Asked whether New York schools would reopen in the fall, Gov. Andrew Cuomo tells arobach, 'I don't know. And I don't think that anybody knows.' Read more from his interview with GMA:
tracking a"terrible blunder" in an interview with"Good Morning America," said he would not accept a cabinet position in a Joe Biden administration and insisted that his gradual but disciplined approach to shutting down New York state was the best course -- then and now.
As for the three grueling months battling to contain the coronavirus from which he just emerged, Cuomo was obediently -- if colorfully -- concise."Hell!" Cuomo replied, his expressive face broadening into a signature smile."Can I say that?" Critics have suggested Cuomo should have recognized the scope of the threat when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began screening incoming passengers from China on Jan. 17, more than two months before the first confirmed New York case. Yet the governor looks back on the early days of the pandemic from a different perspective.
He laid the blame for early, severe outbreaks in New York City and Westchester County, at the feet of the federal government. "If I had just stood up there and said to 19 million New Yorkers, 'This is what you have to do: you have to stay home, you can't go out, you can't go to the movie, you can't go to work, schools are closed' … Let's be honest: the credibility of the government is not where it was. So, I wanted to give them the facts. I wanted to earn their confidence."
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks to guests during the National Action Network Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Public Policy Forum in the Harlem borough of New York City, Jan. 15, 2018.Cuomo was reluctant to specify precisely how prepared with supplies and personal protective equipment New York was at the start of the pandemic but said that no state – including his own – was truly prepared for what hit hotspots like New York and the Seattle area early on.
Cuomo has been heralded for his deft political management of the president's fickle temperament. An April 3 New York Times headline declared thatYet he readily acknowledged what has become apparent in recent weeks: His relationship with Trump – a fellow son of Queens from across the political aisle – may be long, but it's complicated.
"I didn't try to defer responsibility," he continued."I didn't try and blame anyone else I didn't point to – local officials or this one or that one. So – I did the job the way I think the job should be done. I respect the office. I respect the responsibility. So I assumed it. I never ran from it.
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