. >> and a lot of folks, no doubt, will want to see if his wife, houma abedin, is standing at his sidepress conference or not. we'll stand by and see if she's there or not. jeffrey toobin is our legal analyst. he's joining us. any evidence at all, any suspicion at all that any criminal activity, any criminal wrongdoing occurred here other than a lot of stupid activity? >> none at all that i'm aware of. i mean, as you say, this is stupid. it is embarrassing. it is not surprisingly leading to the end of his political career, but in terms of criminal behavior or even the possibility of any sort of a civil lawsuit, i don't see it. i think he will be able to try to start his life anew, just in another line of work. >> the investigation from the house ethics committee that nancy pelosi asked for, now that he's resigning from congress, do you know what happens with that investigation? is it over with, or do the members continue? >> no, it ends, as war as i'm aware. the ethics committee only has jurisdiction over sitting members of congress. once he leaves the investigation is over, and even i

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

. >> 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