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Andrew Cuomo

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  1. “I don't they're talking about a watered down package and then coming back and doing a full package later on. My guess is that doesn't happen. My guess is they're now going to wait to see what happens with the Georgia Senate races. I don't see where Senator McConnell is going to want to push his ultra-conservative wing. To come to an agreement now. So I don't see it happening. And I don't know that that is so bad. It's a practical pain in the neck for states that have hemorrhaged funding and can't pay their bills. But I've been in that situation for a long time. I'd rather see Biden come in and do the right package and put stimulus together with infrastructure and do it right once rather than cobble something together, you know.”

    2020-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 419 — Gov. Andrew Cuomo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Oh, I knew Trump from New York. He donated to my campaign. He supported my father's campaign when he was governor. The Trump family did a fundraiser for me. I've been a social events with him. No, I knew him from New York. And, you know, he was an eccentric character always. But as president, I think the pressure actually took that eccentricity and exploded it.”

    2020-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 419 — Gov. Andrew Cuomo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “You know, David, I have run the course with this president. I've been fighting him for four years. I've sued him on almost every policy ground. I tried over the past year to work with him. I tried. I bit my tongue. I tried to be gracious. I tried to be cooperative. It's him. It's just him. I don't know that the... Moves will actually hurt the vaccine plan that they're developing because I think the vaccine plan they're developing is basically unworkable anyway. But this is just Trump, right? This is his personality. It's his persona.”

    2020-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 419 — Gov. Andrew Cuomo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Well, it depends the way Trump wants to design it, the pharmaceutical companies were distributed, he says, through the military, through the generals. They'd use FedEx and another commercial company. It would go to the hospitals. It would go to the drug chains, and they think the public would just come in and receive the vaccine. The volume is way too high for it to happen that way. You're going to need a government-organized effort. I would use the National Guard. I would use my healthcare staff to go into low-income communities, public housing projects, faith-based organizations. But best case scenario, it has to take four, five, six months if it takes a day to get to everyone.”

    2020-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 419 — Gov. Andrew Cuomo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Had the highest infection rate, the highest mortality rate, and they are healthcare deserts. Now, government could, my state government could, supplement efforts in those communities, but I would need funding to do that. And that's not in Trump's plan. So that's going to be a problem. And that assumes that they operationally understand what they're talking about. Just to give you an idea of the magnitude of this scale, we have done COVID testing all across the nation at full bore, okay? New York State does more testing pro rata than any state on the nation. To date, eight months, we've done 120 million COVID tests, nasal swab goes to the lab. We have to do 330 million vaccinations. How long is that going to take? I've done 12 million COVID tests. I have to do 20 million vaccinations. How long is that going to take?”

    2020-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 419 — Gov. Andrew Cuomo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “It's interesting that you bring that up, David. You know, governors, we tend to get practical and granular, right? Because that's the business we're in. We're in the day-to-day business. It's actually to put an exclamation point on what you said. I think President Biden, President-elect Biden made the right move in putting scientists on an advisory board, sending the signal that it's going to be about science, not politics. But the Trump administration right now is designing the vaccination program. President Biden doesn't become president until January 20, they're going to put this vaccination plan in place. I'm fighting with them right now. I'm also the chairman of the National Governor's Association this year. But they're going to repeat every mistake they made on COVID from day one. They want to do a vaccination plan that is basically distributed through the private healthcare network. Yeah, but that leaves out the black and brown communities where we've”

    2020-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 419 — Gov. Andrew Cuomo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “And that is going up. The nation hit a new record today. New York State is relatively doing very well. We are the third lowest state in the nation, only Vermont and Maine are below us in infection rate, believe it or not. So we've been very diligent. But you're going to see that go up. There's no doubt.”

    2020-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 419 — Gov. Andrew Cuomo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Yeah, you know, it's a good news, bad news situation. We're going to have a new president. That's great. There's a vaccine on the horizon. That's great. But we have to get there. You are going to see a serious second wave of this COVID virus. It's not really a second wave, by the way. They call it second wave. Second wave was when the virus mutated. We're still battling the first wave”

    2020-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 419 — Gov. Andrew Cuomo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Well, first, David, let me thank you very much for having me on. It's a pleasure to be with you. It's a pleasure to hear your voice. And we've had the opportunity to work together in the past, and you are still the best in my book. Thank you. And I know that you are very, very helpful to me and I learned a lot from you.”

    2020-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 419 — Gov. Andrew Cuomo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source