Chris Cuomo Says He’ll ‘Make a Difference’ on NewsNation Show and Wishes Two Party System Would End (Video)

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for several ethical lapses and an accusation of sexual harassment (he denies that accusation.) “Bill so you know is not just good on the show he’s good off the show, so I thank you for that,” Cuomo said, prompting Maher to joke “we’re just friends.”Cuomo said that “happy” is “probably not the right word” to describe how he feels now that he’s headed back to cable.

But, he said, “I want to help. I want to give back into a way of doing a form of what [Maher does], breaking through the toxic twosome of partisan politics.” He said he hopes to speak to “the vast majority” of Americans he says don’t fit neatly into either political side.Maher tried a few times to get Cuomo to speak ill of his former employer, something Cuomo refused to do. “It’s a great organization and a lot of great people there,” he said. “I want good things for people there, I don’t like how it ended, I had a great team I didn’t get to say goodbye to… I want everybody to do well.”Other than that, they mainly elided Cuomo’s exit from CNN; instead, the interview served as basically a promo from Cuomo’s upcoming show.The conversation briefly turned to Cuomo’s older brother, disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. “I have never seen a fall that steep,” Maher said.“I’m supposed to say ‘oh, he’s great,’ but that would be what we call bulls—,” Cuomo said, adding that “we learn a lot about the people in your life when you watch them struggle… he has been in a struggle, and I’ve watched it and I’m proud of how he handled himself.”After some more back and forth along those lines, the chat turned to the subject of cable news.