Cuomo Resigns: See His Full Speech Here | NBC New York

An embattled Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday he will resign as governor of New York in two weeks, even as he again denied committing sexual harassment and apologized to any women his actions may have offended.

The words ultimately came after 10 minutes of condemning last week's attorney general independent report as politically motivated and rife with mistruths. The resignation played out almost as a casual afterthought to another denial from a man desperate to retain his COVID-time title as America's hero.

But the words came.

"Government really needs to function today. Government needs to perform. It is a matter of life and death government operations and wasting energy on distractions is the last thing that state government should be doing. I cannot be the cause of that,'" the three-term Democrat said. "Given the circumstances the best way I can help now is if I step aside and let government get back to governing."

"Thank you for the honor of serving you. it has been the honor of my lifetime," he added.

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