who is any group for anthony weiner of people that can't be nominated? lly two brackets, there is the one who will inherit the nominee -- the romney vote and then you have the wackadoo wing, the rand paul types. look, mitt romney took eight months to vanquish those guys, it took him forever. mark: who could be nominated right now? who would you put on the list? anthony: i can't get into the skin of the caucus voters, and i assume it they have an identity crisis. i don't see any reason why rand paul can't be nominated, and if you're going to try to get millennials off of the sidelines and get them around libertarian views on pot, it might not be the bad way to go. mark: and technology. anthony: and the weird fashion and that he wears. john: among the ones that we know, which of them to you think would be the toughest opponents to the presumptive democratic nominee, hillary rodham clinton? anthony: i mentioned rand paul because i think there is some genius and potential to this idea that appeals to this whole group of people that are on the sidelines. for t

coming up anthony weiner is talking and why he is sticking it to some people these days. john: our guest tonight is anthony weiner and we're discredited talk about your borough and my borough, and talk about that. anthony: i wept myself to sleep last night about it. we arrested gaggles of people, but i understand why de blasio did it, he has this notion that he wants to be a spokesman for the person, a party guy, and it is not the end of the world. a beat new york is not the best place in the world, we don't need it, and we are not that kind of city, so i am not that broken up about it. mark: right now, who do you see as a possible likely republican nominee? anthony: there are really two brackets, there is the institutional bracket, and then you have the wackadoo wing, the rand paul types. look, mitt romney took eight months to vanquish those guys, it took them forever. mark: who could be nominated right now? who would you put on the list? anthony: i can't get into the skin of the caucus voters, and i don't see any reason white rand paul can't be nominated are -- nominate

. >>> disgraced former congressman anthony weiner is getting all sorts of attention on social media once again. why a governor's office ordered him to keep his pants on. >>> disgraced former congressman anthony weiner is once again getting atepgt for his online postings. >> this time he took aim at new york's governor referencing last month's decision to shut down transit for a blizzard that wasn't as bad as everything was thinking. he tweeted, "sunday's going to be cold. governor cay." the governor's office wasn't having any of it. a spokesman for andrew cuomo tweeted back "yes it's going to be cold. good reason to keep your pants on." that's of course a direct shot at weiner who was involved in a sexting scandal in 2011. >>> the first person claiming to have won a piece of that massive powerball jackpot has come forward tonight. barbara harrison is here in the studio with more on who appears to be a very lucky and deserving lady. barbara? >> reporter: deserving is right jim. her name is marie holmes and she's just 26 years old. she says she's still trying to wrap her mind around the fa

. >> i learned from this video, bill, that a selfie stick has nothing to do with anthony weiner it wasn this sense. >> i don't understand that reference. >> i think we have established president wants young people to sign up for obamacare thus he goes on buzz feed and does that mcguirk, ever been to montana? >> no, no i have not. >> big sky state. beautiful state. >> yep. >> terrific in the summer. in the winter, unfortunately, it averages 14 below zero. but anyway in montana, apparently they have a lot of time on their hands because there is a movement now to ban yoga pants mcguirk. that would wipe out half your wardrobe. >> my wardrobe. the bill doesn't specifically mention yoga pants it bands any costume or covering that gives the appearance of anything down there. my question is when did montana become saudi arabia for god's sake. like anybody else, i don't want to see lou dobbs or rosie o'donnell in a wal-mart in tight see through pants bending over to pick up a 48 pack of toilet paper. it's a free country. i think patrick henry said it give me liberty or give me a barf bag is wha

finally cold weather the subject of a tweet by former congressman anthony weiner aimed at cuomo who closedlast month in anticipation of a blizzard that never materialized. he wrote, sunday's going to be cold. governor cuomo will close the subway. cuomo's office tweeted, yes, it's going to be cold, a good reason to keep your pants on. i love it. >>> new polls show how much of a front-runner hillary clinton is right now. but that's not the whole story. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. ♪ ♪ >> welcome back to "hardball." it's the best of times and the worst of times potentially for hillary clinton. she's killing it in the polls. but that means people looking for jobs with her. a motley crue of careerists, insiders, watchdog, attack dogs, on last week's roundtable, we talked about the down side of dominance following a conflict between jim messina and david brock, that broke out into the open. here it is. >> part of the problem is, these operatives and strategists don't have anywhere else to go. so they're all fighting over a large pie, but it's only one pie. >> john podesta

. >> on one point did he also downplay the anthony weiner scandal at one point.s not infallible. >> absolutely. he always kind of hides behind -- his old line used to be why does anybody take me seriously? my lead-in is a puppet show. his lead-in isn't puppets anymore but he had that downplayed the fact that it was just a comedy show. he knew and we knew that what was going on in that program was considerably more important. now, i never thought it was good that people only get their news from jon stewart. that's not a good thing. people who have jon stewart as part of their diversified portfolio of information is a fine thing to put in there. >> how much of a void is there and how do you suspect it will be filled? he's not just a hero to some millennials but also to liberals. it's not like he's right down the middle here in terms of his criticism. >> unlike colbert which they scrapped the show and put a new show in there, "the daily show" will continue its format. i think it will continue its title. i think if they're smart, they'll recruit from within. they hav

he was the roommate of anthony weiner. he was right there in the mist of it.ok, i'm friends with the guy but he creeped me out. he calls truth and that's what people like. >> david axelrod was apparently the guest on the show tonight, because he does so many book interviews. he tweeted -- just had the honor of being jon stewart's guest where he announced he's leaving. emotional night. i can imagine the emotional night it is over there. he said, i'm going to leave later this year, several months later. how will that change the working atmosphere there knowing this will end? >> i would imagine, it's going to slowly hit -- the reality will slowly hit the writers and production staff, but i think it's going to make people, you know, these guys are going to want to sort of crank out the best shows they can. i would imagine it would galvanize and energize the staff and make them hey, better, funnier, let's just keep doing what we're doing. when it's going, it's just going to be weird. if i'm a writer, i want to write the best stuff i've ever written for him. >> with

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many people hatch been asking me about anthony weiner. lot of people are asking me about the book i just wrote. lots of people are asking about charlie sheen. a lot of people are calling me about the mack miller rap song. lots of people have been asking me to review plays and movies. a lot of people are asking about why am i using plastic forks and knifes? >> jimmy: i would like to know, why are you using plastic forks and knifes? we don't know that. i'd love to see a president donald trump. i'd vote for him just to find out how he and mullany would redecorate the white house. reality television has given us so much. first, donald trump. now, have you seen the promos for the new show about people having sex in a box? okay. for those who haven't, this is it. >> for the very first time on television, couples will have sex in this box. >> she thinks i'm too far outside the sex box. >> in front of a live studio audience. "sex box." >> jimmy: that's right. that's right, "sex box." can you imagine that? the show is from we-tv, short for "we hav

responsibility with former new york assembly speaker sheldon silver's possible misdeeds saying, if anthony weinerblame obama? these are criminal acts of individual legislators. what would you have me do? ari? can you help? >> i don't know how you got his private parts to this issue, or obama. but talk about your feeling from after your interview, could this investigation lead all of the way to governor's office? is governor cuomo in trouble? >> yeah, well, joe, you need more than one lawyer to parse everything in the statement you just read. i will leave that to cooler heads. i think though as for the interview i did with u.s. attorney preet bharara, what arises there and what is listed in the publicly filed complaint against shelly silver is the history with the anticorruption commission that governor cuomo set you and disbanded prematurely. some of the evidence mr. bharara told me used against silver in this big criminal indictment of the most powerful person in new york legislature came from that commission and the complaint also says that the commission was disbanded in a deal that silver and