the senators released a joint statement saying it's clear that governor cuomo has lost the confidence of ice governing partners and the people of new york. what is the governor saying this morning about these calls to resign? >> reporter: in short, governor cuomo saying that those allegations of sexual assault and harassment, that they certainly should be heard, but at the same time he's also maintaining that he's innocent of any sort of misconduct and he also continues to double down on his position that he will not step down as the governor of the state of new york in spite of the ongoing state impeachment investigation and also, as you mentioned, the growing chorus of democrats that are calling for him to resign. here is the governor's latest position when it comes to the growing call for him to step down. >> i did not do what has been alleged, period. look, it's very simple, i never harassed anyone, i never abused anyone, i never assaulted anyone. and i never would, right? >> reporter: there have been multiple new allegations against the governor here from many women that state, or at least they've been describing unsettling uncounters with the governor going back for several years, the very latest one at least coming from a reporter who is now in miami, but used to be assigned to the statehouse. in 2014, jessica bateman saying she was 25 years old when the governor touched her without her consent. that's a mounting list of allegations against the governor. now, when it comes to those democrats that are calling for him to step down, there are simply too many to name, not just within new york state house of representatives or the state assembly, but also in washington, d.c. you mentioned at least two significant voices within the democratic senators as well that are calling for his resignation. the governor maintaining that he will not do that. he wants the investigation to continue, guys. >> paulo sandoval for us in new york. thank you so much. let's bring in national political reporter for the "washington post." good morning to you. >> thanks for having me. >> let's put the full screen back up of the democrats in the new york delegation who are calling for the resignation of the governor. when you look at these faces, you've got the majority leader of the senate, you've got senator gillibrand there as well, jerry nadler, alexandria ocasio-cortez, a long list here. how much more tenuous is the governor's tenure after hearing from these democrats than it was when we heard from democrats on the state level? >> well, one thing we know is that it's harder to remove by force a governor than it is to push someone out of, say, the senate or the house where you can just vote to deny them committee assignments. so cuomo is in a position where he can stay, he can choose to stay until he is impeached and removed and the state legislature in new york, even though there's a majority of members of the assembly in the senate who have signaled they want him to go, they're unlikely to move forward until there is an investigation, which is basically what cuomo is demanding. he's in a position where it will become more painful for him to stay in office, he may be less effective the longer he stays, but it's unlikely he'll be forced to remove himself in the next couple of weeks or month. >> one notable name and face absent there was the chair of the house democratic caucus, hakeem jeffries, who released a statement -- did not go as far as everyone else. he said that the governor must seriously consider whether he can condeffectively lead the st. that relationship and the calculation there? >> there's been a real debate going on behind the scenes and there are a couple things at play. one is people are more loyal to cuomo than others and his enemies were the first to call for his resignation. the other is the specter of the al franken resignation in 2018 continues to hang over this. this is a concern among democrats and activists and survivor groups that there needs to be investigations in these cases. if you get a resignation before an investigation, before all the facts are shown, it can actually work against the movement to end sexual harassment and this sort of behavior in rooms of power. and so there are a lot of the women's groups that have been emphasizing the need for an investigation. so there are conflicting precious on people behind the scenes. but i think just the number of accusations that have come out, the number of articles that have really pretty comprehensively portrayed an environment in the governor's office of real hostility and abuse separate from sexual harassment has just become too much for a number of these elected leaders. >> in your latest write, you said that the governor's advisers told you that he's planning to rely on his support from black voters as democratic leaders are accustomed to doing. what is the relationship there with the black community that they think is going to sustain him? >> well, he has had a very strong relationship with the black community in new york for a number of years. there's also a greater concern among the black community, at least in some corners for due process. there's a long history here of african-americans feeling like they've been mistreated by the justice system by not getting their full day in court. but we don't really know where the public continue is right now. the last really good poll we had was about ten days ago and it showed, you know, a slight majority wanted him not to resign, 55% of new yorkers, even though most new yorkers didn't want him to run for re-election for a fourth term. but ten days is a long time. there have been a lot of accusations since then. what happened yesterday with so many of the congressional delegations and state senators coming out against him could really shift those numbers. and we'll see. the idea that he still has a strong base of support is untested at the moment. so next week could be, you know, a different situation. >> i read something from a political consultant overnight in prep for these conversations in which he suggested that the governor could adopt some of his critics' policy proposals. if they want a millionaire tax, maybe he could bring that in as they look toward the budget. do you think it's too late for that now? >> yeah, i think -- you know, in individual situations maybe that's true, maybe he can leverage some legislative deal for certain member support. but the fact is, almost half of the state legislative delegation, democrats, have signaled they want him to go. a majority of the people in the assembly and senate have signaled they want him to go. there is an investigation happening right now in the assembly. it will bring findings forward, and if they show he did something wrong, it's very likely they'll move to an impeachment. so that's sort of a buying time tactic at this point, unless there are investigations that show what he's been accused of just is not true. but the sheer number of accusations i think suggest that's unlikely to happen. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. the immigration and customs enforcement says it needs serious help now to manage the surge of immigrants along the u.s.-mexico border. >> it's asking for agency volunteers to help with security for families and unaccompanied children. deployments could start as soon as this weekend. cnn's rowsa florez takes a look at how critical the influx has become. >> reporter: these are the faces of the immigration surge on the u.s.-mexico border. maria mendoza is from el salvador and hopes to reunite with her family in maryland. this woman is from honduras and lost everything during a recent hurricane. she said that her dream is to have a house and that that's why she made the trek to the united states. they are among the tens of thousands of migrants who have been encountered by u.s. border authorities in recent weeks. one area alone saw more than 500 migrants enter during an eight-hour period. to expedite processing, authorities started fingerprinting them under this bridge. many unaccompanied children and families are bussed to a temporary immigration processing center in donna, texas. maria rosa lives across the street and says buses packed with people arrive around the clock and at night she hears children crying. you're scared? >> yeah. >> reporter: from there, some migrants are dropped off at bus stations like this one in brownsville. that's where we met maria and her 6-year-old daughter, kaitlin. she says she e vvaded a snake fm her journey to the united states and fell off a raft. why is there a surge right now, do you think? both maria and roxanne na say they learned from news reports in their home countries that the biden administration is allowing migrant women with children to enter the u.s. >> and you believed that that was true? which is not entirely true. the biden administration says it's allowing unaccompanied minors to remain in the u.s. pending immigration cases and some families are allowed in on a case-by-case basis. that could be driving some of the surge, which has more than 3,700 children in border control custody in jail-like facilities. health and human services is caring for billion 8,800 minors and is considering using a nasa site to expand bed space. some nonprofit migrant shelters where this migrant a nicaragua is staying has seen an inflow of mothers, children and pregnant women. cindy johnson has volunteered to help thousands of migrants across the river and collected hundreds of postcards with their story. >> this child is saying that they witnessed people dying, people getting beaten. >> reporter: cindy says she scanned them and sent them to then-candidate for president joe biden. >> what was the goal of sending these letters to biden? >> the goal was they wanted them to see their humanity. >> rosa florez, cnn, along the u.s.-mexico border. congresswoman veronica escobar is with us now, she's a member of the house judiciary committee. we appreciate you being here. thank you so much. and i understand you visited an immigrant processing center yesterday and you spoke with some of these children. what did they tell you and what did you witness there? >> i did. thank you so much for having me on your program. it's a pleasure to be with you. and, yes, i've been keeping in close contact with members of the biden administration with my local officials and yesterday i toured the processing center. and many of the kids that i spoke to, and this is true for kids that i've spoken to not just inside the processing center, but outside of it as well, many of them are wanting to finally be reunited with their parents. their parents have been here for a couple of years. one child i spoke to told me both his parents had been here for five years. and they are -- their parents are mostly essential workers, frontline workers. many of them are the very people who have helped us during the worse days of the pandemic. >> so what is stopping these parents from being -- or these parents from being reunited with some of the children that are still being detanined, particularly children detained that long? >> it is an unacceptable situation to have a child detained for longer than what the law allows and the law says 72 hours is the maximum. the biden administration is working hard to try to expedite that process, but they're dealing with a system and an agency that was decimated by the previous administration. we all know that the administration of donald trump did everything possible to deassemble any humanitarian process available to the government. so the biden administration, in addition to dealing with a continued flow of folks who are arriving, especially unaccompanied children, they are trying at the same time to rebuild a system that was broken down. but i do feel hopeful about the work that they're doing and we're seeing some of the fruits of the labor of the biden administration. they have shaved down the time that children in shelters are staying there waiting for reunification with their parents, and just as context under the trump administration some of the children were in shelters for three months, six months. i had met children who had been in shelters for a year. the biden administration has cut that down to between 30 and 35 days. but, still, it's a process that while they are making it more efficient and keeping it safe, you know, we're dealing with the fallout from four years of incompetence and cruelty. >> we also heard rosa florez talking to children and women who are saying we heard that we would now be allowed, women and children, to come into the country per the biden administration. that's what they're being told. i want to get to one thing quickly before i let you go because i know you led the texas democratic congressional organization in writing the letter to greg abbott. what did the letter say and have you heard 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