He is the 56th governor of New York and is now emerging as a key leader amid the coronavirus pandemic. This is Andrew Cuomo.
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00:00They talk about how New Yorkers are tough.
00:03Yeah, you know, we're tough to live in a place like this.
00:05You have to be tough.
00:07But as tough as we are is as loving as we are
00:11and is as big as our heart is.
00:14And when someone needs something,
00:16there's no place I'd rather be.
00:20♪
00:36I will turn this state upside down
00:39to get the number of beds we need.
00:42♪
01:12♪
01:37There is despair, Mr. President,
01:40in the faces that you don't see,
01:43in the places that you don't visit,
01:45in your shining city.
02:11♪
02:26We have brothers and sisters
02:29who are working hard every day
02:31but can't pay the rent and afford to eat,
02:35and they have to make a choice,
02:36and they need affordable housing.
02:38That's why we have homeless Americans.
03:08♪
03:23What we said when we were there was,
03:25we're not just going to build back neighborhoods and homes,
03:29and we're not just going to provide shelter quickly.
03:32We're actually going to build communities
03:34that are better and stronger
03:36than they were before the hurricane.
03:38♪
04:03I want to thank all my family
04:07and all my friends who stuck with me
04:11over a very long and bumpy road
04:14with ups and downs,
04:16but people who never gave up on me.
04:18Thank you, and I love you, too.
04:19Thank you very much.
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04:40Twenty states have already started to use it.
04:45We'll establish a program allowing up to 20 hospitals
04:48to prescribe medical marijuana
04:50and we will monitor the program to evaluate the effectiveness
04:54and the feasibility of a medical marijuana system.
04:57♪
05:15Since taking office,
05:16Andrew Cuomo has given massive tax breaks to corporations
05:20and the super rich.
05:22While he has decimated our infrastructure
05:24and starved our state,
05:25its cities and its rural areas of their most basic services.
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05:50What am I going to do with 400 ventilators
05:53when I need 30,000?
05:56You pick the 26,000 people who are going to die
05:59because you only sent 400 ventilators.
06:01We're not going to accept a premise
06:06that human life is disposable
06:12and we're not going to put a dollar figure on human life.
06:17The first order of business is save lives, period,
06:22whatever it costs.
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06:33My brother, Chris, is positive for coronavirus.
06:38Found out this morning.
06:41The, now, he is going to be fine.
06:47He's young, in good shape, strong,
06:54not as strong as he thinks, but he will be fine.
06:58You just see one dimension, right?
07:00You see a person in his job,
07:02and in his job he's combative and he's argumentative
07:05and he's pushing people, but that's his job.
07:08That's really not who he is.
07:10He's a really sweet, beautiful guy,
07:15and he's my best friend.