anthony weiner and eliot spitzer surprising everyone with their solid polling.ughter] which, to be fair, is kind of the story of their lives. for more on this we're joined by senior political correspondent samantha bee. >> yeah. >> john: sam, it look like weiner and spitzer could actually win their races. that is unbelievable, isn't it? >> i know, john, it truly is a great day for children across this nation. >> john: sorry. how on earth is this a great day for children? >> oh, no, john, think about it. most of today's young people feel like they could never have a future in politics and it's hard to argue with them. you know, they're on facebook 24/7. they're sexting and twitpicking and oversharing everything they've got and destroying any chance of a political career before they even know they want one. every parent dreads that moment when they have to sit their college-aged kid down and say, honey, you're never going to be president or even city comptroller because you like instagram and tequila makes your clothes fall off. >> john: i see. i see. so in a sens

joining me now for the interview is eliot spitzer. governor spitzer, t to weigh and decide if i'm on a comeback and said the r and i'm talking about management. building a better widget. running a better company. ownership requires that participation. >> you've been now writing and broadcasting and speaking and sort of thinking about these to serving in public office has actually changed? how do you think, if you do think >> let me put it this way. i don't believe any less or with any less fervor in the things i was fighting for, whether the wall street issues or the other. i'm not going to go through that litany. i think i appreciate a bit more that sensitivities of others sometimes need to be appreciated. we were tough. we played hard. i'm very glad we did. better to fight and lose than not fight at all is something i generally believe in when you're right on the principles and outcome you're seeking. if i'm fortunate enough to be elected comptroller, i'll build coalitions to move an agenda forward. i think that's an important part o

joining me now for the interview is eliot spitzer. er, thank you so much for being here tonight. >> thank you, ezra. thank you for the kind words and i cringed when i watched the tough ones, but you gave a fair recitation. >> i want to ask about the what might have been. what was it like watching that unfold given your history on the issue and having taken yourself out of being an active participant in the political process around it? >> it was painful. obviously there was much pain related to other issues. specifically on that issue in february of '08 i testified before congress about subprime debt and told the story of how we had begun to investigate subprime debt. we made the first case in 1999. in '04 i was pilloried. and in february of '08, just a month before i resigned, i explained how the bush administration, the occ, had forced us to litigate all the way to the united states supreme court to investigate an issue that we believed was fundamentally destroying our financial system. everybody blockaded us. it was not just the anal

eliot spitzer.least i want to come back. i intend to come back. and i'm going to run for controller of the city of new york. what's that all about and why and how's it going to get there? eliot spitzer joins us next here on the "full court press" this monday morning. >> announcer: this is the "full court press." the "bill press show." live on your radio and on current tv. (cenk) it's go time! it's go time! it's go time! go time. you know what time it is. go time! it's go time. it's go time. what time is it rob? here comes the young turks go time! it's go time. oh is it? oh, then it's go time. anybody? anybody? what time is it? oh, right. it's go time! this show is about being up to date, staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. in reality it's not like they actually care. this is purely about political grandstanding. >> announcer: heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the "bill press show." >> bill: 14 minutes before the top of

i'm not saying eliot spitzer is a more peaceful guy, but eliot spitzer for better or worse, i think for better, really took on the big institutions in -- on wall street. he, of course, went overboard in many cases, especially later in his career, but i remember, mika, you and i having a debate on whether to hahave him on the show. >> it was a fight. >> it was a fight. you did not want to have him on the show. i said he can explain a lot of this wall street stuff as well as anybody else. and we really did, we were very angry. you got very angry at me. i only bring this up, mika, first of all you're a new york voter, i'm curious how you'll vote there. not really that curious. secondly, because i know how you're going to vote, against him, but secondly -- >> no -- >> don't you think the fact that he's economy tept and would actually be the best comptroller for the city most likely. >> all right. >> wouldn't make a lot of sense to vote for this guy regardless of what's in his background. >> i would like to clarify our fight which you still get wrong, still get it wrong today. it's unbelieva

>> let's talk with katherine ward, who says wall street should fear a return by eliot spitzer, but andrews the day of spitzer striking fear into the hearts of bankers, they are over. thank you both for joining us. katherine, he's watched the poll results for anthony wiener here in new york, who himself was disgraced, had to leave congress, and is now running for mayor and leading the pack here. nothing's lost on eliot spitzer, right? >> i guess not. i mean, personally, i think wall street and maybe new yorkers in general should be afraid of anybody who finds the private sector so awful, so unappealing that even after this incredible disgrace, even after, you know, he's sort of a punchline nationally, he still wants to try again for office. you know, boy have rather seen him kind of take his talents into the private sector and leave the rest of us alone, but i think it's not to be. >> yeah, katherine, it would almost seem notoriety these days is one way to ensure your name recognition stays out there. it gives you an advantage over lesser-known rivals. >> spitzer was famous, especially dur

here to tell us is candidate for new york city comptroller eliot spitzer. elliott, thank you for coming. good to see you. (cheers and applause) >> thank you. >> stephen: okay, elliott, you also got a book here. >> i do. >> stephen: it's call product tecting capitalism case by case. we'll get to that later. >> can we do that now. >> stephen: elliott. >> yes, sir. >> stephen: what is a comptroller. what does a comptroller do. >> i thought you were going to tell me. that's why i showed up. this is actually a hugely important position. you control or have a say in the investment of over 140 billion dollars of pension dollars that are the pensions for forming municipal wormer-- workers, you see overthe the budget, you see that the tax dollars are used for the purpose-- you seem so intent in listening. >> stephen: no, i do, it's good to know. given a position of this responsibility, shouldn't the job of comptroller go to someone who has shown a modicum of self-comptrol. (applause) >> you are right. >> stephen: why-- why, why should, why should the people trust ne

this time eliot spitzer. not teasing. this is "way too early." >>> good morning, everybody. you go away for a holiday weekend and a lot happens. we want to get you up to speed on stories we're following. starting from the latest of the investigation of the plane crash in san francisco. the pilot of flight 214 was still in, quote, training for the boeing 777 when he attempted to land the aircraft on saturday. the coroner was investigating to see if one of the fatalities was caused by an emergency vehicle respond i responding to the scene. let's get to danielle leigh in san francisco. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, brian. wreckage from the plane is still sitting on the runway this morning. behind me, it's a stark reminder of chaos from saturday. investigators are going to be going through that debris piece by piece today. the black box is offering clues about what went wrong. amidst the charred remains, they obtained the black blocox. it calls for them calling for increased speeds. seconds before impact, the crew unsuccessfully tries to aboard the landing. >> the app

democratic governor eliot spitzer is trying for a comeback. he launched a petition campaign today in a bid to become new york city's comptroller. >> john: that's right, eliot spitzer is running for office again, and i've got to say, that is a bold move for man still living down the hideous, embarrassing, career-killing incident where he and a... i don't even know how to say this. you must remember, he co-hosted a cnn show with kathleen parker. [laughter] the shame he put his family through. oh, and of course there was also that thing when he banged a bunch of prostitutes with his socks on. it's because of that last little sexual snafu that spitzer kicked off his campaign by going on jay leno for his official hugh grant memorial prostitute apology tour. >> how did you make this big a blunder? >> big a blundzer? that's a very nice way of putting it. but i don't think blupsder is the right word. there it's not like spitzer accidentally tripped and fell dong first into a prostitute on

we saw a survey this week that showed eliot spitzer 11 points over his opponent. the manhattan borough president, who is not a household name. and you're seeing anthony weiner also inching up in the polls. the longtime frontrunner was the speaker of the city council, christine quinn, also not a household name outside of new york city but now you're seeing weiner in one poll in first place, another poll in second place. gwen: is it that voters have gotten used to the coarsening of politics and don't care anymore? >> i don't know if that's true. there are so many variables that go into these kind of races. you mentioned mark sanford. the former governor of south carolina who had an extramarital affair in office and misled the voters. mitt romney won that state by 18 points. he had a weak democratic candidate who had never run for office before and the voters in that district, all they saw was republican and democrat. not so much mark sanford's past. as one voter said it's not like he committed murder or something. >> is that the standard? criminality? these things h

both eliot spitzer and anthony wiener have a lot of support among the black community. ok at spitzer's numbers 61% support eliot spitzer, 26% got stringer, 2% wouldn't vote and 10% don't know. cenk: huge lead. huge, his lead powered by african-americans in new york city which is awesome. >> when it comes to -- i think i can explain this. they both have got amazing name recognition and prostitutes vote. >> damn. cenk: damn. so anthony wiener is up among african-americans, that is a bigger lead than among whites. right? this goes to my overall theory, women, black, new york city residents overall. i think they view wiener less so but certainly eliot spitzer as oh, yeah, that's the guy who fought for the little guy. in the back of their mind, you know, in the back of their mind, that they would think like that's the guy who stand up for the banks and nobody ever stands up for us. they think i'm going for spitzer. >> that was going to be my point, it's because we're not by the way the overplay of the school impropriety card is mundane. all have done it. it's the only ones wh

so they wanted eliot spitzer's campaign and for new york city comptroller a former new york governor resigned after a prostitution scandal and two thousand and eight he told the times over the weekend i am hopeful they'll be forgiveness i am asking for it but has the big apple exterminated this worm for good in light of his recent endeavors let's revisit the profile of eliot spitzer he was raise an affluent area of new york city and walk the halls us. some of the most prestigious universities he received as an undergrad from princeton university and a law degree from harvard to prevailing in academia he went on to conquer white collar crime in the manhattan district attorney's office he became the chief of the labor racketeering unit and led the investigation and that brought down the gambino mafia on an organized crime scene sting he soon took an interest in politics and successfully ran for attorney general this is where he dug himself the sheriff of wall street where you played an untraditional role and prosecuted the federal cases against the most powerful firms on wall street us

eliot spitzer said he was going to come after him and he would pay dearly for defending another businessmane pages of our newspaper. i once spoke to mr. spitzer and he -- in essence called me not a very polite name myself. so i know this is how he operates. >> you use the phrase here. >> we are a family network. >> exactly. >> these politicians are very clever because had ask for forif i haveness which as dorothy said puts the burden on voters. what they ought to be saying, because it is what they are asking, is that trust me again. despite the fact i broke the law and i lied and i misused my power and abused everything, this time i won't do it. when you put it that way it is much harder to think they should be re-elected. >> is something particular here about new york that this -- these folks are coming to the fore here. >> oh, yes. i was watching those people gather here. and -- protect him, mr. weiner. they were like grand sxhoers gra mothers and grandfathers. transcendent passion and everybody is going to forgive these people. using this forgiveness as eliot spitzer is doing, have to ta

eliot spitzer is not releasing tax returns. told mitt romney he had to release his tax returns but eliot operates for what's good for eliot and the rest of us have to play by the rules. the more we get the issues out and talk about integrity, talk about leadership and experience, i believe i'll win this race and i'm very confident and we're getting a tremendous response out on the streets throughout the city. i'm out in every neighborhood. i'm shaking hands talking to voters, and i think that's going to matter on primary day. >> are we going to see any bolder, surprising moves from you to try to grab the spotlight? because you're on the program with us now, but i have seen spitzer all over the airwaves since this announcement was made. it's the voters in new york that matter. i know you're out there shaking hands, but anything we're going to see you do to shake this race up? >> the way i'm going to shake the race is up by doing it the old-fashioned way. i'm going to talk about what people care about in new york city. look, we'r

this is possible and how it might add we talked to the partner of public citizen finally we have eliot spitzer who resigned in disgrace in two thousand and eight just as a plight anshul panic was heating up well he's back and he's looking to oversee new york's one hundred forty billion dollars city pension plan you won't be able to bring charges of things cool dry so. find out what's in your prime interest. you might. elementary school lesson how would bill becomes a law the law or statute is an act of by congress it's usually somewhat vague by design but what happens after it's passed it's up to government regulators to make specific rules or regulations to implement the law this rule making process goes on usually with the help of the very entities that are being regulated now that's why j.p. morgan attends all those meetings with this you have to see and it's to see it to see the commodity futures trading commission that has been charged with writing the dodd frank rules that deal with derivatives this is a seven hundred trillion dollar industry well dodd frank just celebrated its three yea

this is possible and how it might add we talked to part naylor a public citizen finally we have eliot spitzer who resigned in disgrace in two thousand and eight just as applied anshul panic was heating up well he's back and he's looking to oversee new york one hundred forty billion dollars city pension plan he won't be able to bring charges or things cool right so. find out what's in your prime interest. you by it. elementary school lesson how would bill becomes a law the law or statute is an act of by congress it's usually somewhat vague by design but what happens after it's passed it's up to government regulators to make specific rules or regulations to implement the law this rule making process goes on usually with the help of the very entities that are being regulated now that's why j.p. morgan attends all those meetings with the c f t c and it's a c f t c the commodity futures trading commission that has been charged with writing the dodd frank rules that deal with derivatives this is a seven hundred trillion dollar industry well dodd frank just celebrated its three year anniversary and

they felt the pressure of eliot spitzer on wall street.you haven't seen the movie "client nine." you should see the movie "client nine." >> it will anger you. >> i don't know what motivates anyone to public office. i always hope it's a sense of public service and they want to make a difference. spitzer did make a difference. now it's in this odd way. he comes from the highest heights, after all maybe he wants to make a political difference and a public service difference in the state of new york. >> the things he did, of course, were wrong, of course? maybe in that aspect he can come back as a smarter better person to run for office. i mean, sometimes--i think he mentioned sometimes you get up with your own hype in what you think you can get away with. >> and you feel you're invincible. >> and maybe even though it was a witch-hunt, maybe he can come back, and there isn't really anything else they can come after him for. they've already done that. we've played those cards. it's over now. they can't hit him on that again. >> it's funny, you'

eliot spitzer didn't make a lot of friends but eliot spitzer would come up to you and talk and engagend wasn't afraid to come on the show. i think we're going to see a big difference between how eliot spitzer tries his comeback and anthony weiner tries had is. >> there's something else which you have mentioned which is eliot spitzer is going for a lesser office than he held before. he's kind of starting more in the beginning if you will, whereas anthony weiner is going for an office that is ten times bigger than anything he ever aspired to before. >> and by the way, the question answers itself and -- which is, well, you know, if you get elected, you haven't paid at all. you're back in public service. comptroller of new york city instead of governor of new york state. i think it does show -- >> sure. >> the other question for weiner is if you get elected, why? what do you want to do? why do you want to be mayor of new york? i'm not sure he's answered that question to my satisfaction. then again i don't vote in new york state. >> i think spitzer has one of the good things with this, is

in the former new york attorney general eliot spitzer you won't want to miss what she does up on him then i will do all the breaking the sets many of us follow all of these astounding cause of all these wiretaps we've been hearing about as well as c.e.o. bonuses. i would rather as questions for people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question more. on the. record every doctor from the field that you won't find it here if you're looking for relevant stories unique perspectives on top my scans. all right i'm back with more from bart naylor we were just talking about eliot spitzer i'd like to correct myself is one hundred forty billion dollar pension fund that he wants to oversee what are his handicap his odds here of getting this position what is he well i know the voters as well as anybody in new york as well as anybody raised in idaho would know them so i don't know if he's going to win this position but the new york controller is already one of the more active shareholder proponents br

new york governor eliot spitzer resigned from office in march of 2008 because of his relationship with a prostitute. today, we learned that spitzer is making an attempt for a second political act, announcing that he will run for new york city comptroller. this year has seen former political stars sidelined from public life as a result of their own personal behavior and misjudgments launch campaigns for redemption and for public office once again. mark sanford, the disgraced former governor of south carolina, who left the state on taxpayer funds to travel to argentina to visit his mistress in 2009 recently won election to the house. former congressman anthony weiner left congress in 2011, after sexual pictures of him surfaced on twitter. after two years of elusiveness, weiner now finds himself neck in neck, if not leading the race for mayor of new york city. spitzer like weiner and sanford is gambling that voters will forgive him. and look beyond his previous misconduct five years after leaving public office. former governor and now candidate eliot spitzer joins me now. governor, does r

allen dershowitz once taught eliot spitzer at harvard law and spitzer worked for him as a research assistant with regard to the investigation, dershowitz once told me, "they used 5,000 wiretaps, intercepted 6,000 e-mails. every hour spent on going after prostitution is an hour that could have been spent on going after terrorists and people who victimize." which is not to say spitzer shouldn't have emerged from his escapades unscathed, but the discipline should have come from within his own family. there's another argument. some among us are never going to find companionship for a variety of reasons. their solitary existence, the constant barrage of sexual stimulation we see every day on television, on billboards, in our mailboxes and the form of fashion catalogs. it can't be healthy for some people to feel the amassed pressure of such images and have their personal expectations go unfulfilled. yesterday when i asked spitzer whether he believed we should legalize prostitution, he demured, i won't, we should. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" starts

late night comedians are not waiting to have their say. >> eliot spitzer, and you remember him, he was caught freaking prostitutes several years ago is running for office again in new york. his campaign slogan is spitzer creating jobs by the hour. >> they never forget headlines like these, but five years later will they for give? >> i think five years is long enough for me to go to the public and ask them to for give. will they? i don't want to protect. just as i would never predict a jury verdict, i never predicted elections and i don't want to predict what the public will do, and i asked for it and if the public is willing i want to serve. that's the most i can ask for and if i get that opportunity i will be happy. >> there's also a feeling, in new york and elsewhere, that you had your chance as governor of new york, and you had your chance and you blew it. why do you deserve another trust for another chance? >> we accomplished an enormous amount, not only when i was attorney general. we did not raise taxes. we performed health care and put in place and created the stem cell research

eliot spitzer was the sheriff of wall street. were tradingt after hours, he got them 11 convictions, $4 billion in fines. he is the one person that did bring some law and order to wall street and stopped the greed. wall other words, hating street trumps everything. >> performance and prosecution of the law. >> performance in the washington hotel? does that count? >> i do not know his performance. by any othera coup name. thousands of protesters marched this weekend to demand a return of president morsi, this is one week after the army coup to depose him. the white house refuses to call this a coup. why? >> that video that you showed up carney at the white house is painful to watch because it automatically triggers a cutoff of aid and they do not know what they're what to do about this. they do not want to cut out aid, but if there is a coup, you have to. >> they have to figure it out soon, and they have to figure out what to do with syria. >> they have figured it out, but now apparently, the house and senate, intelligence and for

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allen dershowitz once taught eliot spitzer at harvard law and spitzer worked for him as a research assistantd to the investigation, dershowitz once told me, "they used 5,000 wiretaps, intercepted 6,000 e-mails. every hour spent on going after prostitution is an hour that could have been spent on going after terrorists and people who victimize." which is not to say spitzer shouldn't have emerged from his escapades unscathed, but the discipli discipline should have come from within his own family. there's another argument. some among us are never going to find companionship for a variety of reasons. their solitary existence, the constant barrage of sexual stimulation we see every day on television, on billboards, in our mailboxes and the form of

eliot spitzer's on the show. like, "do you need someone to escort -- i mean, show you the room -- show you where --" [ laughter ] some huge movie news. it just was announced that superman and batman will actually be starring in their first movie together. [ scattered cheers ] yeah. oddly enough, the movie is "fifty shades of grey." [ laughter ] but still, i just think it's exciting. getting a lot of buzz. no, really. superman and batman really will appear on screen together for the first time ever. and according to rumors, they're apparently going to play enemies and even fight each other. [ audience oohs ] yeah. in fact, things are already getting pretty tense. take a look at this recent exchange they had on twitter. first, superman tweeted, "i hear we're going to be fighting each other in my new film." and batman tweeted, "my? lol, your unitard must be too tight because you're talking crazy. it's my film, not yours." [ laughter ] and superman wrote back, "well, at least i don't pad my tights #everyoneknowsyoust

a few moments with new york city comptroller eliot spitzer. take it away, eliot. ♪ >> huge, enormous, massive, nuts, bigger, bigger, too big, thrust, it goes deeper than a that, a stick is a rhinoceros. i think he's on to something. >> is that how we're starting the show this morning? >> my god. >> it is wednesday wednesday, july 10th, as you look at an empty summertime square. with us on set mike barnicle, former communications director for george w. bush and former senior adviser to mccain presidential campaign nicolle wallace, the former chair of the rnc michael steele and political analyst visiting professor at nyu, former democratic congressman from the great state of tennessee mr. harold ford jr. >> good morning, sir. >> good morning. >> joe and mika have the morning off. start right there. eliot spitzer on this program, nicole you were here, took some tough questions from joe and mika and from mark halperin. how did you think he did? >> look, it felt like a very genuine moment and i think we all know that doesn't happen very often in pol

so this was not lost on eliot spitzer.s to run for your -- for the position that you're running for at this point. do you think it's wise on your part to ignore him completely and merely say what you would bring to the table, or do you have to go after him and show people why you would be a better comptroller than eliot spitzer? >> i have -- >> you're killing us here with reciting your statistics. i get what you're doing. >> well, i'm talking about my record. >> is that the best campaign strategy to go after a guy that will make headlines by just showing up? >> listen, the real issue here, he's not participating in the campaign refinance program. so he'll try to buy this office. this office is not for sale. in that regard, we are contrasting. i'm going to talk about my vision for the city. i'm going to talk about my record of integrity, because at the end of the day, every election is about how you trust to fight for you. and the fact that i'm on this show -- i know you've tried to get me on for many years -- >> and now yo

former governor and now candidate eliot spitzer joins me now.overnor, does running now mean that resigning was unwarranted? >> no, i think what it means is that -- and when i resigned, i felt very deeply that i had violated the public trust. i needed to act in accordance with my view that accountability means something, so i resigned. there were some people who said try to hang on, try to stay in office. i said no. i must resign. i've spent five years teaching, had some tv shows that are interesting. i have written. i have run our family business. have a book coming out next week that is a discussion of many of the market principles that drove what i did when i was attorney general. so five years later, i think i can ask forgiveness. i can say to the public, look at the entirety of my record as attorney general, as a prosecutor, as governor. i have erred, i have acknowledged it, i have sinned, i make no denial of that. i am asking for an opportunity to come back and serve, which is what i love to do. >> how long have you known that you would get

i asked eliot spitzer saying, if he could come back, i can come back. he insist that's two cases are entirely different and separate, but i suspect so. >> michael: people thought that eliot spitzer didn't have a political future. rick perry said he won't run for that seat. does he have a political future. you think eliot spitzer has one what about rick perry. >> he left the door open to running for president again. because that worked so well the last time. i think we've seen the end of rick perry. as one person who is not ready for the national stage, it's rick perry and he proves it. >> michael: doesn't it take the country to leave the door open on that one? it's not up to rick perry. the country closed the door on that pre-precise precisely. thanks, bill press for coming on the show. >>> putting the country under wraps, he's looking at technology to offset the stupid crisis. if that sounds harsh wait until you meet katie stack. she'll share their footage from health centers to find out what kind of advice women were getting. >>> and then later the ga

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anthony weiner and eliot spitzer are both back in the running. itics on tonight's "feed frenzy." spitzer's return. just when you thought new york city politics couldn't get any backier with disgraced former congressman anthony weiner running for mayor and doing well in the polls, we learn that fellow sex scandaler eliot spitzer is now running for comptroller. and get this. former governor spitzer, who resigned when it was revealed he was client number 9 of a high-priced call girl ring, is opposed by none other than the manhattan madame, kristen davis, who went to prison for providing him and others with high-class call girls. he walked away a free man. now she may be able to even the score. as for experience, we know they both understand supply and demand. >>> confirmed bachelor? sometimes the stars align and a beautiful celebrity couple is born. and then sometimes stars collide and break up into millions of little pieces. george clooney and stacy keibler have reportedly split up after two years of dating. a potential cause for the strife, keibler

in new york, we have anthony weiner and eliot spitzer doing very well in their respective races. does this tell us? >> i think what it means, in order to be really successful, a politician has to go through a sex scandal, what other conclusion can you draw? you have eliot spitzer who is now shooting up in the polls as he's running for city comptroller. anthony weiner running for mayor and we know the story of mark sanford, and any number of politicians over time. i think to be serious about it, i think what happens, the politicians have something very valuable after they gone this kind of thing and it's name recognition. >> i appreciate your time this morning. bob franken. >> thank you. >>> coming up, we'll have first buzz, all of the stories that caught our eyes today. thanks. today, we'd like people to come together on something that concerns all of us. obesity. and as the nation's leading beverage company, we can play an important role. that includes continually providing more options. giving people easy ways to help make informed choices. and offering portion controlled versi