how does jeff weiner the hers and about this, not the ceo, but you. does it sting? jeff: there was some surprise. you want to make sure you are there for the people who better most areas are we still able to create value for our customers? nothing whatsoever has changed in that regard. you want to make sure that our employees are ok. there are number of us who have worked at companies that have gone through similar things. some of the most valuable companies in the world through significant corrections. they never lose sight of the long-term sense of purpose or vision. it is about continuing to execute. that is where we want to continue to be focused. "linkedin is at best a business card holder, and, at worst, spam you go how do you spam."to that -- how do you react to that? offeringhink our core has never been stronger. we continue to see gains in engagement. that is what it is all about. emily: do you think you can read celery growth? over that is the objective time as we continue to execute you want to build into opportunities. emily: has this impacted more out at

are some questions now about whether they would be better served as an independent company but jeff weinerust know something we don't about the future and thought it would be faster growth joining with microsoft. cory: victor, will it be faster growth? victor: i think it's certainly may be. with the balance sheet and the talent they have could accelerate the growth aspect. it, i do think so, i think was a wise acquisition by microsoft. cory: you see the numbers are really solid. we have some bloomberg charts. monthly active users, there was growth. it was not great. we are looking at those numbers of how many monthly active users they had, they grew at a slow pace. look at the sequential growth quarter,quarter over and i think that is the right way to do it. those growth numbers are a lot less than last quarter. nearly as anemic as the quarter before that. 18%or: you are still up year over year and it outperformed street expectations. cory: i could not agree with you more. sarah: the thing to look at thath is this is a company may be in more of a twitter position where people are not too o

weiner. >> stand by. don't go anywhere, jeff. at about anthony weiner in all of this as everyone is working on their reaction and public statements, has he got one? >> we reached out to him. the post got him for this. he was very sort of -- he didn't say a whole lot except to say we have been friends for some time, responding to this woman, this 40 ye 40-year-old woman from out west, the conversations were private, and he said, interestingly enough, that they were always appropriate referring to their conversations. so this is somebody who clearly just has an issue knowing where the line is nem with regard to sort of sexting and the conversations that he has. i think that "the post" putting that picture on the cover with his son sleeping next to him dressed only in his underwear -- >> and referring to the son. not just accidentally getting caught in the shot, look who just crawled into bed with me as he's having a sexual conversation and showing his lower torso. >> and so to "the post" it appears that anthony weiner basically admi

it's been very tough -- >> we do know anthony weiner has taken down his twitter account. jeff to bring you in. anthony weiner's in a different place this third time. first, he was a member of congress. so public interest there. second, he be was running for mayor so there was public interest there. now he's really the spouse, he's the spouse of huma abedin would is a central player, like one of the most important players in the hillary clinton campaign. tell us more now about what she is saying and what she intends to do going forward. >> john, he is more than a spouse. he is a central player of course. huma abedin, you cannot understate the importance of her to the hillary clinton campaign. there's no one who is at the candidate's right hand more often than huma abedin, everything she does, policy meetings, fund-raisers. she's in hamptons, new york, on a fund-raising swing. huma was by her side yesterday. she released a short statement. she said, after a long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, i have made the decision to separate from my husband. anthony and i

first of all, jeff, deal with anthony weiner. why is mr. trump going on the attack with this?hat is hillary's vulnerability with huma abedin? >> well, you know, anthony weiner is sort of the gift that keeps giving for republicans in one sense. as much much as we all don't want to think about anthony weiner's weiner, it keeps popping up every few years and we can't get away from it it's out there on twitter and amazing how he can't keep that things under wraps. stuart: but trump is attacker anthony weiner's proximity to hillary clinton herself. i mean, only one step removed and that one step is huma abedin. >> right, who will have a prominent role in the white house should hillary clinton win. and i think that's important. it's to look at the judgment of the people around her. not only is that, it's a personal matter that, you know, but look at the professional matter of the e-mails that are coming out right now, and then some more were just released that shows huma's roll in the pay for play scandals and how close she was to those things. stuart: take me through the attack on

jeff, you are learning more about the more recent relationship between huma abedin and anthony weiner. >> i am. i'm told by friends close to the couple that they indeed had been heading apart that for the last several months or so they were essentially estranged. but huma abedin, i'm told, did not know anything about this specific photograph until this weekend. she learn bed it this weekend presumely after the new york post was seeking comment on this. anthony weiner was here in tht hamptons spending some time as the end of summer approaches here during big clinton fund-raising swing. he left abruptly after this was discovered and he went back into the city here jake. but we have not seen from huma abedin at all. she was at hillary clinton's side yesterday as she went from fund-raising event to fund-raising event. she has not been seen today at her fund-raising event. this is certainly a difficult personal situation for her and jake there is no one closer inside the campaign to hillary clinton than huma abedin. she can be sure this is a distraction internally as well. >> and jeff, wha

weiner finally deleted his twitter account. miguel marquez, cnn, new york. >> joining me with more, cnn's jeff zeleny. still had a twitter account boggles my mind. you got to feel for huma abedin. this is just horrific for her. do we know how, when did she find out exactly? >> she found out over the weekend, i'm told. actually, anthony weiner was here in the hamptons with huma abedin and their son jordan. i'm told when she found out about that photograph, when she saw that photograph, she was furious and sickened. those are two words used by friends of hers. she has known that he has been sexting over the years, of course. she's been busy with the presidential campaign but did not believe that he was doing this. so he left. she was off the campaign trail today. i cannot recall a day during this campaign, last year and a half or so of this campaign where she has not been at hillary clinton's side. she was not today. she was taking some time to herself. now, i also talked to some other friends of hers. the announcement this morning for the separation seemed kind of quick and sudden. they said actually t

jeffs ran the day-to-day operations of that polygamist sect. >>> well, it's happened yet again, and for the third time, former congressman anthony weiner caught his wife, huma abedin, who was hillary clinton's long time trusted aid, she's had enough. huma abedin is separating from her husband of seven years. the new york post caught anthony weiner's latest scandal, caught sexting with a 47-year-old divorcee, saying they have been in contact for 19 months but he is seen laying in underwear next to his toddler son. this has been roundly condemned, people grossed out by all of this. so far no response from weiner, but his twitter account has been deactivated. >> i wonder when twitter is going to say no more. >> his wife released a statement, saying i have made the decision to husband anthony and i remain devoted to what is best for our son, during this difficult time i ask for respect for our privacy. >>> taylor swift was at the mtv vma awards last night, sparking speculation as to why she wasn't at the event. today we found out taylor swift did have to report for jury duty in nashville how about it. >> that was the excuse she was giving. here's

jeff dewitt, thanks for being with us. >> thanks, gregg. martha: donald trump responding to anthony weiner'stime with attack on hillary clinton. why he says the situation could pose a security threat he believes. we'll tell you what he is talking about there. gregg: the threats from isis. why secretary of state john kerry says the media should do less reporting on terrorism. ♪ gregg: welcome back. a southwest airlines flight evacuated after a suspicious device found on board. it happened in albuquerque. it was headed to denver. the airline spokesperson said the passengers were taken to a where they were rescreened and allowed to reboard a few hours later. still unclear what led to the scare. nobody was injured. martha: donald trump weighing in on huma abedin's separation from her husband anthony weiner after the former congressman's latest sexting scandal hit the newspapers. he claims as abedine's status as long time hillary clinton aide could have given weiner to access to classified information when they were married. he said this in a statement. just another example of hillary clinton's b

jeff? >> reporter: don, the reaction was pretty swift this morning when huma abedin put out that statement that she is, indeed, separating from anthony weiner. this is not entirely a surprise. their relationship had been rocky recently, to say the least. some of her friends said they were estranged. others said they were simply going toward a path toward maybe splitting. she did not want this to be a distraction in the campaign and that, of course, is exactly what happened. but don, i am told when she learned of that specific photograph that you saw there on the cover of the "new york post" today, she was sickened and furious. those are two words that a friend used to describe her feeling there. and they were all out here in the hamptons, don, anthony weiner was here, huma abedin was here, their son, jordan, was here, spending a working weekend that exploded on them. huma abedin was out of public view today, was not at hillary clinton's side at all. a short time ago reporters asked hillary clinton about the whole situation and, don, not surprisingly, she declined to answer their questions. >> yes. she was sickened especially because her son

anthony weiner saw to it that this was at least a one day zravenlths donald trump would like it to be a longer one. we'll see if he gets his wish. erin? >> jeff zeleny, thank you. out front right now, maria cardona, whose firm does work for a clinton super pac. maria, huma abedin, you heard jeff reporting, on the path toward separation. obviously this is a horrific, embarrassing, humiliating thing that's happened. this could be another distraction to hillary clinton. that was her fear. she tried to keep this under wraps. clinton campaign not expected to address this or reply to donald trump. right strategy? >> absolutely. it was misguided, inconsiderate. in short, it was classic trump. a personal tragedy. most women's hearts will go out to huma. her and her son deserve nothing but respect and privacy. this is not an issue that should be politicized by any means and donald trump's trying to politicize it wreaks of desperation. he has seen the polls, the numbers and is trying to do anything to try to distract from the fact that people are understanding that he does not have the temperament to be president. ironically, things like this, actions