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is making its political comeback", richard wolffe, and columnist for the "wall street journal," kim strassel. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning. new developments this weekend concerning congressman anthony weiner after new online communications were revealed between him and a 17-year-old girl in delaware. his staff claiming, however, the contents were not explicit or indecent, but that news appeared to accelerate pressure from top democrats for him to resign. ignoring that pressure this weekend, the congressman issued a statement yesterday afternoon via his congressional office saying in part the following -- "congressman weiner departed this morning to seek professional treatment to focus on becoming a better husband and healthier person. in light of that, he will request a short leave of absence from the house of representatives so that he can get evaluated and map out a course of treatment to make himself well. congressman weiner takes the views of his colleagues very seriously and has determined that he needs this time to get healthy and make the best decisio

strassel of the "wall street journal." and john podesta, bill clinton's former white house chief of staff who now heads the center for american progress. well, kimth the "new york times" and the "wall street journal," i was amused to see yesterday, used exactly the same metaphor to describe the economy in may. "running out of steam." how much should we read in the may numbers? >> the white house right now is struggling to suggest we are still in the hangover phase of the 2008 financial crisis that we had. i think the bigger question is whether or not what we aren't seeing is the consequence of the white house policy, itself. you talk to anybody out there in the business community and what they say is uncertainty is absolutely killing us. a lot of it has been created by this administration. so, you know, trade deals that haven't been done in years. what is going to happen to spending? because businesses say look, if this deal doesn't get cut, it's big reforms aren't made, tax hikes are coming and we have to pay them. regulations from the health bill, from the e.p.a., from the dodd-frank financial regulation they don't know what is coming and they