0 arm, a pat on the face, a touch on the stomach, a slap on the back. it's my way of saying "i see you. i appreciate you, and i thank you." i'm not comfortable just walking past and ignoring them. of course, usually they are male troopers. in this case, i don't remember doing it at all. i didn't do it consciously with the female trooper. i did not mean any sexual connotation. it was totally thoughtless in the literal sense of the word. but it was also insensitive. it was embarrassing to her, and was disrespectful. it was a mistake, plain and simple. i have no other words to explain it. i want to personally apologize to her and her family. i have greatest respect for her and for the new york state police. now, obviously in a highly political matter like this, there are many agendas and there are many motivations at play. if anyone thought otherwise google would be naive and nenew yorkers are not naive. i want to thank the women who came forward since your complaint. it's not easy to step forward but you did an important service, and you taught me and you taught others and important lesson. personal boundaries must be expanded and must be protected. i accept full responsibility. part of being new york tough is being new york smart. new york smart tells us that the situation and moment are not about the facts. it's not about the truth. it's not about thoughtful and malice. it's not about how we make the system better. this is about politics i'm our political system today is too often driven by the extremes. rationalness. twitter has become the public square for policy debate. there is an intelligent discussion to be had on gender-based actions, on generational and cultural behavioral differences, on setting higher standards. and finding reasonable resolutions. but the political environment is too hot, and it is too reactionary for that now. and it is unfortunate. you know me. i'm a new yorker, born and bred. i am a fighter, and my instinct is to fight through this controversy. because i truly believe it is politically motivated. i believe it is unfair and it is untruthful. and i believe he demonizes behavior that is unsustainable for society. if i could communicate the facts to the frenzy, new yorkers would understand, i believe that. but when i took my oath as governor, then it changed. i became a fighter but i became a fighter for you. and you lose your best interest that i must serve. the situation, by its current trajectory, will generate months of political and legal controversy. that is what is going to happen. that is how the political wind is blowing. it will consume government. it will cost taxpayers millions of dollars. it will brutalize people. the state assembly yesterday outlined weeks of process that will then lead to months of litigation. time and money that government should spend managing covid, guarding against the delta variant, reopening of states, finding gun violence, and saving new york city. all that time will be wasted. this is one of the most challenging times for government in a generation. government really needs to function today. government needs to perform. it is a matter of life and death, government operations. wasting energy on distractions is the last thing that state government should be doing. and i cannot be the cause of that. new york tough means new york loving. and i love new york. and i love you. and everything i have ever done has been motivated by the love, and i would never want to be unhelpful in any way. i think that given the circumstances, the best way i can help now is if i step aside and let government get back to governing. therefore that's what i'll do. because i work for you. and doing the right thing is doing the right thing for you. because as we say, it's not about me. it's about we. kathy, my lieutenant governor, a smart and competent, this transition must be seamless. we have a lot going on, i am very worried about the delta variant and so should you be. but she can come up to speed quickly and my resignation will be effective in 14 days. to my team, and the hundreds of dedicated administration officials, i want to say this. thank you. thank you. and be proud. we made new york state the progressive capital of the nation. no other state government accomplish more to help people, and that is what it's all about. just think about what we did. we passed marriage equality, creating a new civil right. legalized love for the lgbt community and we generated a force for change that swept the nation. we passed the safe act. years ago, the smartest gun safety law in the united states of america in advance the madness -- it banned the madness of assault weapons. the highest minimum wage in the nation, lifting millions of families standard of living, putting more food on the table and close on our backs -- probes on their backs. we have managed every emergency mother nature could throw at us. fires, floods, hurricanes, super storms and pandemics. we balanced the state budget on time. more than any other administration. because government should work and perform. free college tuition for struggling families. nobody in this state will be denied their college because of their income. we have built new airports, rail, transit, roads all across the state faster and better than ever before. more than any state in the nation, the most effective green economy program in the nation. we did more for black and latino families and any other administration, we did more for working families, we did more to battle racism and anti-semitism. today so much of the politics is just noise. just static. that's why people to doubt. that's why people tuned out. what matters is improving people's lives, and that's what you did. you made this state a better state for the generations that follow. and that is undeniable, inarguable, and true. even in these ugly, crazy times. i think to the speaker and the leader for their leadership. let me say this on a personal note, in many ways i see the world through the eyes of my daughters. they are 26 and 26, twins. and 23. i have lived this experience with and through them. i have sat on the couch with them, hearing the ugly accusations for weeks. i have seen the look in their eyes and the expression on their faces, and it hurt. i want my three jewels to know this. my greatest goal is for them to have better future than the generations of women before them. it is still in many ways a man's world. it always has been. we have sexism that is collateralized -- institutionalized. my daughters have more talents and natural gifts than i ever had. i want to make sure that society allows them to fly as high as their wings will carry them. there should be no assumptions, no stereotypes, no limitations. i want them to know from the bottom of my heart that i never did and i never would intentionally disrespect a woman or treat any woman differently than i would want them treated. and that is the god's honest truth. your dad made mistakes, and he apologized, and he learned from it. and that's what life is all about. and i know the political process is flawed and i understand their cynicism and distrust and disappointment now. but don't give it up. because government is still the best vehicle for making positive social change. lastly, i want to remind all new yorkers of an important lesson and one that i will carry with me for the rest of my life. and that's what you new yorkers did in battling covid. the enemy landed in new york state. covid launched the attack here. it came on planes from europe, and we had no idea. it was an ambush. and it was up to new yorkers to fight back. we were on our own, and it was war. nurses, doctors, essential workers became our frontline heroes. hospitals became the battlegrounds. streets were still and sirens filled the city's silence. tearing the bodies of our fallen brothers and sisters you refused to give up and you fought back and you won. going from the highest infection rate in the nation to one of the lowest. no one thought we could do it, but you did it. you lead the nation and you show the way forward. and how you did it is what's most important. you did it together. not as black new yorkers or white new yorkers, not as lgbtq new yorkers orchestrate new yorkers or democrats or republicans or upstate or downstate are jewish, muslim, protestant, catholic new yorkers that is one community. one community, one family, the family of new york, you overcame the naysayers in the heaters that a fear the division and unified, and you rose and you overcame. you saved lives and that was powerful in its effect. it was beautiful to see. and it was an honor to lead. please remember that lesson. hold it dear and hold it up high for this nation to see because it is new york state at her finest, creating her legacy, fulfilling her destiny, giving life and animation to the lady in the harbor saying excelsior, we can be better! we can reach higher! and proclaiming e pluribus unum, out of many, one. unity, community, love. that is our founding premise and our enduring promise. that is the salvation of this nation that it so desperately needs to hear. thank you for the honor of serving you. it has been the honor of my life. god bless you. >> new york governor andrew cuomo in an epic self-defense. we first heard from his attorney, holding her own press conference for about 30 minutes and then we waited for a few minutes and then the governor. while we knew we would hear from him, we did not anticipate the crescendo of his remarks. first, he went after the allegations with these women. one by one by one, not all 11, but certainly nearly half, he talked about the moments and the things that those women say that they had experienced because he touched them. he said he didn't mean it. because he said things, he made them uncomfortable. he asked for kisses and hugs. if you it. he didn't mean it. all of that leading up to his political enemies who he thinks he is now facing. although the law plays a huge part in this. made those findings known last week. for the governor today, he took on the political fight that he said he would be able to wage because he has special gifts in that area because he's from new york. he was ready to fight. but he says he's also ready to serve in the best thing for the people of new york, crescendo, is for him to step aside and then he says his resignation will take effect in 14 days. and then the soliloquy, the swan song. made it through the pandemic of the worst of times, had to do it without help, that whole thing. he thanks new yorkers for giving him opportunity reserve. you're watching "outnumbered." kayleigh mcenany, dagen mcdowell, fox news headlines 24/7 reporter carley shimkus. in the center virtual seat, fox news contributor and professor of medicine at nyu, dr. marc siegel. well, kayleigh, when we talk politics we often will acknowledge that it so blood sport. and for a governor who we know has joked about the allegations against him and has made at least inferences that the stories were not true. albeit in accordance but he did not deny. he said he either didn't remember or he didn't mean so many of those things that made those women uncomfortable. the politics, though, is what he capitulated to. not the law. the politics. >> kayleigh: that's exactly right. what you just witnessed was the stunning downfall of the democrats' darling. this is someone who was floated as a presidential candidate potentially, someone whose name was mentioned. being better or superior to joe biden even at times. you witnessed his stunning downfall, you nailed it. it was because of politics. what we just watched his governor cuomo resigning, and democrats just passed that monstrosity of an infrastructure package. that was in the bottom right corner of our screen because andrew cuomo chose to go to a microphone and make that decision now. stopping on the democrats' messaging. joni ernst proposing the chrome on them and in congress, funding for states that have a governor found to be guilty of sexual assault. ralph northam being asked questions about this. this was becoming so untenable for the democratic party. he capitulated to the politics with two-thirds of the new york state assembly saying that they would vote for impeachment. though i would say as recently as yesterday, we had reporting, "the new york post" did, i should say, that he was going behind the scenes, his team talking to lawmakers saying if i agree not to do another term, will you not impeach me. they tried at the very last moment to stop it but they simply could not. what is -- a stunning turn of events. >> harris: the newspapers in this region, you could see the dealmaking didn't happen overnight. when that fell through, the attorney came up first about an hour ago. began laying out her case. making a compelling argument that she hadn't received the interview transcripts where the evidence in the case. we don't know the whole story. we don't know how hard they were pushing. we don't know if this governor was ever really going to wage a fight. because perhaps he was making a deal or thought he could. we won't ever know the whole story and thus everybody starts talking. which you could say is what happened with these 11 alleged victims of governor cuomo. and there is someone else. joining us by phone, janice dean, her reaction to the breaking news. you talked about justice. sometimes justice will come in a way you hadn't anticipated, we were focused on the nursing home scandal, lives lost, and that because of this governor's leadership decision, your reaction today. >> i didn't think he was going to do it, harris. i thought he's going to blame everybody else. blame her, blame them, god, mother nature, "the new york post," all the things he blames for his nursing home decision. so i was waiting for him to do the same and i was waiting for him to say i am going to stick it through because i believe i'm innocent. instead he said he was resigning. i'm in shock, i'm not going to live. i got a text from my sister-in-law and i texted my husband and i said he's gone. got to be honest, we had my in-laws' memorial yesterday at a firehouse in brooklyn. a lot of us were talking about maybe, yesterday when there was the memorial for my in-laws, maybe he would resign. some kind of divine intervention. it happened the day after. i will say that i believe that being on the side of the angels has helped us. he has nowhere to go. he had nowhere to go. he was in a corner. people were jumping off the sinking ship like rats. today's a good day but i will say this, harris. i want justice. i don't want this to be the end of the chapter. i want investigations to continue. i want justice for those brave women that came forward and i want justice for those who have no voice, who are in a grave right now because of his mandate. don't forget the over 15,000 loved ones that deserve answers. we haven't talked about those people. it has gotten caught up in the me too stuff. it's an abuse of power. that's what this guy has been leaving with in the last two terms, the abuse of power. it's over today. do not forget that he has investigations, some could turn criminal. his corruption runs deep. >> harris: the way that you put that, janice, it is so true in terms of how you go after this next. we don't know what's next. what we do know is that on this day, the unexpected happened. and you mentioned your loved ones and memorializing them yesterday. our prayers and love and thoughts are always with you, janice dean. we are alongside you for the fight in all these cases, because there will be thousands of them. if you split them up. over 15,000 of them. he could be a very busy guy for a very long time if the law continues its pursuit. janice dean, i know everybody on the panel wants to talk with you. >> kayleigh: janice, you mention this is not the end but perhaps just the beginning. the judiciary committee. this was just one component of where they were looking at. you mentioned nursing home deaths. they likewise are researching or looking into, rather, the usurping of state resources for family members and personal favors and also a cover-up pertaining to bolts on the mario cuomo bridge. where you think comes next? the nursing home scandal that has been so dear and near to your heart. >> i have been talking with assemblies. they've been in this fight for a long time with me. it has nothing to do with politics. the governor likes to say this is all about politics really person that was making it political with him. a democrat was affected personally by his uncle. losing his life in a nursing home because of covid. we have the same goal. not let the issue go away. he has assured me, as late -- he will continue his fight in the assembly to make sure our family members get answers and accountability. i'm not sure what that looks like. but i believe him. i believe him because he has a loved one he lost as well. we've become good friends. i'm hopeful. i would like president biden to continue his doj investigation. but we do know they stopped that one. i would like accountability for the other states that had mandates to be covid positive patience in nursing homes. as a laundry list of scandals surrounding this governor. the friends and family covid test is a big deal because nursing homes could not get covid tests to test incoming patience but yet the governor gave those tests away, those tests to his friends and his family and chris cuomo. that makes me sick. state resources to drive to their personal homes in the hamptons to get a test and then drive back test albany and use those state resources when nursing homes literally could be saving lives with those tests. that should be criminal. >> harris: dr. siegel come i want to bring you in here because from the very beginning of the pandemic, we covered the decisions being made just like we are doing now with masking and dosages of the vaccine for little ones. the entire journey. the part of the journey that janice dean is talking about was the preventable part. it was not a disease that had gone awry and crept its way into places. he put people into places, the most vulnerable, are elderly and loved ones, blocked off and left a battle that disease as he put sick patients next to them. >> marc: he was busy marshaling only the scarce resources for his own family at a time when we were struggling in the hospital to get enough testing, to get enough equipment. how dare he start to equate himself once again with the partnership with the health care workers who put their health on the front lines while he was hiding in his mansion with his supplies. another point, i don't know if the viewers really understand how egregious it is. a nursing home, no matter what you do to it, you can gold plate it. you can never make a nursing home a proper place for covid-19 patients. you need negative pressure. you need specific rooms. it's got to be infectious disease. it is literally murdering people. one more thing i want to talk about is when he starts glad-handing. i'm sure every woman on this panel is really angry to hear how he talked about that police officer. let me tell you. women know when they been groped and they know when they been attacked and i have treated them in the emergency room after they have victims of sexual assault. if this happened, women will not be the same again after this. this is an enormous, and norma's assault, that's the right word. >> harris: we have talked about the psychological part. you see people in your practice. you'll say they are coming in for one thing but i get their whole psychological profile as well. that's where you're getting some of this information from. >> marc: i think that's one of the reasons, this is alleged and you've had some tough lawyers talking about this on the show, including emily. it feels like the victims, there is some