Anthony Weiner announces return to politics with bid to become next mayor of New York City — Transcript

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1. 0:05two years after resigning from Congress
2. 0:07due to a lud photo scandal Anthony
3. 0:09Weiner has announced in a video message
4. 0:12that he is running for New York city
5. 0:14mayor weiner had been considered a
6. 0:16lightly future mayor before he
7. 0:18accidentally posted a closeup of his
8. 0:21underpants on Twitter weer then aged 46
9. 0:25denied for more than a week that he had
10. 0:26been attempting to send the photo to a
11. 0:28love interest claim instead that his
12. 0:31Twitter account had been
13. 0:33hacked I'm here today to again apologize
14. 0:37for the personal mistakes I have made
15. 0:39and the embarrassment I have
16. 0:41caused I make this apology to my
17. 0:43neighbors and my constituents but I make
18. 0:46it particularly to my wife
19. 0:48hum I had hoped to be able to continue
20. 0:51the work that the citizens of my
21. 0:53district elected me to do to fight for
22. 0:56the middle class and those struggling to
23. 0:58make it unfortunately the distraction
24. 1:01that I have created has made that
25. 1:04impossible so today I am announcing my
26. 1:07resignation from Congress the
27. 1:09announcement promises to shake up the
28. 1:11race to replace Mayor Michael Bloomberg
29. 1:14though recent polls suggest that weer
30. 1:16faces an uphill battle City Council
31. 1:18speaker Christine Quinn is the leading
32. 1:20candidate to enter City Hall while
33. 1:22nearly half of Voters poed said that
34. 1:25Wier should not enter the race for
35. 1:27mayor