EXCERPT:
CUOMO: “The Republicans, Stephanie, are playing politics. They don’t want to talk about how they are now handling this COVID virus." [crosstalk]
RUHLE: "Sir, these are lives. These are people’s parents’ lives."
CUOMO: "Yes, I understand that. And there are facts also, Stephanie. So let’s look at the facts, right, rather than the political rhetoric. Yes, we had more people die in nursing homes than anywhere else. Because we had more people die. Because the federal government missed the boat and never told us that this virus was coming from Europe and not from China. In January, February, March, before they did the European travel ban, 3 million people came from Europe and brought the virus to New York and the federal government didn’t know, and the federal government and the CDC and all of them failed to handle this pandemic and warn this nation. So New York had more cases, more deaths and more deaths in nursing homes, because that’s who the virus affects. It affects senior citizens, we know that. You look at any state and they had a tremendous number of deaths in nursing homes. It’s all a political charade.”