WeinerGate Confession - Anthony Weiner FINALLY Tells The Truth! — Transcript

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1. 0:10thank you very much for being here and
2. 0:11good
3. 0:12afternoon I'd like to take this time to
4. 0:14clear up some of the questions that have
5. 0:16been raised over the past 10 days or so
6. 0:19and take full responsibility for my
7. 0:21actions at the outset I'd like to make
8. 0:23you clear that I have made terrible
9. 0:24mistakes that have hurt the people I
10. 0:26care about the most and I'm deeply sorry
11. 0:30I have not been honest with myself my
12. 0:33family my constituents my friends and
13. 0:36supporters and the
14. 0:38media last Friday night I tweeted a
15. 0:40photograph of myself that I intended to
16. 0:42send as a direct message as part of a
17. 0:44joke to a woman in Seattle once I
18. 0:47realized I had posted to Twitter I
19. 0:48panicked I took it down and said that I
20. 0:50had been hacked I then continued with
21. 0:53that story to stick to that story which
22. 0:55was a hugely regrettable
23. 0:57mistake this woman was unwittingly
24. 0:59dragged begged into this and bears
25. 1:00absolutely no responsibility I am so
26. 1:03sorry to have disrupted her life in this
27. 1:05way to be clear the picture was of me
28. 1:08and I sent
29. 1:10it I'm deeply sorry for the pain this
30. 1:12has caused my wife
31. 1:14hum and our
32. 1:17family and my constituents my friends
33. 1:20supporters and
34. 1:22staff in addition over the past few
35. 1:24years I have engaged in several
36. 1:25inappropriate conversations conducted
37. 1:27over Twitter Facebook email and
38. 1:29occasionally on the phone with women I
39. 1:31have met
40. 1:32online I've exchanged messages and
41. 1:34photos of an explicit nature with about
42. 1:36six women over the last 3 years for the
43. 1:40most part these Rel these communications
44. 1:42took place before my marriage though
45. 1:44some have sadly took place after to be
46. 1:47clear I have never met any of these
47. 1:49women or had physical relationships at
48. 1:51any
49. 1:52time I haven't told the
50. 1:58truth and and I've done things I deeply
51. 2:05regret I AV pain to people I care about
52. 2:07the most and the people who believed in
53. 2:14me and for that I'm deeply
54. 2:16sorry I apologize to my wife and our
55. 2:21families as well as to our friends and
56. 2:24supporters I'm deeply ashamed of my
57. 2:26terrible judgment and
58. 2:28actions
59. 2:30i' be glad to take any questions that
60. 2:31you might
61. 2:38have