Breitbart hijacks Rep. Weiner's press conference — Transcript

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1. 0:02Um, I'm here. Coincidentally, I just
2. 0:04arrived at Laguardia because of media
3. 0:06requests and as I got into my hotel.
4. 0:10I'm Andrew Breitbart, by the way. Um, we
5. 0:13reported this at big government and uh,
6. 0:15big journalism and I'm here
7. 0:17coincidentally. I did not know that they
8. 0:18were going to be announcing this, so I'm
9. 0:20just staying at a hotel about three
10. 0:22blocks away. So, I just decided to come
11. 0:24by and see what he had to say. So, how
12. 0:27positive are you that
13. 0:32specifically?
14. 0:34Specifically, I mean that we're
15. 0:36reporting a lot of things here such as
16. 0:38at first I think we were vindicated at
17. 0:40first after a three-day frenzy of trying
18. 0:44to attack um my journalism, my websites
19. 0:47on the nature of the the initial hack
20. 0:50story. Everything that we reported was
21. 0:52true in that story. We didn't get into
22. 0:55conjecture. We didn't name the girl yet.
23. 0:57Salon.com and uh Joan Walsh uh I think
24. 1:03uh played the role that Congressman
25. 1:05Weiner wanted was to try and attack the
26. 1:07messenger. And she falsely claimed that
27. 1:09I had uh named the girl in Seattle. That
28. 1:13wasn't true. And also said that I had
29. 1:16savaged the girl savaged the girl in
30. 1:18Seattle. In fact, that was Gawker. Um
31. 1:21once it was found that it was Gawker,
32. 1:23not me. There's no apology from uh from
33. 1:26salon.com. This was all an attempt. The
34. 1:28strategy in the first weekend was to try
35. 1:31and say if we attack Breitbart uh then
36. 1:33by the time we get to Tuesday it will no
37. 1:35longer be there.
38. 1:46Yeah, that's strange to me as well. I
39. 1:49don't have any answers tool. I'm here
40. 1:50also to get some answers as well.
41. 1:54Uh this is a coincidence that we'll be
42. 1:57able to be as straight and honest with
43. 1:58you as humanly possible. I was there on
44. 2:01Friday night at around 7 or 7:30 with my
45. 2:03wife when I looked at my iPad and I saw
46. 2:06that somebody retweeted something from
47. 2:08his account. I clicked on it. I looked
48. 2:10at the image and I maybe I'm dense or
49. 2:12something, but it took me uh about 14 15
50. 2:16seconds to go, what could this possibly
51. 2:18be? And I was like, oh, I know exactly
52. 2:20what that is. And uh what what happened
53. 2:23is is um
54. 2:27uh we realized that we had a tip in our
55. 2:31tip box that had that had come
56. 2:33previously. uh that that that came on
57. 2:36May 20th where where a person uh
58. 2:40representing this woman said that that
59. 2:43they had some incriminating photos. And
60. 2:45so it was on that evening that I tried
61. 2:48to contact that tipster. I was able to
62. 2:51contact that person's point person on
63. 2:53Saturday. The person was out of uh range
64. 2:56because of uh Memorial Day weekend. We
65. 2:58weren't able to talk until Tuesday. we
66. 3:01weren't able to uh agree upon anything
67. 3:04and then on Friday uh the woman uh
68. 3:07reached out to me this just this last
69. 3:09Friday. I have yet to meet her. Um I
70. 3:12have yet to meet her and this has been
71. 3:15independently corroborated uh the the
72. 3:17content that uh was put on the website
73. 3:20by a major news bureau. So the release
74. 3:23of the photos today is here this sir.
75. 3:25The release of the photos today just in
76. 3:27an effort to clear your own name. Well,
77. 3:29no, this is an ongoing story. This is a
78. 3:32compelling story, but I I certainly did
79. 3:35not like that uh he doubled down on the
80. 3:38this is about Breitbart uh problem. I
81. 3:40mean, if he's going to come up here and
82. 3:41take some form of culpability here, he
83. 3:44was party to a campaign for 72 hours
84. 3:47that weekend to allow for the left-wing
85. 3:49blogosphere, including the Daily Cause,
86. 3:51to accuse me of being the hacker. Um, is
87. 3:54there are there any repercussions for
88. 3:56journalism on the left uh when they
89. 3:59falsely claim that I'm the hacker?
90. 4:01Marcos Malitzis of uh uh the the Daily
91. 4:04Cause will not apologize. In fact, he
92. 4:07admitted that he named the girls the the
93. 4:09the the underage girls because they had
94. 4:13the wrong politics. At what point does
95. 4:16Meet the Press say, "We're no longer
96. 4:18going to allow Marcus Malitzus on the
97. 4:19air?" Why is there no accountability for
98. 4:22an entire weekend of false reporting
99. 4:24that was based upon what I believe was
100. 4:27Congressman Weiner's strategy to blame
101. 4:29the messenger?
102. 4:32Carrie Picket.
103. 4:38I'm not going to uh get into a graphic
104. 4:41description, but to suffice to say it's
105. 4:45of an Xrated nature.
106. 4:50Mr. I'm not here to I'm not here to get
107. 4:53into what his uh what how Congressman
108. 4:56Weiner should respond to this. My my
109. 4:58biggest pro, you know, I'll talk about
110. 5:01this later for another time. I'm here to
111. 5:03answer some of the basic questions.
112. 5:05Everything we've reported about this
113. 5:06story has been true. Mr. Why did you put
114. 5:09this on the web in the first place? What
115. 5:10were you trying to achieve?
116. 5:13Well, it's it's clearly a news story.
117. 5:14Why are you trying to challenge a a
118. 5:16blatant news story when look we
119. 5:21Okay, we received a tweet that showed
120. 5:24that came from his official Twitter page
121. 5:27sent out to a woman in Seattle. We did
122. 5:30not go with the story until after we saw
123. 5:33that the that the congressman took down
124. 5:35all of his photos and uh the the woman
125. 5:39in Seattle took down her Facebook
126. 5:41account and her uh her Twitter account.
127. 5:44And even worse, uh he went to his
128. 5:47Twitter page to claim that he was
129. 5:49hacked. We only wrote the story after a
130. 5:51sitting congressman claimed that his
131. 5:53computer system had
132. 5:55invaded by a hack by a hacker. If if if
133. 5:59that if that if that if this if this
134. 6:02isn't how is this revenge for how is it
135. 6:06revenge? The story played itself out in
136. 6:09real time. There was no there was zero
137. 6:14premeditation involved in this. This is
138. 6:16a legitimate story and this is a
139. 6:18continual attempt to blame the messenger
140. 6:21and that's what this press conference
141. 6:23is.
142. 6:26Uh there's at least one more there's at
143. 6:28least one more photo. How long have you
144. 6:31had any other?
145. 6:34No. No, I don't. I don't I'm not sitting
146. 6:37back with a cash. This h this process
147. 6:41happened absolutely organically as it
148. 6:44relates to my motivations and and my
149. 6:46website's motivations. Do you think we
150. 6:49should resign? I don't I don't have an
151. 6:51opinion on that. That's for for uh him
152. 6:53to decide and and his constituency and
153. 6:56the Democratic leadership. Can you
154. 6:58reiterate what you were saying? To those
155. 7:00who say that your journalism here is
156. 7:01suspect what to those who accuse you
157. 7:04that your journalism is somehow suspect
158. 7:06here. What do you tell those folks? Oh,
159. 7:09well, uh, the Acorn story is interesting
160. 7:12because everybody says selectively
161. 7:14edited, selectively edited, selectively
162. 7:16edited. And when Hannah and James came
163. 7:18to me, I said that the mainstream media,
164. 7:20they didn't come to me because I have a
165. 7:22big uh satellite van out in front. I had
166. 7:25a basement in Los Angeles. Why did they
167. 7:27come to me? They knew that the
168. 7:28mainstream media wouldn't want to see a
169. 7:30story about President Obama's vaunted uh
170. 7:33community organizing group behaving in
171. 7:35such a nefarious fashion. They came to
172. 7:38me because I had to figure out a way to
173. 7:39go around the president's protectors in
174. 7:42the mainstream media and I did. But I
175. 7:44told them, "You're going to be held to a
176. 7:46different standard." And James put his
177. 7:48select his edited videos. Okay? He
178. 7:50truncated time just like every person in
179. 7:54this room does. But I said, "What we're
180. 7:56going to do is we're going to put the
181. 7:58full transcripts and the full audio of
182. 8:00these visits uh so that nobody suspects
183. 8:03that you cut these things up to put
184. 8:05words into their mouth."
185. 8:09I I I have no intention at this point to
186. 8:11to to release that photo. What are you
187. 8:13waiting for? I'm not waiting for
188. 8:15anything.
189. 8:18What do you want to hear from? I I have
190. 8:21I I want to hear the truth. I want to
191. 8:23hear the truth from Congressman Wer.
192. 8:25Quite frankly, I'd like an apology for
193. 8:27him being complicit in a blame the
194. 8:29messenger strategy. That was clear what
195. 8:31happened. 72 hours in Palm Springs with
196. 8:34your family is excruciating when you are
197. 8:37being challenged. Andrew, why aren't you
198. 8:39on vacation? Why won't you get off the
199. 8:40phone? Because I'm being accused of
200. 8:42being the hacker against a congressman.
201. 8:45He said nothing. He allowed for that to
202. 8:47go. His minions perpetuated that false
203. 8:50malicious meme and then he went on CNN
204. 8:53to attack me. I feel I feel he was
205. 8:55complicit.
206. 8:58What? Yeah. Are you you're Marsha,
207. 9:00aren't you?
208. 9:06Uh you you can talk the the girl uh
209. 9:09story I believe will be on World News
210. 9:11Tonight and I think she'll be available.
211. 9:13she can talk to uh you more specifically
212. 9:16about the the ways with which she
213. 9:18received this uh these photos. She's the
214. 9:21one who is attesting to the fact that it
215. 9:23came from Congressman Weiner. Uh I've
216. 9:26seen it. I've seen a lot of this
217. 9:28congressman's body uh at this uh and uh
218. 9:32he he's he's in very good shape. Uh and
219. 9:36uh it it it appears to be his body.
220. 9:41I know. With all due respect, why should
221. 9:43we believe your story? Okay. I
222. 9:46Everything that I've said so far has
223. 9:48come to be true. I'd like to hear one.
224. 9:50The media says Breitbart lies. Breitbart
225. 9:52lies. Breitbart lies. Breitbart lies.
226. 9:55Give me one example of a provable lie.
227. 9:57One.
228. 9:59One. Journalists. One. Put your
229. 10:02reputation on the line here. One
230. 10:04provable lie.
231. 10:08Do you know what I would be accused of
232. 10:09if I if I released this photo?
233. 10:12I'm doing this to save his family. Okay?
234. 10:15And if this guy wants to start fighting
235. 10:17with me again, I have this photo, but I
236. 10:20absolutely do. I'm not doing this for
237. 10:22nefarious purposes. I'd like an apology
238. 10:24from him for allowing for his political
239. 10:27protectors, which he this was his
240. 10:29strategy was to blame me, to blame me
241. 10:32for hacking. Oh, don't worry.
242. 10:33Breitbart's our regular whipping boy. We
243. 10:36can accuse him of anything and the press
244. 10:38will not hold those journalists to
245. 10:40account no matter what they say. And so
246. 10:42I'm here for some vindication.
247. 10:52I'm not saying I'm looking No, it's not
248. 10:54dependent upon that. It's It's not
249. 10:56dependent upon that. I'm trying to do
250. 10:57the decent thing here. I'm trying to do
251. 11:00the decent thing here and not release
252. 11:02the photo.
253. 11:04If this guy decides to start attacking
254. 11:06me and saying that I'm making all this
255. 11:08stuff up like he did uh last week and
256. 11:11and he wants to to fight with fire. I
257. 11:14mean, come on. This it's it is news, my
258. 11:17friend. It is what it is. And I know of
259. 11:20countless other websites and news
260. 11:22organizations that would put this out
261. 11:27there.
262. 11:34Excuse me.
263. 11:39You know what? I I'm trying to put the
264. 11:41piece I'm trying to put the pieces
265. 11:42together of this myself. I mean, you
266. 11:44know, it's not as you know, Friday of
267. 11:47Memorial Day and I've been sick for much
268. 11:49of the last uh week and a half. Uh I get
269. 11:52this tweet sent to me. It was also sent
270. 11:54to Ariana Huffington. The person who saw
271. 11:56this tweet initially, Patriot USA76, a
272. 12:00person I have no idea who it is, wanted
273. 12:02me to see it. I happen to see it. I
274. 12:04chose to investigate it. It took us
275. 12:06about four hours with an editorial team
276. 12:08to finally realize that we had the sto
277. 12:10the story down solid and that the uh
278. 12:13that the hack story really made it a
279. 12:15very relevant news story that wasn't
280. 12:17getting getting into it for the sake of
281. 12:19the sorted nature of the story. I would
282. 12:22verify the photograph. If the person who
283. 12:24sent it to you is someone that you don't
284. 12:26know that Well, you're going to have to
285. 12:28ask that question of uh ABC News as
286. 12:31well. Uh this we we both did. It was
287. 12:34sent by his emails. We've seen that they
288. 12:36came from his email account. Uh so if
289. 12:40he's sending stunt doubles, uh you know,
290. 12:44that would be very interesting. But it
291. 12:46certainly looks like him.
292. 12:50Apparently the one that
293. 12:52with which person? There's two these are
294. 12:55two separate issues. They're completely
295. 12:57separate issues. Okay. One is the
296. 12:59Patriot one who saw the initial tweet
297. 13:02which apparently came from his tweet
298. 13:03deck. I think we found out that the Wro
299. 13:07uh hacking potential has been, you know,
300. 13:09so nobody's really doubting that that
301. 13:11came from him. So that was the story
302. 13:13that happened on May 27th. We're talking
303. 13:15about the story that's happening now
304. 13:17with this woman who is planning to come
305. 13:19forward to talk about this. She can get
306. 13:21into the the specifics about their
307. 13:24relationship and the the exchange of
308. 13:26photographs between them.
309. 13:38I I I find the the the hacks uh story
310. 13:43specious, especially since he doesn't
311. 13:44want to get to the bottom of it. Why is
312. 13:46it the person who's been accused of
313. 13:47being the hacker, me, wants an
314. 13:50investigation? Why is it the person
315. 13:51who's been hacked and who thinks I'm to
316. 13:53blame for his peril doesn't want an
317. 13:55investigation? That's some basic math
318. 13:57that that I think you guys all
319. 13:59understand that I'm allowed to speculate
320. 14:02uh you know when I'm being accused of a
321. 14:04crime. Uh I'm allowed to speculate. I
322. 14:07think that uh he's the one who has more
323. 14:10questions to answer than I do.
324. 14:12That's enough. Thank you very much.