he's no bill clinton. he doesn't have that sort of charm. bill clinton was the comeback kid. i'm not sure that anthony wiener is. >> howard, quickly compare wiener to clinton. >> well, i guess if anthony wiener's forced to resign in the history of sex scandals nobody will have gotten less for greater sacrifice. >> howard fineman and eugene robinson, the line of the night. so far it belongs to howard fineman. thank you both for joining me tonight. >>> later in the show, we will unveil a new segment, the media circus that msnbc missed. we will travel back in time and imagine what it would have been like if this network existed when jennifer flowers had her bombshell news conference about her relationship with presidential candidate bill clinton. >>> also, the republican lies about taxes. now that tim pawlenty has come out with a crazy tax plan, will mitt romney be forced to come out with an even crazier tax plan? former michigan governor joins me next as the romney campaign heads into her state. ♪ >>> coming up in one early and therefore meaningless poll, mitt romney is now pol

please welcome back to the show president bill clinton. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] >> jon: welcome back. my guest tonight, he was the host of cnn's "larry king live." his new book is called "truth be told," it's about half century of asking questions. please welcome back to the program larry king. [cheers and applause] how are you? great to see you again. >> great night to have me on. [laughter] >> jon: but you can't avoid that. there's in the a show in the world that you can go on that's not going to be talking about that. >> well, you are the only show that led with the economy. they really had him and you held him for me. >> jon: i started with the economy, and then i built. now you're the closer, my friend how have you been? are you doing your stand-up tour now? are you out on the road doing it? >> i'm out. we've donlan tick city and boston and indianapolis and saturday night we're in vegas. and in vegas my wife's going to open for me. we're at the mirage. >> jon: unbelievable. >> then sunday night in phoenix. then in

and bill clinton at least they had the -- at least they could say he lied under oath. that was their cover. >> joan walsh, sally kohn, and bill press. great to have you. >> all right. >> appreciate it so much. remember to answer tonight's question there at the bottom of the screen. i want to know what you think. new polling shows there are vastly different opinions on congressman weiner's behavior among new yorkers. i'll talk with someone from his district and find out his opinion on the congressman to see if it's changed. and ten years ago today, i guess we should celebrate this, george w. bush performed the magic trick. he took billions in surplus and turned it into trillions of debt. ten years later we're still paying for the bush tax cuts. all coming up. stay with us. i have a thing about bugs in our house. we used to call an exterminator. ugh... now i go ortho. home defense max. i use it once inside to kill the bugs. stops them dead. guaranteed. and outside to keep new ones from moving in. that's up to 12 months protection against bugs. and 12 months of keeping our

bill clinton said that. the president and the vice president, everybody knows you have to tackle entitlement reform. if we can't do that, we'll end up with a very short-term proposal over, you know, a few months. we'll be back having the same discussion again in the fall. >> schieffer: let me just ask you this. is part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling, would you be willing and open to eliminating some tax breaks if democrats would go along with some spending cuts? >> we're really interested in corporate tax reform. for that matter tax reform across the board. it's very hard, bob, to deal with a big subject like tax reform within a month. we need to do it. but it's hard to squeeze that into this time limit we have in connection with the deficit. we need to concentrate on cutting spending. >> schieffer: if that was what it took to do the deal, would you be willing to figure out a way to do it. >> we're discussing everything in the context of raising the debt ceiling, but the biggest problem is the spending

to clarence's point, you are either bill clinton or you're not. empathetic has to be natural.n't -- excuse me, come natural to you, you can't fake it you can't -- >> one of the things that bill clinton did well empathy was lose his voice like charlie that happens lot. >> let me bite my lip. >> i think go further than charlie did. >> very quick. >> i feel your pain works in the first six or nine moments of administration. after two, three years, the public says what have you done for me? >> there it s stu rothenberg, charlie cook, clarence page, stick with me. what member of a house beat her own member of her family in congress. you said you couldn't google to find this answer. it was representative judy chew in her 2009 special election. she beat betty chew, the women are cousins by marriage. sorry that google didn't help you find that one. >>> up next, haggling scandal on the hill who does a better job handling internal problems? pelosi or boehner? the take on the opposite side of the break. follow me and the show any time at twitter, at chuck todd and at daily run down. we w

he made a -- he had a phone conversation with bill clinton. it is reported that he is profusely apologizing to everyone and his wife, meanwhile, is off on a trip to africa with hillary clinton. but he is very much a man without a country at this point. gwen: the most difficult thing for me in this whole thing is wondering how it is that we keep revisiting different versions of this same story whether it's with eric massa or christopher lee or john ensign or john edwards, there just seems to be a circuit of really bad behavior among people who hold the public trust. >> and abuse of fame, abuse of power, and, again, abuse of that trust. gwen: maybe we'll figure out by this time next week whether he withstood the spotlight when the house returns to town. meanwhile, the nation's multiple military engagements are increasingly a source of frustration these days at the white house, at nato, on capitol hill and even at the pentagon. outgoing defense secretary robert gates declared in a farewell speech delivered in brussels today, that the u.s. is beari

. >> reporter: what do anthony weiner, bill clinton, tiger woods, eliot spitzer and brett favre have>> i have exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. >> indeed i did have a relationship with ms. lewinsky that was not appropriate. >> i was unfaithful. i had affairs. i cheated. >> reporter: sure there is the sex stuff. but the truly eerie similarities are not below the belt, but above the shoulders. weiner, clinton, woods, spitzer, even favre. did they eat a lemon? lose their teeth? no, this appears to be the universal face for, oh, man did i mess up. >> when we don't like what we hear, if we don't like what is going on, our lips will disappear. >> reporter: body language expert janine driver says the lips are the most expressive part of the body. >> with weiner, the lips being so tight, nose wrinkled and his yaw, really having those jaw muscles, there's embarrassment there, and also a lot of anger. >> reporter: different than bill clinton. >> bill clinton, you got the upside down u, you have the bottom lip, really projecting

here is bill clinton was george mcgovern and granted that is bill clinton. in 2000 again, again it plays out, you have the threat boyd aristocrat george w. bush running against an actual vietnam war veteran and it becomes this. he turns himself into this. besides al gore's 60 seeming interest in him are meant to turn al gore into basically a 60s grown-up yuppie. so this continues to play out. are right now with little bit of trivia. we are going to break this up and to trivia questions just to make this a little fun. we are going to give you the answers in the end. what was the name of the song that patrick swayze performed on the dirty dancing soundtrack? if you want to write them down just to follow along, have some fun. see if you can get it. a i've had the time of my life, b she's like the wind, c avian the corner, and d hungry eyes. what famous actor played the corpse in the big chill? christopher reeves, harrison ford, all at altman or kevin costner? no yelling out. and, here's a third question from the section. what city is the outsider said in? omaha

others like bill clinton survive. what distinguishes them. howard fineman is is a political analyst. gentlemen you are the experts. first here is the news. here is congressman weiner late today. >> last friday night i tweeted a photograph of myself that i intended to send as part after direct message as part of a joke to a woman in seattle. once i realized i posted it to twitter, i took it down and said i hacked. i continued with that story, to stick to that story, which is a hugely regrettable mistake. this woman was dragged into this and bears no responsibility. i'm so sorry to have disrupted this life her life in this way. this picture was of me and i sent it. i'm deeply sorry for the pain this caused my wife and our family. and my constituents, my friends, supporters and staff. >> howard, what do you make of this? here is a guy who tried every trick on the book. he blamed it on hacking. he blamed it on the media. he did everything he could tp he said maybe, maybe, maybe it was me. every game in the book. finally, after all this, the word

granted that is bill clinton. in 1996 it plays out again. you have bob dole be able to consummate washington insider against a conservative democrat and his tactic is to turn himself back to the 50s and say that bill clinton is as liberal as the presidential image of the 60s to turn bill clinton into this. granted that is bill clinton. in 2000 again it plays out again. you have the frat boy aristocrat george w. bush running against an actual b and more veteran and it becomes this. he turns himself into this. he cites al gore's 60s seeming interest in the environment to turn al gore into basically a 60s grown-up yet be. so this continues to play out. a little bit of trivia. some trivia questions. to make it fun. what was the name of the song patrick swayze performed on the dirty dancing sound track? i have three questions for each section just to quiz you. what famous actor played the course in the big chill? christopher reeve, harrison ford, alec baldwin or kevin costner? no yelling out. and here is the third question from this section. what

but it would that men bill clinton and the whole thing i mean haven't we gotten haven't we moved into kind of a world of bread and circus it's all you know what do we have the people who entertain and you don't have to worry about what we have moved into a mere fact that you use something to tell you two thousand or twenty five hundred year old reference means we haven't just moved into it we've just you know continued it i'm going to says he is that really the best is that the part of the roman empire we want to emulate always is you know collegial is saying if you give the people enough bread you provide them with a regular service you know if it were only going to human beings are human beings and they like to be entertained i mean that's why people watch. the voice or what you know whatever they want to talk through television they want to be entertained and so sometimes news is entertaining i'm just i'm just wondering what happened to the nation that tocqueville wrote about well i mean you're the average of these are when you knew more about european politics that you would a lit

that's something bill clinton figured out how to do. how does this president do it? >> i think first and foremost he's got to say to the american people, look, we understand that although this recovery is happening, it is not happening fast enough for a lot of you. but think of where we were, think of the policies we put in place, think of the changes they made, and think of the agenda i laid out before the congress in my state of the union speech. wanting to invest in infrastructure, alternative and renewable energy, things that are absolute job producers and the congress has refused to let that happen. so i think he's got some good arguments. one, again, juxtaposing the past to the present. and, two, where he wants to take us and the fact that we're stalled. andrea, we could create 2.5 million jobs a year if we went on a real infrastructure revitalization program. these are well paying jobs that can't be outsourced. i would press that and press that and press that. >> all right, ed rendell, thank you very much. chuck todd, i know you got to run to the briefing. tha

he had previously called for bill clinton to resign because of president clint's affair. possible abuse of power in his office. a complicated cover up ensnaring other utah senators. orchestrating an illegal lobbying scheme that ended up implicating his own senate staff to the point where his chief of staff had to seek immunity from prosecution. that's the john ensign scandal. in both of those cases the number two house republican eric cantor says essentially pray for r for their families. let the constituents decide their fate. who am i to say? fast forward to today. the day after democrat congressman anthony weiner of new york acknowledges his own indiscretions. they amount to sending compromising pictures of himself to women on the internet and engaging in sexually explicit chats with women online and lying to cover it up. yes, he definitely lied as far as we know there was no actual physical adultery nor is there political hypocrisy here. antmy weiner has never campaigned on the basis of his superior family values and other people having bad ones. he's never demanded a

[laughter] [inaudible] it's bill clinton. [laughter] >> she has had enough of my speeches. she knows how to make a dramatic exit. so i need to clinton and i'm in college applying to law school and i walked up to him and i asked him, i know your story or garr read about you in a magazine. i've at the same background. i want to go into politics and i'm not quite sure where to start in bill clinton took about 15 minutes or so of his time. i wasn't even a constituent and he told me, go to law school. he said if you are going to be involved in the legislative process in any way it involves writing the laws. who better to know about the legal process than a lawyer? he said from a practical perspective also you have something to fall back on if your political desires don't fall through. one of the great ironies of that meeting is that it was 20 years, not just to the very day but to almost that our that i was sitting in the house judiciary committee casting a vote on articles of impeachment against president clinton so here 20 years later our paths intersected in a way that neithe

bill clinton on the other hand was able to kind of segment the different parts of his life and he was great on the stump. >> ker ree doesn't have to do a thing, just watch clinton collapse. that will have to be "last word" for tonight. thank you for joining me. and thanks for playing along in our media circus that msnbc missed. "rachel maddow show" is up next. good evening, rachel. >>> you know, i'm having such weird flash backs to bill living through the early '90s that was upset frg ways you did not intend. >> that was exactly the idea. >> i feel like i'm wearing acid wash right now. >>> and thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. remember this? >> the bottom line is this, i've been unfaithful to my wife. i developed a relationship with -- what started out a dear, dear friend from argentina. it began very innocently as i suspect these things do. but here recently over this last year it developed into something much more than that. i think that is the bottom line. it is not a moral rigged list of dos and don'ts for the heck of dos and don'ts. it is indeed to prot

to express regret. >> he had a sex scandal and had to apologize to bill clinton, for what?y write infringement? >> reporter: it is lines like that that make democrats wince when they say he has no plans to quit. >> newt gingrich says he is commitmented to his campaign. >>> the labor of department reported the number of americans applying for unemployment benefits remained unchanged. the figures showed 427,000 people a lied for jobless applied for jobless benefits. the trend is being seen as a set back. considering applications have been declining during the winter months. on wall street, stocks managed to end a losing streak. the dow gained 75 points and nasdaq rose by 9. citi group says hackers stolen information of 200,000 customers. names, account numbers and e- mail addresses were taken last month. although other vital id information such as birth dates and social security numbers were not taken. experts say the greatest threat to customers right now will be conartists trying to use the limited information to get bank tellers to issue them a new credit card. they said t

unlike, say, bill clinton who was notorious for fudging his score card, president obama is up front aboutlf skills. white house aides say there's been no trash talk from the notoriously competitive president obama. perhaps that's a good strategy. we hear his handicap is about a 17. karen travers, abc news, washington. >>> in shanksville, pennsylvania, they're almost done with the first phase of the memorial dedicated to the victims of flight 93. the 9/11 memorial will include a marble wall bearing the names of each person killed in the crash. visitors will be allowed to get as close to the site as possible without actually touching it. >>> the city of portland, oregon, is draining its main reservoir after a man was caught urinating in it. the nearly 8-million-gallon flush is costing taxpayers $36,000. 21-year-old josh cedar said he was drunk at the time and apologized for the incident, but he thinks the city went too far saying animals relieve themselves in the reservoir all the time. >>> well, in medical news this morning the gap is widening in cancer death rates between college graduate

how does bill clinton survive?ents, he can be blackmailed. >> i an we with everything that connie said -- i agree with everything that connie said about consequences. his priority now is fixing his situation with a very hurt wife. and friends -- >> sean: deal with my blackmail question and the double standard. nancy pelosi attacked republicans had to drain the swamp and culture of corruption about mark foley many she has a double standard here with congressman weiner. >> when nancy pelosi, i've known many years, used that expression, culture of corruption even when it was cunningham as one example, then foley. i disagreed with that for the same reason that we should not extrapolate when there's an aberration in one party. >> sean: christians don't believe they are perfect, they believe they are forgiven. republicans want higher standards, because they have standards, it is like they are punished if one falls short of those standards. it is the stem democratic party saying we don't have those standards therefore we

teach bill clinton how to thurn this around in one week or john edwards.ey dragged out their lies for years. huffington post reporter alex wagner. thank you very much for joining us on this tawdry story tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> coming up, why the prosecutors in the john edwards case are doing the right thing and why the judge should not send edwards to prison if he's found guilty. that's in tonight's rewrite. >>> later the republican party's palin problem how long can she keep stealing publicity from the real presidential candidates? we >> ( rooster crows ) >> by 2020, 50 billion network devices will roam the earth. that's seven devices per person. this will change how we work in ways we've never before imagined. what do you need to secure your people, their devices, and your business? a network that can evolve and grow to protect your human network. n@ caught spending a million dollars to hide his biggest secret in that's in tonight's rewrite. >>> and later sarah palin defends sarah palin on her rewrite of elementary school american history. [ po

bill clinton came from not anybody saying anything nicer than that. i think the same thing can happen for us if the election is about obama's policies and the results of those policies. that's the key for the 2012 campaign for republicans. >> schieffer: but you're not concerned that the people in your own party don't seem satisfied with this field? i mean, do you think somebody else ought to get into this? >> i think probably other people will get into this. >> reporter: who do you think that would be? >> people like rick perry, the governor of texas. you mentioned sarah palin. i don't know if she's going to run. john huntsman, former governor from utah. i don't know if he's going to run, but there are other people who might get in. but this field will be more fully formed come fall, and then we'll really start seeing what happens in the spring. >> reporter: what about sarah palin? you say you don't know what she's going to do. if she did get in, could you ever envision yourself supporting a ticket that had sarah palin at the top? >> if barack obama w

por una mentira se hizo un juicio polÍtico a bill clinton. eso, sudamÉrica estÁ vestido de rojo, con el triunfo de humala. >> estamos vestidos de rojo? estamos viendo. >> no es tan profunda la ideologÍa entre la izquierda y la derecha, creo que esta izquierda que gobierna esa regiÓn del hemisferio es un poco mÁs de centroizquierda. los cambios que se han dado en esa regiÓn son importantes en tÉrminos de lo que representa para una poblaciÓn, en el caso de perÚ, que no ha tenido cambios importantes. incluso en mÉxico, donde la derecha, despuÉs de casi 10 aÑos de gobernar no ha dado resultados. la gente tiene otras alternativas, no estÁn pensando tanto en ideologÍas como en cambios que den resultados. >> humala logrÓ quitarse el abrazo de hugo chÁvez? >> creo que el apoyo de toledo y vargas llosa nos dio mucha esperanza. esa facilidad que ha tenido adoptar esas especies mÁs liberales, >> ya no son polÍticos radicales, ahora ofrece una variedad de alternativas que puedan tener efecto entre la gente. la gente no estÁ esperando un cambio ideolÓgico

now major political sex scandals after bill clinton. okay. we were trying to come one the right pointer for this. we decided a big grabby hand would be the good one. there's no good one. it's the least bad one. it's still pretty bad. august 2004, jim mcgreevey. democratic governor of new jersey admits what he has cheated on his wife with a man. the governor says he is gay and he resigns. it's a little bit creepy, the lying, the adultery, the man he said he was involved in was someone he had appointed to a homeland security position. as these things go on the jovr all matrix, this is on the low side to have creepy scale and not particularly prosecutable either as these things go. florida congressman mark foley in 2006, republican, right. mr. foal he resigns after allegedly sending explicit instant messages to underage congressional pages, quite creepy given thatter underage and in the congressional scheme of things subordinate to him in the workplace. and therefore quite conceivably prosecutable, though in this case not prosecuted. louisiana s

teach bill clinton how to thurn this around in one week or john edwards.y dragged out their lies for years. huffington post reporter alex wagner. thank you very much for joining us on this tawdry story tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> coming up, why the prosecutors in the john edwards case are doing the right thing and why the judge should not send edwards to prison if he's found guilty. that's in tonight's rewrite. >>> later the republican party's palin problem how long can she keep stealing publicity from the real presidential candidates? we could've gone a more traditional route... ... but it wouldn't have been nearly as memorable. ♪ the two trains and a bus rider. the "i'll sleep when it's done" academic. for 80 years, we've been inspired by you. and we've been honored to walk with you to help you get where you want to be. ♪ because your moment is now. let nothing stand in your way. learn more at keller.edu. not all calcium soft chews are the same. let nothing stand in your way. try viactiv soft chews. viactiv has more bone building nutrients than any

cuts are to the economy bush's tax cuts created three million jobs would crash our economy while bill clinton's tax hikes created twenty three million jobs and balanced our budget i guess republican presidential hopeful to move plenty didn't get the memo his new tax. the bush tax cuts on steroids costing our government nearly eight trillion dollars over ten years just to give people who make more than a million bucks a year a forty one percent tax cut and people who make more than ten million dollars a year forty six percent tax so what exactly is simple want to try to do because of the great depression or turn america into a banana republic like mexico and other. well that's i would say that plenty is definitely trying to rile up his base you know a lot of tea partiers want cuts and they like tax cuts they won't catch the government programs and you know what the recent pew poll showed that only nineteen percent of people believe that the tax cuts contributed to our debt people like tax cuts john you know and you can offset those by getting rid some programs that we don't need and billionaires

like, they had a bill clinton character referring to me, thinking i was a guy. like, alex borstein, who does an amazing impression of me which i think is hilarious, and bill clinton-- we were doing politically incorrect in the sketch. and he kept saying, "you be quiet, fella," like that, like he was-- now, that's very funny, and i really loved it. and i think that that's great. it was creative, and it was funny, and-- but when joan rivers makes fun of people--not just me. i take issue with the fact that she makes fun of everybody. it's not just me. i'm not--i don't care, you know? but when she oinks at me and camryn manheim and rosie o'donnell and all these other wonderful women, she really feeds into the sexism of our culture. thank you for joining us today. as long as i could get my own nasty comments in. that's what this is all about. we still think you're topical and talented. topical, talented, and terrific. oh, great. thanks for being here. thanks for having me. captioning provided by the first amendment center, funded by the freedom forum. captioning by e

he calls bill clinton. ou know, this is a woman who has been with hillary clinton through the lewinsky scandal. hillary clinton goes from first lady of arkansas to the secretary of state of the united states. is she a person do you think that has political aspirations of her own? >> well, one would think. actually, she told the "vogue" interviewer four years ago her aspirations were to be the next christy yawn amanpour, a journalist. ended up working for the first lady. and now here she is. but apparently she did have aspirations. she married an ambitious man who planned to perhaps be governor of new york some day. and who knows what from then. so one would think they were becoming a power couple. >> one person in washington said anybody who is able to make the transition from the first lady's office, make it through all of it into the secretary of state's office had to have sharp elbows. so i'm wondering is this a person who is really looking at the much bigger, farther long-term picture. instead of calling

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, and her husband, former president bill clinton presided over their marriage. in the dailies show jon stewart is a college friend. >> that was christian reporting and of course this has sort of been a hot topic and raises questions of where the lines in fidelity line. can it be considered cheating? where's the line into people involved never actually meet one another that you can leave your thoughts on our facebook page. >> you work hard for your money and you expect a certain level of customer service when you spend it. when you don't spend if you get frustrated. >>> two thirds of those surveyed say they got so upset in the last year that i walked out of the store. or they hung up on a representative. the worst industries where computer tech support, tv and cable providers. companies are taking notice but experts say that many of them are mentioned on social networking sites. >> they don't want a little problem to ask late in a bigger one in which case they get a bad reputation, so they respond and monitor places like twitter and often intervene or i

joining me the polster to former president carter and former senior counselor to bill clinton. >> lett with you. let's look at the field of the people in the gop, do you see them rising to the opportunity to defeat barack obama next year? >> i do. there is a generic candidate and that is a southern border state form are governor who is a moderate on social issues and fiscal cob servative and appeal to the christian community and he's hosting this president and not running for president. [applause] >> i was onering who that guy was. thank goodness and i am sure pat would agree with me you would make a strong candidate and two remaining ones we fear the most getting the nomination is mitt romney and tim pawulently and john hunts man who is unknown could emerge. those have the most appeal to the middle of the road where elections are divided. >> is lanny on track? >> particularly in the description of the mythical candidate. that candidate is an antiestablishment outside of the beltway person who is willing to criticize ball outs in wall street. but the other, i think he is right on the

but pelosi, obama and the clintons, bill and hillary, really put the screws to him. but i think the decisive thing was his wife apparently shifting and wanting him to go. >> they ratcheted up the pressure. >> weiner was snichteled. he's become a parody. it's day in and day out and it's humiliating in new york. also for his whiff's family, and i think the combination of everybody loading up on him was just too much. >> you may not believe in, but the weiner story was actually -- despite the new york. it was fading. and it's arguable that if he had done nothing he could have made it. >> i never heard of the new york post but -- >> he has a marriage to contend with. to enjoy. >> he could have made it -- if pelosi and reed say we're going to send him to the ethic committee, what he did was wrong but not throw him out of here -- obama and pelosi did this, they threw him under the bus. >> they did the deed. >> because he's an embarrassment and expendsable. >> do you think he could have ridden it out? >> yes, if they said we're going to send it to the ethics committee, we c

look at former president bill clinton. the house and almost convicted by the senate and bill clinton has been able to weather the storm and gone on to be a great ambassador to the world, and still a great statesman in the party. weiner has to get through the next couple weeks and month and try to get it back together with his family. the question is why did he wait this long and drag it out, and it was very frustrating to democratic party leaders. they wanted to see him step down on his own last week, which he refused to do. and the democratic national committee woman, and the person that overseas the campaign efforts called on him to resign. in talking to democrats and republicans over the past couple hours to get their take and feel the temperature of where they think the story is going or what is going to happen, and for democrats it sums it up in what one official says to me, a collective sigh of relief all across the party. the reason being it was becoming a distraction not only for the 2012 election for house democra

this was a special call, because bill clinton is somebody who he knows very well, but more importantlyose with weiner's wife, huma, because she works for hillary clinton, has for years and years. and democratic sources i talk to say that the clintons think of her as a daughter. anderson? >> it's sad all the way around. huma is traveling with secretary of state clinton, arriving today in the persian gulf. neither she nor the secretary has said word one publicly about the scandal. however, one of the sexting women has. the blackjack dealer in las vegas telling inside edition about her conversation with the congressman and the regret to what it's done to his wife. listen. >> you called this flirting, but it was very explicit sexual talk. >> yes, i know. >> did he ever send you a photo? >> no. >> what was you say to the congressman's wife? >> i feel very, very bad for talking to her husband in a way i shouldn't have. i feel horrible. >> congressman weiner and huma were married just last summer. she's deeply private. he obviously has very close relationships with the media. certainly seeks