Anthony Weiner Responds in 'GMA' Interview: Is It Him In Twitter Photo? — Transcript

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1. 0:00now to Congressman Anthony Weiner who's
2. 0:02facing a big image problem as you know
3. 0:03right now he says he did not send that
4. 0:05lwd photo from his Twitter account over
5. 0:07the weekend so who did our John Carl
6. 0:10went one-on-one with the congressman and
7. 0:11he joins us now good morning John good
8. 0:14morning Robin well Anthony Weiner is on
9. 0:16an allout media blitz trying to put this
10. 0:18controversy behind him he says the whole
11. 0:21thing has been one big
12. 0:23hoax for a controversy over a single
13. 0:26tweet it sure has stirred up a frenzy
14. 0:29Anthony Weiner had his name on a photo
15. 0:31sent everywhere he can't say for sure if
16. 0:34the image of a man's underwear is him or
17. 0:37not this is so bizarre plenty of
18. 0:40material for late night Comics as a
19. 0:42comedian this is slam dunk ween her name
20. 0:44ween her picture where's my check now
21. 0:46finally 5 days after a photo of a man in
22. 0:49bulging Underpants was sent from
23. 0:51Weiner's Twitter account to a young
24. 0:53college student in Seattle the
25. 0:55congressman sat down with us hoping to
26. 0:57put an end to what he calls all the
27. 1:00ractions it was a hoax it was someone
28. 1:02sending a picture of a weener on
29. 1:03Weiner's account it's one of the jokes
30. 1:05I've been getting since I was 5 years
31. 1:07old just tell me definitively is that a
32. 1:09photograph of you we're trying to find
33. 1:11out this where that photograph came from
34. 1:14and whether it was manipulated whether
35. 1:15part of it might be from something that
36. 1:18that was in my account I got to say it
37. 1:19sounds I mean if somebody had a picture
38. 1:21of me my underwear I think I would know
39. 1:23it was a photograph what if it was a
40. 1:25picture of you that was manipulated that
41. 1:26wasn't a picture of you or was taken
42. 1:28from your account or put into your
43. 1:29account
44. 1:30what if it was a picture of yours but
45. 1:32let me let me ask you but I'm I'm here's
46. 1:34here's here's all that here's all that I
47. 1:36can do is it I I said let's try to
48. 1:39figure out who how what this how this
49. 1:42Prank Went Down how we make sure it
50. 1:43doesn't happen again you could call
51. 1:45Twitter and ask them right to find out
52. 1:47like that one of the things that we've
53. 1:48one of the things that we've asked this
54. 1:49this firm to do who's going to have an
55. 1:51internet an internet privacy firm kind
56. 1:53of come in and try to figure out what
57. 1:54happened but let's see what they come up
58. 1:57with do we really want to have the
59. 1:58taxpayers pay for a big investigation of
60. 2:00that I think not pressed on why he
61. 2:02hasn't even reported the incident to the
62. 2:04authorities Weiner's trademark sarcasm
63. 2:07comes through are you going to
64. 2:08investigate let let me that's that's
65. 2:10question number one and and I and I
66. 2:12believe that I get to the bottom of I
67. 2:13believe that I I answer that question I
68. 2:15think it's one who really need to get
69. 2:16the bottom of it's much more important
70. 2:17than a lot of the other issues work on
71. 2:18it's definitely a four or five day story
72. 2:20don't you agree late yesterday weiner
73. 2:23started tweeting again he sent out a
74. 2:25message to his followers apologizing for
75. 2:27all the unwanted attention although
76. 2:29Robin there is one bright side for
77. 2:31Anthony Weiner and all of this he has
78. 2:33added 10,000 more followers since the
79. 2:36controversy started I'm not sure if
80. 2:37that's a bright side or not there John
81. 2:39but he never really answered your
82. 2:40question what is the status of of a
83. 2:43possible investigation well right now it
84. 2:45looks like they're absolutely is no
85. 2:46investigation the Capitol Police are not
86. 2:48looking into it weiner hasn't asked for
87. 2:50a formal investigation as you heard it's
88. 2:52just this unnamed firm that he's going
89. 2:54to have look into it on his own so far
90. 2:56anyway all right I know you're going to
91. 2:58stay on top of it thank you John