Woman Tells ‘Fox & Friends’ Media Asked Her Not To Blame Cuomo For Nursing Home Deaths [UPDATE]

On Monday, a woman who lost her mother to COVID-19 in a New York nursing home told Fox News that NBC News asked her to refrain from using New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s name when she spoke of her mother’s death. After she made the claim, a review of the video of an interview she referenced found that the woman did call out Cuomo by name but appeared to correct herself, saying, “I didn’t say that as well as I could.”

Dawn Best, whose mother died in April 2020, told Brian Kilmeade of “Fox & Friends” that she was told by NBC News, “Can you say that a different way without Governor Cuomo’s name, and just say New York failed you?” Best continued, “So I had no choice. So I had to say, ‘New York failed me.’”