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Goodbye Cuomo

Hannity August 10th, 2021, Hour 1

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	Let's start with our top story of the day, and that is Andrew Cuomo announcing his resignation.
	This happening earlier today, let's play it.
	And I love New York, and I love you.
	And everything I have ever done has been motivated by that love.
	And I would never want to be unhelpful in any way.
	And I think that given the circumstances, the best way I can help now is if I step aside and let government get back to governing.
	And therefore, that's what I'll do.
	Because I work for you.
	And doing the right thing is doing the right thing for you.
	Because as we say, it's not about me.
	It's about we.
	Kathy Hochle, my lieutenant governor, is smart and competent.
	This transition must be seamless.
	We have a lot going on.
	I'm very worried about the Delta variant, and so should you be.
	But she can come up to speed quickly, and my resignation will be effective in 14 days.
	At public events, troopers will often hold doors open or guard the doorways.
	When I walk past them, I often will give them a grip of the arm, a pat on the face, a touch on the stomach, a slap on the back.
	It's my way of saying, I see you.
	I appreciate you.
	And I thank you.
	I'm not comfortable just walking past and ignoring them.
	Of course, usually they are male troopers.
	In this case, I don't remember doing it at all.
	I didn't do it consciously with the female trooper.
	I did not mean any sexual connotation.
	I did not mean any intimacy by it.
	I just wasn't thinking.
	It was totally thoughtless in the literal sense of the word, but it was also insensitive.
	It was embarrassing to her, and it was disrespectful.
	It was a mistake, plain and simple.
	I have no other words to explain it.
	I want to personally apologize to her and her family.
	I have the greatest respect for her and for the New York State Police.
	I take and that was Andrew Cuomo.
	Let me play one more here, and that is Cuomo saying I take full responsibility for my actions.
	Remember, he said it's all false.
	And the only reason is that, well, apparently he had no friends in the Democratic Party, even in the liberal state of New York.
	There's something behind that.
	There is an untold story, not really sure.
	There was a New York, I think it was the New Yorker piece that came out.
	And in that piece, it just came out hours before Cuomo resigned and about pressure that was put on the Justice Department by of Obama, I guess, at the time, as it relates to certain issues and that everybody apparently was uncomfortable with it and other issues that have come up as well.
	But let's play one more Cuomo cut.
	I take full responsibility for my actions.
	I have been too familiar with people.
	My sense of humor can be insensitive and off-putting.
	I do hug and kiss people casually, women and men.
	I have done it all my life.
	It's who I've been since I can remember.
	In my mind, I've never crossed the line with anyone.
	But I didn't realize the extent to which the line has been redrawn.
	All right, from earlier today, none of this to me, so many people, you know, getting in touch with the show and Linda and Sweet Baby and telling me, and they're reporting back to me that they're surprised.
	I'm not surprised in the sense that one way or another, this was a fait accompli, and that the real issue that is facing the governor is going to be over the, remember, in the AG report, I talked about criminal laws being broken on a state level and a federal level.
	Even assuming he keeps his board and resigns in 14 days, Andrew Cuomo may not be out of the legal woods in any way whatsoever.
	Go back to the Attorney General of New York's report on the sexual harassment charges and that it was a result of a civil investigation, but it's since led now to law enforcement officials opening simultaneous criminal investigations all over the state with the possibility that Cuomo could be charged criminally in all of this.
	The big question is, what, if anything, would he be charged with?
	We've gone over that in great specificity and detail with Greg Jarrett on this program.
	And it has now led to law enforcement officials doing this.
	On Sunday, the Albany County Sheriff, a guy by the name of Craig Apple, hinted at a possible result in the case involving this woman, Brittany Camiso.
	Now, she was known up until this interview with CBS this weekend as executive assistant number one, who brought the most serious allegations against the governor, but she was not the first person to specifically say that groping, grabbing, unwanted touching, et cetera, had taken place.
	Now, there's some disagreement.
	Would it be a misdemeanor?
	Maybe a few misdemeanors.
	Could it mean jail time?
	Well, if it's a misdemeanor, forcible touching allegations could result in a year behind bars.
	Do I think that would happen?
	Probably not, knowing New York as well as I do.
	But anyway, it could possibly be that.
	And then the criminal defense attorney and former Brooklyn prosecutor agreeing with the assessment.
	But two things happened in the last 48, 72 hours that tipped the balance here.
	And that was the up till recent, up till this weekend, unknown name of the executive assistant number one, the interview that was given on 60, on CBS rather, Brittany Camiso.
	And, you know, when I watched this, I just kept saying, wow, she's extraordinarily articulate, credible, and it was beyond compelling.
	Let me play some of the highlights of that interview that took place on CBS.
	I had to go over to the mansion to help the governor with a state of the state speech.
	I wasn't there late.
	I did my final edit.
	And while I was upstairs in the office, the governor said, why don't we take a selfie?
	So his suggestion is with your phone?
	With my thumb.
	I then felt, while taking the selfie, his hand go down my back onto my butt, and he started rubbing it.
	Not sliding it, not, you know, quickly brushing over it, rubbing my butt.
	And did you ask him, what are you doing?
	Well, this was while I was taking the selfie, I became so nervous that my hands were clearly shaking, and a lot of the photos that I was snapping were completely blurry.
	I showed him them and he said, oh, you know, those aren't, you know, those aren't good.
	And he said, why don't we go sit on the couch and we can take a better one.
	So you sat on the couch?
	I sat on the couch because I thought to myself, okay, I don't think on the couch that he would have a way to just do what he just did.
	So I felt safer, actually, on the couch.
	And in the photo, you know, I had my arm wrapped around his shoulder, you know, almost as if, you know, we were taking a picture with a buddy.
	And that is the one that has been blurred out that has been now released to the public.
	So he gets up and he goes to give me a hug.
	And I could tell immediately when he hugged me, it was in a probably the most sexually aggressive manner than any of the other hugs that he had given me.
	It was then that I said, you know, Governor, you know, my words were, you're going to get us in trouble.
	And I thought to myself, that probably wasn't the best thing to say.
	But at that time, I was so afraid that one of the mansion staff, that they were going to come up and see this and think, oh, you know, is that what she comes here for?
	And that's not what I came there for, and that's not who I am.
	And I was terrified of that.
	And when I said that, he walked over, shut the door so hard to the point where I thought for sure someone downstairs must think, they must think if they heard that, what is going on, came back to me, and that's when he put his hand up my blouse and cupped my breast over my bra.
	I exactly remember looking down, seeing his hand, which is a large hand, thinking to myself, oh my God, this is happening.
	It happened so quick.
	He didn't say anything.
	When I stopped it, he just pulled away and walked away.
	Now the number is up to 13.
	I guess New York now, not only is he going to be replaced by the first female governor in New York state history, but Cuomo will become the second elected New York State governor in a row to be forced from office over a sex scandal.
	You know, I guess New York's now two for two.
	First, obviously, being Elliot Spitzer.
	He was forced out in 2008 after he was caught patronizing, I guess, high-end prostitutes.
	In Cuomo's case, he will be replaced by the lieutenant governor.
	I'm sorry, in Spitzer's case, it was David Patterson, who actually was a very nice person.
	I got to know him a little bit personally.
	He decided not to run again after questions emerged about whether he had accepted free tickets to a Yankee game.
	Cuomo was the New York State Attorney General at the time, known to be interested in running for governor.
	So there was some question about whether Cuomo made a deal with Patterson to bow out.
	But that's just speculation.
	Patterson was New York's first African-American governor.
	Anyway, so Andrew Cuomo becomes governor.
	And, you know, here we are, I guess, now back to square one in New York.
	A lot of this isn't just going to, it's not going to matter in New York.
	I don't see New York state changing.
	Now, I don't know a whole lot.
	Neither does anyone else know a whole lot about the lieutenant governor, to be very frank.
	She's a Democrat.
	She's from a pretty conservative district, actually, in Buffalo.
	And does she have any appetite or desire to take on an assembly and a state senate that, you know, it's sort of new Green Deal socialism, AOC mindset that rules Albany, New York, just like it does in Washington.
	Article 4, the New York State Constitution, she takes over as governor.
	She'll be New York's 57th chief executive, the first female governor in the state's nearly 250-year history.
	She said she agreed with Cuomo's decision to step down.
	It's the right thing to do.
	It's in the best interest of New Yorkers and put emphasized that as someone who served at all levels of government and is next in line of succession, I'm prepared to lead.
	She's 62 years old from Buffalo, Syracuse University graduate.
	Okay, I don't think most people really care.
	Is there going to be anything different?
	So it's going to be 14 days effective.
	And the problem with New York is just so much bigger.
	Now, it was interesting.
	I don't know what to make of Ronan Farrow's article.
	I printed it out.
	I haven't had a chance to read it all yet.
	But apparently, Cuomo called the Obama White House to attack a federal prosecutor.
	I believe it was Prep Rehera at the time.
	And that would be, you know, that's where the Southern District of New York, I mean, that's where Andy McCarthy and guys like Rudy Giuliani came up out of.
	I actually met him once at that Media party.
	Remember, Linda?
	Actually, he was a pretty nice guy.
	Nice to meet you.
	Yeah.
	Runs his own podcast, apparently.
	There's nothing.
	Listen, if you're working in that district, the Southern District of New York, you're a serious lawyer.
	That's all there is to it.
	Their reputation is warranted.
	They're tough.
	Amazing how many of you want to weigh in on this.
	Maybe we'll take calls in the next half hour.
	You know, because it's just interesting people's perspective of all of this.
	I just knew it was going to happen because he was either going to get impeached.
	I wasn't sure he'd resign, but I knew it wasn't going to continue.
	That part was clear.
	But yes, if you're just joining us, Andrew Cuomo resigning effective in 14 days from now.
	And the lieutenant governor of New York will, in fact, take over in that state and be the first female governor of the state of New York.
	And it's going to be interesting.
	Now, there's some other things here.
	Remember Lucy Flores and Tara Reed?
	Tara Reed has spoken out to FoxNews.com.
	My heart is with the brave Cuomo survivors who endured attempts to discredit them like I did coming forward about Joe Biden.
	May there be some measure of justice for the survivors.
	Now let's call for a real investigation into Joe Biden.
	One big difference.
	Seems like Joe is in the media mob big tech protection program.
	By the way, we have some polling in California.
	The recall election question one to recall Adam Newsom is growing by leaps and bounds.
	We'll get to all of that coming up straight ahead.
	Breaking news all afternoon.
	When you get off work, be sure to check in first for everything you miss during the day.
	This is The Sean Hannity Show.
	And I love New York.
	And I love you.
	And everything I have ever done has been motivated by that love.
	And I would never want to be unhelpful in any way.
	And I think that given the circumstances, the best way I can help now is if I step aside and let government get back to governing.
	And therefore, that's what I'll do.
	Because I work for you.
	And doing the right thing is doing the right thing for you.
	Because as we say, it's not about me.
	It's about we.
	Kathy Hochlam, my lieutenant governor, is smart and competent.
	This transition must be seamless.
	We have a lot going on.
	I'm very worried about the Delta variant, and so should you be.
	But she can come up to speed quickly, and my resignation will be effective in 14 days.
	Okay, so that's the latest with all of that.
	One thing, there's something happening that I believe we need to just start paying attention to.
	Because I know a lot of people, you know, we're watching the border, and it is beyond devastating now.
	When the numbers came out yesterday and we talked about it and we're pointing out, oh, just, oh, it's only 14%, 20% of people.
	I mean, that is a huge amount of money.
	What's going on at the southern border and a huge percentage of people rather that are coming into this country that are COVID positive.
	And it's all happening on Joe Biden's watch.
	Even the, what's funny is even the Washington Post editorial board is slamming the incoherent agenda.
	The border agencies now, some agencies are saying COVID positivity rate among illegal immigrants is 20%, one in five.
	Okay, well, what happens when you get put in Joe Biden's overcrowded cages and then dispersed in the dark of night all over the country?
	Well, they're bringing COVID with them in the middle of a pandemic, in the middle of a new variant wave known as the Delta variant, which is far more contagious than previous variants.
	We have other variants now on the horizon.
	There'll be at least two more that we know of as of today, starting with the one out of Peru, the Lambda variant.
	And you're going to hear about the next variant.
	And now the CDC directors are saying, well, you know, even though you got vaccinated, you can still contract COVID-19.
	I mean, you just, you can't make any of this up.
	But this is now, this is Biden's America.
	You know, for all the talk about super spreader events and Biden hiding in his basement bunker, we know the real reason Biden was hiding in his basement bunker.
	Biden was hiding in his basement bunker because he wasn't capable of maintaining the strength of a schedule of a real presidential campaign, and they used COVID as an excuse.
	Just like, you know, when they ignored laws in all these states that say partisan observers get to watch the vote count start to finish.
	Partisan observers put back 20, 100 feet or not in allowed at all as not following the law.
	Well, that raises integrity issues and confidence and result issues, as we have seen.
	There's certain things that ought to be basic.
	If we're going to have vaccine mandates and you're going to have mask mandates and you're going to need a vaccine passport to get into a bar or sporting event in New York and California, well, I'm sure the very same people that support those vaccine passports are not going to be against voter ID laws, are they?
	Oh, that's right.
	They already are on record against them.
	Tell me why Joe Biden, for 50 plus years as a senator from the state of Delaware, never once lifted a finger to make voting in Delaware more accessible because it wasn't an issue.
	This is the Democrats at this point in 2020 taking advantage of COVID.
	Biden gets to hide out in his basement bunker, even botch up the campaign from down there, barely gets covered by the mob and the media.
	You know, big story breaks about zero experience Hunter's laptop, but we can't run with that story.
	We'll hide that story from the American people.
	We'll delete it from any major social, big tech media conglomerate companies as a means of helping Biden.
	I mean, these are troubling times.
	Now look at the results of, okay, you don't have signature verification, voter ID, chain of custody control.
	You don't have, you know, you don't clean up and modernize and update voter rolls every election season.
	I mean, these are all simple things to do, just common sense.
	You know, I would assume then the ID requirement to get in the White House, that's going to end too.
	And the ID requirement to get into the Capitol, that's going to go away.
	And the picture ID that I've needed for every Democratic national convention I've covered in my career, that will go away in the next election when I'm covering that convention.
	That'll go away too.
	You see the hypocrisy?
	It's breathtaking.
	And I'll tell you what's happening is people have had it.
	I don't know one person.
	You know, I can afford to pay the extra, what, $1.30 a gallon I'm now paying for gasoline.
	I can afford it, but I don't know.
	From the time I was struggling to make my rent payments early in my adult life, which was a significant number of years, to where I am now, I don't know, my mindset hasn't really changed.
	It's kind of why I, yeah, I shun certain things that people don't understand why I don't dress better or wear a watch.
	I don't want a watch.
	It's a waste of money for me.
	I end up buying watches for everybody else, but I don't want one for myself.
	Linda, how true is that story?
	Very, very true.
	I don't want to get caught in the trappings of crap, of stuff.
	I have enough.
	Or be forced to be on time.
	You know, it's good to have an excuse for being chronically late.
	That is really a mean, backhanded slap.
	That is never.
	I would never do that.
	You always try your best to be on time, and it's the effort that counts.
	By the way, you didn't even realize it.
	I didn't say anything, you know, on whatever trip we were on recently.
	And anyway, you send out an email.
	Yeah, we're going to say we're leaving at 7:30.
	That means it's really 8:30 in Hannity time.
	So we're all really planning on being, and by the way, I was there on time.
	No, you were not.
	No, you were not.
	You're so full of it.
	I wasn't on your fake because I knew it was a fake time that you were telling everybody.
	No, it was not.
	The real time was.
	The real time.
	First of all, the fake time was 6 a.m.
	The real time was 7.30.
	Hannity arrival time in Hannityland was 8:27.
	You see, the difference is you have these fears, you and Blair, about being able to set up equipment and how much time you set up.
	Well, they're not fears.
	It's called giving your team enough time to set up a remote.
	I have more confidence in your abilities than you do.
	No, you're chronically late.
	You're chronically prior to every trip.
	You guys do your due diligence.
	You test the equipment.
	You make sure everything's working.
	You double check that you have backups of anything that could possibly go wrong.
	And then we.
	And then we arrive.
	All the backups fail.
	The internet doesn't work.
	The engineer on staff is on vacation.
	It's fault that your checklist screen.
	But if I had another hour for those things that are beyond my control.
	Did we get on the air?
	Yes.
	No thanks to Hannity Clock Time.
	Full circle.
	You're welcome.
	Listen.
	Maybe if you updated your sundial, maybe you'd be better off.
	Maybe if I wanted you to chime in on her side, I would have invited you.
	Just saying.
	This is like just saying.
	I love my team.
	They just feel free to just bash their boss.
	Thing that you saying you don't need another watch.
	Oh my God.
	I almost lost myself there.
	What do you mean?
	I don't have a single watch.
	What are you talking about?
	Get a few.
	Jeez.
	How many do you have?
	I have a digital watch all the time.
	As soon as I got into this business, it's one of the first things I have.
	There's one electronic device that changes often because I keep losing it or dropping it in the toilet.
	2021.
	You don't have to use your potato clock, okay?
	Oh, my gosh.
	All right.
	So I used the phone has the time right now.
	It's 3.44 Eastern.
	1244 on the West Coast.
	Would you like me to update you?
	Do you want me to do it by the second?
	I can do that too.
	I think that'll be fun.
	I'm asking me how.
	I wouldn't be able to do it on my own.
	I will tell you what you are good at.
	You want a compliment?
	Sure.
	You ready?
	Okay.
	So out of any host I know in the entire business, and I have talked about this with other hosts, you have the most ridiculous recollection of call letters of stations, which is uncanny.
	Because I love my stations.
	Yes, you do, but it's pretty incredible.
	You never get it.
	I set a record.
	I think, what is it, 665 now?
	That's right.
	I'm very grateful.
	Just shows you there's a lot of conservatives out there.
	They're just not as loud as the liberals because they're at work.
	Now, let me tell you, we're going to the things are going to change.
	Look at this news, justthennews.com, a survey USA, San Diego Union Trib poll.
	51% of Californians now want to recall Newsome.
	The only thing I worry about, the only thing I worry about is integrity and elections out there because it's run by all Democrats.
	And there's only 40% of Californians against the recall.
	That means that the people that, you know, if they did vote to keep Newsom or not recall him, they're not that passionate about Newsom.
	And how could you be with all of his hypocrisy?
	You know, by the way, days before attending Obama's massless super spreader Matha's Vineyard birthday bash, John Legend lectured Americans on mask wearing.
	I wondered if he lectured the crowd at Obama's party on mask wearing.
	This Tara Reed comment was pretty interesting to me.
	You know, okay, they're going to follow now Cuomo's example and resign.
	Remember, the media just protect who they want to protect.
	They only go, usually they only go after Republicans.
	There's some story to this that we'll find out at some point.
	I got to give a tip of the hat today to, I have a couple of things I want to talk about, give tips of the hat to Chicago cops.
	You know, if you, you know, Chicago police have had it.
	73 shootings this weekend.
	This 29-year-old police officer shot and killed.
	The first reports we had said that she had a two-month-old child.
	That turned out not to be true.
	So I want to correct the record on that and apologize for getting that wrong.
	But the mayor was given the cold shoulder by Chicago Police Department rank and file midnight on Saturday when she went to the University of Chicago Medical Center when she approached them on the seventh floor as they grappled with the shootings of two officers, one still in critical condition.
	And Ella French passed away and was killed during one of these so-called routine traffic stops that everyone tells us about.
	Nothing's routine about it.
	So sad.
	She had a whole life ahead of her.
	Her partner's fighting for his life in the hospital.
	Moments before, about 30 officers, they turned their backs on the mayor and tried to, as Lightfoot tried to talk to the mail officer's father, who himself is retired Chicago police.
	He clearly wanted nothing to do with this woman, this mayor.
	It's terrible.
	The father excoriated the mayor, blamed her for what had happened.
	How could you not blame every politician?
	There's one guy, this guy we had on TV last night, what's the guy's name?
	The alderman, Raymond, what's his name?
	I forgot.
	He was great last night.
	I want to give another tip of the hat.
	You know, we hear about all the, what's that?
	Lopez.
	Yeah, he's a great guy.
	He's been on our show a number of times.
	I like him a lot.
	So you have this U.S. wrestler.
	Her name is Tamra Mensa Stock.
	She won gold medal the first time ever, by the way.
	And I didn't know you actually win money when you win a gold medal.
	You don't win a lot.
	It's $37,500.
	She's taking all of that money and giving it to her mom.
	This is the young woman that said, I love my country.
	I love representing America.
	That American flag around your shoulders looks pretty good.
	How does that feel to represent your country like this?
	It feels amazing.
	I love representing the U.S.
	I freaking love living there.
	I love it.
	And I'm so happy I get to represent USA.
	I mean, she's taking all of her winnings and giving it to her mom so her mom could fulfill her dream of getting a food truck.
	It's been her dream.
	I told her five years ago, all right, mom, I'll get you the food truck, but you got to be responsible.
	This is the daughter telling her mama, that cracks me up.
	So mom's getting her food truck, and she's going to have a cooking business.
	She can really cook really well barbecue.
	I mean, how great is how great a story is this?
	Anyway, she, you know, I guess her mom, and she lost her dad in a terrible car accident, I found out.
	Said she's going to continue wrestling, wants to compete in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
	I mean, is there anything we could do for her?
	We got to think about something cool to do.
	The only thing I cared about in the Olympics was her story so far.
	And I'm proud of everybody else that has won.
	And I just respect athletes.
	I just, all of this politics and sports has just turned me off.

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