steve kornacki and kelly goff. kelly, i think you're on this beat. let's take a look at this woman, her name is sydney leathers. i guess that's her real name on "inside edition." here's what she had to say. >> i felt manipulated. >> why? >> because obviously, i felt like you know, he's saying one thing to me, saying another thing to his wife, saying another thing on the campaign trail. i don't know who the real anthony weiner is i guess. i really truly believe that he needs some help. and i'm not saying that in a condescending way. i really think that he has some issues that he needs to work out. and i don't think he's fit to be mayor of new york city. >> when did things turn dark and dirty? >> very quickly. >> who prompted that? >> him. >> so anthony weiner moved your conversation from professional to dirty? >> yes. >> well, that's putting it directly. let me go to kelly on this. you know, i guess i don't like the line of questioning. i guess it's inevitable what happened here. you ask is this guy decent enough to be mayor. today he says once again

steve kornacki and kelly goff. kelly, i think you're on this beat. let's take a look at this woman, her name is sydney leathers. i guess that's her real name on "inside edition." here's what she had to say. >> i felt manipulated. >> why? >> because obviously, i felt like you know, he's saying one thing to me, saying another thing to his wife, saying another thing on the campaign trail. i don't know who the real anthony weiner is i guess. i really truly believe that he needs some help. and i'm not saying that in a condescending way. i really think that he has some issues that he needs to work out. and i don't think he's fit to be mayor of new york city. >> when did things turn dark and dirty? >> very quickly. >> who prompted that? >> him. >> so anthony weiner moved your conversation from professional to dirty? >> yes. >> well, that's putting it directly. let me go to kelly on this. you know, i guess i don't like the line of questioning. i guess it's inevitable what happened here. you ask is this guy decent enough to be mayor. today he says once again

joining me now is joanne reid the managing editor of g, rirks o.com and msnbc contributor and kelly goff is with us and jonathan capehart is an msnbc contributor and writer for "the washington post" and jed. we have a big panel to get to today. i want to make sure we do everything with great detail and with great justice for everybody. first i want to start off with joanne. the president was calling for calm in reaction to this. and inserting himself in a diplomatic way whereas before the charges were filed against george zimmerman he made that famous statement if i had a son he would look like trayvon. how i do think the president has done with looking at what this means and the fracture of what it means for how race works in our country? >> yeah. i think it's interesting that the martin incident happened at the time we have an african-american president who can speak to the black people's elementary. if he had a son he would look like trayvon. once the president inserted himself it became doing mattic. that is unfortunately i think it polarized the process and especially in sanford whe

out front tonight, kelly goff, political correspondent from the root.com and melinda hatchet.ay the president was asked about the reaction by trayvon martin's parents, and i want to play what jay carney said. >> when he will next address these matters in some regard, it's up to the people who interview him, but he is drbg he hasn't shied away from these issuesed in past and i'm sure he won't in the future. >> he's referring to interviews the president conducted this week with hispanic networks on immigrati immigration, where none of the anchors asked him about this issue. we know the president doesn't need an interview from a television network. when this case first got national attention, he said, if i had a son, he would look like trayvon in a rose garden news conference. so if he wanted to talk about it, he would. >> that's why i found jay carney's comments would have been laughable if it weren't such a serious topic. frankly, his response to me reminded me of that moment when dukakis famously lost a presidential debate when he was asked his opinion on the death penalty, an

kimberly cutter is editor-in-chief of harper's bizarre and kelly goff a special correspondent for the root. i don't have a judgment. this is one time where i'm watching not deciding yet. but i do think that men, maybe women too, make this gut judgment, well, it's all about loyalty and love, not about self-direction and independent thinking and independent judgment and independent sort of direction setting in a public manner like running for mayor of new york. where do you put it, kelly, this judgment? is it judgment, love, ambition? self-protectioning? survival? where do you put it. >> can i choose d, all of the above? as i said in my column for the she the people blog on the "washington post," look, i many an a huge admirer of huma but for her to say this is between us, it would be if he weren't running for office right now. they've decided to make it between all of us because as a new york voter and taxpayer, i would be his employer if he became mayor. he's one big long job interview. the questions becomes for me, the only analogy i can draw is lindsay lohan. when she kept doing fil