welcome to the show we begin tonight
with the rising calls for new york
governor cuomo to resign or be impeached
after
the sixth accuser comes forward a
potential sexual assault allegation
referred to the albany police
by a state attorney for the governor in
accordance with new york state law
warning the allegations you're about to
hear are disturbing
they may not be suitable for children
the times union newspaper in albany
reporting
that an unnamed female staff member part
of the governor's executive chamber
is specifically alleging governor cuomo
quote
aggressively groped her late last year
at the governor's executive mansion
in albany new york cuomo reportedly
asked her to come over to help fix his
phone
they were alone in cuomo's private
residence on the second floor
he closed the door allegedly reached
under her blouse and began to fondle her
this unnamed state worker reportedly
told cuomo to stop
now democrats control both houses of the
state legislature
so they they determine cuomo's destiny
joining me now is new york state
assemblyman democrat angela santa
barbara
there's this is a new next level uh
threat to cuomo's political future a
criminal complaint potentially a sexual
assault charge can potentially
what is your take on the story when you
heard it
uh it's a a deeply disturbing allegation
uh it's uh it's it's putting
our our state capital in further chaos
uh you know and you know really we
should have uh
we should have taken action after the
first allegation uh but now we're at six
allegations and now these are the most
these are even more serious uh
allegations of crime the albanian police
department's involved uh
things are getting worse with each pac
with each passing day and i'm going to
say what i've what i've said from the
beginning the governor should resign
with the good of the state he should
realize what he is putting new york
state
through right now by staying in office
and should take it upon himself to
resign there's uh
almost 131 lawmakers out of the 213 that
think he should leave
office so there's growing calls for his
resignation
uh these uh allegations are being taken
very seriously
leaders in both houses are calling on
him to resign but i do not believe this
governor will
resign without impeachment on the table
there are three scandals sexual
harassment allegations now sexual
assault cover-up of coba 19
nursing home deaths putting covet
patients back into homes for the
disabled
hundreds died uh there allegedly
connected to cuomo's order that is yet
to be rescinded
let's get back to what's happening right
now half a dozen times cuomo called for
other politicians to resign
over sexual harassment he's been
bullying lawmakers calling them on the
phone to yell at them
calling on them to stop asking him to
resign and also
an alleged smear campaign against
another accuser lindsey boylan
uh her personnel records were leaked to
the media
is this a is this connected to cuomo
uh you know these are all you know based
on what we have right now
uh you know the the we can move forward
with
with these are all impeachable offenses
and i think that's what we need to be
talking about right now
uh this is a pattern uh and now he's
being exposed
for the for what he is uh leaking
sensitive documents
that uh should never be released uh he
has uh
uh withheld nursing home data he pushed
uh department health officials to alter
data you push to staff
to hide information uh there are a
number of charges here
that we already know about that we can
go forward with
but the most important thing is that the
the fact is this is that there's an fbi
investigation doj
and the ag's investigation going on he
has
he has a pattern of abusing his power of
interfering controlling manipulating
we cannot allow him to stay in office
because no doubt he will continue to do
that
these investigations need to need to
move forward
but with him in office no doubt there
will be interference we also have a
state budget that's due
and you know the longer he stays in
office the more he will use
state and federal dollars to pressure
or manipulate even further i think that
at this point he could not be part of
that process
he should be removed so that this state
can move forward
with the important work that we have to
do and these investigations can continue
without interference yeah so you're
saying he uses the budget also to bully
as well that's what you're alleging
final word is
is the impeachment push a serious one
it is serious i think it's the way to
move forward the way
to uh he's not going to take this
legislature seriously he has not in the
past
he does not want to be a co-equal branch
of government
i think that going forward there's only
one way forward and that's
introduce the articles of impeachment
all right new york state assemblyman
angelo santa barbara thanks for joining
us again let's get to