explaining first and foremost that he apologized to his wife houma.e been married for a little bit less than one year, and as many of our viewers know that she is pregnant with their first child. john king, you were just watching together with all. other viewers who are out there. you know, a lot of us thought he was just going to issue a statement on paper. he came out and made the statement to his constituents and to all of us, but he didn't stick around for questions which was probably smart. >> probably smart for him. can you tell that was a feisty room. there was at least one heckler int who interrupted. the fact that he said here in this senior citizens center is where i began my political career, i think some will take from that that he's trying to close a circle and close this chapter and say he's done with his congressional career. he did say he wants to find ways to continue to contribute, that he hoped he'd be forgiven by his constituents. are there seeds of a potential anthony weiner comeback in that? sure, can you make that conclusion if

it was like houma pregnant, pregnant, pregnant.aid, we've gotten a little carried away. >> the breitbart thing, his moral outrage was what got me. he got this one right. the shirley sherrod one, he libelled someone pretty badly. him trying to say weiner's family? >> let's ask you about the pregnancy thing. politico reported that it had the story that weiner's wife was pregnant, held it for a day, that friends of houma said she did not want this reported. she's still in the first trimester. "the new york times" had discussions about whether they should do this. isn't that -- i mean, i don't know, it will come out eventually, but isn't that a tremendous invasion of her privacy when she had nothing to do with her husband's antics? >> well, i think that would be a tough call. i didn't realize she was saying she didn't want it out because, again, this is totally reported, that she may want him to stay on. that they may be talking that way. unfortunately, i don't think the media did this to her. i think that unfortunately he brought her

we talked about his wife, houma abdean.'s overseas with clinton right now and nbc news confirmed she's pregnant. we haven't heard from her at all during the scandal. we see a new photo of her husband, congressman anthony weiner. this is the one the conservative blogger who broke the story says he wasn't going to release is now on the internet. someone he showed the photo to snapped a picture of it, he didn't know and it's on a website for all to see. this has become a big issue here on capitol hill. not only republicans, now seven democrats, at least, are telling him he needs to step down. he says he's not going to stop serving the people of new york. he wants to hold on to his job. pressure is mounting on him and his colleagues. republicans saying the democrats who accepted campaign contributions from him need to give them back. laura. >> amazing. amazing. it keeps coming out on this. thank you very much. it is 6:43 now. still talking politics. see the guy in the middle? "30 rock" star alec baldwin may take over for anthon

. >> houma is a friend of yours, the congressman's wife. she did not stand up at the press conference yesterday but here is a woman who was by all accounts pursued by a lot of men, extremely attractive. you it don't get to be hillary clinton's aide -- why would you cheat on her? >> we've said that time and time again. why would he cheat on her. who among us could say how we would handle something like this unless we were in it. for anthony in the survivability, you take a step back, shut your mouth and let the work speak for you. there's nothing he could say making us feel differently. similarly what clinton did. let the work speak for what he wanted to accomplish. >> thanks so both of you. congressman weiner's political future is in jeopardy. how do you come back from a humiliating public scandal. more details at the half. >>> an out of control wildfire continues to grow in eastern arizona, prompting more evacuations. the fires are being stoked by windy conditions and dry lightning and they can be seen as far away as iowa. several resort t

we know his wife, houma abedin, she's lovely. she works for the secretary of state hillary clinton. and it is a tragic story. a fall from power, a fall from grace. he's been humiliated and it is sad all around to see what's happened. having said all that, i wouldn't necessarily rule out the possibility that at some point down the road, maybe a year, five years, who knows, he'll try for a political comeback. i sense it is almost in his dna. he would like to do it. we'll see how he cope with the personal problems first though. >> watching his resignation speech it was carefully crafted. it was quite political. it was almost like a comeback speech in waiting. were you surprised by the tone of it? >> i was surprised that he did it, frankly, to begin with. i thought he would resign, issue a piece of paper and make a written statement, if you will. he came out there, spoke for about four minutes. you heard the one heckler heckling him. he didn't answer any questions, and he immediately went back to deal with his personal issues right now. but he did it. he went to that senior citizens cen

i make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents but i make it particularly to my wife houma. today i'm announcing my resignation from congress. >> yeah. bye-bye, pervert. >> so my colleagues can get back to work. my neighbors can choose a new representative. >> better than you. >> and most importantly that my wife and i can continue to heal from the damage i have caused. >> weiner stepped down before the house possibly voted to censure oh, pell him, before the ethics committee voted, before it even issued a report with no evidence that he even broke any laws. he apparently didn't get physical with his online partners, never met them. seem with weiner's republican colleague chris lee who posted this shot on craigslist earlier this year looking for companionship and then there was larry craig in the bathroom stall. he pled guilty to disorderly conduct and stuck it out and finished his term. new york representative charles rangel was accused of 13 ethics charges and he was re-elected. david vitter admitted, to quote, a very serious sin and asked forgiveness. he stayed in the sen

. >> mary and noticeably absent, his wife, houma abedin. she returned from her trip to the uae, africa yesterday morning. she was in washington and spotted with her husband earlier today outside of their apartment in queens. we know she's also pregnant with his first child. a lot of questions with regard to that marriage as well. >> there are, and, you know, brooke, we've been talking about this the past couple of weeks. everything that we know about her is that she is extremely private, so there's some people who are not surprised that she was not here today for this press conference, but certainly, you know, people that i've been talking to in his district anyway, have been talking about him on a very personal level. they say that they are sorry for him and his personal life, but some of them felt that he had no choice but to step down, and they felt he could not be effective. >> mary, you cover politics for us and i'm going to throw this at you and one of the questions is what about weiner's future? there was a special election in new yo

i'm deeply sorry for the pain this has caused my wife houma and our family. >> reporter: and with that after lie came to an end. after a parade of interviews and more than a week of denials, wiener admitted there was no hacker on his twitter account. the recently-married congressman said he sent numerous lewd pictures of himself and had inappropriate conversations with about half a dozen women. including 26-year-old megan brus ard of texas. >> i just thought at the time there has to be something. there is way more girls out there. this is not just me. >> reporter: and there were more. but wiener intends to weather the scandal if he can. >> but i'm not resigning and i'll try hard to go back to work a better person and a better man and i'm going to try to be a better husband too. >> reporter: even fellow democrats are keeping their distance. house minor leader nancy pelosi called for an ethics investigation to see if wiener broke any house rules. he is up for re-election next year in a heavily democratic district. he might survive, but a man who once seemed destined for much bigger thing

. >> reporter: the ultimate judge, of course, of this breach is weiner's wife, houma abdine.delity? yes, say experts. it's the same slog as physical infidelity. it's first understanding what that person did wrong and wanting to fix whatever was going on psychologically. >> all right, claire. >>> joining us from los angeles, is dr. wendy walsh. and joining us from boston, dr. terry real. i want to start with a tweet i just received. it says, unfortunately, this is a sign of the times. this will be an ongoing issue with technology the way it is now. sad. how do you respond to that? >> absolutely. it is the beginning of it. it's a new frontier. when it's a new frontier, we have to make new rules, right? in the beginning, it seems to be the wild, wild west, and a free-for-all with no boundaries. if your brain is getting a sexual charge out of it. it's not anonymous porn. it's not like taking a sexual feeling and putting it into your relationship. this is another human being at the other end of that text. that's a relationship. sorry. that's a relationship. >> that's what people a

really on pins and needles because of the fact that his wife, as you mentioned, human th houma abidine is back is there were those making that decision until he coo look her in the eye and talk theory about his fate. it's a holding pattern, for sure. >> holding pattern there on the hill. i know you've been talking to folks on both sides of the aisle in the last two weeks saying you're calling on hresignation, we heard from the president saying if this were he, he would resign. and now this former porn star, this dancer, coming forward. does this carry any more weight? >> it's hard to imagine any more pressure that anthony weiner has gotten to resign. i spoke to one democratic congressman calling for weiner to resign and he said this, when everybody from the president of the united states to a porn star says you should resign, you should resign. that pretty much sums it up. we were outside of a meeting of house democrats yesterday. it's just one after the other of the other of his colleagues. saying they want to keep the pressure on him to resign. i want to make sure, not everybody is s