Camerota didn't wait long to bring up the nursing home scandal. She started off with this gentle question: "Do you wish that you had done something differently on that?" similar to what CBS asked the governor yesterday.

Of course Cuomo immediately and repeatedly blamed the federal government for his state far surpassing any other state in the country in COVID deaths. After claiming Trump spread misinformation about where the virus came from and asymptomatic spread, he called the nursing home order scandal "political propaganda" from the White House:
 
On the nursing homes you have to separate the political propaganda from the facts here. The White House has been very good at blaming democratic governors for deaths in nursing homes. People did die in nursing homes and it was terrible, but that's where this virus preys on the old and the weak, there was never a directive in New York state that said nursing homes must accept COVID-positive patients. That's political propaganda. We said -- we did follow a federal rule that said you can't discriminate against people who have COVID, not in a hospital, not in a nursing home.