sydney leathers is now 23. her friend says she never slept with anthony wiener or took money from him but he did offer to help her get an apartment in chicago and suggested he visit her. at one point she told the wieaner asked her quote, do me a solid and hard delete all our chats. >> so randi, i know you didn't find her in indiana. any idea where she might be? >> well, wolf, the guy we spoke with for our story today, the guy we interviewed said sydney leathers is hoping to make money on this dirt. so it's likely she's far from her with that story of hers. he told us that she hired an agent that told her she could make as much as $100,000 for selling her story. wolf, she's not the only one it seems looking to profit. we spoke to another woman, a friend of hers who worked at that tanning salon with her. she didn't want to go on camera but asked if we would pay her if she did go on camera. we told her no. wolf? >> of course not. randi kaye reporting. >>> up next, what's in the name? what britain's new prince will

we'll tell you all about sydney leathers next. >> she initially contacted him through twitter, said sheas a fan. i assume that based on how beautiful young lady sydney is, anthony weiner had no choice but to act on his instincts. [ male announcer ] this store knows how to handle a saturday crowd. ♪ [ male announcer ] the parking lot helps by letting us know who's coming. the carts keep everyone on the right track. the power tools introduce themselves. all the bits and bulbs keep themselves stocked. and the doors even handle the checkout so we can work on that thing that's stuck in the thing. [ female announcer ] today, cisco is connecting the internet of everything. so everyone goes home happy. [ female announcer ] today, cisco is connecting the internet of everything. >>> before we begin the show i want everyone to turn off their cell phones. it has nothing to do with our program. we just want to protect you from anthony weiner. he may try to send you a text. >> so yesterday anthonyogized a ready to move on and yeah, take it from me, it's just that easy. >> of course late night comedia

sydney leathers is now 23.repared says she never slept with anthony weiner or took any money from him. but that he did offer to help her get an apartment in chicago and suggested he visit her. at one point she told the website the dirty.com weiner asked her, quote, do me a solid and hard delete all our chats. randi kaye, cnn, princeton, indiana. >>> to the aaron hernandez case. as another grand jury investigates him the patriots' head coach talks about the former player and the tattoos under scrutiny. does the nfl have the right to weed out players because of their body art? we talked to one former player who is also an attorney. it starts with little things. tiny changes in the brain. little things anyone can do. it steals your memories. your independence. ensures support, a breakthrough. and sooner than you'd like. sooner than you'd think. you die from alzheimer's disease. we cure alzheimer's disease. every little click, call or donation adds up to something big. really? 25 grams of protein. what do we have?

we'll shed light on the question with anthony weiner, who is sydney leathers?>> plus caroline kennedy set to break through the diplomatic glass ceiling after her nomination as u.s. ambassador to japan. the former first daughter would be the first woman to hold that post. >>> first let's get to michaela, a lot of news this morning. >> breaking overnight officials in northwestern spain believe excessive speed was behind a train derailment that left at least 7 people and more than 100 others injured including 20 who are in critical condition at this hour. one of the cars burst into flames, another virtually snapped in half. rescuers had to pry those doors open pulling bodies out of broken windows. crews or still on scene at the crash site and sadly they expect to find more victims. >>> this morning we learn huma abedin wanted to leave him after learning he had sectioned another woman after resigning from congress. friend tells cnn she decided to stay in the relationship because of their young son. weiner's resisting calls to quit the new york mayoral race despite

now we're hearing from sydney leather.he story. >> our former ainnchor, jim mor managed to get this interview with sydney leather. i've gone through it. it's pretty blunt what she has to say about anthony weiner. they go through all sorts of history and jim does a good job pressing her. let me play a little clip. it underscores her disillusionment with the former congressman. >> i felt manipulated. >> why? >> because obviously i felt like he's saying one thing to me, saying another thing to his wife, saying another thing on the campaign trail. i don't know who the real anthony weiner is, i guess. >> so she's obviously talking right now. we've got more clips. jim is going to join us in the situation room the next hour. i want to find out more about this relationship, how long it lasted, what her role was in the whole thing was. so there are some good questions. jim more himself a lot of light. >> she sheds a lot more light on this relationship. we're getting it first here on cnn. wolf blitzer, thanks so much. great to have

her name really is sydney leathers.her that or brenda hot pants. >> michael: you can also see weiner being interviewed and saying i didn't believe her name is sydney leathers. >> yeah, here is a great name. exactly, carlos danger. that has had a negative effect on the generally nice, sweet, and reserved thomas roberts from msnbc, who had this to say on national television. >> i am proof that you have not changed. >> this chick is so [ censor bleep ] bat -- you know what. excuse me. >> yeah, can you believe it. that she is so crazy about "the war room" -- >> michael: right. >> they couldn't say that on television. >> right. it's amazing how much play we're getting and nobody can say it. >> it's -- it's crazy, but i don't know. this whole thing has got me -- in the interview, sydney leathers also went on to say that -- that she and -- and anthony weiner are no longer continuing conversations together, and that she has a person has moved on to greater endeavors, which may or may not include an adult video, where she does n

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>> according to sydney leathers, she had this relationship with him for six months.ght around the time when "people" magazine ran the photo piece showing anthony weiner and his wife and new baby saying all of this was behind him, he was a changed man, he was a good husband, his wife had forgiven him and he had learned his lesson. and within a matter of days after that article came out, he began this relationship with sydney leathers. >> let me play one more clip from your interview. watch this. >> so at what point did it break off and why? >> there wasn't really a specific reason why. and neither one of us ever really officially ended it. it just kind of started to fizzle out. he got a little bit controlling with me towards the end. >> reporter: how so? >> he would tell me that he would be jealous. he would look at my facebook frequently and he would tell me he would get jealous if other men would compliment me and just little stuff like that. >> did she say how the relationship ended? >> she said that -- it was interesting. she posted on facebook something from the

. >> sydney leathers, only 23 years old is the latest woman to come forward.isa exchanged ex police sieve e-mails in 2010, 2011. lisa, when you heard the latest revelations, what was your reaction? were you surprised to find out that anthony wiener kept sexting long after he resigned, long after the two of you had cut off contact? >> well, i'm still very torn about the way i feel about the whole thing. to me, you know, i really -- i think there is kind of a fine line. i'm still in the sure if i feel as if this is cheating. i mean, there are a lot of politicians that had actual affairs and paid prostitutes and, you know, to me this is a very weird thing. i think it's like a very new thing that people aren't used to with the internet. i'm -- i was surprised he was still doing it. i think he moved to an adult site, which i think is maybe better than twitter and facebook, because that's maybe where this talk belongs. >> lisa, listen to what sydney leathers told "inside edition." she was one of the woman that was sexting with him long after he resigned from congres

sydney leathers is breaking her silence. and did much more. also he told her he loved her and that he consulted with her before deciding to run for mayor of new york. leathers giving much more insight than we've heard before on those online chats. listen here. >> i felt manipulated. >> why? >> because, obviously, i felt like he's saying one thing to me and saying another thing to his wife and saying another thing on the campaign trail. i don't know who the real anthony weiner is, i guess. he is an argumentive middle age aed man and at the time i was like, oh, no, you're not. but, yes, he. is. >> let's talk more with this from a chief correspondent of "inside edition" and spoke exclusively with sydney leathers in that interview. jim, you sit down with sydney leathers and you kind of go through her entire story and all these interactions. what was your big impression of her? what was the big take away from the interview? >> i spent about two hours interviewing her. two hours on tape and i really tried to hit every aspect of th

us, we have learned that carlos danger, as he likes to be called, was "sexting" a woman named sydney leathers. >> he actually said that about himself. >> reporter: this is the woman behind the latest "sexting" scandal involving disgraced former congressman anthony weiner. 23-year-old sydney leathers told "inside edition" that she and weiner exchanged racy photos add mess starting in july 2012. >> i felt manipulated. the exact wording was that he is an argumentative perpetually horny middle-aged man and at the time, i was like, oh, no, you're not. but yes, he is. [ laughter ] >> reporter: their online relationship ended after about 6 months. leathers say weiner began trying to control her. >> he would, like, look at my facebook frequently and he would tell me that he would get jealous if other men would compliment me. >> reporter: a similar scandal forced weiner to resign from congress in 2011. he apologize and many of his supporters thought that was the end of it until this week when a gossip site posted the new exchanges. on thursday, he said leathers wasn't his only x-rated penpal. >> i don

sydney leathers? she is the office eye roller. she is the girl who walks by your [cubical|cubicle] and -- your cubical and it doesn't matter what you are doing and she goes -- she has eye roller written all over. >> to be fair, bill, that is the expression everybody including lou dabbs when they walk by your office. >> lou is our eye roller. oftentimes she wears similar things. >> i saw a picture of her in the shower too and now she is trying to blow him up on "inside edition" you [bleep]. joy imo -- >> imogen, i don't agree it is about the wife. it is about a way a man treats marriage versus the way he sees sex or something like that. he wanted a sex bunker. he wanted a sex bunker. >> it is a whole complex. i have a tip for all men out there. listen to me very carefully. never, ever, ever, ever send a girl a picture of your penis. >> danger -- dang it! >> there is a reason "play girl" was only bought by men. it is not attractive to women. therefore we will use that photo to haunt you forever. we will put it on-line and black mail

. >> reporter: the woman is sydney leathers who also identified herself online as sydney elaine xo. we don't know much about her but we know she's very comfortable in her own skin. these are some of the pictures she posted of herself on twitter that have been removed, showing off her new tattoo or new ink and modelling her new bathing suit. with this lounge photo, she tweeted, i would marry my legs, if i could. she posted this picture tweeting, all that i am, big lips, good looks, make up, long hair, boobs and tattoos. how did she meet anthony weiner? through a friend. >> she contacted him through twitter. she was a fan. she said she was a fan. i assume that based on how beautiful a young lady she is, anthony weiner had no choice but to act on his instincts. she loved him but fell out of love with him. the vision she had of him was not true and not the case. >> reporter: the conversations quickly turned from politics to sex. this was the result. dozens and dozens of explicitly messages. >> it's been reported in some outlets it may have been going on for six months. i would say eight

sydney leathers and carlos what? >> danger. you can't make it up.ocking parts were there. the most shocking is that after he left congress, after he said he was going to stop this and he goes and runs for mayor and he has been doing it all during that period of time? >> what is he thinking? >> i have no idea. i never understand anthony anyway. when he was in city council or -- strange guy, really, really strange guy, obviously more troublely than we originally thought. if he had done it once, put time between then and now, straightened himself out, fine. but obviously he still has this compulsion and it's been on going. >> you were mayor and argue ably you were mayor during the most trying time in new york history, can you have these impulse control issues and be mayor of new york city? >> i think he needs help. it's quite obvious that he is crying out for help and the best place to do that is privately, not, you know, running for office. the fact is, that -- i mean, i would oppose anthony weiner whether it happened or not, i think he was a terrible

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cnn has identified her as sydney elaine leathers, and yes that's her real name. there are reports she could go public as early as today. in the meantime we spoke to her confident daniel who spoke exclusively to cnn. >> you don't know that they ever met, but from the chat logs and what she showed you, do you know if they had any kind of sexting? >> absolutely. there was tawdry sexting going on, you can see the descriptions, he apparently has a shoe fetish and apparently a domination fetish, and that -- that was the basis of their relationship. sydney thought the basis of the relationship would be some sort of mutual respect, loving, you know, as idealistic that would have been. >> okay. dana bash is cnn's chief congressional correspondent. she's covered weiner's years on capitol hill before his 2011 resignation, and she continues to wolf him now. good morning, dana. >> good morning, carol. it's not every day that a candidate for public office on the campaign trail reveals he's still in therapy because he has been sending dirty messages on the internet, but that is

that interview with sydney leathers gives us a timeline of events.ting scandal saying, quote, i'm disappointed. well, lo and behold a year later he e-mails her back saying, quote, i'm really sorry i let you down. before you knew it, she says, they were sexting several times a day while humana was out traveling. despite the details, weiner remains in the race. >> a candidate should have moral values. >> reporter: harsh words and even harsher realie for the embassed may i don't recall candidate. his poll numbers plummeting from first to fourth in a new quinnipiac university poll. the surveys conducted after a new round of lewd internet chats were revealed. take a look, the support dropping ten percentage points? just five days from 26 to 16%. >> i'm going to leave this to the people of the city of new york to decide. >> reporter: his vow to stay in the race angering the clintons, a source close to the political power couple tells cnn that her livid with weiner personally, because they care about huma. adding salt to the wound, eliot spitzer trying to r

sydney leathers says she had a 6-month online relationship with weiner. she says she decided to expose him because it was upsetting to hear him tell voters that he had changed his ways. >> i was shocked to understand that he continued to do this. and at that time it was a bit flattering but now it is creepy. >> all of this is taking a toll on his campaign. he lost his first place standing. we have been telling you about that a bomb scare at the bay bridge that schostart-really stalled t. and phillipe djegal is live. what is the latest? >> reporter: yes. we are at third/folsom. it has been busy all weekend long. and from my left and to your right. they are showing that about one of were of go. it was backed up from this area to a sixth street. they had no idea of what was happening and when they learned that there was a suspicious package that was found it made it even more frustrated. one man said that he was inside traffic on folsom for at least one hour! certainly, a very frustrating situation as he was going to walnut creek. but take a look a boat was

sydney leathers, the woman identified as anthony weiner's online mistress gave a detailed account ofually explicit relationship she says she had with weiner online and by phone a year after weiner resigned from congress. he took his campaign to an area hard hit by superstorm sandy, staten island. as weiner presses ahead with his campaign to become mayor.the man who currently holds the office weighed in. >> >>"i said i thought that someone may want to release stuff on their own but it's not -- i believe -- the be all and end all of my campaign. and i want to talk about how we continue sandy relief." >>"conduct like some of these things we've been reading about is reprehensible and- but whether it should impact your voting, that's up to the voters." polls that had put weiner close to or even leading democratic frontrunner christine quinn have shown weiner's support dropping since this latest scandal. the newest survey shows weiner down nine percentage points from june, with quinn now leading weiner 25 to 16 percent. anthony weiner isn't the only politician handling a sex scandal. over

wait until you hear about what she says about sydney leather's interview. the crazy thing about anthony weiner is the guy never met you face-to-face. >> never. >> you had to say this guy is one sick puppy, right? >> totally after the first scandal already happened. >> here with me is star jones, attorney, and national spokesperson for the national association for professional women. star, welcome back. >> so glad to be here. >> anthony weiner. >> oh, please. >> where do we start? it's so bizarre. >> you know, he's one tick away from being a complete perv to be honest if you look on the continuing. he likes young girls, as a matter of fact and doesn't like to be in the room with them but by himself talking to young girls. it's just something really ill about it. i wanted to stop laughing because you don't laugh at people who are sick, so now you start to analyze it. >> what is odd is the utter shamelessness and the new video he posted on his website where he's just cracking on. watch this. >> i know that there are newspaper editors and other politicians that

. >> reporter: his past isn't going to fade from the spotlight anytime soon now that sydney leathers has given an interview about her relationship with anthony weiner. we reached out to the campaign. they had no comment about the interview. mary snow, cnn, new york. >>> to spain and the deadly high speed crash. we have pictures showing the train coming off the tracks and slamming into a concrete wall. the death toll stands at 80 including one american. her son complete add pilgrimage to a holy sight. they are looking into the driver to see if it was going too fast. >>> four women have come forward saying bob made advances toward them including an add miral who ran his finger up her cheek. a college dean says he kissed her and put his hand on her knee. there is a legal process by which all this will be decided. there will be no other statements. >> can you say -- >> the san diego county democratic committee and six members of the city counsel are calling for his resignation. he hasn't been convicted of a felony other than calling a recall election. >>> o.j. simpson making a pitch for

the latest "sexting" scandal behind disgraced former congressman anthony weiner. 23-year-old sydney leathers told inside edition that she and weiner exchanged racy photos and messages starting in july 2012. >> i felt manipulated. >> reporter: leather says weiner described his desire to continue their x-rated exchanges. >> the exact wording was that he is an argumentative perpetually horny middle-aged man and at this time, i was like, oh, no, you're not. but yes, he is. [ laughter ] >> reporter: their online "relationship" ended after six months. leather says weiner began trying to control her. >> he would, like, look at my facebook frequently and he would tell me that he would get jealous if other men would compliment me. >> reporter: a similar scandal forced weiner to resign from congress in 2011. he apologized and many of his supporters thought that was the end of it until this week when a gossip site posted the new exchanges. on thursday, he said leathers wasn't his only x-rated penpal. >> i don't believe i had any more than three. >> reporter: the controversy is having an effect on weine

let's get more from the woman at the center of this latest scandal, sydney leathers, in her exclusivew correspondent from inside edition, jim moret. >> reporter: do you think he's making a mistake to stay with him? >> it's not my place to say that but if i were in her shoes, i wouldn't stay. >> reporter: do you think she can ever trust anthony weiner? >> i don't think it's smart to trust him. >> jim, you spoke to this woman for two hours. did she ever say that weiner lied to her? >> yes, she did. repeatedly she said that. she came to that conclusion. and i think after the interview it started to hit her how big this story was. i don't think she had a sense of the impact that her interview would have on this campaign and these revelations would have on anthony weiner's campaign. but frankly, wolf, you and i were talking just off the air, it doesn't seem to affect anthony weiner at all. and that frankly stunned me. >> why did that stun you? >> you know, the man was disgraced in congress and left, frankly not of his own accord, he was pretty much pushed out. when you look at the poll num

let's take a look at this woman, her name is sydney leathers. i guess that's her real name on "inside edition." here's what she had to say. >> i felt manipulated. >> why? >> because obviously, i felt like you know, he's saying one thing to me, saying another thing to his wife, saying another thing on the campaign trail. i don't know who the real anthony weiner is i guess. i really truly believe that he needs some help. and i'm not saying that in a condescending way. i really think that he has some issues that he needs to work out. and i don't think he's fit to be mayor of new york city. >> when did things turn dark and dirty? >> very quickly. >> who prompted that? >> him. >> so anthony weiner moved your conversation from professional to dirty? >> yes. >> well, that's putting it directly. let me go to kelly on this. you know, i guess i don't like the line of questioning. i guess it's inevitable what happened here. you ask is this guy decent enough to be mayor. today he says once again he's running for mayor of new york. what he wants is a promoti

one of weiner's most recent indiscretions, 22-year-old sydney leathers, sat down with howard stern. >> you had to say to yourself, this guy is one sick puppy, right? >> oh, totally. especially after the first scandal had already happened. >> reporter: and the online porn site thedirty.com, has published extreme, nude images of what it says is anthony weiner, because it says new york deserves better leadership. meanwhile weiner's campaign appears to be shaking down to its very foundation. former intern olivia nuzzi wrote a tell-all expose, alleging that weiner staffers encourage the campaign, only to curry favor with weiner's wife, huma abedin for her connection to hillary clinton. that triggered an obscenity-laced response by weiner's communication director, barbara morgan, basically denying nuzzi's claims. weiner is remaining steadfast. >> quit isn't the way we roll in new york city. >> the latest polling numbers show anthony weiner's support has dropped a full 10% just over the past week, from 26% to 16%. >>> now, to the embattled mayor of san diego, who is going to have to pay his

a woman named sydney leathers has come forward with a salacious story.she tells "inside edition" that she engaged in online phone sex with weiner after he resigned from congress. and she says that weiner consulted her before launching his latest political campaign. >> obviously, i knew he wanted me to erase any evidence of our conversations because that was around the time i knew that he was going to run for mayor. >> so far, weiner is resisting calls that he drop out of the race. during a campaign stop at a soup kitchen, weiner may have stuck his foot even further inside. saying that he may have sexted three women since he resigned from congress. but then, he kept talking. >> it's not dozens and dozens. it's six to ten, i suppose. i can't tell you what someone else is going to consider inappropriate or not. >> just last month, weiner was leading in the mayor's race. but polling done this week before these new revelations, show his numbers have plunged nearly 10 percentage points. >>> there's growing pressure on the mayor of san diego to resign amid sexu

. >> reporter: 23-year-old sydney leather says her inappropriate text and phone relationship with anthony weiner started last summer. she sent him a message after he resigned from congress and a year later he responded. she says the exchanges quickly became x-rateded. >> we were facebook friends so he could see if men were commenting on photos of me and telling me i was pretty or just really minor things like that really bothered him. >> reporter: while weiner has confessed to multiple relationships with women online, he's never pinned down an exact number. yesterday, he gave us a rough estimate. >> it's not dozens. it is 6 to 10 i suppose but i can't tell you absolutely what someone else is going to consider inappropriate or not. >> reporter: weiner says three of those relationships happened after he resigned from congress. during the time, he was reportedly getting therapy. through the first skand an, his wife, huma abadin remained publicly defending him. >> i love him. i have forgiven him. i believe in him. >> reporter: after years in the shadow, the timing of her defense is being ques

her name is sydney leathers and she's a 23-year-old college sophomore.ide edition' to talk about her strange online relationship with anthony weiner - who's now running for new york mayor. ".i think it was kind of a fantasy thing for both of us." she says she first contacted him in june of 2011 after he resigned from congress in disgrace. for sending photos like this - to women online. about a year later she says -- they began exchanging steamy text messages. this is one of the tamer ones. weiner writing: 'what are you wearing? much for me to take off? i'd hold you by the throat." ".i'm disgusted.he's not who i thought he was." as 'disgusted' as leathers now says she is.she was an eager participant. weiner wrote at one point -- 'i've found the perfect woman. gorgeous, sexy and like a bit of crazy.' she replied. '.i basically worship the ground you walk on. you're incredible.' she says she last communicated with him four months ago when he wrote - 'do me a solid. can you hard delete all our chats here?' ".obviously i knew he wanted me to erase all the evi

sydney leathers. she posted regularly about democratic politics and pictures of herself. leathers opened up in april about her relationship with anthony weiner says she loved him but not anymore. >> he manipulated her in a way she believed they were in love and he was going to provide for her in the future. this idea he's reformed or sorry were what he did is not true. he's sorry like every other person who gets their hand caught in the cookie jar. >> she thought she could make a lot of money selling the story. he came forward because another blog put the story out. >>> coming up in the next half hour, we are going to look at anthony weiner's wife, why she stood by his side. >>> to the louisiana coast, a burn on a rig. itis 60 miles out to sea. officials say part of the rig is still intact. not clear what ignited the blaze. the crew was evacuated after a well blowout. no injuries reported. >>> the house voted down a proposal to restrict the nsa phone surveillance. they have been lobbying lawmakers to turn aside an amountment for the spending bill. stop terrorists. however

on thursday, the woman on the receiving end of the latest dirt sweets, sydney leathers, went public, exposing carlos danger, weiner's online alter ego. >> he was making campaign promises. but he had totally changed. he was a better man now and he learned from his mistakes. and i am proof that that is not true. >> reporter: now, weiner is reduced to playing defense. >> sooner of later we get back to the issues that people care about. >> reporter: this morning, weiner's uphill battle continues to captivate and more often disturb. if we look at another cover, this one from "the daily news," where eliot spitzer calls weiner a bad problem. you know this has become a circus. >> when eliot spitzer is criticizing -- >> he's running for comptroller, too. >> susan saulny, thank you for your reporting. we appreciate it. >>> a lot of other news. and as always, for a look at the overnight headlines, we turn to mr. ron claiborne. >> good morning, everyone. a decision could come on the case of bradley manning, allegedly leaking classified documents to wikileaks. now, the military court judge has st

earlier today, sydney leathers, who is his online sexting partner had an interview with howard stern. in this exchange, she gave him a little timeline. the best way to describe it is it's just tmi, too much information about their sexting exchanges. while most is not fit for tv, not to television, we did find a small g-rated tidbit where she's talking to howard stern about anthony weiner sending her lewd photos of himself. >> i was flattered that he trusted me enough to send them in the moment, and also just completely baffled that someone so book smart could be so stupid in life. >> reporter: there's been one bombshell after another. he's been trying to separate himself from all the drama associated with his sexting spree. that's why he's been waking up early, staying up late, hitting the campaign trail. the candidates this morning talked about issues impacting food vendors, the mobile food trucks that sell hot dogs and pretzels in new york city. >> i say to my colleagues, there already are concessions for slenderers in the park. i happen to like the hot dog guy, buying the coffee be

here is what sydney leathers told the tv show "inside edition." >> did you ever say to him that you lovedyes. >> so you told anthony weiner that you loved him in. >> yes. >> did he ever say he loved you? >> yes. >> this comes as weiner says there's even more women he seconded with, but he can't say how many exactly. >> there are a few. i said at the time of my resignation there were six. i can in total there are any more, six to ten, i suppose, but i can't tell you absolutely what someone else is going to consider inappropriate or not. >> six, 10, throw, also threw out the number three. weiner insists he's staying in the race despite a lot of calls to drop out and plummeting poll numbers. >>> amanda bynes' mom is heading to court today to gain temporary conservatorship over her troubled daughter giving her control over her daughter's personal and financial decision. bynes will stay in a psychiatric hospital for two more weeks as doctors evaluate her mental health. >>> a legendary prison goes up in flames. joliet prison was made famous by "the blues brothers" movie, in illinois. a large wa

she's 23-year-old sydney leathers and now she has talked to "inside edition". >> you thought he was a dirty old man. >> he actually said that about himself to me. his exact wording is that he is an argumentative perpetually horny middle-aged man. at the time, i was like, oh, no you're not. but yes, he is. >> well her mother, laura leathers, tells the new york daily news this. god help new york if he gets to be the mayor. you can print that. with the rest of this story, anthony weiner was the front-runner, but there are new polls, i understand? >> yes. the latest marist poll has anthony wean are plummeting from 25% to 16% in the aftermath of the sexting revelations. new yorkers opinions seem to reflect those numbers. >> i think he has proven in the past that he's not to be trusted. you know, his morals, i don't want anyone like that. >> i'm a democrat. i think he should drop out. >> i think he should drop out. >> if he is troubled, he didn't show it last night at a forum when asked if his campaign uses twitter. >> mr. weiner? >> all i can say is, don't ask me. >> weiner is vying to sta

ten days later anthony weiner ask found on a phone having a conversation with sydney leathers, a woman with whom he exchanges unspeakably raunch yir conversations about sex, and then of his penis and his body, as he wove this narrative of recovery. >>rose: and then the story comes out because it was a rocky time in the marriage and there was a relapse. >> that's not what they were telling us or what she said subsequent to that. there's a whole spin here that in retrospect as michael is suggesting is not true and goes to credibility. >>rose: and is that in the end what this is about about lying and hypocrisy, or rather than the sexual act? >> what any race is about for any office is how does the public feel about that candidate? do they trust his or her character? >>rose: it's about character. it's about judgment. love him hate him, like the bikes, don't like the pedestrian plazas, no one questions that mike bloomberg is honest, that he speaks the truth, that his personal life has integrity to it. when you are asking voters to contemplate bringing anthony weiner into office you're askin

wait until you hear about what she says about sydney leather's interview.

>>> plus the woman who was sexting, sydney leathers, did she spill of course to make money off the onlineally come out? >>> then new video of a train derailing in spain. the train may have been going too fast, but was it human error or a mechanical one. this is "cnn newsroom." i'm suzanne malveaux. former congressman anthony weiner pressing ahead with his campaign for mayor of new york. he is resisting now calls to drop out of the race because of his latest sexting scandal. new poll shows him falling out of first place. that's right, weiner was back on the campaign trail today, visiting a non-profit group in brooklyn. things however you see him in the kitchen getting a little hot. he couldn't escape more questions about the lewd e-mail exchanges. we'll bring iny

apparently sexted with, after her identity was reported by a number of news outlets, 23-year-old sydney leathersnt of a camera for an interview with "inside edition." her name and face are officially public now. and that means her life is going to be changed forever. and this is the part of these sorts of scandals we don't ever fully address or appreciate. story always goes something like this. part one, powerful man engages in sexual indiscretion. part two, can said men be forgiven and resurrect his career? there's another side to every powerful man's sex scandal. the usually not so powerful women who also involved and exposed. we talk about whether anthony weiner and eliot spitzer can redeem themselves and reclaim their careers, we don't think in the same terms about whether the women involved in their indiscretions get a chance to rebuild their own lives. my next guest has a unique perspective. she went through the whole new york city tabloids a year ago, after writing a piece about having been a sex worker. that piece caused her to lose her job as a teacher in the bronx. joining me, melissa

sydney leathers is her name. i'm huge, can i tell you is what he told her. leather says he never did get her that condo. doug mckelway is live in the d.c. newsroom. what else did she have to say. >> told the daily male that weiner could get her a pass to the democratic national convention and get her a job at politico. she says when he sent pictures of himself she was goat less than impressed. those and many other revelations about the mayoral candidate's private behavior have led to a firestorm of condemnation much of it from within his own party. >> the issue here isn't about his relationship with his wife. the issue is about his relationship with the voters. he is twice deceived them, lied about his activity and why would you repost trust in someone who did that i think he is delusional at this point and doesn't understand the situation. >> the clintons, according to the "new york post" are also upset that yuma be a dean is modeling her loyalty to her husband on hillary's loyalty to bill in the aftermath scandal. the clintons are distancing themselves fro

let's take a look at this woman, her name is sydney leathers. i guess that's her real name on "inside edition." here's what she had to say. >> i felt manipulated. >> why? >> because obviously, i felt like you know, he's saying one thing to me, saying another thing to his wife, saying another thing on the campaign trail. i don't know who the real anthony weiner is i guess. i really truly believe that he needs some help. and i'm not saying that in a condescending way. i really think that he has some issues that he needs to work out. and i don't think he's fit to be mayor of new york city. >> when did things turn dark and dirty? >> very quickly. >> who prompted that? >> him. >> so anthony weiner moved your conversation from professional to dirty? >> yes. >> well, that's putting it directly. let me go to kelly on this. you know, i guess i don't like the line of questioning. i guess it's inevitable what happened here. you ask is this guy decent enough to be mayor. today he says once again he's running for mayor of new york. what he wants is a promoti