but i believe that governor cuomo had
his lawyer talk first him talk second
and then resign and then give his resume
because he wants to come back another
day george pataki knows all about that
three successful terms as governor of
new york who left under his own power
unlike eliot spitzer who replaced him
unlike
governor patterson who replaced spitzer
and unlike governor cuomo who replaced a
a disgraced governor patterson
governor pataki welcome to the brian
kilmee show what do you think about
yesterday's events uh thank you brian
first of all
thank god he's gone or at least he's
going you know it was inevitable the
handwriting was on the wall andrew cuomo
had to leave and if he hadn't resigned
he would have been impeached and i think
i think cooler heads got to him it
wasn't his intent to resign but he would
have been impeached so this was the the
only course he had so he resigned but
brian i have to tell you even his
resignation comments i thought were just
unapologetic in in larger form he just
didn't acknowledge responsibility and
he had his lawyers specifically go after
the victims before he got up there to
talk and uh it wasn't a remorseful you
know this is a sad day it's more i'm a
victim of a political witch-hunt and
that is simply untrue he had to go yeah
i mean victim of what it's a democratic
state i mean there's nobody out to get
him they want him to get a fourth term
he was doing everything they wanted
including increasing taxes
oh it was just dreadful what he was
doing forget about for the moment the
the horrible uh allegations that the
attorney general found true the of the
uh sexual harassment uh he was
destroying the state the highest tax
state in america crime going through the
roof mentally ill homeless roaming the
streets of new york city jaws moving out
constantly it was just an absolute
horror so uh we are changing the
governor but it's not just the governor
that has to change we have to change the
direction of this state if new york's
going to have a good future you talk
about not taking responsibility here's
an example cut six i am a fighter
and my instinct is to fight through this
controversy
because i truly believe it is
politically motivated
i believe it is unfair and it is
untruthful
and i believe it it demonizes behavior
that is unsustainable for society if i
could communicate the facts through the
frenzy
new yorkers would understand i believe
that
so he not only not only is he leaving
uh against his will he's just leaving
because there's no political way forward
i believe he's coming back or else he
wouldn't be talking like that
brian you're right that uh you know he
he blames it all on politics which is
nonsense and he says he's a fighter
everybody who's dealt with his
administration though he's more of a
bully than a fighter you know it's
there's a big difference between someone
who fights for what's right and someone
who creates a toxic work environment and
is a bully and a thug towards everybody
who disagrees with them and that's the
legacy of andrew cuomo uh and it wasn't
political the attorney general james is
an elected democratic official she's the
one who conducted a fair and detailed
investigation that found those 11
victims totally credible
but i think i fear you may have some
validity there that he's looking to come
back you know hey
anthony weiner was convicted of a felony
and came back and actually ran for
office he lost thank god but i can see
it happening with andrew cuomo as well
and by resigning instead of impeaching
being impeached he keeps that option
available absolutely so just give you an
idea uh governor pataki you had three
terms he's gotten he was going for a
fourth it's not going to happen at least
yet
his economic development excesses
including the buffalo billions right 15
million dollars for a film hub in
syracuse that fell flat on his face and
the person in charge of it ended up in
jail remember he got rid of fracking and
the potential would have done for
upstate new york and for people around
the country listening upstate new york
is is very rural very iowa like they
desperately need some economic activity
he stopped that he stopped the pipeline
he put the indian nuclear power plant
sidelined even though they were giving a
third of power to the entire state uh we
know also he raised taxes he kept a
millionaire tax hike in place and he
wondered why people are leaving
he also talked about this startup
program
it gives tax benefits to attract local
businesses he ends up begging big
businesses to come back and ends up
being of a total flop this guy was
failure after failure
that's exactly right brian his economic
policies to the extent they had any
coercion were all the wrong wrong-headed
you know raise taxes increase regulation
uh ban the opportunity to access natural
resources and the programs that he did
have like the buffalo billions were rife
with corruption didn't create the jobs
he hoped and some of the key players
ended up in jail including one of his
closest uh associates so
this is not just uh this one scandal
that made the
andrew cuomo a failure as governor it's
his entire term
look at crime in new york city and not
just new york city across the state yes
de blasio's been an awful mayor but it's
andrew cuomo who passed all those
criminal so-called criminal justice
reform that turns criminals loose on the
street you get arrested by the police
for a felony unless it's a certain type
of felony you're back out on the street
the same day and the criminals know that
and look at the mentally ill homeless
the governor's done nothing to deal with
that and you know your offices are just
down the street from mine and we're both
in the city and you can see the empty
office buildings uh and the quality of
life just has declined so much yes de
blasio has been a terrible awful uh
mayor but cuomo's been an awful governor
and now i hope people have a chance to
understand that this isn't a fighter
this is a thug it was appropriate this
is the time that he need he should have
gone a long time ago but thank god he's
leaving now and brian we haven't even
talked about the nursing homes that
investigation must continue at least
fifteen thousand unnecessary deaths
because of his ridiculous policy that
everybody called him out on on day one
and he wouldn't change that needs to be
investigated was that a consequence of
campaign contributions lobbyist
influence why did he do that absolutely
governor can you tell me why he did that
some say that well you know he wanted to
keep the hospitals from overflowing so
he took infected patients and put him
back in nursing homes was there a
financial benefit you get or the state
gets from putting people back in nursing
homes
i think it was nonsense that he was
worried about the hospitals because he
had the javits center
that was retrofitted by the by the the
trump administration they had hundreds
and hundreds of available beds that were
never used he had the uss comfort that
the president sent to new york
retrofitted to deal with covid patients
never used it so he had all this empty
space that could have been used i don't
know if it was financial if it was
campaigns if it was lobbying influence
but it was so wrong that no one defended
it except himself and as we know brian
his chief of staff
acknowledged in a conference call
they intentionally lied about the
numbers of nursing home deaths because
they're afraid of a federal
investigation now he's resigning but
that's not good enough this needs to be
investigated and we need to understand
why this happened and i'm talking to
governor george pataki three-term
governor of new york the last republican
to hold the position and leave at the
end of his term everybody else has been
left in shame uh governor
uh when his first comment to you that
got him in political trouble was on 9 11
afterwards they said oh governor pataki
he did and i'll paraphrase is hold
rudy giuliani's coat
how inappropriate was that what was your
reaction to it he paid i just couldn't
help but laugh because it's classic
andrew cuomo you know he has to be in
front of the camera he has to be in
charge she has to be the one who's
taking credit whether he deserves it or
not and it's not about the kind of job
you do it's about whether you can get in
front of the camera and get accolades
and credit and that's andrew cuomo that
was him during covet he was on the
camera every day and in fact he did a
decent job with that but he was in the
meantime every one of his policies was
making covet a lot worse in new york but
that's classic andrew cuomo it's about
you getting the press you being the
famous one you're the one in charge and
not about whether or not you do a good
job i am very proud of what myself and
our team did on september 11th and for
days and weeks and months thereafter you
go to lower manhattan today that is a
result of our efforts uh and i'm proud
of that um maybe we didn't maybe i
wasn't on camera every day the way
andrew cuomo was maybe i didn't get a 5
million dollar book deal
but i did what was right for the people
of new york and the people of america
and i'm proud of that you didn't get
praise like this cut 12.
new york's andrew cuomo has become an
outspoken voice in this crisis with his
blunt and sobering assessments you were
there for us then i go oh you smart and
you were honest you exposed a lot of
your own vulnerabilities a very buzzed
about topic about you is your love life
you've been commended for your clear and
your calm leadership congratulations
andrew on your much deserved
founders award you and your brother
chris tied as the most desirable men in
new york is it true
that
this was the swab that the nurse was
actually using in scale
this was the actual swab that was being
used i was going to be nice and sweet i
just wanted yes no
and this is while he was working on a
five million dollar book deal and being
held as the anti-trump hero
you know it's just i i i find it hard to
listen to all that but that's the media
you know they never dug beyond the
superficial beyond his press conference
they didn't look at what he was doing
with nursing homes they didn't look at
how he was not allowing private
companies to engage in testing when
people were desperate to find out if
they were coveted positive he didn't
allow uh covet positive patients
voluntarily to be isolated so they got
sent back to their small apartment in
the bronx with seven people living in
the same apartment to infect the rest of
the families because he didn't listen to
the health experts but he was on tv
every morning and he was writing a book
that he got five million for every
afternoon uh and i you know i fought the
press for this
obviously andrew cuomo is more concerned
about him than he was about the people
of new york and that's just
awful
but i also fought the press for just
looking at a press conference as opposed
to what he was doing they should have if
they had they would have known better
believe me we tried and we did and the
they basically wouldn't even call on fox
people or new york post writers
brian that's right you guys did you
tried really hard but you were cut off
and the rest of the media didn't care
and and that is also
a black eye to the media that when
important questions
are being asked but won't be answered
the rest of the media whether they agree
with your approach or not should stand
with you they didn't i never say
anything like it governor
he famously rebuilt the tappan zee
bridge and named it after his dad you
beat his dad to get the governor's
mansion
do you believe that name should be
changed and taken off that bridge
oh you know there are much bigger issues
facing new york than the naming of a
bridge you know i thought often thought
that he'd named the major landfill where
new york city's trash was taken after me
but he never got around to that but so
so
that doesn't bother me one way or the
other that was just another example of
ego
that he had but
the policies the the actual changing of
the tax structures so that we don't
drive people out of the state changing
the criminal justice system so we can be
safe having an intelligent approach to
sending kids back to school in just a
few weeks these are all things that need
to be focused on and the name of the
bridge you know down the road
anybody can name it after anybody they
want that's not what matters to me got
it lee zeldin for me
has the best resume and by the way you
came out of nowhere to establish a
resume as a legitimate governor
three-term governor so lee zeldin a
veteran
serving the military
he's one in a purple area on long island
he's from suffolk county he is uh has a
has a real ear to the america the new
york jewish community in manhattan which
usually goes to the democrat here's what
he said about kathy hokel who'll be
taking over she's currently lieutenant
governor cut 17. from one scandal to the
next the lieutenant governor andrew
cuomo's lieutenant had nothing to say
she was silent
i saw it firsthand where
it was
an embrace of the intimidation
harassment abuse
that was andrew cuomo's claim to fame
and he believed that new york loves
their emperor governors he would rule by
fear and kathy hokel looked up to it and
she ended up ascending to lieutenant
governor and now governor uh following
it two two things does lee zeldin have a
shot
and do you have do you share his
assessment with kathy hokel
well first of all i think lee zeldin is
tremendous his record
in the military
in the legislature i think is just
tremendous particularly
his military record and what he did in
albany and standing up to cuomo when he
was in the legislature there
but they're going to be a lot of
candidates brian i like lee very much
but this is going to be wide open and
with respect to kathy huckle uh let me
say
i think we should give her a chance you
know we need she needs to hit the ground
running i mean i'm a republican
but
we have these crisis the economic crisis
the tax crisis the empty office
buildings the mentally ill homeless the
crime through the roof
and i would hope when she takes office
she calls the legislature back in
september and has an agenda that shows
that she is going to change the
direction of this state let's give her
that chance
will she do it i don't know i certainly
hope so for the future of the state
if she doesn't
then i don't think she would be
re-elected but i'll tell you this is new
york ryan there are right now dozens and
dozens of political people talking to
their families and their consultants
plotting how they're going to run for
governor whether it's a democratic
socialist running to the left of fear in
a primary de blasio he can run on the
platform that i i screwed up new york
city now i can screw up new york state
but he may actually run in a democratic
primary and i'm sure there will be other
republicans besides lee zeldin out there
uh lee
um i i very much like him as a person
but at this point i think it's far too
early to say that
any one person is the right candidate
governor george pataki thanks so much
the 53rd governor of new york state
appreciate it sir thank you brian great
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