think this is about politics, you
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: are not paying attention. This was absolutely about his political future.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Governor Cuomo saw an opportunity to become president one day
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: because of his response. If you don't think he was
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: thinking about the White House, you're not thinking. And the
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: media helped do it and cover it up. That's how
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: evil the media is. That's how evil the social media
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: networks are that put this propagaina out there. They didn't
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: fact check it. By the way, they didn't take it down.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: All these crap stories about Governor Cuomo, they never censored them,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: they never marked them as false news or fake news.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: I wonder how many fact checkers will go back and
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: fact check this on Facebook, on Twitter and mark these
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: stories about how what a great job he did actually
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: is total crap. And I'll leave it at that.