so andrew breitbart, my guess is that -- i know andrew, i have a feel for how he would take this. it's an open press conference at the sheraton. i could walk in there, any tourist could walk in there. my guess is he was intending to challenge anthony weiner. >> that is a safe guess. >> that is what others are reporting. when he started to get questions from the media around him that it was the media there that suggested why don't you go to the microphone so he could all hear him? >> ironically it was actually a wcbs news reporter that was threatened by arrest by wiener's office last week who suggested that breitbart go to the podium to be easy to see him. >> and it was going to be a lot more fun. >> it was certainly a little less scarey. but it was definitely spectacular to watch. i mean that in every sense of the word. he literally high jacked the ballroom. we kept watching the door to see if anthony wiener was at the door. it was among the most spectacular bits of plirtical theater we've ever seen. we've seen a lot in new york. >> this is the place, by the way, just re-elected t

what now, since andrew breitbart showed up and we are all standing by to watch., it has come and gone and you are confirming that we should be seeing the congressman and as i take a sneak peak, still no sign of anthony weiner. mary snow, is she still on the phone? mary snow, to you, if you can hear me, if you can just sort of describe the feeling in the room. >> reporter: he walked into the back of the ballroom. there are dozens of reporters here and cameras here waiting for this news conference and andrew breitbart walked in and started asking him questions. >> you're saying it's members of the media who said, go ahead and speak? >> reporter: yes. because he walked in, reporters had surrounded him in the back of the room, cameras, everybody was asking him, why was he here? that this was -- in a way, it was for congressman weiner and some members of the press suggested that he go up to the podium since it was already set up. he walked up to the podium and started taking questions from the press. and when you saw -- it was a thing where he walked up and started an

television trying to understand or see that their news conference has been hijacked for now by andrew breitbart. we have not seen weiner but i saw someone running down the hall saying breitbart is here, tell weiner's people, so take that for what it means, wait to see if breitbart leaves and the target, if that is the word, the man he has been reporting about on his website, comes forward with his explanation. >> the photos, at least one, in addition to the one that has been lighting up the internet as we speak, was bright bart saying there were others? that he was holding back? >>guest: yes, yes, he does. he says he has published the photos that similar to photos that caused chris lee to resign immediately and said he is holding back a very explicit photo and he made that clear and he said he is doing that for one reason, to "save his family." so obviously this leaves little to the imagination what the potential photo could be and bright bart says it is not extortion or blackmail but he wants an apalm joy from the congressman who basically accused him of hacking and has an explicit photo he is

> we first learned about the twitter photo by congressman anthony weiner by a website run by andrew breitbartte. but weiner admitted it was true. that was breitbart's vindication. >> i want to hear the truth from congressman weiner. >> andrew breitbart has six websites whose goal is to hold the main stream's media to the fire. he got their attention when he posted this infamous picture of congressman weiner on biggovernment.com several days ago. >> this is a prank, a hoax. >> weiner dismissed it claiming his account was hacked. on monday, he admitted that it was a lie. >> i apologize to andrew breitbart and other members of the media i misled. >> breitbart took the stage before the apology to say he had been right all along. >> we were vindicated at first after a three-day frenzy to attack my journalism. >> he has the ability to not just break news but to insert himself in the news and drive the conversation with him at the center of it. not only did his website get credit for breaking the story, he was a central component in the story by challenging representative weiner's story. in this cas

as a journalist andrew breitbart engages in only the highest of jinx.ortunately, opie and anthony's jinxes are of a much lower quality. >> during the interview, they asked me if they could see it. i said well make sure you don't show it to anyone and jim norton said there aren't any cameras here. and so i felt very comfortable that knock, you know, bad would happen with it. >> stephen: he was assured that there were no cameras. and look at this footage of him with opie and anthony. i don't see any cameras there. and they're shooting him pretty close. if there was a camera-- camera there i think we'd see it. he did not know the photo would get out. look at that face. it's so innocent. (laughter) >> stephen: and how humiliating for andrew breitbart to have his private photo of anthony weiner's private parts just slash-- splashed out there on the internet without his consent. >> and i for one cannot believe opie and anthony betrayed his trust. what happened to the sacred tradition of confidentiality between respected journalist and shock jock? (laughter) >

>> reporter: earlier in the day more compromising photos of the congressman were posted on andrew breitbart'stive website biggovernment.com. soon after, congressman weiner's office scheduled a news conference. as reporters waited for the congressman, a surreal atmosphere took hold when blogger breitbart showed up at the event and took to the podium. >> i want to hear the truth. i want to hear the truth from congressman weiner. i would like an apology for him being complicit in a blame the messenger strategy. >> reporter: breitbart was looking for vindication, saying left wing blogs accused him of hacking congressman weiner's twitter account and it was not true. when the congressman appeared, he did apologize to breitbart, the media and his constituents for misleading them. he admitted communicating inappropriately with six women over a three-year period through e-mail, facebook and twitter. the congressman was most emotional when talking about his wife, choking up several times. >> look, my wife is a -- my wife is a remarkable woman. she's not responsible for any of this. >> reporter: congres

apologizing to andrew breitbart. puts his credibility into the tank this is a guy bashing republicans, conservatives for the democrats. is he not going to be able to do that anymore. that's responsibility. but ultimately it's the voters. the difference with chris lee is chris lee was a new guy in congress. nobody in this town knew him. people in the district didn't know him. >> bill: so what? >> this guy, when you stop and think about anthony weiner, the american people know him. he has been around. he has a record. >> bill: all right. you had massa, the guy who was tickling guys or some stupid thing. he had to leave. look, i will give you one thing, juan. weiner did stand up and take the beating. >> he did. >> bill: all right. >> it wasn't with kids. this is about pornography and powerful, famous men taking advantage of this new medium continue to dulg their sexual fantasy. >> bill: juan says no resignation. you say? >> as a matter of honor, he should resign. he lied for a week. he lied everyone to, his standoff, hi

wiener press conference featuring andrew breitbart. i have to say in my 23 years as a journalist i have never seen anything like this. >> 23 years. >> maybe when we were doing "good morning toledo" and that dog started humping the leg. >> that was wacky. >> he denied it. >> you said if breitbart was a left wing then sean penn would have played in the movie. i am just said that if there were a movie he is probably too old to play wiener now. >> i was trying to come up with somebody. i think he played bad ronald. >> yes, he used it as a tool. it doesn't -- doesn't it look at all like wiener, but he is just a tool. >> he has the same self-satisfied thing going on. >> you noy he takes pictures of his chest. there is a correlation between hairlessness and creepiness. men who like to take off all their hair tend to be creepy. >> not always. >> what are you saying 1234*. >> nothing. >> just above the belt is okay? >> just above the belt? >> i'm sure there is somebody out there who is not a creep who does that. >> i don't know about that. >> i

(laughter) and i have a followup, are you ready to apologise to andrew breitbart. >> apologized to andrew breitbart. >> stephen: wow that was fast. and well, you should congressman, breitbart has taken flack for using misleading editing in the acorn pimp scandal, the shirley sherrod scandal and the npr scandal, but after this he is one for four. (laughter) and always-- (applause) >> stephen: and as always, breitbart was gracious in victory. >> it is news, my friend, it is-- it is news. i'm here for some vindication. >> stephen: you got it, andy. (laughter) >> stephen: i think it is time to admit not only is this a valuable member of the press, i would go so far as to say this is the edward r. murrow of congressional wang photos. and i tell you, folks, this whole sordid, sad delicious and sadly delicious sordid saga just reinforces what i've always said. democrats don't share our values. an elected official is tweeting dirty photos of himself to strange women who he never meets for sex? (laughter) come on! at least republicans chris lee was trying to get some action. (laughter) republican

the congressman only mentioned andrew breitbart in passing today. >> i apologize to andrew breitbart. apologize to the many other members of the pedia i misled. >> sean: joining me with reaction author of the best new -- sorry, excuse me while i save the world. andrew breitbart is here. not often that a journalist gets -- we have to start at the beginning. i'm watching fox news today. we got all the cameras waiting for the congressman to come out. and all of a sudden you are holding a press conference at his podium. how did that happen? gentleman is first of all, i had no idea i was live on television. i arrived in new york at a hotel, five blocks away. a reporter said i can't interview in our set interview. because of this press conference. weiner's press conference? i just walked five blocks, walked into the ballroom. a gaggle of reporters ed me, 40, 50 of them started asking me questions. and said they couldn't hear me. >> sean: including marsha kramer who was involved in the story. >> she said get on the stage i thought they meant get on the stage because the microphone would make

>> bill: the guy who broke the weiner story andrew breitbart has been savagely attacked for doing. so mr. breitbart will be here. caution, you where to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. do you want the federal government to give you stuff? i will deal with that question in the talking points memo which tonight will be in our third segment because we are packed this evening. all right? first up, we have brand new political poll and it's very interesting. according to an abc "the washington post" survey. presidentpresident obama's bouns gone. spiked to 56% after bin laden was killed but now it's back down to 47%. 49% disprove of the president's job performance. perhaps the most important data in the polls, whether the country is heading in the right direction a whopping 69% of americans say they are dissatisfied the way washington is working. just 30% say they are happy with the federal government. who are those people? now, that's very bad news for president obama. here

one reporter was going to ask are you going to apologize to andrew breitbart. einer did. what breitbart was saying was he wanted vindication because wade boggs had been accusing him of hacking anthony weiner's twitter account and he didn't do it. that's why he wanted to get some vindication. >> because only days ago weiner had insisted his account had been hacked someone else had sent this picture. he didn't know who the picture was, he couldn't say it was him or somebody else. but he flatly said he did not tweet that picture to that young college student in washington state. now we know not only did he do that but he was engaged in other inappropriate tweeting and e-mailing and facebook with other young women. >> and we all remember your interview with him last week, a lengthy interview where he said repeatedly over and over again that he did not do this. and there was a lot of disbelief in his answers. then for him to come out today and say it was all a lie and there were six women over a three-year period that he had been communicating with, either on faceboo

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everybody knows the man who broke the story, blogger andrew brithney goodwin has -- andrew breitbart has a more graphic photo of the weiner peener, but he's not going to release it because he's a good guy. >> i have this photo, but i'm not doing this for nefarious purposes. i'm trying no do the decent thing here. i'm trying to do the decent thing here and not release the photo. i'm doing this to save his family, okay. >> stephen: that is called ethics, folks. and today this good man cemented his journalistic credibility by appearing on america's most trusted name in news, the "opie and anthony" radio show. he bravely resisted their request to show the photo. >> we'd like the see the photo. >> you want to? >> stephen: i'm sure you want to, opie and anthony. too bad this man has staked his reputation on the moral choice to keep this private for the man's family. >> that's the famous... >> that's the real one? >> stephen: okay. he didn't resist for long, but you got the think, that thing is burning a hole in his pocket. speaking of which, here's the photo. [audience reacts] it's a littl

according to broussard, a friend got her in touch with andrew breitbart who shared her identity with abc news. >> i choose to investigate it. it took us about four hours with an editorial team to finally realize we had the story -- the story down solid. >> is this about politics for you? >> no. >> do you dislike anthony weiner? >> no. >> do you think he's a bad guy? >> no, i don't think he's a bad guy. i just think he's got issues. >> today the congressman did something most people never have to do, he apologized in front of the national media, especially to the person he says he hurt the most, his wife, who's an aide to secretary hillary clinton. >> she made it very clear she thought it was very dumb and was not happy about it but she also -- and she's very disappointed. she also told me that she loved me and wanted us to, you know, pull through this. >> for "nightline," i'm chris cuomo in new york. >> the fallout from another political sex scandal, thanks to chris cuomo for that. >>> just ahead, it's a world famous diet familiar from the best-seller list but could it carry previous

andrew breitbart said he felt, quote, vindicated after he had been accused of hacking into weiner's twitterccount. weiner apologized to breitbart yesterday saying it came from a tip before the infamous feet last week. it comes after a week of denying that he sent that tweet in several interviews with the media. >> i can't say with certificate tud, my system was hacked. pictures can be manipulated. this has turned into this international who done it. what it really is, i think, is a prank. i'm treating it like a prank. >> let's remember this twitter picture in question is a hack or a prank that someone posted on my twitter page with someone else's name. the photograph doesn't look familiar to me, a lot of people looking at this stuff on my behalf are cautioning me that stuff gets manipulate. >> it's been a week of denying it, weiner said he was embarrassed and that's why he lied. chuck schumer was one of the few lawmakers to offer a little sympathy to the congressman. in a statement, the senator said, by fully explaining himself, apologizing to all he hurt and taking full responsibility for

andrew breitbart flashed the image on his cell phone. >> one of the images cap twhurd was on andrew breitbart'sm. it's a race to see who could tweet the picture the fastest. andrew breitbart is not happy with us right now. >> he said he did not intentionally go against his word to tweet that photo. here's what he said on the arena. >> my website refused to publish this photo. they admitted they took it surrepetitiously. they did it without my knowledge even said there were no cameras there. >> he got the photo roo their a woman claims he sent it to her. >>> checking international headlines, a phone-hacking scandal expands in britain, among the latest victims, kate middleton and tony blair. max foster has the low down from london. max, tell us what this is about. >> this story is complicated, long running. not to mention it was mentioned in parliament. the prime minister suspected it for the first time. prince william suspected his aides' phones were hacked. the news of the world ended up in prison. and since then, there's been a whole host of other accusations of phone hacking, involving the ne

as for andrew breitbart, breitbart took the podium before weiner's news conference and explained what he did. he said his goal was try to expose hypocrisy. >> in listening to him break up, how humiliating, i can't imagine a more humiliating thing than to do than that press conference. he made his bed. he will have to lie in it. it was sad. he's got -- he has a problem for the democratic party right now, because, you know, if he steps down, -- if he stays, i mean, he has got serious problems. >> reporter: breitbart said he is withholding an explicit photograph to save weiner's family. weiner had been considered a top contender for mayoralty of new york next year. he could be in for a tough race. says he intend to seek re-election. it asked if he intend to cooperate with the house ethics committee and he said he would. bret? >> bret: eric shawn, thank you. last wednesday, congressman weiner brought in several journalists for what appears to be an unsuccessful attempt at damage control. according to congressman today, bald-face lying. fox news was invited. here is some of the conversatio

he put hit in e negative but it's the same thing. >> rose: and andrew breitbart said he would release fit congressma weiner apologized. to him, i guess? >> and congressman weiner did. it was a surrealistic thing. even as breitbart yielded the stage to weiner he stayed in the room or came back in the room so at one point the colloquy between weaner and one of the other reporters about bright bart and bright bart said "i'm here. i'right here." he's taking the hh road and wh anew breitbart c take the high road he's delighted to do it d he's able to take the high road and say "i don't want to release this photo." he said he would if weiner continued to deny it. i don't think breitbart will frontly-- if you'll pardon the pun-- release this photo. he might give it to someone else who releases it. someone else might release it. but now under these circumstances he will stand pat with the situation and not put the photo out. >> rose: i have the feeling this photo will get out. it's too delicious-- sorry-- but someone is going to sell it. don't forget, someone received it and if he or she get

when andrew breitbart took this, we took the name we could and we did everything we could to make sure this was right. >> was it difficult to talk megan broussard into sitting in front of a camera with you? >> it was very difficult. she was afraid. she's a single mother. she's struggling to go to school. she has a kid, a young kid. she's afraid of the power of the system against her. and what we were trying to tell her is if this matters to you that you didn't like that he was lying about this, that you think there are a lot of women out there, you're worried that he'll make them bad guys, you have to step up and you have to trust us that we'll protect you because we have to become your advocate if you're telling us the truth. >> but she played along with weiner. she sent him a picture of herself in a bra. she didn't say much negatively about him. he's not a bad guy. he's got issues like everyone else. she didn't come off as a victim. >> she's not a victim. she's afraid of being a victim of the cover-up. if there were repeated denials, then anyone who became involved would have to some