anthony weiner's fellow democrats. john larson chairman of the federal democrats in the house said it's difficult to watch the self-destruction of a friend and watch the witness of the breaking of hearts over what can be categorized as reprehensible behavior and bad judgment. larson is someone who did not publicly say that weiner should resign. he said it was up to constituents but many of the other democratic leaders and rank and file did say so. steve israel is a friend and a colleague of anthony weiner's from new york. he is also in charge of getting democrats elected in 2012. he was i think a bit more pointed in his statement. he said that it's right for him and his family because there's a lot of work to do in congress, and it talked about medicare and social security and some of the issues that democrats really felt that they were getting some traction on, wolf, and getting back on their feet politically until this anthony weiner scandal broke, and so that is a big reason and big indication, an illustration of wh

he is anthony weiner's fellow democrat from new york. he also happens to be in an important position politically. he's in charge of getting democrats elected in 2012. he called and said he's going to resign, he gave him the news. i'm told from a source that's familiar with this conversation, he went to nancy pelosi said, you've got to hear this, and the two went over to a tree to have some privacy, because, of course, the white house picnic was quite crowded, and then weiner proceeded to talk to both of them. i'm told he said he would resign and that he apologized for being a distraction. i'm told he was very remorseful about what he had done to his family, to his colleagues, to the party, and, you know, kyra, i was told by several sources, many sources over the past few weeks, who had spoken to anthony weiner, that he was really, really emotional. one says he was in despair, the other said he was turbulent. i'm told in this conversation he was more clear-headed in quite some time, where he would resign. at that point i'm told he had not

has anything to do with anthony weiner? >> reporter: it does. i spoke to democratic source who is knowledgeable about anthony weiner's plans who tell cnn that he does plan to resign from congress today. anthony weiner who has been embroiled in a scandal that has really angered his democratic colleagues here has forced them to push him to resign. they are getting what they want. they are getting his resignation according to one democratic source i spoke with. how this is going to come out and what exactly anthony weiner is going to say we are working our sources to get that information. the headline we do expect anthony weiner to resign his seat. this is nearly three weeks after he initially sent that lewd tweet and started this whole issue rolling and started this big scandal. for somebody who has had a very promising career in the democratic party and certainly has -- has been in a very, very bad place, according to many democratic sources who have been talking to him the past few

anthony weiner got to go. really? seriously? really? you cannot demand na people return donations from anthony weiner when the whole senate republican campaign committee was headed up by john ensign while the affair and the cover up were happening and you didn't say beep about it. either you care about this stuff or you do not. this is not to say that anthony weiner didn't do anything bad here. this show is one of the places where he lied in response to a direct question from me about what he was doing. but if you are so outranged by that lie or by anything else that you did that you are demanding that he must resign and other people be shamed by any association with him that is not repute tated you ought to at least try to fake that same concern about other politicians who have done the same thing and worse but happen to be in a different party. i know that it's okay if you're a republican is actually what the rule is that's actually how things operate in the beltway. but for the sake of national shame at least try to fake it. for the

it's anthony weiner. and he needs to step up and if he knows that there is a picture out there that's even more evidence and more damaging to the american governmental process tan's very damaand it i tog the democrats and that is exactly why harry reid is not going to support him. your thoughts? >> i do think that photo is probably a game changer but again, ed, i would never accuse you of being a right winger. i'm just saying if we let the other side keep taking scalps that determines who our leaders are. >> the right wing isn't taking a scalp. anthony weiner has been driving this bus. you folks are in denial. >> i have to say i think the most horrifying thing about the entire story is we have infinitely more important things to be focused on as a country. >> yes. >> like it or not this is a distraction. he is going to be an all ba tros around the neck of the democratic party and he's supposed to be doing the important work of the american people who elect these men and women and, unfortunately, more ofte

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marriages from anthony weiner. its also the best new thing in the world. thank you very much for being with us tonight. now it is time for "the ed show." have a great night. >> from new york, great to be back with you. congressman anthony weiner held a press conference today and admitted to sending inappropriate pictures of himself to several women but he said he will not resign. i'll have something to say about that. we'll have more on his announcement and what it could mean for his political career. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. after ten days of a media firestorm, representative anthony weiner comes clean. >> i tweeted a photograph of myself that i intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in seattle. to be clear, the picture was of me and i sent it. >> we heard his confession. only time will tell whether his political career will survive. in psycho talk tonight, walter williams spews gibberish about the welfare system calling it worse than slavery for african-americans. >> government has said to many young women, i a

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democratic colleagues even democratic aides on the hill telling reporters that anthony weiner was calling around apologizing for his behavior but at the same time citing poll numbers in his district showing that most people in his district wanted him to stay so he thought he could wait it out saying i realize what i've done was wrong i realize it's terrible i apologize for the distraction because by the way democrats were getting traction on some key issues that they thought would finally be a real winner for them in the election if they didn't drop the ball but saying look my constituents want me to stay i have to poll numbers to prove it there was a picnic of members of congress over at the white house with injured. it was it was twenty four thirty six hours that it was right. there it's and it won't be any will congressional picnic where finally anthony weiner got on the telephone with steve israel the chairman of the democratic congressional campaign committee and finally said that he was ready to resign in fact just to make sure that that was the case steve israel passed the phone to

loved anthony weiner. >> here's the thing. whose decision is it? because you they are top members of the democratic party saying it's time for you to go. his constituents by a slight margin are saying hey stay. it's his decision alone or left up to the constituent others the leaders? >> it really comes down to him and his wife. is his wife saying enough is enough and pull our lives back together. it will lie with anthony weiner. does he want to fight this out. it looks like he's trying to buy some time. >> thank you very much. don't go anywhere because we're going to take a quick break. i want to talk to mark about monday night's republican debate right here in manchester and specifically i want to ask him about newt gingrich and his chances now that all those staffers have just left his campaign. plus tina faye weighing in on her co-star's rant. >> don lemon cnn, you goofs. so my old contact lenses would sometimes move out of place and blur my vision. my eye doctor said there's great news for people with astigmatism. acuvue®

. >> reporter: shocking new photographs of anthony weiner published by tmz.com. the congressman allegedly e-mailed these shirtless pictures of himself taken at the members gym on capitol hill to an unlived woman. other photos are too graphic for television. weiner's office had no comment on the latest photographs. still, the congressman says he will not resign. instead he's seeking, quote, professional treatment and asking for a paid leave of absence from the house. >> look, i've made some serious mistakes here. i have to redeem myself. i'm going to try to get back to work. these were personal failings. i'm trying not to let them get in the way of my professional work. >> reporter: facing an escalating scandal this weekend democratic leaders called on weiner to step down. democratic national committee chairwoman debbie wasserman schultz yesterday. >> weiner's continued service in congress is untenable. this sordid affair has become an up acceptable detractiistractior congressman weiner, his family, his constituents and the house. >> reporter: again today on "meet

if you contrast that with anthony weiner, nobody came to anthony weiner's defense. i happen to think republicans played this pretty well them didn't really pile on early on. they let it play out. >> no question, this became a democratic civil war. and speaker boehner saying we won't meddle in your problems. let me come back to you. contrast the way other scandals have played out. where the tax issue is. less sexy, to say the obvious. there are no pictures, a picture of a 1040 isn't good compared to what anthony weiner was sending over his ipod or whatever. is the media then at fault for just playing to the salacious, when other thing may be just as serious? >> certainly the way this story came to dominate washington coverage, much more so than the debate about the debt ceiling or the war or any of the wars that the united states is involved in. always in part to the fact that let's not let weiner off the hook. had he not lied repeatedly in all those television interviews, it would have been rest of a story. and even though he's been a bit of a loner on the hill, mig

there it's me and it won't be any congressional picnic where finally anthony weiner got on the telephone with steve israel the chairman of the democratic congressional campaign committee and finally said that he was ready to resign in fact just to make sure that that was the case steve israel passed the phone to nancy pelosi the democratic leader so that she could hear from anthony weiner himself and at that point that was last night the die was finally cast and then we was ready to announce to the public early this morning it was leaked and then he had his press conference and then he did the negotiations as we heard it was reported there was this meeting today behind closed doors to figure out what to do that's correct one other thing that he was trying to preempt was it was a planned meeting of the democratic leadership in the democratic caucus the reported purpose of that meeting was to talk about stripping anthony weiner of his committee assignments especially his position on the energy and commerce committee one of the most powerful committees in congress to basically kick him off

it's not anthony weiner is going hugely above and beyond. it's an important moment that he almost apologized to breitbart. many of us who use twitter said the as i remember explanation is probably the explanation. the press did not try to explain it they tried to explain it away for him. that was an aloom nalgt moment and breitbart came out on top. >> bill: next shoe to drop is the house ethics committee. next on the run down will the anthony weiner situation hurt the democratic party since he was a point man for many of its policies. later, bernie goldberg will weigh in on weiner's confession. the reaction to it those reports after these messages. the markets never stop moving. of course, neither do i. solution: td ameritrade mobile. i can enter trades. on the run. even futures and forex. complex options? done. the market shifts... i get an alert. thank you. live streaming audio. advanced charts. look at that. all right here. wherever "here" happens to be. mobile trading from td ameritrade. number one in online equity trades. announcer: tra

vicky, you've met anthony weiner. you wrote a piece in "vanity fair" just after 9/11 in 2001, in which you met a number of congressman. they later accused of you of some kind of -- >> no, only he did. >> tell me what happened quickly. >> what actually happened was this. i had been sent by "vanity fair" to cover the world of interns in the wake of the gary condit scandal, which we were doing. i was shadowing three interns. then 9/11 happened. clearly, the story was no longer appropriate. i took those three girls out to dinner at the capital grill in washington, d.c., to thank them for their time and to say, girls, go back to your lives, story's over. as we were having dinner, about nine or ten congressman, we didn't know they were congressman, they just looked like businessmen, entered the private room next to where we were sitting and started clearly getting drunk, singing songs -- >> and one of them was anthony weiner, right? >> right. >> what does he say to you? >> he sits down next to me, he says, hi, i'm anthony,

anthony weiner himself got bumped. bumped his he was chased by the press to his own press conference. later, a hedge gave the media a payback. after a moment of stunned silence, the chase resumed. author and prison stripes added to the circus atmosphere. >> this is my book called "flush the toilet, why men cheat." >> reporter: which he had trouble giving away. at weiner's washington office, his plaque became a tourist attraction. with people using both thumbs and tongues while they posed so they too could be part of the -- >> disgusting -- >>s s ggross story. >> sorted. >> reporter: if the story wasn't sorted enough, a couple of hecklers looking for attention crashed weiner's perharess conference. >> i'm announcing my resignation from congress -- >> thank god, pervert. >> -- i continue to heal -- >> reporter: even the media were enraged, disowning the crashers. >> he's not with -- >> thank you and good afternoon. >> reporter: weiner's resignation may finally plug the slow week of news. >> drip, drip, drip. >> reporter:

it's not anthony weiner is going hugely above and beyond. it's an important moment that he almost apologized to breitbart. many of us who use twitter said the as i remember explanation is probably the explanation. the press did not try to explain it they tried to explain it away for him. that was an aloom nalgt moment and breitbart came out on top. >> bill: next shoe to drop is the house ethics committee. next on the run down will the anthony weiner situation hurt the democratic party since he was a point man for many of its policies. later, bernie goldberg will weigh in on weiner's confession. the reaction to it those reports after these messages. thanks to the venture card from capital one, we get double miles on every purchase, so me and my lads earned arip to san francisco twice as fast we get double miles every time we use our card... i'll take these two... ...no matter what we're buying. ...and all of those. and since double miles add up fast, we can bring the whole gang! it's hard to beat double miles! whoa dude. [ male announcer ]et

anthony weiner coming clean. "i lied," his words today, in an emotionally and occasionally bizarre news conference, where he finally admitted after days and days of diversions, denials, half-truths, and outright lies to sending a lewd photo of himself over twitter. admitin admitting also to inappropriate relationships with six women, and exchanging messages with them, including a number of them after he was married. we'll show his whole statement and talk about whether he can survive politically. >>> also, a history lesson for sarah palin. palin not backing down, but doubling down on her comments about the historical accuracy of paul revere. historian douglas brinkley has the facts of the historic ride. >>> and a dramatic day in the case of the casey anthony trial. gary tuchman was there and tonig tonight's crime and punishment report. >> more of my exclusive interview with mitt romney in just a moment. >>> in fact, i agree with mitt romney, who recently said he's proud of what he accomplished on health care in m

anthony weiner does what he wants to do. he doesn't really listen to advice, even if it's given to him. he does what he wants to do. this is something that he himself needs to deal with. >> we are looking at pictures from may 31st. for quite a bit of length of time to our colleague, dana bash, back and forth, trying to get him to answer certain questions. at times evasive, at times not. since midweek last week, kate, he has been quiet. he hasn't tweeted. he's a congressman who tweets quite a bit. he canceled perhaps a number of events. he's fallen under the radar up until now. >> and he came out, i believe it was thursday morning, if my memory serves me correctly, that i was standing outside of his office along with other reporters waiting there to see if he would speak to the media as he had done every day prior to that. he came out and made a statement to the media that said basically, look, i'm going to get back to work. i've answered all of your questions and now i'm going to get back to the job that the people are payin

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how do you square that with as smart a guy as anthony weiner? >> i saw that with john edwards who denied having the affair, then denied it was his baby. all that fell apart. i think people in politics and weiner is a classic example now get so full of themselves, surrounded by people who tell them how great they are they come to believe the ordinary rules don't apply, that somehow even if the story starts to unravel, that they can tough it out. weiner made a spectacular miscalculation. the lying opened the door for all of us to nail this guy and that's what's happening. >> let's switch gears. switch the lens. to turn the focus back to the media. how has the media handled this? you have breitbart who is, by many people, reviled. what he has done in the past allegedly about taking tapes, cutting and splicing, had maim him a pariah within the mainstream media. i think many people will say he rehabilitated himself, whereas the mainstream media was nowhere until he led the mainstream media by the nose. am i wrong? >> i don't see breitbart having done

i will never speak of anthony weiner again. we'll have more on anthony weiner tomorrow. (laughter) folks, the nfl may be in lockout mode but my reporting is still full contact and likely to result in head trauma. this is the sport report. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: we begin tonight on a sad note as america's sweetheart team the miami heat fell to the dallas mavericks in game six of the nba finals-- finals. (cheers and applause) don't cover your grief. (laughter) and everybody knows americans love rooting for an overdog. because let's face it, america is the lebron james of the world. this spring we decided to take our talents to libya and so ends what could have been an inspiring riches to even richer story. who could forget the season's humble beginnings with lebron leaving cleveland for miami in an hour-long televised special, then joining his new teammates dwayne wade and chris born to ride on a stage i havea forklift. everyone knew they were destined to win. and personally i'm offended that they were forced to prove it by playing basketball. but of course lebr

anthony weiner. i think he's a great public servant. only anthony weiner can clean this up. >> this democrat told cnn publicly that others told us privately. >> these things hang on like a disease. you can't make this stuff up. tony is the only one that can clear it up. >> earlier in the week weiner came to the cameras but didn't answer questions about a lewd photograph sent from his twitter account. >> can you say why you haven't asked law enforcement to investigate what you are alleging -- >> dana, if i was giving a speech to 45,000 people, and someone in the back of the room threw a pie or yelled out an insult, i would spend the next two hours responding to that? no. >> have you ever taken a picture of yourself like this? >> i have photographs, i don't know what photographs are out there in the world of me. i don't know what things have been manipulated and dock toward, and we're going try to find out what happened. >> reporter: now weiner's strategy, try to completely avoid reporters questions. >

and they don't blatantly lie as anthony weiner did, so specifically. he knew it was a lie, and he just spoke out the way he did, because he says he was embarrassed and he was -- >> he apologized to a few people from the podium. has he apologized to you yet? >> he apologized to everybody, he didn't apologize to me directly, specifically, didn't call me up or anything like that, and he doesn't have to. but i think to our viewers, though, a lot of people were watching, here in the united states and around the world, he went on television, he should have just kept his mouth shut and not said anything rather than blatantly going out there and lying. but he was arrogant, and thought he could get away with it, as he himself now acknowledges, and he made a huge, huge mistake. >> you've seen people resign or be fired over very serious financial impropriety. and so on, or criminal activity. this raises this whole issue of political misbehavior against political life or life in high office. what's your view? you've seen them come and go over the years? do you act

>> well, certainly it was a challenge to anthony weiner. and let's not forget that the congressman told luke russert that he couldn't use certitude in saying that that photo wasn't him which, of course, raised a lot of eyebrows, meaning is this behavior more extensive than anthony weiner is willing to cop to? and if so, what were his methods? >> i've been critical of him in some other contexts, the shirley sherrod story for one. but on this story, did he do anything wrong? >> i don't think he did. i think he went with the news. and clearly the story blew up. >> up to the point where he apparently was showing this picture to opie and anthony. >> he was in the video. let's explain to people, opie and anthony have a satellite radio kind of a raunchy show. breitbart said he was not going to release this. it's a naked picture of weiner below the waist. sort of a frat-room atmosphere. i take him at his word that nobody is going to snap a picture of the picture. >> well, then he's never been involved in that show before because that's just the sor

what's the future for anthony weiner now. >> anthony weiner has to ask himself a basic question, why am i still in politics after this? he's been in the house for 13 years right now. he's had two goals in the house. the one that's existed the whole time is to be mayor of new york city. he ran in 2005 was all set to run in 2009 and he's been running for 2013. i don't think many people in new york believe it after this he's a serious, viable candidate. >> i do. i do, yes, for mayor. i'm just one and i'm not a new york voter. >> the case against a viable candidate for mayor is simple. the new york democratic establishment doesn't like him. he's only at 20% in the polls right now. you've got six other options in new york. the new york media's not going to let this go. the second issue, the second reason he's been in congress is to be a tv star. which he's emergencied as. part of that is part of his strategy to run for mayor in 2013. his base in new york the blue collar voters. he's expanded that base appealing to man hat tan liberals, liberals in brownstone brooklyn. it's a successful co

anthony weiner is an ex-congressman. weiner announced his resignation yesterday saying the distraction caused by his online sexting scandal made it impossible to continue his work. >>> and congress could vote next week to cut off funding for u.s. military operations in libya. angry lawmakers say the president should have gotten congressional approval before committing u.s. forces to the nato air campaign. >>> the barefoot bandit is expected in seattle, washington, today. 20-year-old colton harris-moore is expected to plead guilty to criminal charges as a fugitive, charged with stealing cars, boats and planes. colton harris-moore earned his nickname by going barefoot during some of his escapes, captured in a stolen boat in the bahamas last july. >>> security questions raised in texas after a prank at dallas ft. worth international airport. reporter jack fink of ktvt has the story. >> reporter: for most travelers airports aren't a fun place but this video posted monday on the website vimio shows two guys having some fun la

congressman anthony weiner, from just about an hour and a half ago. wolf, we just got some video in. i understand this is the congressman leaving that senior center in brooklyn heading home to his apartment. let me ask you your thoughts on the very quick four-minute statement he made. was this inevitable? >> it wasn't necessarily inevitable, but certain the democratic her, the minority leader now, but other democrats, including good friends of his, they were pressing him, saying you're really hurting the party right now. lied medicare, for example, and they pressed him really hard. there were suggestions not only would there be a full-scale investigation, but may they would strip him of america, remove all of his authority, all of his power there. the pressure was enormous although a lot of his stids, according to the polls, and with random -- they wanted him to stay. >> think appeared to be quite forgiving. when you hear some from members of congress, it wasn't necessarily the inappropriate pictures, wolf. it was the lying. it was the lying time and

the fact section anthony weiner is a bad guy. he is a psycho. when this came out, i was not surprised at all. i would watch him in interviews and watch him on television. i would hear what he had to say. and you could see he was like a boiler ready to explode. >> trump not mincing any words. let's go to jack. he has the cafferty file. >> you may think they enough about anthony weiner. but you would be wrong. it took the congressman, anthony weiner, more than a week to admit he lied about sending these pictures of himself to this college kid in seattle. and that he's carried on in inappropriate online exchange was a total of six women. interest only took a few minutes during that news conference to tell us all he is not going to resign. he should. house minority leader and fellow democrat nancy pelosi announced there will be an ethics investigation. not that those ever mean much. ask charlie rangel. ae whether weiner used government resources. if lying is considered unethical i would hardly think an investigation is necessary. that's the crux of

i sympathize with anthony weiner. i know he's going through torment like virtually no other, but his greatest sin from the perspective of the public was not being truthful at the moment of crisis. what that showed unfortunately was a flaw in his judgment, in his belief, up to that point that he could somehow continue to deceive and i think that, as it goes back to congressman chaffetz's point, that trust and bond has been broken, that additional time, not just by the behavior, but by the additional lie on top. >> i think you benefitted from that to some degree coming out early and then, look, the question is going to be, i think it is going to be a matter daves now. you see the pressure that is being put upon him, we're not going to get to the ethics investigation. >> let me ask you about that. your point is exactly right, you also are an attorney. do you think that he has broken the law? an issue that sort of has been lost in the haze of this. >> not based on anything we have seen so far. based on anything we have se

anthony weiner is a man alone today. facing an ethics investigation ordered by his own party leader and the man with more than 63,000 twitter followers and more than 47,000 friends on facebook cannot find a friend in washington or new york. at his cringe-worthy news conference, weiner says he doesn't think he violated he house rules. >> i don't see anything that i did that violated any rules of the house. i don't see anything that i did that certainly violated my oath of office to uphold the constitution. >> nbc's luke russert covers capitol hill and interviewed anthony weiner last week. politico was at the congressional congressman's news conference in new york. welcome both to you. maggie, first to you. let's talk about the news conference, itself. describe the room and what went on when andrew brightbart took the podium. >> he took the podium in fairness at request of reporters who wanted him to be able to address everyone in unison and freely. he was surrounded by cameras after a few of us noticed him. there was real

. >>> congressman in crisis, the latest twist in the twitter scandal surrounding anthony weiner. >>> and pachyderm panic, two wild elephants go on a deadly rampage in southern india. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. welcome to our viewers across the nation, including the pacific time zone. i'm lynn berry. today, we begin with the sizzling spring. across much of the nation, the heat is on. the soaring mercury from texas to new england already has many hoping these temperatures aren't foreshadowing a summer season that's still weeks away. nbc's kurt gregory reports. >> reporter: with temperatures soaring into the 90s, new yorkers are trying to beat the excessive heat. >> my apartment is as warm inside as it is housed. -- outside. >> reporter: but the extreme heat can also be deadly. five possible heat-related deaths have already been reported in three states. and cooling centers for the elderly are open in st. louis and chicago, where health safety workers are going door to door checking on senior citizens. >> do they have an air condition, do t

weiner, no. apparently not. you know who anthony weiner makes me have more respect for? bring him on. bring him on that. guy. remember him? remember the guy who was like we used to have pillow fights in the navy. i just like to go actively hug men. huh? that guy. that guy at least had the common decency when he knew the jig was up. he was like okay. got me. i resign. today, i have more respect for this man than anthony weiner. it is -- may i show you where we put the bar? okay. right about here. this is where the bar is. right about here. yeah. okay. all the way down. thank you. that's where the bar is. about 400 feet beneath my hand is where the bar currently is. in our country. this guy is one of the most arrogant men i have seen. you know when the doctor says hey, finish your antibiotics. why do they tell you to do that? if you don't. this is what the doctor never told us and now we figure out with the superbugs. if you don't finish the antibiotic it makes the bug stronger and then you have a herculean virus running around killing everything and nothing stops it. i'm

a lot of calls for anthony weiner to resign amid the sex scandal. new scantily clothed pictures of the congressman. they were reportedly sent to one woman. our senior correspondent is going through all of this. what's the latest, dana? >> the latest today is that the white house has hagued in for the first time and a the president feel s weiner's behavior was inappropriate and that his dishonesty was inappropriate. he did not answer the question whether or not he should resign. leaders here in congress, the fellow democratic leaders are not doing that. they dropped a the hammer on him over the weekend. nancy pelosi, the dnc chairman also member of congress in a coordinated message saying publicly, you've got to step down. but still a democratic source i spoke to after that said even then, weiner was saying he's on the fence about whether or not he's going to resign we've been reporting since last week that he was ready to talk to his wife about whether or not that's the right thing to do. he says he wants to look his wife in the eye before he decide