The Highwire with Del Bigtree - CUOMO GRILLED IN D.C. OVER NURSING HOME DEATHS

Episode Date: September 17, 2024

Former New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo, is back in the news this week after testifying before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic over NY State COVID directives one committee member said directly lead to some 15,000 deaths. Del breaks down two critical moments in the heated hearing.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

Recently, there was just a hearing. It was the select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic happening in Washington, D.C. And an old but familiar face appeared there defending a very strange decision. It looked something like this. My question was, did you ever speak with anyone? You, Governor Cuomo. Did you ever speak with anyone at CMS or CDC about the directive beforehand? You, Governor Cuomo.

You asked that question and I answered the question and I said no or not? I said no. I answered the question. Okay, thank you. Not even after, correct? I said, yes, and they never called me after. You would think if they had a problem with the directive, they would have called. If it was so outrageous. You didn't even call to ensure that what you were declaring was accurate. Yes or no? I don't know if the Department of Health was issued. You, Governor Cuomo.

Right now I'm talking to you, Governor Cuomo. Did you even attempt to ensure that what you were declaring was accurate? I'm asking you. I don't want to hear about anyone else. Okay. Department of Health issued 400 advisories, several per day. I did not speak CMS about 400 advisors. Thank you.

In fact, no one we interviewed said they consulted with them to ensure the applicable science was being followed. Well, that just happened two days ago, and I'm not sure if you remember, but Governor Cuomo actually copped to and decided to be public about the fact that he was inappropriate with female staff members. I assume thinking he could avoid a hearing just like this. For those of you that may have been asleep at the wheel while all this was really happening, this was the headline they're discussing right here. Coronavirus spreads in a New York nursing home forced to take recovering patients. It's reckless and careless, said the granddaughter of a 90-stress. six-year-old man whose family withdrew him from a Long Island nursing home. Now remember in the middle of, actually right the beginning of COVID, the one thing we knew for sure was that this

virus was deadly for elderly. Actually, very rare. Usually a brand new virus affects children and babies. We've talked about this ad nauseum on the high wire, but in this case, children were fine. It was the elderly. And if you remember correctly, Andrew Cuomo passed a directive that he is now defending saying that if you tested positive in a, you know, in a hospital and you were in a nursing home, the nursing home had to receive you back. Fire through dry grass is what that was saying. You saw that headline right there. But especially Andrew Cuomo saw COVID-19's threat to nursing homes.

Then he risked adding to it. So imagine when you knew that the elderly were at risk, he passed a law, basically, that no nursing home could turn away a positive patient. So if a patient left the nursing home and went to the hospital proved to be positive for COVID, they had to let them back in. And in fact, the directive went on to say if you were brand new and bringing your elderly parent or somebody to a nursing home to check it out, even if you were testing positive, they had to let you in. I mean, this is insane. It was absolutely insane and led to a catastrophic death rate in the nursing homes across New York State. And one of the highest death rates we saw from COVID anywhere in America. there is Andrew Cuomo's COVID-19 nursing home fiasco shows the ethical perils of pandemic

in that last video he would say they were asking did you ask the CDC or anybody whether this was a good idea before you pass this law no I didn't talk to anybody I've already said that a million times he goes on to say this on June 7th 2020 your executive assistant sent this email writing and I quote this is going to be the great debacle in the history books the longer it lasts the harder to correct We have a better argument than we made. Get a report on the facts because this legacy will overwhelm any positive accomplishment. Also, how many COVID people will return to the nursing homes in that period? How many nursing homes?

Don't you see how bad this is? Or do we admit error and give up? Ms. Binton is your executive assistant. I believe she's sitting behind you. Did she write this email on your behalf? Yes. Governor, did you have an email account? while you were governor? No. Well, I may have had one, but I didn't use it. Okay. Was there a reason?

I haven't used it in years. Did you communicate in other ways with your staff? Text messages or Blackberry? Yes. You did. You just said that you stood by the directive, but this email asked if it was time to admit error and give up. Was the March 25th directive an error? No, this was tongue in, the last line, sir, was tongue in cheek. I just want to just let this sink in for a moment. You passed a law basically forcing sick people into your elderly population. They started dying and dropping like flies. And then now we know that the directors and the discussions inside your department and inside with your staff was,

wow, this is going to be the greatest debacle of all times. but the longer we lie to the people, basically, the worst this is going to get. What do we do? Eventually, we know he didn't do anything except explained that he had been inappropriate with female staff members and took his firing that way to avoid all this Cuomo A's rewrote nursing home report to hide higher death toll. They literally manipulated their death numbers. I mean, we're talking fraud around essentially an accidental murderer of countless, elderly in New York. And what I want to really think about and what's going to be a huge part of

this show today is when do you think your government should admit they've made a mistake? And do you recognize that human nature is such as we're seeing here that even when they know they've made a mistake? And now, in this case, hundreds, if not thousands of people are dying, being killed by a decision you've made. The question is, can we cover this up? Can we ride this out? You know, the longer we go, the more deaths is going to be at some point, do we nip in the bud now? And then in the end's, well, it was all tongue in cheek. Really? Is this a time to be tongue in cheek?

And I want you to think about now, right now, in the United States of America, the CDC, we have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt. As every scientist, any decent scientists in the world now knows, one thing's for sure. This COVID vaccine is dangerous for children, far more dangerous than the virus itself. yet the CDC is now recommending two or three shots before child's even six months old. It's probably been mandated for school in the future depending on what state you're in. And it begs the question, how bad does a mistake have to be before you finally admit you're wrong, before you stop killing and wounding and injuring children in the United States of America? Folks, we don't live in Venezuela.

We're not in North Korea right now. We're not in the Soviet Union. We're in the United States of America and our government is knowingly poisoning and destroying the lives of our children when the evidence is right in front of them. Why? I have to assume for this exact reason, that to admit that we probably shouldn't give this vaccine to any more kids would be to admit that it should never have been given at all. And once you do that, what are the lawsuits? What are the repercussions for all the politicians that said things like, this is not about your freedom? This is about protecting people. At what point did you know you weren't protecting people? Those are the questions that are being asked.

And still a cover up is going on. Our government is killing our children. That's a fact. And they know it. And now what do we do about it?