Weiner Page #9

Synopsis: Serving seven consecutive terms, Anthony Weiner, good friends with and political allies to the Clintons, was once a highly respected member of Congress from New York City, he seen as a man sticking up for the every day person. That all changed in June, 2011 when he was forced to resign in disgrace after admitting that he did tweet lewd "headless" photos of himself from his public Twitter account to women he met online, and that it was not the work of a hacker or that the photos were of someone else. At the time, his wife Huma Abedin, herself a key aide to Hillary Clinton, was pregnant with their first child, she who decided to stand by her man. Two years later with Abedin still by his side, Weiner tries to resurrect his political career in a run for New York City mayor. He realizes that he has an uphill battle not only because of the known previously tweeted photos, but that there are other lewd photos from that era that may also come to light during the campaign. Regardless of the 201
Genre: Documentary
Production: Motto Pictures
  Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 8 wins & 52 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
84
Rotten Tomatoes:
97%
R
Year:
2016
96 min
$1,675,196
116 Views


Ugly boy like me

If a never fi

the pretty Benz key

Never quit! Never quit!

Never will. Never will. Never

will, man. Thank you.

Go. Go. Go. Go.

If a never fi

the house pon the sea

Oh Shi would a never waan see

Si mi golden wagon

Well, she became

the poster woman for standing

by your man back in the 90s,

but is Hillary Clinton now

changing her tune a little bit?

Rumor has it the likely

presidential contender's

demanding her top aide Huma

Abedin drop her own

lying cheating husband

Anthony Weiner.

PIX 11's Mary Murphy caught up

with Anthony Weiner

this afternoon. Hey, Mary.

Hi, Tamsen and Scott.

New York Magazine

is suggesting that Weiner's wife

is being asked to make a choice

Hillary for president,

or Weiner as husband.

We tried race walking

with mayoral candidate

Anthony Weiner to get

a direct answer.

Do you think that your wife will

choose to stay with you over

helping Hillary Clinton

get elected president?

Look, I know there's been

a lot of damage done

collateral damage because of the decisions

I've made in my private life...

- You're not answering

the question.

And I'm gonna do the

very best I can.

Do you think your wife

will choose you?

- Can I get my answer here?

- I'm sorry.

But as far as Huma goes,

she's one of the most talented

people I've ever known

in... in public life

And I think anyone who's ever

worked with her knows that.

Do you think they should ask her

to make that kind of a choice?

I really gotta go.

Huma, are you joining

this campaign stop?

I have to leave soon.

You are joining. No?

I have to get on with Philippe.

- Okay, you have to telephone.

- Yeah.

- You know that?

- Yeah.

You know telephones work all

around nowadays.

Be out in the car.

I don't know if it's a good

idea or not.

Like let me talk to Philippe.

I don't have any like,

I have no prep.

- He's gonna be a no.

- But I don't have any prep.

For what? To whom?

The press. Is the press

gonna be there?

I'll give you...

I'll give you some prep.

I'll give you some prep

in the car.

You don't know anything.

Well, I would say you act

like a normal campaign candidate's wife.

I think Anthony's doing an

amazing job.

It's great to be out here.

I said I would.

Do my personal relationships

suffer because of

the superficial and

transactional nature of

my political relationships or is

it the other way around?

Do you go into politics because

it's... you're not connecting

on that other level and... and

did the technology that undid me

allow me to be in touch with people and have

kind of more superficial relationships?

You know, I don't... I don't...

I don't know.

I mean, look, it gets back to

the very premise, you know

politicians probably are wired

in some way that needs...

needs attention,

but I don't, uh, you know

I'm not... I'm not blaming

that for sure.

Um, but I don't...

I think it is...

it is hard to have, uh

it is... it is hard to have

normal relationships.

I've waged a campaign focused

like a laser beam on fighting

for the middle class and those

struggling to make it.

I've published two books

of new ideas.

A 125 of them, in fact, on

everything from restoring

discipline in our schools to creating

a single payer health plan for our city.

Are you gonna do this?

Oh, I thought you were.

I'm not in this ad.

Really?

Do I look like... do I look like

I'm camera ready?

If you are absolutely not

gonna do anything more for

the campaign, then yeah, then...

then there's then... then start now.

You should... you want me to

start, start now.

But if... if there's a chance

you're... you're gonna want to

at some point do it, then let's

go ahead and take that.

And it's gonna take 10 minutes.

We could have been done by now.

It will cause a firestorm,

but this like the first ad

it gets out and I'm in it and

then it's a story

and then we gotta

deal with it and

Forget it. Forget it.

Let's just drop it.

Like, why is that worth it?

Ah, let's go.

I just think it's a huge risk.

Alright, ladies, thank you.

Anthony.

And action.

I've waged a campaign that's

focused like a laser beam

on fighting for the middle class

and those struggling to make it.

Powerful voices made it clear

from the very beginning

that they didn't want me to get

to... to... to...

It's really apocalyptic

right now.

I'm not really sure

if the sun's gonna continue

to rotate around the earth.

Hello, my name's Anthony Weiner.

Want a chicken? Every pot.

Powerful voices have made it clear from the

very beginning they didn't want me to win.

But this isn't about

what they want.

They've gotten their way

for far too long.

If you give me the chance,

I will fight

for you and your family

every single day.

Good?

Cut.

Okay.

Honey, I'm gonna leave.

Leave a few minutes after I

leave before you leave.

'Cause someone might think

you're married to me.

Don't worry.

Do you think Huma will come out

on the campaign trail

between now and election day?

Will she be by your side

on election night?

I don't know. I mean, you know, I'm...

I'm walking a fine line.

You know, you have, as a

reporter, you have

an appetite for

the Huma side of the story.

I want to talk about issues

important to the middle class

and the issues that

citizens care about.

Fair enough, but Huma was

a key part of your roll out.

She spoke on your behalf

quite passionately

the moment the second

wave of scandal.

The media didn't put Huma into

this. You and Huma put Huma...

- I know, you're asking,

where she'll be in the future.

And I answered your question.

Did you want to come

with or not?

Yeah, I'm... I'm on the way now

but it's on the day

books for 9:
30.

He... he's saying...

he's saying don't?

Philippe said that?

Okay. Alright. See you soon.

Here, let me handle this one alone.

I gotta go upstairs alone.

I'll... I'll...

I'll come back down.

It's my last race.

Running finally, y'know...

It's my dream to run for mayor,

and...

I also want him

to see us together.

We'll do it later. We'll...

we'll... I... it'll be fine.

Alright, give me a kiss.

iPad? Alright, Jordan

do you want to get in the

stroller or you wanna walk?

Stroller? It's all wet.

Did you say all wet?

You wanna push? Okay.

Hey, I've got a fairly brilliant

idea. What if I say this?

You know, they... they lost my

name in the... in the books.

They can't find it, so we've

been running around

trying to figure out

how to fix it.

What if I just say

at 9:
30 work on

Huma's schedule unfortunately

she has a work conflict now

and she couldn't do it, once we

had this de-delay, you know

we had this delay because of the problems

at the Board of Elections?

What about that?

Okay. Uh, it's a... it's...

it sounds like a duck.

Hi. Alright,

I'll talk to you later.

Beep, beep, coming through.

Beep, beep, coming through.

Josh, you're killing me, buddy.

Josh, get out of the shot.

Josh, get out of the shot.

Anthony, you seemed pretty upset at the

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