ASSIST AND HIGHLIGHTS FROM
ANOTHER EXCITING GAME.
ALL THAT COMING UP THIS MORNING,
BUT FIRST, CUOMO SQUARING OFF,
ANNOUNCING A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR
WILL INVESTIGATE INVESTIGATIONS
FOLLOWING SCHNEIRDERMAN,
SCHNEIRDERMAN DENYING THE
ALLEGATIONS SAYING THAT IT WAS
CONSENSUAL ROLE-PLAYING, JOINING
ME RIGHT NOW JUDGE ANDREW
NAPOLITANO, WOW, JUDGE, THIS IS
A WILD ONE.
>> IT SURE IS.
MARIA: HE SMACKED HIS FORMER
GIRLFRIEND IN THE FACE AND
ELSEWHERE AND HE SAYS IT WAS
ROLE-PLAYING.
>> WELL, YOU KNOW, I'M GOING TO
SUGGEST TO YOU THAT THE SPEED
WITH WHICH HE RESIGNED AFTER
THIS BECAME PUBLIC TELLS ME THAT
THE EVIDENCE OF HIS GUILT IS
OVERWHELMING, THAT MEANS EITHER
THERE'S A LARGE NUMBER OF WOMEN
WHO ARE SAYING SUBSTANTIALLY THE
SAME THING WHO FELT THAT THEY
COULD NOT COME FORWARD WITH
THIS, UNTIL YESTERDAY HE WAS THE
CHIEF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER IN
THE STATE OF NEW YORK OR THAT
THERE'S FORENSIC EVIDENCE,
PERHAPS PHOTOGRAPHS OR VIDEOS,
THE GOVERNOR IS QUITE RIGHT ON
INSISTING INVESTIGATION OF
CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR.
IN FACT, THIS MORNING IN NEW
YORK, RIVALRY AMONGST WHICH DA
IS GOING GET THE INVESTIGATION,
THE GOVERNOR CHOSE THE DISTRICT
ATTORNEY OF MAZA COUNTY, FEMALE
PROSECUTOR.
NOTHING WILL PREVENT ANY
PROSECUTOR FROM INVESTIGATING
EVIDENCE FROM A CRIME COMMITTED
BY FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL
SCHNEIRDERMAN IN THE GEOGRAPHIC
AREA WHERE THE PROSECUTOR HAS
JURISDICTION.
HE HAS LEGAL PROBLEMS
CONFRONTING HIM THIS MORNING.
MARIA: AND HE WAS INVESTIGATING
VANCE SAYING HE WASN'T QUICK
ENOUGH WITH HARVEY WEINSTEIN AND
TAKING HIM DOWN AND THE TABLES
HAVE TURNED IN A BIG WAY.
>> THE THING THAT IS SO AMAZING
IS, UNTIL THIS CAME OUT, HE WAS
THE LEADER IN THE COUNTRY
AMONGST MALE PROSECUTORS ON THE
ME TOO MOVEMENT.
HE WAS FEARLESS AND WENT AFTER
ALL THE RIGHT PEOPLE, OF COURSE,
WE DIDN'T KNOW AT THE TIME WHAT
HE WAS HARBORING WITHIN HIM.
THE OTHER THING HE WAS LEADER IN
THE COUNTRY, MANY, MANY LAWSUIT
IN WHICH STATES ARE SUING THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, SOMEHOW 5
ATTORNEYS, SOME AS MANY AS 35,
IN NEARLY ALL OF THESE, MARIA,
HE TOOK THE LEAD, HIS OFFICE
FORMED THE LITIGATION AGAINST
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, HIS OFFICE
DID THE WORK AND ATTORNEYS
SIGNED ON, ONE WONDER IF THE
CASES WILL BE PURSUED WITH THE
SAME VIEL.
SHE WILL PROBABLY CONTINUE
LITIGATIONS AGAINST THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION.
MARIA: YEAH, AND HE WAS PRETTY
VOCAL AGAINST THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION, SCHNEIRDERMAN
WAS, I WAS LOOKING THROUGH SOME
RECENTLY, HE WAS ADAMANT, HE
DIDN'T LIKE DONALD TRUMP, HE
DIDN'T WANT UNFETTERED POWER AND
NOW THIS.
DAGEN: THAT'S THE IRONY OF ALL
THIS, HE WAS ABUSER OF WOMEN AND
ABUSER OF POWER AND PEOPLE HERE
IN NEW YORK.
HE WITHHELD EVIDENCE IN A CIVIL
CASE AGAINST HANK, MANY TIMES HE
TRIED TO EXPOSE CONSERVATIVE
DONORS TO CONSERVATIVE
NONPROFITS.
IN TERMS OF BIGGEST THINGS HE
TRIED TO DO AGAINST DONALD
TRUMP, HE WENT TO LAWMAKERS IN
THE STATE OF NEW YORK LAST MONTH
TO TRY TO GET RID OF THE DOUBLE
JEOPARDY STANDARD SO HE COULD
PROSECUTE PEOPLE WHO WERE
PARDONED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP.
THAT'S JUST ONE EXAMPLE OF HIS
OVERREACH HERE IN NEW YORK
STATE.
MAYBE HIS SUCCESSOR AND THOSE
AFTER HIM WILL LEARN FROM THAT,
THAT THEY REPRESENT EVERY NEW
YORKER REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU
VOTE DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN.
>> BUT THE OFFICE OF ATTORNEY
GENERAL -- THE OFFICE OF
ATTORNEY GENERAL IN THE STATE OF
NEW YORK ALMOST BECAME ARM OF
THE PROGRESSIVE WING TO HAVE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ELSE,
IF YOU READ THE EMAILS BETWEEN
LISA AND PETER, IT WAS
SCHNEIRDERMAN, THEY CAN FOLLOW
UP ON WHAT DAGEN WAS TALKING
ABOUT.
IS THERE A WAY TO PURSUE TRUMP
PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF TRUMP'S
PARDONING POWER.
HE WAS THERE, YOU'LL REMEMBER
THIS PHRASE, INSURANCE POLICY.
MARIA: THAT'S RIGHT.
YOU MENTIONED PETER STRZOK AND
LISA PAGE, JUDGE, I WAS READING
A PIECE YESTERDAY, THEY DON'T --
THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IS NOT
COLLECTING ALL OF THE ELECTRONIC
COMMUNICATIONS WITH BETWEEN THEM
EVEN THOUGH CONGRESS KEEPS
SAYING WE WANT ALL THE TEXTS, WE
ARE LEARNING A LOT FROM THE
TEXTS AND IT WAS ON PERSONAL
DEVICES SO THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT APPARENTLY IS NOT
BEING VERY AGGRESSIVE IN TERMS
OF GETTING ALL OF THOSE TEXTS
AND CONGRESS IS UPSET ABOUT IT.
>> WHEN THEY DO SHOW UP AND
REDACTIONS ARE REMOVED, WE KEEP
FINDING THE SAME THING OVER AND
OVER AGAIN.
IT'S NOT NATIONAL SECURITY THAT
WAS REDACTED, IT'S FBI AND
PERSONAL EMBARRASSMENT THAT WAS
REDACTED AND THAT'S NOT A BASIS
FOR REDACTION.
DAGEN: MARIA, ONE REAL THING I
WANT TO ADD REALLY QUICKLY, THE
JUDGE RAISED THE ISSUE OF WHY
DID ERIC SCHNEIRDERMAN RESIGNED
QUICKLY, CLEARLY MORE WOMEN WHO
HE ABUSED.
KIMBERLY SAID LAST NIGHT THAT
SHE'S TALKING TO A FIFTH WOMAN
AND HAS BEEN FOR SFERL WEEKS,
COUPLE OF MONTHS, SOMEBODY WHO
THE NEW YORKER DID NOT TALK TO.
MORE PEOPLE OUT THERE.
MARIA: THAT'S INCREDIBLE.
THEN THE STORY CONTINUES.