CNN's Chris Cuomo breaks silence, says he urged his brother to resign 'when the time came.'
"It's never been easy to be in this business coming from a political family, especially now," Chris Cuomo told viewers on CNN's"Cuomo Prime Time" show. “I never covered my brother’s troubles because I obviously have a conflict and there are rules at CNN about that.”
He raised ethical questions inside the network after New York Attorney General Letitia James issued her report on the governor and Chris Cuomo's role as an adviser to his brother — a dynamic that media experts suggested was a journalistic conflict of interest that many in the profession would consider inappropriate"I'm not an adviser. I'm a brother," Chris Cuomo said."I wasn't in control of anything. I was there to listen and offer my take. And my advice to my brother was simple and consistent: Own what you did. Tell people what you’ll do to be better. Be contrite. And finally, accept that it doesn’t matter what you intended.
The late night anchor continued to defend his actions:"I never attacked nor encouraged anyone to attack any woman who came forward. I never made calls to the press about my brother's situation. I never influenced or attempted to control CNN's coverage of my family." Chris Cuomo said he"tried to do the right thing" in a"unique situation, being a brother to a politician in a scandal and being a part of the media," adding that he had no further comment at this time.
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