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00:00:00.000New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announces life passports for the vaccinated and bans for everyone else, and New York Attorney General Letitia James blows up New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
00:01:46.000It's very important that we know whether you are vaccinated or not.
00:01:50.000And no, that's not a Nazi thing, okay?
00:01:51.000There are lots of other nations that have been doing it.
00:01:53.000It's a bad idea everywhere it is, and it is violative of basic human liberty.
00:01:57.000Number one, it's going to be very difficult to check everybody's vaccine passports because, frankly, a lot of people who got the vaccine didn't receive a vaccine card.
00:02:04.000Some people's vaccine cards, like mine, got misspelled.
00:02:07.000Some people Didn't bother to get a vaccine cards or they got the first vaccine somewhere in like New York and then they went for the second shot somewhere in Massachusetts.
00:02:14.000It's gonna be very difficult to actually enforce all of this.
00:02:19.000So Lollapalooza in Chicago, you're all supposed to show your vaccine card.
00:02:21.000What that really amounts to when you watch the video is people holding up a paper, a piece of paper and walking through a line with hundreds of people.
00:02:28.000It's like TSA except without any metal detectors, meaning it is completely theater, right?
00:02:38.000Like it doesn't make any sort of logical sense.
00:02:40.000The vaccinated themselves are not at grave risk of hospitalization or death from COVID.
00:02:45.000The unvaccinated If you wish to lower the curve, the unvaccinated should be hanging out with the vaccinated, not in their own special spaces.
00:02:52.000So I guess the logic here is that if you're vaccinated, you're one of the special people.
00:02:56.000If you're unvaccinated, you're one of the unspecial people.
00:02:59.000And if we punish you for being unvaccinated, then sooner or later you'll get bored with it and you will go and get yourself vaccinated.
00:03:05.000Well, there's an alternative possibility, which is that you won't.
00:03:09.000Which is that you'll be so off-put, you'll be so alienated, that you just won't get the vaccine.
00:03:13.000And instead, you'll hang out with the other unvaccinated in restaurants outside of New York City, and you will infect each other, and you will actually end up with a higher rate of people passing the virus to one another.
00:03:23.000Now, the reason I say this is because New York is not the first place to have tried this.
00:04:01.000First, the logical, which we've mentioned.
00:04:02.000Then, there's the intersectional problem with this.
00:04:05.000So, for example, what exactly is going to happen in New York City when black people can't go to, like, any of the places?
00:04:12.000Because right now, Bill de Blasio is arguing that unless you have a COVID vaccine or proof of a COVID vaccine, then you can't go to an indoor eatery, a gym, or an entertainment center.
00:04:23.000De Blasio says the city is going to start fining businesses.
00:04:25.000First of all, this should not be a governmental thing.
00:04:27.000If you're a private business and you only want to allow the vaccinated in because you have a bunch of paranoid people in your company or whatever, that's your business.
00:04:34.000If the city is cramming this down on you, they better have pretty good public health reason.
00:04:40.000De Blasio says the city is going to start fining and inspecting businesses for compliance in mid-September.
00:04:44.000All affected customers and workers can either provide their vaccination cards or upload their proof of vaccination to the Excelsior Pass application.
00:04:52.000And obviously, if New York City knows one thing, it is how to do public sort of service.
00:04:58.000They're really, really good at handling complex ID-based transactions, sort of like how it took them multiple weeks to figure out who the actual new mayor of New York is going to be after screwing up the original vote totals.
00:05:14.000It's going to be just absolutely smooth.
00:05:17.000This, by the way, came a day after de Blasio mandated vaccinations for all of the city's new hires, requiring them to provide proof of vaccination by their first day of work without the option to get tested regularly.
00:05:26.000Instead, he issued similar mandates for city employees and healthcare workers in July, according to CNBC.
00:05:33.000According to de Blasio, about 11,000 people have picked up $100 in order to get their vaccinations so far.
00:06:11.000Fully vaccinated in order to get the vaccine passport.
00:06:14.000The percentage of Asians who are fully vaccinated in New York City, 71%.
00:06:17.000The percentage of Native Americans and Alaskan Natives who have been vaccinated fully, 67%.
00:06:23.000The percentage of white people who've been fully vaccinated is 45%.
00:06:30.000And the percentage of Black people in New York City who have been fully vaccinated is 31%.
00:06:36.0007 out of every 10 Black people in New York City has not been fully vaccinated.
00:06:39.000So, how do you think this is going to play out for Bill de Blasio and his Democrats?
00:06:43.000How do you think this is going to play out when restaurants are overtly turning away a disproportionate number of Black people?
00:06:49.000Now, I have been told by Ibram Kendi and Robin DiAngelo that any inequality in society is proof of systemic inequity.
00:06:57.000And so, obviously, Bill de Blasio is a racist.
00:07:00.000I mean, just as testing, just as SAT testing is racist, just as we have learned that picking up people for crimes is racist, even if they committed the crime, if a disproportionate number of those people are black, that's racist, a disproportionate number of people are now not going to be able to go to the New York City Bodega because they're not vaccinated.
00:07:18.000And those people will happen to be black disproportionately.
00:07:20.000And it's going to be fun to watch as New York eats itself in the battle between the hyperactive and super afraid upper crust white liberals in New York and the black population, which is overwhelmingly not vaxxed in New York.
00:07:37.000It's going to be fun to watch the Robin DiAngelo half of the white liberal population go to war with itself.
00:08:12.000We have some evidence that the answer is not so much.
00:08:15.000Okay, back in January, Israel launched a COVID immunity passport.
00:08:19.000According to CNBC, this January of this year, Israel has been lauded for deploying what is currently the fastest COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the world.
00:08:26.000Less than a month after receiving its first shipments of the Pfizer BioNTech jab, the country of 9 million has vaccinated about 20% of its population.
00:08:34.000More than 72% of people over the age of 60 had already gotten their first dose.
00:08:39.000Essentially, they are now releasing what they called, this began back in January, what was called the Green Booklet.
00:08:46.000The green booklet would be given to people who've received two doses of the vaccine.
00:08:50.000The booklet would offer vaccinated individuals significant freedom from COVID-19 safety restrictions.
00:08:54.000People holding it would no longer have to go into isolation after coming in contact with an infected person, or go into isolation after traveling internationally.
00:09:02.000They would no longer have to be tested before entering certain touristy areas known as Green Islands.
00:09:06.000They would still have to be wearing a mask in public and maintaining social distancing, right?
00:09:25.000The high-level coronavirus cabinet was set to convene Tuesday to approve new restrictions as the daily COVID-19 caseload surpassed 3,000 for the first time since March.
00:09:33.000According to the health ministry, 3,800 new cases were diagnosed on Monday, with 3.78% of tests returning positive.
00:09:39.000The number of serious cases stood at 221, of whom 46 were on ventilators.
00:09:44.000So, the so-called Green Pass, by the way, was reinstated by the government on Thursday, with entry to events of more than 100 people, both indoors and outdoors, allowed only to those who are vaccinated, recovered, or who present a negative COVID test.
00:09:56.000Children under the age of 12 are largely exempt from the system.
00:10:00.000So, they kind of went in with the Green Passport, then they went out with the Green Passport, and here's the thing, it really has done very little.
00:10:06.000The green passports are not really accomplishing what they seek to accomplish.
00:10:10.000In fact, I've not seen these vaccine passports anywhere accomplish what they seek to accomplish in terms of either forcing all of the unvaccinated to get vaccinated or in terms of lowering the rate of infection from COVID-19.
00:10:23.000And in fact, things are going very poorly in France.
00:10:25.000So France also has a vaccine passport system and it's resulting in mass protests across France.
00:10:31.000There's an entire piece in the New York Times today From a person named Pauline Bach, who's a French journalist, she says, at a time of the year when the French are traditionally divided, between those who go on holiday in July and those who go in August, the past few weeks have seen hundreds of thousands of people coming together with a single rallying cry, Liberté.
00:10:48.000These protesters are united against France's new system of vaccine passes, which was announced with much fanfare by the government on July 12th and is gradually coming into effect. The measures intended to lift the vaccination rate as the Delta variant courses around the country make proof of vaccination or a negative COVID mandatory to get into cultural venues, bars and restaurants.
00:11:05.000By September, all care workers will need such a pass to retain their job, and workers on a permanent contract may be suspended without pay until they can provide one.
00:11:14.000Though to some extent, it's successful in its primary aim.
00:11:16.000In the weeks since this was announced, 6.5 million people have been vaccinated, taking the level to 47%, about the same proportion as in the U.S.
00:11:23.000The move, however, has rebounded badly against the government.
00:11:27.000Many people, unhappy at the act of coercion, are taking to the streets in a collective display of defiance, potentially coalescing into a substantial protest movement that could mar President Emmanuel Macron's reelection efforts next year.
00:11:38.000And France's experience is a cautionary tale.
00:11:41.000So you have tons and tons and tons of people who have been out protesting against this.
00:11:46.000Not because tons of French people are vax deniers.
00:11:49.000Only about 16% of French residents say they intend not to be vaccinated.
00:11:54.000And by the time that Macron announced the rollout of vaccine passes, over half of the French population had gotten at least one dose.
00:12:01.000Their concerns instead were about freedom and rights, and exactly how this was going to take place.
00:12:07.000According, again, to this columnist in the New York Times, protesters fear that the passes will allow for wide-ranging state surveillance, potentially targeting the most vulnerable and even suppressing dissent.
00:12:16.000There's no guarantee, they warn, that the system will be retired once the virus is defeated.
00:12:22.000Ironically, the only trade exempt from mandatory vaccination, the cops, will be the ones to make sure everyone else obeys.
00:12:27.000The policy is ripe for authoritarian misuse.
00:12:30.000Again, this is not coming from the American right wing.
00:13:46.000But they're not going to leave everybody alone.
00:13:47.000In fact, it's going to get even worse.
00:13:49.000The National Institute of Health, Director Francis Collins, again, I don't know where they get these folks, but they're just, they're terrible at this.
00:13:54.000NIH Director Francis Collins is now telling parents that they should wear masks in their own homes to protect their kids from COVID.
00:14:03.000Despite the fact that there is no evidence at this point of increased deadliness from the Delta variant in kids.
00:14:09.000According, by the way, to people who work for the Biden administration, Collins is saying stuff like this.
00:14:15.000It's clear that the variant is capable of causing serious injury in children.
00:14:19.000You've heard stories coming out of Louisiana pediatric ICUs where there are kids as young as a few months old who are sick from this.
00:14:26.000But anyone that tried to tell you you don't have to worry about it if you're a young healthy person, there's a lot of counter examples all around.
00:14:43.000You're arguing in the exact same preserve as people who are like, I'm not giving my kid a vaccine because I heard about this one kid who had an adverse effect from the vaccine.
00:14:54.000Zero things does it mean in terms of your personal risk assessment.
00:14:58.000Because there are anecdotes of lots of bad stuff happening on Earth all the time.
00:15:03.000This is why, again, it sounds like this is very much about control.
00:15:06.000Here's Francis Collins pushing this thing yesterday.
00:15:08.000You have heard those stories coming out of Louisiana pediatric ICUs where there are kids as young as a few months old who are sick from this.
00:15:18.000Certainly younger people are less likely to fall ill.
00:15:21.000But anybody who tries to tell you, ah, you don't have to worry about it if you're a young healthy person, there's many counterexamples all around us now.
00:15:28.000So yeah, you do need to think about it.
00:15:31.000And that's the reason why the recommendations are for kids under 12.
00:16:24.000But we can't control everything, and because we can't control everything, people on the left think we can, and so they're just going to keep doubling down.
00:16:29.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:16:30.000First, let's talk about the fact that you don't really want to go to the auto parts store.
00:16:33.000I know, you woke up this morning, you're thinking, I'd love to go to the auto parts store.
00:16:39.000Instead, why not skip the auto parts store where you'll wait in line, answer a bunch of questions, and then the person behind the counter will be like, yeah, dude, I have to order it online.
00:17:30.000Write Shapiro in their how-did-you-hear-about-us box so they know that we sent you.
00:17:34.000Okay, so again, the reason that I point out that maybe human beings aren't in control of this is because human beings obviously are not in control of this.
00:17:40.000Bangladesh is seeing a massive spike right now.
00:17:43.000According to the New York Times, With Bangladesh under a nationwide lockdown to fight a third wave of COVID, hospitals in the capital, Dhaka, are reaching capacity.
00:17:51.000Demand for oxygen is exceeding supply.
00:17:53.000Obviously, Governor Ron DeSantis is at fault here.
00:17:55.000On Sunday, the government granted an exemption, allowing the country's critical ready-made garments industry to keep operating, prompting fears among experts the health crisis could worsen.
00:18:31.000a half month lockdown helped eradicate the virus there. But city officials say they had detected three symptomatic local cases in the previous 24 hours, five asymptomatic cases. They're testing all 11 million people. I don't think that they detected three cases and they're testing 11 million people. I think they have a lot of cases. Japan is starting to see a surge as well.
00:18:48.000According to the New York Times, as Japan strains to contain its galloping coronavirus outbreak and to keep an Olympic bubble from bursting in the final days of the games, the government is now trying a new tactic, public shaming.
00:18:59.000On Monday, Japan's health ministry released the names of three people who broke COVID-19 rules after returning from overseas.
00:19:05.000Apparently, this was two Japanese nationals in their 20s who just came back from South Korea, a third who came from Hawaii.
00:19:11.000Apparently, they had acted to avoid contact with the authorities.
00:19:14.000They're trying to shame the hell out of people because infections over there are rising.
00:19:17.000On Tuesday, officials said they had recorded more than 8,300 daily cases nationwide.
00:19:22.000It's starting to come down the other side of the curve, it looks like, in Japan a little bit.
00:20:58.000Well, could it be because Louisiana's in the South and it's really damned hot outside in Louisiana right now, and so people are staying inside?
00:21:04.000Okay, so, this chart from the New York Times cuts the United States into four regions.
00:21:33.000If you look at January, what you will see is that the weather dictates exactly how this goes.
00:21:38.000Right in the middle of January, in the middle of the spike, what you see is that the West and the South, where there were fewer people who had already, you know, had the virus, generally speaking, than in the Northeast, what you see is that Northeast spikes.
00:21:49.000And now the Northeast is close to the top of the pack, along with the West and the South.
00:21:53.000And you will see that if you go back even further than that, if you go back to like November, December, when the spike first started, the Midwest takes over.
00:22:00.000Why did the Midwest take over in like December and November?
00:22:35.000There's no real sort of End goal here that justifies the notion that if you're unvaccinated, now we're just going to bar you from every business by the government.
00:22:44.000I mean, that's kind of crazy, and it's going to result in a massive anti-government backlash.
00:22:49.000OK, well, you can see that this, again, is part and parcel of a broader sort of authoritarian move that you can see in terms of ideology.
00:22:56.000There's a good piece today from Kristen Tate over at The Hill.
00:23:00.000called Coming Soon, America's Own Social Credit System, and here's what she says.
00:23:03.000says the new domestic war on terror kicked off by the right on January 6th has prompted several web giants to unveil predecessors to what effectively could become a soft social credit system by the end of this decade.
00:23:12.000Relying on an indirect hand from D.C., our social betters in corporate America will attempt to force the most profound changes our society has seen during the Internet era.
00:23:20.000China's social credit system is a combination of government and business surveillance that gives its citizens a score that can restrict the ability of individuals to take actions, such as purchasing plane tickets, acquiring property or taking loans because of behaviors.
00:23:31.000Given the position of several major American companies, a similar system may be coming here sooner than you think.
00:23:36.000If we can start basically telling people whether they are allowed to engage in business based on whether they decide to get a vaccine or not as an individual adult human being, you can quickly see that the left, which has declared anything they don't like an actual danger, right?
00:23:50.000This is part of the broader sort of microaggression ideology pushed by the left.
00:23:55.000It is not a far leap from, we need vaccine passports because we have to protect ourselves against the public health menace of the unvaccinated, to we need social credit passports because we need to protect ourselves against the menace of people who disagree with us.
00:24:08.000If you think that's a long jump, all you have to do is look at college campuses where they've already started implementing this sort of language all the time on the left.
00:24:15.000Last week, says this columnist for The Hill, PayPal announced a partnership with the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center to investigate the role of white supremacists and propagators of anti-government rhetoric, subjective labels, that potentially could impact a large number of groups or people using their service.
00:24:29.000Facebook is taking similar measures, recently introducing messages that ask users to snitch on their potentially extremist friends.
00:24:36.000Which, considering the platform's bias, seems mainly to target the political right.
00:24:39.000At the same time, Facebook and Microsoft are working with several other web giants and the UN on a database to block potential extremist content.
00:24:48.000The actions of these major companies may seem logical in an internet riddled with scams and crime.
00:24:52.000No one's going to defend far-right militias or white supremacist groups using these platforms.
00:24:55.000But the same issue with government censorship exists with corporate censorship.
00:25:01.000And you've seen that this is sort of the left's take more generally on who ought to be part of the American body politic and who ought not to be.
00:25:10.000This is why they're making such a big deal out of January 6th, six months after it happened.
00:25:15.000And even though the people who are responsible have been arrested and will end up going to jail.
00:25:19.000Now the latest sort of iteration of this particular argument is an argument over two DC police officers who were present at the January 6th riot.
00:25:29.000And have now died by suicide, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
00:25:32.000These are the third and fourth officers to commit suicide.
00:25:34.000MPD spokesperson Kristen Metzger told CNN on Monday, Officer Gunther Hashida, an 18-year veteran on the force, was found dead at his residence on Thursday, which, of course, is tragic and terrible.
00:25:44.000Hashida was assigned to the emergency response team within the Special Operations Division, was dispatched to the Capitol on January 6th.
00:25:50.000Only hours later, the MPD confirmed another suicide had taken place.
00:25:53.000That, of course, didn't happen the same day.
00:25:57.000We don't have any information as to whether these officers committed suicide because of January 6th or whether there's a connection to January 6th.
00:26:04.000Realistically speaking, unfortunately, police officers are disproportionately likely to commit suicide.
00:26:10.000About 176 police officers died by suicide in 2020 alone.
00:26:15.000We don't know the departmental breakdown on those numbers.
00:26:17.000You would assume basically the bigger the police department, the more police officers probably committed suicide.
00:26:21.000So you would assume more police officers commit suicide just on an absolute raw number level in New York, LA, Chicago, DC than elsewhere.
00:26:30.000But this is being used as an excuse to basically say that all Republicans are now responsible for police officers committing suicide.
00:26:56.000All three died by suicide after the January 6th attack.
00:27:00.000Hashida's death last week was announced today.
00:27:04.000They had 45 years of experience among them.
00:27:06.000Yet, the same people who claimed blue lives matter, mocked, Laugh disparaged the wounds inflicted on these men.
00:27:17.000Wounds of that day are going to go far beyond 140 officers beaten with flagpoles, stabbed with metal fence stakes, smashed over the head with fire extinguishers and more.
00:27:28.000The survivors told you the extent themselves last week.
00:27:32.000Okay, all of this would count if we were talking about the police officers who testified last week.
00:27:38.000Again, we don't even know why these police officers committed suicide.
00:27:41.000There are a wide variety of reasons, unfortunately, why people become suicidal.
00:27:45.000Unless there's information that he has that we don't, we don't know that this actually was connected to January 6th in any way, which is sort of important to point out.
00:27:51.000Also, I've noticed that there have been no reports on any of the suicides that have taken place this year in other police departments.
00:27:57.000Apparently there have been 18 suicides overall in the United States by police officers.
00:28:02.000Were those connected to Black Lives Matter last year?
00:28:05.000We don't know in the same way that he doesn't know that this was connected to January 6th, per se, because a lot of police officers were put in pretty ugly situations last year.
00:28:12.000But the goal here is to blame all Republicans for this.
00:28:16.000police deputy, a chief, blamed Republicans for these police suicides as well.
00:28:22.000When you hear our elected officials, people that you should really look up to, start to try to spin a story of something as serious as what took place on January 6th and try to make it into something that never happened, or it was just like a regular tourist event.
00:28:37.000The same people saying that were barricading the doors and hiding in the basement of the visitor center at that particular point in time.
00:28:44.000But to hear them say that is not only disrespectful, it does create additional trauma.
00:28:50.000This has become the latest talking point.
00:28:52.000And if you think, again, that the sort of social credit system that's being created now, the power given to government now, to basically allow you to attend businesses or not attend businesses based on the quote unquote danger that you pose to others, in defiance of the data, by the way, if that can't be extended to ideology, I mean, I have doubts.
00:29:10.000I have doubts that the left will not attempt to do something like that.
00:29:39.000You know, it's worse killing a bunch of old people than lying about it, but it is indeed bad that the New York governor has a penchant for putting both his hands in inappropriate places, apparently.
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00:33:26.000Meanwhile, Andrew Cuomo under fire, not for killing all the elderly people in New York and then covering it up, but because the man apparently cannot keep his hands off other people's asses.
00:33:36.000Apparently, this is like the big thing over there right now.
00:33:38.000Now, you'll recall that the current president of the United States, Joe Biden, said in an interview back in March that if the allegations against Andrew Cuomo were confirmed, that he should resign.
00:33:48.000And here was Joe Biden saying just that.
00:33:50.000If the investigation confirms the claims of the women, should he resign?
00:33:54.000Yes, I think he probably ended up being prosecuted too.
00:33:58.000And well now, it has been confirmed that this is precisely what Andrew Cuomo did.
00:34:03.000According to Attorney General Letitia James, who herself, I will say, has her eye on the gubernatorial seat.
00:34:08.000I mean, it's pretty obvious that Letitia James wants to run for governor.
00:34:11.000This is part of the problem with having an AG with her eye on that top seat.
00:34:14.000It's like they get you in the crosshairs and it can get real ugly real fast.
00:34:19.000It's pretty obvious from, I mean, the report on Andrew Cuomo's penchant for ass-grabbery is 168 pages long.
00:34:44.0001, and the governor's touching of Trooper No.
00:34:47.0001's stomach and back unquestionably amounted to sexual harassment.
00:34:50.000In fact, the law provides that direct contact with an intimate body part constitutes one of the most severe forms of sexual harassment.
00:34:57.000The governor denies or states he does not recall any of these allegations of physical contact, but we find that the credible evidence establishes that the governor in fact touched these complainants in the way they have described.
00:35:06.000Those incidents amount to conduct that clearly constitutes sexual harassment.
00:35:10.000These are the findings of Attorney General Letitia James, elected Democrat.
00:35:13.000Second, The governor's numerous comments of a sexually suggestive nature, including discussions about age differences in partners, at the same time as the governor asked about finding a girlfriend.
00:35:22.000Miss Bennet and Trooper number one, the criteria for the girlfriend being someone who can handle pain.
00:35:28.000Trooper number one, and experiences with and views about monogamy, whether an employee had been with an older man, feeling lonely and wanting to be touched, the attractiveness of the employee in comparing her to an ex-girlfriend, wanting to go out with two assistants and calling them mingle mamas, whether an aide would be willing to cheat on her partner, playing strip poker, putting a tattoo on the butt as opposed to the shoulder, and locations of piercings other than the ears, individually and collectively constitute unlawful sexual harassment.
00:35:53.000This is according to Letitia James again, Democrat.
00:35:55.000We find these comments, some of which the governor denied, other of which she claimed were merely misrepresented, to be by any reasonable measure, gender-based, offensive and harassing.
00:36:03.000The law provides the comments such as these need not have been overtly sexual or motivated by sexual desire.
00:36:08.000Okay, first of all, it is important to point out here that sexual harassment law is super duper vague.
00:36:13.000Particularly in states like California and New York.
00:36:15.000So, making a joke at the office can easily be construed as sexual harassment.
00:36:19.000However, it seems that Andrew Cuomo had the unfortunate penchant for saying all these sexually suggestive things to aides and randoms that he met, like, over and over and over again.
00:36:32.000These types of sexually suggestive comments, if made as a joke or otherwise, particularly when part of a pattern of comments and conduct, as it was with the governor, constitute unlawful sexual harassment.
00:36:42.000The complainants, not surprisingly, said that these types of suggestive comments made them feel uncomfortable, humiliated, unsettled, taken advantage of, uncomfortable, and creeped out.
00:36:50.000For the recipients of these inappropriate comments and jokes from the governor, we find the governor indeed created a hostile work environment.
00:36:58.000Third, we find that under the totality of the circumstances, even the governor's less overtly sexual comments that were nonetheless gender-based also created a hostile work environment.
00:37:07.000Although the governor and certain of his senior staff sought to downplay what the evidence has revealed as frequent gender-based comments and conduct by the governor as simply old-fashioned or cultural, neither explains nor justifies his behavior nor makes it non-harassing.
00:37:19.000For example, referring to female staff as Honey, Sweetheart, and Darling, kissing staff members on the forehead and some of the senior staff on the lips, holding them tightly around the waist for pictures and other occasions, allowing senior staff members to sit on his lap at official functions, and lying down with his head on the lap of staff members who are women, We find, based on our interviews with numerous Executive Chamber employees, did in fact create a hostile work environment for many staff who were women.
00:37:42.000Okay, yeah, the last ones I'm gonna go with, yeah, that's weird, okay?
00:37:44.000Like, if you got a guy who's 60, and he says to women, honey, or sweetheart, I don't think that that's, like, the end of the world.
00:37:51.000I know too many 65-year-old guys who address everyone that way, and also address, like, pretty much anyone who's of a younger generation that way, because they've been used to calling their kids that.
00:37:59.000That doesn't sound like Andrew Cuomo here.
00:38:01.000And Andrew Cuomo, I think it's a fairly good bet that when you take your head and put it in the lap of a female employee that... What?
00:38:10.000In the... But... So... Yeah... Yeah, that's not good.
00:38:16.000As a matter of law, claiming that the gender-based behavior is simply a function of being old-fashioned or culturally more affectionate is not a defense to sexual harassment.
00:38:24.000One of his employees, named Miss Liss, experienced the work environment saying, for whatever reason, in his office the rules were different.
00:38:30.000It was just, you should view it as a compliment if the governor finds you aesthetically pleasing enough.
00:38:34.000So even though it was strange and uncomfortable and technically not permissible in a typical workplace environment, I was in this mindset that it was the twilight zone and the typical rules did not apply.
00:38:43.000What these witnesses and many others described is not just old-fashioned, affectionate behavior.
00:38:47.000It was sexual harassment, says the Letitia James report.
00:38:50.000Apparently, they also found that the executive chamber failed to report and investigate allegations of sexual harassment that's violated their own internal policies, according to the report.
00:39:14.000By the way, they also found unlawful retaliation.
00:39:17.000This report concludes that the executive chamber, meaning Cuomo, engaged in prohibited retaliation against Lindsay Boylan in response to the allegation she made on December 13th, 2020, that the governor had sexually harassed her.
00:39:28.000Unlawful retaliation occurs when the employer takes an adverse action against an employee or former employee because that person made a good faith complaint, formal or informal, of unlawful discrimination or harassment.
00:39:39.000We find this occurred with respect to Lindsay Boylan.
00:39:43.000As detailed above, the incidents Boylan described in her Medium article and her testimony have been admitted and corroborated as well.
00:39:50.000So, he engaged in a cover-up and the original activity.
00:39:54.000He engaged in an unwillingness to even investigate, so the governor's office did not investigate.
00:39:59.000However, according to Letitia James, they have no real feelings on whether a prosecution should take place.
00:40:07.000which is real cop out here by Letitia James, obviously.
00:40:11.000Like the fact that she is not pushing forward with any sort of criminal prosecution is fairly incredible, but that is where things stand.
00:40:20.000So now the question is, does he live this down?
00:42:08.000It includes Charlotte Bennett's texts about her interactions with Andrew Cuomo and an email from Chris Cuomo appearing to draft a statement on behalf of his brother.
00:42:17.000So apparently Chris helped his brother draft a statement responding to the allegations.
00:42:22.000Quote, questions have been raised about some of my past interactions with people in the office.
00:42:26.000I spent most of my time at work and colleagues are often personal friends.
00:42:29.000I never intended to offend anyone or cause any harm.
00:42:33.000You've seen me do it at briefings hundreds of times.
00:42:35.000My only desire is to add some levity and banter to what is a very serious business.
00:42:39.000I now understand my interactions may have been insensitive or too personal, and some of my comments given my position made others feel in ways I never intended.
00:42:46.000I'm sorry and feel deeply embarrassed about that.
00:42:48.000Separately, my office has heard anecdotally some people have reached out to Ms.
00:42:51.000Bennett to express displeasure about her coming forward.
00:42:53.000My message to anyone doing this is you have misjudged what matters to me and my administration.
00:42:59.000This is a statement apparently drafted by Chris Cuomo.
00:43:02.000on behalf of his brother, who at the exact time was covering his brother on COVID, you'll recall, in the middle of this. It's pretty amazing stuff. So CNN has zero credibility at this point, frankly, when it comes to covering these sorts of issues.
00:43:22.000It is a shame for the CNN reporters who don't suck.
00:43:25.000But the fact that Chris Cuomo gets to go out there and pretend to be a moral better for everybody continues to befuddle, to say the very least.
00:43:35.000I think that he probably outlives this.
00:43:37.000Because that is the rule in American politics these days.
00:43:40.000It is that you basically, it's not that you live, that you die as a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
00:43:46.000It's that you die as a hero, live long enough to become the villain or live even longer and then become the hero again, which I think will eventually happen with Andrew Cuomo.
00:43:56.000I wouldn't be surprised if Andrew Cuomo pushes statewide lockdowns as a result of this.
00:44:00.000I would not be surprised at all if New York kicks into high gear with regard to COVID just so we can go back to Andrew Cuomo giving briefings about how necessary he is.
00:44:10.000That would not be a giant surprise in any way, shape, or form.
00:44:14.000Okay, so before we part today, I have a quick Olympic update.
00:44:18.000The Olympic update is that Gwen Berry, you remember her, she was the hammer thrower who turned away from the U.S.
00:44:42.000She said that if she had won, she would have represented the oppressed people, had she won a medal in Tokyo, saying, that's been my message for the last three years.
00:44:51.000Well, she has been denied that possibility, and America weeps for her.
00:44:55.000It is the saddest story of the day, obviously.
00:44:59.000Also, worth noting, I'm just gonna have to play you this clip because this clip is really astonishing, and I feel that it deserves some level of independent comment.
00:45:07.000So, all of the racial conversations that we have been having in the United States over the past year or so, at the head of those racial conversations is a woman named Robin DiAngelo.
00:45:16.000You'll recall her as the author of White Fragility.
00:45:19.000It's an entire 45-minute breakdown of that awful, awful book, one of the worst books ever written on YouTube.
00:45:26.000Okay, so Robin DiAngelo, I think that she speaks for so many on the left when she talks about her embarrassment at her own race.
00:45:33.000This is how bad things have gotten in the United States, and people are listening to Robyn D'Angelo for racial advice, and this just deserves comment.
00:45:40.000So here is Robyn D'Angelo, yesterday, talking about her discovery of her own white privilege.
00:45:46.000Talk to me about when you first realized you were white, and whiteness.
00:46:37.000Wow, my skin color makes me bad and I was hesitant to walk outside.
00:46:40.000And the sort of ritual performative nature of this interview that she's doing with a black interviewer is really amazing.
00:46:46.000But I guess this is what we have become, a society of ritual performances.
00:46:50.000It's a society of religious ritual performances in which we are asked to pay fealty to our public health authorities and to our racial authorities.
00:46:59.000To come into conflict, we got a bit of a problem as they're about to in New York City, but put that aside.
00:47:03.000Man, there is a sickness in the head of the United States public at this point, and it may be fatal.
00:47:10.000All righty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of The Ben Shapiro Show, coming up soon as The Matt Wall Show airs at 1.30 p.m.
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00:47:55.000On today's episode, New York's Attorney General finds that Governor Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, New York City issues a citywide proof of vaccination mandate, and whistleblowers expose more troubling developments at the border.