DAGEN: BRIAN THANK YOU SO MUCH,
BRYAN LLENAS FOR US IN BROOKLYN.
BLAMING THE GOP DURING HIS
BRIEFING TODAY, GOVERNOR CUOMO
ACCUSED REPUBLICANS OF PLAYING
POLITICS, LISTEN TO THIS.
>> WAS EXPLOITED WITH
MISINFORMATION, PEOPLE PLAYING
POLITICS, REPUBLICANS PLAYING
POLITICS, PERSONAL ATTACK,
PERSONAL AGENDAS, AND NOW, THIS
CONTINUES AND PEOPLE GET
CONFUSED, AND PEOPLE WHO
LOST FAMILY MEMBERS IN NURSING
HOMES START TO SAY I WONDER IF
THIS IS TRUE.
DAGEN: JOINING ME NOW WITH
REACTION AND DISCUSS IMPEACHMENT
POTENTIALLY IS WILL BARCLAY, THE
NEW YORK ASSEMBLY MINORITY
LEADER PART OF THE MOVEMENT TO
FORM AN IMPEACHMENT COMMISSION.
SO, THE GOVERNOR, WILL, IS
BLAMING REPUBLICANS FOR CAUSING
PAIN ON THE FAMILIES WHO LOST
LOVED ONES IN NURSING HOMES, HE
MIGHT AS WELL BE STARING IN A
MIRROR BECAUSE HIS NAME WAS ON
THE NURSING HOME ORDER, AND HE
AND HIS TEAM OF BULLIES ARE THE
ONES THAT COVERED UP AND
STONEWALLED ANY KIND OF
ACCOUNTING OF HOW MANY PEOPLE
DIED AND WHY.
>> YEAH, YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY
RIGHT.
I FIND IT OFFENSIVE THAT HE
COULD SAY THIS IS A PARTISAN,
YOU KNOW, USE THE PART WHICHHUNT
, BUT TO SAY THIS IS
PARTISAN I THINK WE’VE SEEN THE
VOICES FROM ACROSS THE AISLE
, RAISE UP IN THE LAST
WEEK, PARTICULARLY SINCE THAT
PRIVATE POLITICAL MEETING THAT
HIS TOP AID HAD WHERE THEY SAID
THEY WEREN’T GOING TO RELEASE
THE INFORMATION BECAUSE THEY ARE
WORRIED ABOUT A DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE INVESTIGATION, THEY ARE
WORRIED ABOUT POLITICAL FALLOUT,
SINCE THAT TIME, YOU’VE HAD BOTH
DEMOCRATS IN THE STATE SENATE
AND DEMOCRATS IN THE ASSEMBLY
SAYING THAT WE OUGHT TO TAKE HIS
EXECUTIVE POWERS AWAY AND SAYING
THERE OUGHT TO BE MORE
INVESTIGATION AND I’M SAYING TO
THEM, WELCOME TO THE PARTY.
THIS IS WHAT WE’VE BEEN ADVOCAT
ING FOR FOR SOMETIME.
WE THINK IT SHOULD TAKE ONE STEP
FURTHER WITH THIS IMPEACHMENT
COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE
WHETHER THERE’S ANY CRIMINALITY
AND WE WANT TO DID THAT IN A
BIPARTISAN MANNER.
THAT’S WHY WE SAY IN THIS
IMPEACHMENT COMMISSION IT
OUGHT TO BE FOR DEMOCRATS AND
REPUBLICANS BECAUSE THIS OUGHT
TO BE BIPARTISAN, THIS IS NOT A
PARTISAN ISSUE.
DAGEN: WILL, DO YOU NEED
DEMOCRATS TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF
SETTING UP THIS COMMISSION?
AND DO YOU HAVE THOSE VOTES?
>> WELL, NOT YET, BUT I’M
OPTIMISTIC WE WILL.
OBVIOUSLY, WE JUST INTRODUCED
THIS YESTERDAY, SO WE’RE GIVING
TIME FOR EVERYBODY, REPUBLICANS
AND DEMOCRATS TO SIGN ON UNTIL
THIS WEDNESDAY, COMING WEDNESDAY
, AND I THINK AS THE
PRESSURE CONTINUES TO
CLIMB AND RIGHTFULLY SO HERE,
WE’RE GOING TO SEE MORE AND
MORE DEMOCRATS WILLING TO GET ON
THIS , AND I’M OPTIMISTIC THAT
WE CAN GET THIS DONE, AND LOOK,
WE’RE NOT TRYING TO PREDISPOSE
WHAT THE COMMISSION IS GOING TO
FIND, MAYBE THEY WILL ULTIMATELY
FIND THERE ISN’T ANY CRIMINALITY
BUT HOW CAN SOMEONE SAY WE
SHOULDN’T BE INVESTIGATING WITH
THE AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE THAT WE
HAVE RIGHT NOW.
THIS SEEMS LIKE A VERY LOGICAL
NEXT STEP.
DAGEN: AND THAT PANEL, IF IT IS
ESTABLISHED, WOULD HAVE SUBPOENA
POWER.
YOU’D HAVE THE POWER TO SUBPOENA
WITNESSES.
I WANT TO ASK YOU, LIKE WHAT
HAPPENED TO RON KIM WHOSE A
DEMOCRAT WHO LOST HIS UNCLE TO
COVID IN A NURSING HOME AND HIM
COMING OUT AND SAYING I WAS
SCREAMED AT WHILE I WAS BATHING
MY CHILDREN BY THE GOVERNOR.
HE WAS CALLED A LIAR BY THE
GOVERNOR AND I WANT TO KNOW,
HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU KNOW WHO
WORK IN GOVERNMENT, DEMOCRAT OR
REPUBLICAN, WHO HAVE BEEN
SCREAMED AT, THREATENED, OR
BULLIED BY CUOMO AT ANY TIME?
>> RIGHT WELL I CAN FORTUNATELY
SAY I’VE NOT BEEN ON THE
RECEIVING END OF THAT BUT I
HAVE HEARD STORIES ABOUT HIM
BULLYING AND JUST THIS WEEK
THERE BECAME OUT STORIES WHERE
HIS STAFF WAS CALLING VARIOUS
MEMBERS TELLING THEM NOT TO USE
WORDS LIKE COVER DISCUSS OR
SCANDAL, SO I THINK IT IS THE
MODE OF THIS GOVERNOR TO DO
THAT AND HIS STAFF.
I PERSONALLY HAVEN’T BEEN ON THE
RECEIVING END BUT THE OTHER
PROBLEM WITH DOING THIS IS YOU’D
THINK AT THIS TIME HE BE LOOKING
FOR LEGISLATIVE ALLIES AND
REGARDLESS HOW SOME PEOPLE FEEL
ABOUT GOVERNOR CUOMO AND HIS
POLICIES I CAN TELL YOU ANYONE
IN THE LEGISLATURE, ARE HIGHLY O
END FED WHEN THE GOVERNOR TRIES
TO STRONGARM VARIOUS MEMBERS AND
I THINK THAT WILL CAUSE ANY
DEMOCRATS, HAVING THAT
CONFERENCE.
DAGEN: WELL TODAY HE KEPT LYING.
THE CUOMO ADMINISTRATION REFUSED
TO RELEASE THE DATA ABOUT THE
NURSING HOME DEATHS, PERIOD,
TO THE PRESS, TO LAWMAKERS, TO
FAMILY MEMBERS AND IT ONLY BEGAN
UNRAVELING WHEN THE ATTORNEY
GENERAL RELEASED THAT REPORT ON
THOSE VERY DEATHS, SO HE’S
FLOUNDERING, AND ALL THE FAMILY
MEMBERS WANT AND ALL ANYONE
WANTS IS JUSTICE, AND MAYBE AN
APOLOGY, SO I KNOW THAT
YOU’RE WORKING ON THAT.
THANK YOU SO MUCH.