LISTEN: Eric Schneiderman Talks to Alec Baldwin About #MeToo Movement Days Before Resignation

Last Thursday, former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) sat for a podcast interview with Alec Baldwin. By Monday evening, Schneiderman resigned — following the publication of a shocking New Yorker report in which four women accused him of physical violence.

But five days earlier during the interview with Baldwin, Schneiderman made some comments about the #MeToo movement which entirely run counter to his alleged actions.

“I mean, look, I think the movement is extraordinary,” Schneiderman told Baldwin. “I think it’s changing the conversation. It is a part of what I see is this moment of social transformation, and the emergence of a new political movement. But, you know, that’s a whole other podcast.”

Baldwin told the New York Daily News that he found the allegationss “disturbing.”

“If he did these things and there’s a strong possibility that he did or he wouldn’t resign so quickly…If he did these things that’s dreadful,” Baldwin said.

Baldwin compared Schneiderman to former Democratic New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer — who resigned amid a prostitution scandal in 2008.

“It was two brilliant men who were great public servants who people had a lot of hopes for, in terms of the long games of their career,” he said. “Eric Schneiderman was a great attorney general. Not good, great. Because of his personal demons whatever they may be, his career is derailed beyond what might have unfolded in whatever state office he might have sought.”

The New Yorker reported this week on four women who accused Schneiderman of violent physical abuse. Schneiderman denied the allegations, but resigned from his role as New York’s attorney general.

Listen above, via WNYC. (The quoted portion can be found at approximately the 24-minute mark.)

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