BREAKING: The New York state legislature has passed a bill to allow the state tax commission to provide
@realDonaldTrump
's state tax returns to three Congressional committees. Returns could have much of the same info as contested federal returns.
BREAKING:
@NYGovCuomo
will sign bill allowing release of
@realDonaldTrump
's state tax returns TODAY, less than a week after Congress sues for federal returns.
A headline that would have been instantly the biggest news of year in any other era: Manhattan DA investigating President of United States for fraud.
@BenWeiserNYT
/
@WRashbaum
:
Per
@WhiteHouse
press pool,
@realDonaldTrump
has arrived at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, VA.
"
@Potus
wearing white Maga cap, windbreaker, dark slacks, non-dress shirt, shoes that look appropriate for golfing, per photog in our van."
EXCLUSIVE/BREAKING: A 25-year-old former aide to
@NYGovCuomo
told the
@nytimes
the Governor sexually harassed her, asking if she had had sex with older men, among other claims.
Cuomo says was a mentor, "never made advances," or acted inappropriately.
NEW/BREAKING:
@NYGovCuomo
offers another statement on sex harassment allegations.
"I now understand that my interactions may have been insensitive or too personal and that some of my comments, given my position, made others feel in ways I never intended."
"Luckily, he won't be here,"
@NYGovCuomo
says of
@realDonaldTrump
threat to not distribute vaccine in NY (when/if it arrives in 2021, due to be the first year of
@joebiden
's administration)
From
@maggieNYT
: "A large group of former Trump Organization employees is sending texts quietly cheering the latest developments, a reminder of how many people have felt burned in various ways by Trump over the years."
Live
@nytimes
coverage here:
NEW/BREAKING: Former aide to
@NYGovCuomo
details sexual harassment claims, including an unwanted kiss in his NYC office. w/
@luisferre
.
Awaiting comment from Gov's office....
BREAKING/NEW:
@NYGovCuomo
vowed to "destroy"
@rontkim
in a phone call last week.
Today, that attack happened during the Governor's news conference.
With
@luisferre
:
NEW:
@NYSenate
will pass bill to allow Congressional committees to ask for
@realDonaldTrump
state tax returns on Wednesday, as standoff continues in DC.
BREAKING:
@aoc
/
@JamaalBowmanNY
issue joint statement calling on
@NYGovCuomo
to resign.
“We believe these women, we believe the reporting, we believe the Attorney General, and we believe the fifty-five members of the New York State legislature."
BREAKING/NEW: NY, CT and NJ to impose quarantine-style restrictions on some visitors from FL and other high-infection
#coronavirus
states, per
@NYGovCuomo
"The president is unfit to remain in office for the next 14 days. Every second he retains the vast powers of the presidency is a threat to public order and national security." --
@washingtonpost
Editorial Board
NEW/BREAKING:
@NewYorkStateAG
says State Dept of Health undercounted nursing homes deaths by as much as 50%, as a result of not reporting deaths at hospitals.
.
@cnn
reporting sharp increase CV cases in states w/o stay-at-home orders, citing
@JohnsHopkins
:
"Oklahoma saw a 53% increase in cases over the past week...Over same time, cases jumped 60% in Arkansas, 74% in Nebraska, and 82% in Iowa. South Dakota saw a whopping 205% spike."
NEW/BREAKING: 84 deaths in last 24-hours per
@NYGovCuomo
.
DOWN from 109 reported by governor on Friday.
This is the first time the death toll has been under 100 in MANY WEEKS.
It sounds like spy fiction but it is not: the F.B.I. was investigating the president of the United States to see if he was working for the Russians.
@nytimes
scoop here:
BREAKING:
@CarlHeastie
, leader of
@NYSA_Majority
, confirms:
"I am authorizing the Assembly Judiciary Committee to begin an impeachment investigation, led by Chair Charles D. Lavine, to examine allegations of misconduct against Governor Cuomo."
Quick observation: It is a sign of how terrible this plague is when reports that nearly 600 people a day have died in
#NY
, for two days running, is considered good news.
"When you get knocked down, what do you do?" Cuomo says, talking about COVID but certainly relevant to the scandals surrounding him and calls for his resignation.
"It's a question of what you're made of"
NEW/BREAKING:
@NYSenate
plans to move to strip
@NYGovCuomo
's unilateral emergency powers. Plan would set up commission to oversee orders.
@NYSA_Majority
still on fence.
BREAKING:
@TishJames
chooses
former Acting U.S Attorney for the Southern District of New York Joon H. Kim and employment discrimination attorney Anne L. Clark as the two attorneys who will lead an independent investigation into
@nygovcuomo
.
.
@nytimes
obtained an audio recording from
@NYGovCuomo
's conversation with Orthodox leaders last week in which he said he'd allow 50% occupancy before announcing that he was dropping it to 25% hours later.
They called it "duplicitous."
Read here:
"A pink and purple and turquoise creature with a wild bloodshot stare, a toothy neon grin and spiderlike legs."
What is it? Well, in theory, it voted.
@HurubieMeko
explains:
BREAKING:
@NYGovCuomo
received a high offer of +$4 million for his book as Dept of Health report underwent downplaying revisions. Top aides helped with book; junior aides too.
w/
@dannyhakim
/
@xanalter
.
"The tweet was a very nasty political tweet,"
@NYGovCuomo
on
@realDonaldTrump
tweet telling the governor to "stop talking!"
"You're not going to bully NY," the governor says.
NEW: New, wider-net antibody results show that 1-in-5 New York City residents have had
#coronavirus
, per
@NYGovCuomo
. Roughly in line with previous results.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announces an economic recovery committee that includes four former governors including Jerry Brown and Arnold Schwarzenegger and executives such as Apple CEO Tim Cook. It will be chaired by former presidential candidate Tom Steyer
"Nobody knew what a contact tracing program was,"
@NYGovCuomo
says, of program in NY.
This is not true, of course. Contact tracing has been a part of epidemiology for decades.
NEW:
@NYGovCuomo
is reopening indoor dining in restaurants in NYC, but much of the data is worse than when he shut that down in December, including hospitalizations and per-capita cases.
From
@nytimes
:
"When HHS Secretary Alex Azar announced this week that the federal government would begin releasing coronavirus vaccine doses held in reserve for second shots, no such reserve existed, according to state & federal officials briefed on distribution plans."
"It was the greatest miss of all time,"
@NYGovCuomo
on federal government response to
#coronavirus
, specifically the arrival of the virus from Europe.
NEW:
@AndreaSCousins
, Dem majority leader in
@NYSenate
, declares that
@NYSenDems
have won a
"historic super majority" -- at least 42 of 62 -- saying her party and her conference have erased the Red Mirage of Election Night.
NEW: In Feb.,
@luisferre
and I reported that
@NYGovCuomo
threatened to liken an adversary a “child rapist” if he compared him to a Republican.
The Gov. denied it. We knew it to be true.
Now, listen to the tape (17:20):
2/22:
NEW this morning: "Ultra MAGA"
@RepStefanik
predicts GOP will win 15 - count 'em 15 - seats in the House in NY as she tries to use her national profile to help her state's party candidates in midterms, pushing the political needle to the right.
NEW: Publisher halts promotion of "American Crisis"
@NYGovCuomo
's memoir of the pandemic, written and published during the pandemic.
Paperback is also off, as Gov reels from nursing home scandal and others.
w/ Texas-bound
@jdavidgoodman
:
"Basically, we froze.”
Top aide to
@NYGovCuomo
on recorded call about why the state stonewalled state lawmakers on nursing home data amid fears of DOJ investigation and "a giant political football."
via
@bern_hogan
/
@nypost
/
@ccampy
:
This six-month old tweet from
@ChrisCuomo
is getting a lot of replies today, in light of the revelations of the last 24 hours about his brother
@NYGovCuomo
.
.
@NYGovCuomo
has been spending several weeks parsing numbers to make his case for NY still being in good shape statistically vis a vis the rest of the nation.
Sadly, however, NY still leads in most dire statistic, with more than 32,000 deaths.
.
@NYGovCuomo
's defense - thus far - seems to be
@LindseyBoylan
was lying about being alone with Gov, an aide & a trooper.
But that's actually not what she wrote:
"He was seated facing me...our knees almost touched. His press aide was to my right & a state trooper behind us."
I asked
@NYGovCuomo
about this in the press conference less than an hour ago.
He said he hadn't heard about this, and seemed perplexed as to whether it was even legal.
"I don't even know what that means," he said.
I am giving consideration to a QUARANTINE of developing “hot spots”, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. A decision will be made, one way or another, shortly.
NEW:
#Harvard
removes
@EliseStefanik
from Institute of Politics's Senior Advisory Committee.
"Elise has made public assertions about voter fraud in November’s presidential election that have no basis in evidence."
NEW:
@NYGovCuomo
playing a robocall of unnamed protest organizers in Brooklyn, saying they had communicated with
@realDonaldTrump
campaign, asking them to make signs saying "Cuomo killed thousands" at Brooklyn protests.