N.Y. Lt. Gov. taking over for Cuomo plans change of work culture

In two weeks, New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul will become the first woman to serve as governor of New York. She assumes office in the wake of the resignation Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who had been embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal. At a recent press conference, Hochul said she seeks to improve the work culture of New York state politics.

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- In the report the AG's report several members of the governor's staff were implicated in trying to discredit the women that accused him of sexual harassment. Are you planning on keeping any of them around? Is it fair to say that there was will be done?

- No one who is named as anything doing anything unethical in the report will remain in my administration.

- The word [INAUDIBLE] that used to describe the work environment in the executive chamber so to follow up on what's been asked, do you agree or take issue with that term [INAUDIBLE] describe it and to what extent given that fact, do you see the need to have a tunrover?

- Well, they'll be turnover. They'll be turnover, and that is the description from many witnesses in the attorney general's report. I think it's very clear that the governor and I have not been close physically or otherwise in terms of much time. And so I've been traveling the state and do not spend much time in his presence or in the presence of many in the state capital, but that is what has been being reported, and I'm going to stand right here at the end of my term whenever it ends no one will ever describe my administration as a toxic work environment.