Reps. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., and Tom Reed, R-N.Y., join ‘Fox & Friends’ along with New York State Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara and State Senator James Tedisco.
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P people know the difference.
P people know the difference
between playing politics bowing
to cancel culture and the truth.
Part of this is that I am not
part of the political club,
and you know what
im proud of it:
Jedediah fifteen thousand people dead in
New Yorks Nursing homes of
Covid, 19, seven accusations of
sexual harassment and assault,
but New York, Governor Andrew
Cuomo is using cancel culture, as
his latest defense
lets hear from New Yorks
lawmakers
republican Congresswomen, Claudia
Tenney and Nicole Malliotakis
and Democratic Assemblyman,
Angelo Santabarbara,
its great to have you
representative, well start with
you.
You heard in that introduction a
statement from Cuomo where hes,
essentially blaming cancel
culture.
What do you make of that?
The idea that the governor is
trying to say that he is a
victim of cancel culture like
Abraham, Lincoln or MR potato
head or Dr Seuss is absolutely
ridiculous, and it is an insult
to the fifteen thousand individuals who
perished in nursing homes
because of his executive order
and the families that want
answers and are demanding
justice.
This is absolutely outrageous.
The governor should be ashamed
of himself to actually say that,
instead of actually coming
forward and apologizing and
taking responsibility and
resigning
Jedediah, you know
Congresswoman Tenny. A lot of
people are concerned, of course,
about these sexual harassment
allegations these groping
allegations that have come
forward, but there is some
disappointment that people feel
well. Why wasnt Andrew Cuomos
involvement in these nursing
home scandals? Why was that on
its own? Not enough for people to
come, fororward and call for
resignation?
Where do you stand on the state
of these two scandals,
its ridiculous?
I served in Albany with some of
my colleagues there. Already.
The biggest problem is the
Albany media has refused to hold
Governor Cuomo accountable.
I called for his resignation way
back in two thousand and fourteen. The governor has
committed abuses of powers using
taxpayer dollars and now this
tremendous disaster with the
nursing home scandal, the
cover up,
remember people have also
billion abused by this scandal
and also have been injured, with
no voice to protect them as
well.
The Albany media has done
nothing, and now it takes
something like a sexual
harassment claim which, by
the way, hes entitled to due
process. Now these are looking
like a sexual assault claim,
but this is really important
and now its finally getting
coverage.
Unfortunately, its taken this
issue to uncover eleven years of
abuses of power by the Governor
Jedediah, Congressman Reid
weve, been trying to figure out
in terms of Governor Cuomos
political future. What that could
potentially look like
his poll numbers have plummeted.
You have politicians, lawmakers
residents of New York on both
sides of the aisle now calling
for accountability.
What his political future
does. His political future, look
like
I called three months ago and
said Cuomos days were numbered
in Albany because of exactly
what we see here,
his abuse of power, his
governing by intimidation and
abuse,
and that has to come to an end,
theres new leadership coming to
Albany, and I can tell you its
going to be about leading the
great state of New York in a new
direction by bringing people
together being proud to be a
republican being proud to be a
democrat and not
inaudible,
but working together to being a
beacon of hope across the
country.
Jedediah. What about these
excuses that Governor Cuomo has
put out there?
He said im, not part of a
political club, essentially
painting himself as like an
anti establishment person im a
man of the people,
hes essentially placed the
blame on everyone, but himself.
What do you make of that?
This is exactly what this
governor does.
You know he was born into
politicses.
You know he is the political
club and now hes saying hes
the outsider,
its just simply ridiculous.
Its not everybody knows
Andrew Cuomos history, the
language that hes using at his
press conferences, shows a lack
of awareness, a lack of reality,
its like hes having a battle
with the press, but hes not
really addressing the issues at
hand,
and it shows that he cant
continue to lead our state.
He cant effectively manage
everything thats going on and
theres a number of
investigations going on
hes using his time to make
phone calls to try and fined
support
hes trying find support,
hes trying to discredit his a
accusers.
He no doubt will use the state
budget to try and further
manipulate and control people in
the state capitol.
He has done it in the past where
hes used that to leverage- and
we see a pattern of behavior
here- that hes created a culture
in Albany at the state Capitol
in the executive chamber that
makes him unfit for office
Jedediah. The New York Post is
now reporting that staffers have
stopped showing up for work.
What do you think?
Are you surprised?
Well, I think a lot of people
are leaving the administration
or theyre not coming to work.
They are also probably telling
him behind the scenes that its
time to go
hes in denial here and he
doesnt realize that you know
or when everyone from United
States, senators, Gillibrand and
Schumer to bipartisan group of
lawmakers from the state level
and your New York delegation are
all telling you its time to go
because of all these
allegations, particularly the
cover up of a nursing home
scandal that led to all these
deaths. You know it is time to
go
if people want to join their
voice. Sign your name enough,
Cuomo DOT, COM,
Jedediah state Senator. What do
you say to those who are
concerned that there may not be
accountability when it comes to
nursing homes in particular, and
that there wont be due
diligence on an invest
investigation with these
harassment and assault claims
well were certainly not
finished. Yet, with our
investigations,
we have the a dot g investigating.
We have the investigation by the
FBI and by U Dot S attorneys.
I have my own bill for an
outside independent bipartisan
investigation, with Assemblyman
RON Kim
were going through an
impeachment process. Now, in the
New York State Assembly
I mean this is a governor who
got an Emmy for his
communication skills and I
guess for his acting.
He will never get an Emmy for
transparency, openness and
honesty.
These are about cover ups
lying distortion, and if
anybody wants to know all
youve got to do is look at the
mantel in the governors office
because its severely tan
thished,
we know what he did.
He hid those numbers.
Fifteen thousand of our most vulnerable
population in his executive
order on March 25th had a
tremendous amount to do with.
Why did he cover up?
He was embarrassed,
the numbers werent six thousand- they
were fifteen thousand.
He wants to keep his reputation.
The New York Times pointed out.
He was writing a book,
it didnt fit his narrative
and if something doesnt fit his
narrative, he makes it to his
narrative, no matter if lives are
being lost or not,
and he came out with a book
which is not worth very much
right now and, as you know, the
publishers are not promoting it
right now
we havent, given up
weve, been there with my
conference and our Republicans
from the beginning
for months, weve been calling
for a full investigation.
We were some of the first
individuals to call for his
resignation and impeachment, and
this is a huge kiss traction
weve got kiss traction.
Weve got a one hundred and eighty dollars billion budget
weve got to complete.
We have to turn the economy
around in New York state because
were fast becoming not the
empire state the, but the energy
statement in New York
theyre leaving in droves
Jedediah. Well, we are deeply
grateful to all of you for
joining us this morning.
We appreciate you being here.
The good news is that there is
bipartisan interest in
accountability here and that a
makes all the people who
suffered at the hands of these
horrific nursing home policies
feel a little bit better, that
they may get some closure as an.
Transcript generated on 2021-03-13.