Anthony Weiner Involved In Scandal — Transcript

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1. 0:00new york mayoral candidate anthony
2. 0:02weiner has admitted sending explicit
3. 0:03messages to a woman two years after he
4. 0:06left congress over a similar affair
5. 0:09an unnamed woman told website the dirty
6. 0:11she had an online relationship with the
7. 0:1348-year
8. 0:15old last year
9. 0:17mr weiner who has been leading polls of
10. 0:19democratic mayoral candidates said he
11. 0:22was very sorry
12. 0:23in 2011 he said his twitter account was
13. 0:26hacked but then admitted sending lewd
14. 0:29photos to young women
15. 0:31flanked by his wife huma abedin at a
16. 0:34press conference on tuesday in new york
17. 0:37he apologized while reading from a
18. 0:38prepared statement
19. 0:40he also said he would not drop out of
20. 0:42the city's mayoral race which will be
21. 0:45decided by voters in november
22. 0:47three of his rivals immediately called
23. 0:49on him to stand aside
24. 0:51horrible mistakes
25. 0:53mr weiner told reporters this behavior
26. 0:56is behind me
27. 0:58i've apologized to my wife huma and i'm
28. 1:01grateful that she has worked through
29. 1:03these issues with me and that i've had
30. 1:05her forgiveness
31. 1:06i want to again say how very sorry i am
32. 1:09to anyone who was on the receiving end
33. 1:10of these messages and the disruption
34. 1:12that this has caused
35. 1:14he said some of the latest reports were
36. 1:16inaccurate but refused to go into detail
37. 1:20ms abedin then took to the podium and
38. 1:22said our marriage like many others has
39. 1:25had its ups and its downs
40. 1:28it took a lot of work and a whole lot of
41. 1:29therapy to get to a place where i could
42. 1:31forgive anthony
43. 1:33she continued anthony's made some
44. 1:35horrible mistakes both before he
45. 1:38resigned from congress and after
46. 1:40but i do very strongly believe that it's
47. 1:42between us and our marriage
48. 1:44i love him i have forgiven him i believe
49. 1:47in him she added
50. 1:50carlos danger
51. 1:52briefly taking questions after the
52. 1:53statements mr weiner admitted that some
53. 1:56of the online activity in question had
54. 1:58taken place as late as summer last year
55. 2:01the woman at the center of the latest
56. 2:03allegations has said they began
57. 2:05exchanging messages in july 2012 and
58. 2:07continued for six months
59. 2:10she said she was 22 years old when they
60. 2:12made contact on the social networking
61. 2:14website form spring
62. 2:16the woman claimed mr weiner had used the
63. 2:19alias carlos danger for their racy
64. 2:21exchanges
65. 2:22i was young and dumb the dirty quoted
66. 2:25her as saying
67. 2:26i just want people to really know he's
68. 2:28lying when he acts like he has changed
69. 2:32mr weiner has previously said he should
70. 2:34not have denied posting lewd photos on
71. 2:36twitter in 2011
72. 2:38he said he only did so because he wanted
73. 2:40to keep the truth from his then-pregnant
74. 2:42wife who is a former advisor to hillary
75. 2:45clinton
76. 2:46she gave birth to the couple's son
77. 2:48jordan later that year
78. 2:51mr weiner will find out how damaging his
79. 2:53latest conduct has been in september's
80. 2:55primary elections when democratic voters
81. 2:58decide if he or one of his rivals should
82. 3:00represent their party in the mayoral
83. 3:02race
84. 3:03he is not the only disgraced politician
85. 3:05aiming for a comeback
86. 3:07two weeks ago former new york governor
87. 3:10elliot spitzer who resigned in 2008
88. 3:13after admitting to paying for sex with
89. 3:15prostitutes announced his candidacy for
90. 3:17city controller