shirtless and bare-chested photos of the congressman similar to those sent by former congressman chris lee who had to resign over that this past february. weeper photos were distributed today on the internet at biggovernment.com run by the con seventive blogger andrew breitbart. weiner has been married for less than a year. his wife is huma and has been a long-time aide to secretary of state hillary clinton. she says they are angry they're not splitting up and his political future today is the furthest thing from his mind. >> last friday night i tweeted a photograph of myself as i intended to send it as a joke to a woman in seattle. it realized i posted to twitter i panicked and i said i had been hacked. i stuck to the story and it was regrettable mistake. the woman was dragged into this and bears no responsibility. i'm so sorry to have disrupted her wife in this way. to be clear, the picture was of me and i sent it. i'm deeply sorry for the pain this caused my wife huma and our family. moy constituents, my supporters and staff. in addition over the last few years i have engaged in several

look, chris lee took out. he said, you know, look, i did it, shouldn't have done it, i hurt a lot of people, i'm going. hurt his party because the democrat got elected in his place. he could have toughed it out. he didn't. i don't know, look. >> that was a different situation. >> bill: wait a minute. if weiner says he takes responsibility, what kind of responsibility is he taking, juan? he is not quitting? >> he just admitted to you that he lied. >> bill: he had to. >> i don't know. there is said to be additional pictures. no no. no. he knew that there was so much evidence against him. >> that's what i said there were additional pictures, right? >> bill: what responsibility is he taking? don't enjoy this mary katharine. i don't want you enjoying this. >> i'm agreeing with you. >> bill: i don't think anybody should be happy about this. >> just because i'm smiling doesn't mean i'm happy. i can smile when i'm uncomfortable and talking about weiner makes me uncomfortable now. >> i understand that. >> bill: juan, y

. >> like chris lee. and there is almost never just one instance of it. >> this not the end of the story for weiner. he is probably weighing his options and deciding whether to stay in office. he asked about the alternative, what to see if he leaves office? -- he has to think about the alternative, what does he do if he leaves office? he can take comfort in at the example of another new yorker who did even worse, eliot spitzer. never spent a day in jail, never got charge, and now he is hosting a primetime cable show. anthony weiner likes to talk, like stevie, as show business ahead of them -- likes tv, as show business ahead of him. >> he is probably a goner in the sea, but the internet culture is taken for granted -- there may be more public tolerance than we realize. >> he will dependen -- he will do penance, he will seek help, come out of it a better person -- [laughter] >> of the politics of this, new york state is going to lose two seats as a result of redistricting. there is no question that his sea

that's why chris lee quit right away. that's the way it s nothing we can do about it. >> nothing we can do about it? >> listen this is -- democratic colleagues. he is not going to win as mayor. seat -- >> jonathan, jonathan? >> cenk, cenk, the point i wanted to make about -- about congressman wiener that john touched on that i think is very important and there is a distinction here is that congressman weeper is standing all by himself, not just at the podium yesterday, but among his colleagues in congress. you played the clip from harry reid saying he doesn't know what to tell him. the other thing is we look at the other member of congress from new york who got into some serious ethical trouble, congressman rangel, a former chairman of the powerful ways and means committee who had undeclared income, hadn't paid taxes on rental income, all sorts of other things, which is just not -- you can't do that as chairman of ways and means. he was accept sured by his colleagues but he is personally liked by his colleagues. remember

gwen: and chris lee's seat went to a democrat after all was said and done sethey -- so they didn't just get rid of him. >> in bill clinton's own impeach. , he was advised if you want a friend in this town, you better buy a dog. is anyone supporting weiner? >> at this point, he is out there pretty much by himself. he has been making a round of phone calls to his colleagues. 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 spotlig

people don't know who chris lee is anymore, he was gone so fast. >> he was gone before sundown.e republicans have made much more of an issue out of these moral issues, so-called family values, they've been very strict from, they've seen the voter backlash out there, even so as you mentioned earlier, louisiana congressman survived a scandal in which he was involved with a prostitute, so it can be done. but i think nancy pelosi did move quickly to have an investigation of anthony weiner to see if he did something wrong over perhaps his congressional blackberry. >> right but an investigation this drags it out, does it not, stu? >> she should call him in the woodshed tell him it's time to go and i think boehner saw what happened to republicans before the 2006 election with a number of republican congressional scandals. i think the democratic leader probably ought to operate the same way in this instance. >> politico is a great way of describing anthony weiner maybe the right combination of shame and shamelessness to survive this. >> i think all you need is look at the front page of

the case of representative chris lee in new york who resigned immediately after a picture of him bare chested showed up on the web and it happened in a matter of hours, the picture senates and the representative resigned and it appears that representative weiner was going to fight this and we don't know what he will say this afternoon. everyone is anxiously watching. but we have in indication from the hill that any decision has been made officially. >>neil: thank you, brett, we love to indulge your services. i want to dip in, if we can, to this man who is a lightning rod and controversy and he feels vindicated by pictures he says are unquestionably those of the congressman. we will listen in to him. >> i want to hear the truth. i want to hear the truth from congressman weiner and i would like an apology for him being come police it in a blame the passenger strategy. it was clear, 72 hours in paul springs with your family is excruciating when you are being challenged. andrew, why aren't you on vacation? why not get off the phone because i am accused of being a hacker. he said nothing.

chris lee. do you have a picture of chris lee? yeah. hi. that guy was out before, before we got to din they're day. he was like okay, i'm an idiot. weiner, no. apparently not. you know who anthony weiner makes me have more respect for? bring him on. bring him on that. guy. remember him? remember the guy who was like we used to have pillow fights in the navy. i just like to go actively hug men. huh? that guy. that guy at least had the common decency when he knew the jig was up. he was like okay. got me. i resign. today, i have more respect for this man than anthony weiner. it is -- may i show you where we put the bar? okay. right about here. this is where the bar is. right about here. yeah. okay. all the way down. thank you. that's where the bar is. about 400 feet beneath my hand is where the bar currently is. in our country. this guy is one of the most arrogant men i have seen. you know when the doctor says hey, finish your antibiotics. why do they tell you to do that? if you don't. this is what the doctor never told us and now we figure ou

he put tremendous pressure on representative chris lee.is not pressure that democratic leaders are putting on representative weiner in this case. so he has a lot of support in the media, he has a lot of support among his own caulks -- caucus, i think they're all taking a step back to see if well, maybe this thing will blow over. the first headline of the "new york times" yesterday indicated that -- it said representative weiner acknowledges online communications with women. well, that's a pretty moderate and pretty okay headline to get out of what was him admitting to very bizarre behavior and lying about it to the world for a week. martha: the behavior is bizarre, i think he would admit that the bee have improper is bizarre. there have been people who have had affairs. maybe this is -- if you would equivocate an affair with this situation, who managed to survive. so clearly weiner looked at this and said with the support of his family, we're going to stand by you, you try to hang in there. >> well, and it will be very interesting to see i

chris lee, the guy from upstate work, quit that day. of course democrats celebrated his defeat.hat is a firing offense? >> he doesn't think it is a firing offense because he is not quitting. there is an embarrassment level here that makes it hard for him to maintain public trufrt trust and responsibility. his colleagues won't want to have anything to do with him. what kind of public example does he set for kids who want to get into politics. >> he is basically saying he can still be a kid. >> there are more photos out there that will come out. those photos are going to make this -- make this seem live and repeated with each new photo. >> look, putting out his chest to somebody. >> this is a digital scandal. we used to have real sex scandals, with real sex and presidents. >> we are now in the virtual world. >> if you compare with what he did with what clinton did or what vitter did, it is kind the same. clinton soldiered on. vitter soldiered on. >> he wasn't out there soliciting active sex with someone like chris lee was. he wasn't out there -- >> john edwards only last week talk

weiner is not the first politician to get caught up from behaving badly from chris lee, eliot spitzer, arnold schwarzenegger and the list goes on. is there a connection here between sex and politics? >> perhaps. i it hits more about control and excitement and -- i think it's more about control and excitement and fragmentation. there's certain personalities that are drawn to power, yet over time their personality fragments in some ways. i've never met representative weiner, so i can't really speak for him, but my hunch is his profile, the reason they can seem so sincere and have this very deviant side is the pieces of them that aren't quite integrated. >> is there a sense that maybe because they are in these positions you think in general that they can get away with things like this and a sense of entitlement? >> oh, definitely. and there's a sort of shut-off mechanism where they may have some fears about it but the drive and the sort of instantness is so powerful and for reason it get wired into their reward center and that becomes the driving source. >> representative chris lee resig

at least republicans chris lee was trying to get some action. (laughter) republican politician politicians-- republican politicians are man enough to hit that thing. ensign, vitter, even when it's a gay scandal, they're not tweeting love letters, they're tearing up an airport passenger until somebody calls the cops on them. i mean-- (cheers and applause) >> stephen: i mean call me old-fashioned. but i long for simpler times and common sense, values. i want to leave our grandchildren and america where congressman bang their secretarieses. sorry, sorry if there's no app for that. nation, if you are's anything like me, first of all, congratulations. (laughter) but-- if you are's like me, if you are's like me you have been captivated by sarah palin's ongoing pac funded vacationesque noncampaign history mobile tour. folks, the entire tour is just to raise awareness about america's great history. so far she's lived up to her promise by visiting getties burg, the liberty bell and the alexander hamilton service area of the new jersey turnpike. (cheers a

remember chris lee, the republican congressman from upstate new york who resigned after it was revealedhad a bare-chested photo and a romantic overture--. >> brown: another social media. >> he looks like nathan hale up there compared to anthony weiner who wants to hang on. un, he's a distraction to his party. david is absolutely right. but during this whole time, the democrats had their one piece of good news since last november-- cathy hocle won chris lee's seat on medicare and the voucher system, paul ryan. and she's got no credit. nobody has seen her because of anthony weiner. >> brown: all right, we have to leave it there. nathan hale, anthony-- thank you both very much. >> warner: we'll be back shortly with a look at the plea deal in a case about leaking classified national security information. but first, this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public >> warner: finally tonight, what had been billed as a major national security leaks case ends up as a plea bargain. ray suarez has that story. >> suarez: a former top official with the national security agency pleaded guil

howard, many individuals like eliot spitzer and chris lee resigned immediately. that's the best course of action in terms of rebuilding your reputation na the longer term or do you think by being belligerent by the way he is seven saying i'm not going to resign is a better course. >> everyone has a different dna with the media and different issue to contend with. eliot spitzer's was a bigger issue because of the hypocrisy because he was fighting to change laws for sexuallization and crimes. chris lee resigned immediately because i think there was possibly more than could have come out. and he didn't want to contend with it. i understand what congressman weaner is doing. >> howard bragman, prematurely cut off there. thank you for your insights. we'll be right back. [ man ] ♪ trouble ♪ trouble, trouble trouble, trouble ♪ ♪ trouble been doggin' my soul ♪ since the day i was born ♪ worry ♪ oh, worry, worry worry, worry ♪ [ announcer ] when it comes to things you care about, leave nothing to chance. travelers. take the scary out of life. >> it's time now to clear the

remember former congressman chris lee and they have plenty of company. coming up, look at the dangers but also the benefits of social media sites. and now to a high stakes courtroom battle over funding for planned parenthood. the state of indiana recently passed a law that blocks planned parenthood from getting medicaid money because the group provides abortions. and just hours ago planned parenthood went to court to try to block that law. planned parenthood's own figures show that in 2009, the group performed approximately 330,000 abortions. but for some perspective, that was just 3% of planned parenthood services. as you can see, the majority of its worth deals with things like contraception, disease testing, and treatment and cancer screening. critics of indiana's new law say medicaid patients can't afford to lose access to those services but supporters argue federal money should not pay for abortions, no matter what. meantime, several other states have opposed similar legislation -- ---proposed similar legislation. they are keeping a close eye next o

he wasn't out there soliciting active sex with someone like chris lee was.ut there -- >> john edwards only last week talking about john edwards. there may be a difference -- >> that's all time sex. >> all of it is immoral. all of it is unfaithful. none of it is a good example. >> what about the old argument -- by the way, you have a british accent so i will go to you. it used to be the british were involved in kinky, and americans were involved in stealing money. now they are stepping up in the kinky department. >> it is still wrong, still embarrassing. >> let's listen to weiner here when he was asked about being engaged in phone sex. i think people have figured out what that is. let's listen. >> i am reluctant, for their privacy, since their names are coming out, not going to characterize it except that it was consensual. i'm not going to -- i'm not going to rebut anything or dispute anything that any of the women who have come forward have said. they have every right to do so. so i'm not going to make any efforts to characterize those conversations. >> poo

that's why chris lee stepped aside so quickly. i thinks there a major difference, going to howard's point. you look at a different, a slightly different situation, by charlie rangel up in harlem, who was censured and there was a lot of controversy around what he did and said. and, you know, he was re-elected overwhelmingly in that district. so the question is not, as you said earlier in the program, not what we all think. it's what their voters think. and i think it's why a lot of voters are turned off to the system, to politicians. they think there's no accountability, and they think there's two sets of rules. one for the rich and powerful and one for everybody else. and i think the honorable thing to do, when you mess up, you screw up, and in a situation where you lie for over a week and try to manipulate the system and try to destroy someone else's reputation, there ought to be some accountability, personal accountability. >> all right, look. interesting and important points from all of you. thank you all for being with us. unf

there is a long history with chris lee.re was all kinds of other stuff coming out. >> bill, there seems to be a long history with anthony weiner, too. he says there's about six women over three years. i mean, this guy was looking for excitement and love in all the wrong places. what's wrong with just focusing on the taxpayers and serving the people? serving the people is more than just jumping on the cables and being an advocate. does this guy have a problem? >> ed, i can't understand and i'm not going to defend anthony weiner's sex life. okay? >> with that why doesn't nancy pelosi come out and say you need to sit on the sideline and come back in 2012? this puts them in a tight spot. >> i think the fact she called for a congressional investigation, before anybody demanded it, was a smart thing to do. >> what do you think about the ethics investigation? >> i think it was smart politically but she absolutely had to do it otherwise it looks like she is covering up for a democratic colleague. when she was speaker she called for

when chris lee, republican from buffalo, was found to put a picture of himself, bare chested picture of himself on the internet the house and public -- republican leadership said resign today. when fark foley sent messages to underage male pages, they said resign today, even though we know it means it's impossible to us -- for us to nominate somebody to hold your seat in the fall of 2006 so nancy pelosi, if she did want to drain the swamp, this is a swatch, i mean, this man lied aggressively. this was not a disagreement about policy. he went out and time and time and time and time again this week, has aggressively denied, lied about whether or not this was him texting a picture of himself in his underwear, and if isn't swamp-like behavior, i don't know what it is. "the new york times" this morning called his behavior, quote, profoundly squalid and offensive. when you get "the new york times" calling it that, it says something. bill: from an ethics standpoint, if you use your office in a manner like this, then it's clearly a violation of ethics. when he called in reporters, including

chris lee, they have needed to consult with an expert but not necessarily within our department, and there was previously no mention of the hpc. all the other minor amendments were approved unanimously, and this amendment was considered separately from the other items and received a split vote due to the explicit codification of the secretary frontier status. supervisor wiener expressed concern that this will be first city ordinance with the standards you with that, all items were passed unanimously on first reading. lastly but not least lee, park ridge said and all the ordinances related to it were passed -- parkmerced. there were a couple introductions i would like to share with you this week. supervisor farrell interest an ordinance that would establish a city center fine district. you will hear more about that in the coming months. supervisor cohen it is a request to study the status of california's high-speed rail initiative. that includes the lengthy report this week. commissioner olague: thank you. there is a question. commissioner antonini: thank you. i just wanted to ask for

. >> reporter: when republican congressman chris lee had a shirtless photo scandal earlier this year, he resigned within hours. weiner refuses to quit. critics say the parties appear to respond differently. >> republicans will be showing this contrast. they'll be saying look, when we find this conduct, we throw members out and the democrats don't. >> reporter: adding some pressure, today house democratic leader nancy pelosi formally requested an ethics investigation. >> i don't see anything that i did that violated any rules of the house. i don't see anything that i did that certainly violated my oath of office to uphold the constitution. >> reporter: elected easily seven times, today some new york constituents offered weiner support. >> people make mistakes. people do silly things like that. >> i don't think he should resign because it's his personal business. >> reporter: in trying to get some political advantage a republican campaign committee is asking democrats who've received campaign donations from weiner to return that money or it's being accused of condoning congressman weine

republican chris lee was caught sending a shirtless photo to a woman on craigslist, eric massa, a democrataccused of sexually harass ago male staffer. but there have also been cases recently where members apologized and, like congressman weiner, did not step down. in 2007, senator david vitter, a republican from louisiana, was caught up in a prostitution ring investigation. he has since been reelected and republican john ensign of nevada remained in the senate for more than a year after he was caught allegedly paying off the family of his mistress. ensign only resigned last month, scott, when an ethics investigation report was about to be made public. >> pelley: nancy, help us understand why congressman weiner matters. >> scott, he holds kind of a unique position in the democratic caucus. the president has a lot of critics on the right but wynner is one of his most outspoken critics on the left. wherever liberals feel that the president is straying too far from their principles in the pursuit of compromise. it's unclear how well he's going to be able to perform that role now, a role even t

that a new york congressman got in trouble over questionable photos, you can remember republican chris lee resigned after sending shirtless photos. >> clearly nancy pelosi is not happy about this. any idea how it might impact the democrat agend a. >> weiner went to pelosi and said i am guilty and she told him to go out there and tell the truth. she said you are on your own pal. the democrats are in a minority in the house. they don't have a great chance of retaking the house and will not come down to this congressional seat. clearly knocks them off track and message for the next few days. >> weiner said he's not going to resign. you would think he would be finished politically. what do you think he -- would happen. >> he thinks that the constitients would give him the benefit of the doubt. democrats tend to have more leeway. this is a guy who wanted be mayor and a political future but chris cain said he's finished. >> i can see why. >> the shooting that killed a three month old boy and wounded his parents is likely a case of mistaken identity. overcome with grief, the baby's mother attende

left the soldier sailor he left the he left the seat open for about eight months now i think after chris lee there was a very quick move on governor almost more power to kind of get the seat resolving the seat belongs to the district so you know the people of queens have a seat there are people that are there to take their phone calls they have two senators so they're still going to be able to serve they don't have a vote in the house right now and so i think that there will be a move to she has quickly as possible interest saying joe crowley is the county chair so he probably has the most power right now and that he will be able to kind of dictate who becomes the nominee for the democrats ok and thirty seconds or less is a big loss for the democratic party it depends on where that district goes the night to new york is going to be redrawn it will probably remain democratic most likely has been trending republican in the last few years but it's still about a ten point spread they're likely to lose it most voters probably won't vote on anthony weiner's behavior though both candidates are shou

and he's got to distinct wish himself from chris lee. republicans are going to say, our guy resigned. why are you not going to resign? democrats have one standard and republicans have another and he's got to find a way to distinct wish that. >>> we have a lot more coming up on anthony weiner. stand by for that. also, syria and on the verge of a new blood bath. stand by. our coverage continues right here in the situation. fore! no matter what small business you are in, managing expenses seems to ...get in the way. not anymore. ink introduces jot. a real time expense app that lets you track and categorize expenses on the go. so you can get back to the business you love. jot, the latest innovation from chase. only for ink customers. download at chase.com/ink 8% every 10 years.age 40, we can start losing muscle -- wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb to help rebuild muscle and strength naturally lost over time. [ female annou