Weiner Page #5

explicit online chat have surfaced..

On the nightlife site..

- "The Dirty."

- "The Dirty."

Thedirty.com

Looks, looks

a little bit like

he got it caught

in a waffle iron.

Like a series

a series of,

series of paint swatches.

I believe that last color

is called public humiliation.

It was not just sexting

or text messages.

They spoke on the phone too?

Multiple times daily.

The timeline here

is absolutely crucial.

Uh, very crucial. He resigned

from Congress in June of 2011.

A little more than

two years ago.

So, when yesterday,

this emerged..

...It was a problem.

He did this big sweet spread

with his wife

and his newborn son

the same month

that he told the world

"I really feel

like a different person."

Turns out, it was true

he was a different person

because he sent these penis

shots under the screen name..

Carlos Danger.

- Danger.

- Danger.

Carlos Danger.

I assume it was to avoid

using a ridiculous name

like Anthony Weiner.

Can we get that clip up

of Huma standing alongside..

There is a victim

of spousal abuse.

Spousal abuse.

It is sickening to watch this.

She looked

completely despondent.

Her face was looking away.

She was shifting on her feet.

He's humiliated her

over and over again.

Uh, what does it say

about a husband

who lets his wife do that?

Power, lust, personal gain

and that's all the two

of them want.

They don't care

about anything else.

There was clearly

a calculation made

that Huma being there

was going to be crucial

to how people saw him, saw it,

saw their marriage.

If Anthony Weiner's

mayoral campaign

is gonna be saved tonight,

it's gonna be saved

by his wife Huma Abedin.

Ah, not great.

Not great. You know.

Javier at the Times tried to

nail me down on that question...

I don't really know the answer

to which is...

"When did it cut off?"

You know?

But she...

This girl has this narrative...

has this timeline that I don't

have any way to check with or know.

Sh*t!

Okay. Alright, well, call, call

me when you have a chance.

Alright, bye-bye.

I need to follow up with him.

I just want to look at the questions...

...and talk to you about how

you wanna answer those.

So the answer to, "Were people in the

campaign other than Huma aware?"

- Okay.

- No? Then..

"Had there been multiple online

exchanges with multiple people..."

"...or was it just this one?"

Can I just say multiple people?

Or is it just this one?

I think you've got to,

I mean, there was more than one.

So, I think, I think we've got

to answer the question.

Uh, okay.

Problem was that, that

series of interviews that I did

when I got in the race

were after this.

And people asked me

is the number still the same.

I think I said to, six to

Dominic and then I cleaned it up

in subsequent interviews 'cause

I knew that was a problem.

Now, the question is,

do we answer it or not?

I think we have to answer

these questions.

I think we have to answer it

because if somebody else

comes out and we don't...

- So, okay. So then you'll give

them an answer.

So I'm going to say...

- Yes.

Um..

...It was more than one.

"Do you believe you're suffering

from any sort of addiction?"

Um..

...I was asked

that question during the..

We gotta get all of my interviews

and he's gonna ask, uh-uh-uh-uh..

He said now.

He's answered

this question before.

I think I answered in the

New York Times magazine's story.

I did. I did. I answered.

Yeah, you said no.

I think you can say,

"I think, I think Anthony

"touched upon this in the,

in the "New York Times"

magazine profile."

You don't have to answer right

at this moment, so...

No, I'm giving you the answer.

You showed me a thing with the question.

And I'm trying to give you an answer.

Why do you keep saying...

- I thought, I thought

you were thinking about it.

I thought you were trying...

No, I'm talking words.

"What's the strategy moving forward?"

is his other one.

Um, it's whatever the answer

was when I got in the race.

I think it's,

it's something that..

I don't know.

What's the strategy going forward...?

Um..

It sounds stupid to say this

but yeah, these are people

you know, you're friends with,

you know, your, you know..

...you're in the...

you know, you're

tonight you're like

pen pals with.

And, um, it was connecting

on such a..

...superficial level,

it was almost as if..

...It's almost as if I was,

you know, playing, you know

had a... a, I'm playing a video

game, you know?

Um, you know, people would

reach out to me

and we'd start just chatting

and then, you know

sending e-mails back and

forth, or Facebook, whatever

or something that goes

in a different direction.

Someone says you're amazing

and sending me a naked picture

and I respond to it.

I had a blind spot about it

and that blind spot

was a pretty big one.

Now, I want to stress,

this is verbatim.

This is exactly

what went back and forth

between Congressman Weiner

and the blackjack dealer

from Las Vegas, Lisa.

And if you'll start us off

with Lisa's first line.

"Are you as passionate

in the sack

as you are about politics?"

"Baby, you'd be crawling

for the door

to prevent me

from f***ing you silly."

"Nice!

Just what I'm looking for.

I wanna bang the future mayor

of New York City."

"Making me hard."

Parsing language is clearly

not the right way to go.

And that was a mistake

on my part.

The level of guilt

and pain and..

That I feel, you know, I'm very sorry

I put everyone in this position.

It's gonna continue

a little while..

Hi.

It's gonna continue

a little while longer.

But I, you know,

generally think scandals

you cry and crisis management

has a 72 hour window.

After the 72 hours, it's not on

the lead of Drudge anymore.

We're gonna try to look normal,

like we're holding together

as a group.

It's gonna be rough

for a little while.

Where we really are is back

to where we were on day one.

All that being said

I want to give you a chance

to, to, to either vent

or to ask me questions.

I think that my team is in

a better place than I'm in.

I'm in a very bad place

to be very frank.

I'm extremely frustrated

at your lack of clarity with me

in the innumerable conversations

that we had leading up

to me joining the campaign.

Um, I have not made

any decisions

about what I'm doing

or what I'm not doing.

As of this moment, I am here.

I'm in this room

and I'm in this campaign.

- Okay.

- I think we can continue this conversation.

Okay. We'll continue it.

Amit. You guys should talk directly,

the two of you.

What are you, the referee over

there? Okay.

No, I'm just saying, I mean,

it's Amit. He's like family.

No, I know,

but I just wanted to see if there

might be things that other

people might want to say like

"Yeah, I'm... I'm there too

and.."

I'm, I feel

um, and I think some of us

have been frustrated

with feeling like we're left

in the dark, not even about

you know, the actual... situation

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