Congressmen Lee Zeldin and Matt Gaetz weigh in on allegations facing Cuomo on 'Hannity'
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Hypocritical entitled you can
put whatever adjectives you
like
here with reaction, Fox NEWS,
contributor, LISA, Boothe,
New York, Congressman Lee Zeldin,
Fox NEWS, legal analyst,
Gregg Jarrett, Congressman
Matt, Gaetz
good to see you all
lets get to the legal side.
Gregg Jarrett
lets start there tonight
legal liability on all of these
issues.
Yeah Cuomo, is in serious
legal jeopardy criminal
jeopardy.
He seems to be preoccupied with
holding onto the reins of power
when he should be concerned
about criminal charges and the
possibility of prison
under New York law. It is a
crime to grope or fondle the
intimate parts of another person
without consent against their
will.
It is called forcible touching.
It is a serious crime.
It is also the crime of
harassment.
So you know Andrew Cuomo
should be concerned about his
legal future, politically Thoug,
friends, no allies, because he
has always governed as a bully
and a political bug to menace
people with threats,
intimidation and retaliation,
people capitulated out of fear,
but they dont fear him anymore,
Sean. They view him as
powerless, weak, vulnerable and
impotent
people arent. Even returning his
telephone calls anymore
hes in the first Carico stages
of grief, denial and anger,
it will take a while to get to
acceptance
now Lee Zeldin, you
do know that New York has a very
interesting twist as it relates
to impeachment, because we now
have in terms of numbers. There
would be enough members of the
assembly that have said that he
should be out of office that
would vote to impeach him.
If that were to happen, he would
have to step down temporarily
while a Senate trial was going
on in New York state
different from the impeachment,
for example, that we watched
with President Trump
yeah thats right.
That is a key difference.
Lieutenant governor Kathy
Hopeful would become the
active and governor during that
time soon, as there impeachment
the numbers are there already,
and it has been happening
throughout the day today.
It was interesting that it
requires a fifth or sixth or
seventh accuser to come forward.
When I was getting asked about
resignation, I was thinking of
the nursing home directive and
the cover up, and I thought
thousands of dead, New York
seniors and the cover up and
bullying that that would be
enough to get the governor to
resign.
I watch the governors Press
conference earlier today.
Listened to it. It was a
train wreck, essentially going
after the accusers as being
liars.
If you believe the victims as
liars, and if you believe the
victims he will go after you
come too,
he is doubling down tripling
down on the same character flaws
that got himself into this
trouble in the first place.
I agree with you.
This is the end of
governor Cuomos political
career.
I dont think it is months. I
think it is days or weeks at
this point
LISA. Let me go to
the credibility of the seven
women here.
Im sure you watched the
interview on CBS the
corroboration with the text
messages in real time that she
was sending out to a very close
friend of hers.
That was pretty compelling to
me.
I never thought Republicans
particularly handle issues the
right way, but I did feel come
in the case of
justice. Kavanaugh Republicans
got it right.
There were charges made. There
was an investigation that went
forward. There were public
hearings and, for example,
Americans got to decide on what
they thought about
Julie, Swetnick, for example.
My question to you is how best
to handle moments like this.
Well, I think we need to look
at the evidence.
We need to hear out the
accusers, but look to see if
theres any corroborating
evidence corroborating
witnesses, and here you have it
with speed. Twenty five, you didnt
with Brett Kavanaugh. The
evidence worked against his
accusers when you had Christine
Fords childhood best friend
coming forward and saying I
dont. Remember any party, like
this, the party in question
later saying to the FBI that she
felt pressured by Christine Ford
and her friends to change her
original story,
quite the opposite of what we
have a governor Cuomo
but look Sean. I worked in
politics for a while.
I worked on Capitol Hill and
political campaigns for a number
of years, so I am cynical. I am
jaded when it comes to politics,
Democrats dont care about the
allegations made from these
women.
They dont care at all
Harris said she believed
bidens accusers and then
signed up to be his VP.
It is about to go things for
Democrats, opportunity for the
progressives in the state who
want to take out Governor Cuomo
and put a progressive and the
governors mansion, and
secondly, it is about a
distraction and a distraction
from the fact that Democrats
have failed in their response to
covid.
You look at the two kings,
governor, Newsom and California
are probably going to get
recalled and Governor Cuomo
facing a federal investigation
for killing, at least fifteen thousand
seniors, with his failed
policies and then trying to
cover it up.
So that is what they are trying
to distract from, and that is
why they are coming forward with
the sexual harassment stuff,
while completely ignoring the
real scandal, which is the
nursing home scandal.
Two fascinating
things congressman gaetz in
this case. To me
they might claim, oh guys, like
Hannity Republicans in
New York. State Democrats have a
vetoproof majority in the
assembly and in the Senate.
Republicans have no power in the
state
fascinating that this is all
democratic party driven.
I think youve got a couple
things going on at once.
What is your take on the
political side of this with
Democrats now, many of them a
little too late for the
I believer caucus? It took them
a long time to apply these
standards to Cuomo that they
were applying to Kavanaugh.
What do you make of the
Democrats wanting him out here?
The New York Democratic Party
seems to be going after each
other more than the royal
family at this point,
its not good as a New York
Democrat when you lose Schumer
when you lose AOC when you even
lose Jerry Nadler, for goodness
sake,
im glad you have been
consistent on this show,
we dont believe in guilt by
accusation. A great book by
Professor Alan Dershowitz, and
just the volume of accusers
alone should not substitute for
that needed due process,
and you have to wonder why is
this happening now?
I think it is because the media
no longer needs to protect
governor Cuomo because they no
longer need Governor Cuomo.
They were trying to smear
president Trump. The person who
brought us a vaccine twice as
fast as had ever happened in the
history of the world and they
needed the strong counterpoint
against Trump.
They couldnt use Joe Biden
because he was at naptime in the
built Cuomo up like the great
Oracle of response to the
coronavirus when the reality
is LISA is exactly right.
Killing fifteen thousand people in the
state of New York should be
impeachable.
That should result in true
investigations, and it certainly
makes my governor
RON Desantis look a lot more
like a leader because he made
decisions based on science, not
emotion or impulse.
The governor of New York should
not be Andrew Cuomo. It should
be someone on this panel. My
good friend Lee Zeldin.
Is that an
endorsement?
Maybe you can move to
New York.
Absolutely.
I will tell you
another thing: Florida did really
well compared to New York, so
did Texas, so did Mississippi
and all these other red states
the worst states. Oh New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Michigan by the way now
Governor Whitmer might be facing
charges and Newsome in Californ.
Interesting to see the
philosophical differences and
the impact it had one year.
Transcript generated on 2021-03-13.