mr. weiner has indicated he wants to take a leave. i would hope he does so. i hope he reflects upon whether or not he can proceed. it seems to me extraordinarily difficult that he can proceed to represent his constituents in an effective way, given the circumstances of this bizarre behavior. >> schieffer: you think he should resign. >> i think that certainly he has to consider that option. i don't see how he can proceed and effectively represent his constituency. >> schieffer: mr. ryan, republicans haven't said very much. there's an old saying in washington-- "don't get between a man and a firing squad." i take it that's what a lot of republicans have done. they stood back and let this thing happen. with congressional approval ratings down to 16%-- and that's lower than richard nixon's approval ratings when he was forced out of the white house-- it seems to me this is not just a problem for democrats. >> it's a problem for the institution. this is getting beyond ridiculous. i feel so sorry for huma and her family most of all. we have to get this behind us bec

mr. weiner had been deceitful last night, that he was a liar and that i believed his pants to be on fire. (laughter) although, luckily for the congressman, it appears he has a fire safety system on board. (laughter) anyway, for these reasons, unlike the congressman, i have decided to step down (audience reacts) no, everyone, please. no, no! i will turn the program over now to someone whose accent makes you believe you can trust him, john oliver. john? (cheers and applause) >> thank you. thank you, jon. (cheers and applause) thank you, jon, and please, please, before i continue, let me assure my viewers that from now on there will be no pusssying out. no offense. i solemnly promise to rip anthony weiner a new ass (blee (bleep). an (bleep) that even he would not text a picture of. why? because it would be so big it won't fit within twitter's 140-character limit. that sleazy mcjewfro will get no quarter from me. (laughter) >> we're... we're talking about the congressman, right? >> oh, yes, yes. okay, no problem, yeah. jon, i will hound him, i will mock him until his shame is visible. a bulge

mr. weiner had been deceitful last night, that he was a liar and that i believed his pants to be on fire. (laughter) although, luckily for the congressman, it appears he has a fire safety system on board. (laughter)to someone whose acces you believe you can trust him, john oliver. john? (cheers and applause) >> thank you. thank you, jon. (cheers and applause) thank you, jon, and please, please, before i contntntntntntp anthony weiner a new ass (blee (bleep). an (bleep) that even he would not text a picture of. why? because it would be so big it won't fit within twitter's 140-character limit. that sleazy mcjewfro will get no quarter from me. (laughter) >> we're... we're talking about the congressman, right? >> oh, yes, yes. okay, no problem, yeah. jon, i will hound him, i will mock him until his shame is visible. a bulge straining against a fabric of his being, begging to be released. but this time, weiner, there will be no happy ending. (laughter) and as for you, stewart, and your vividly, vividly injured hand, that's a genuine problem, that's a genuine problem. that's... (applause). (ble

mr. weiner sent and the woman who received them is speaking out and what she's saying is not good for weinerll right, steve. many believe killing bin laden propelled e

mr. weiner apologized for his actions. >> from high-flying politician to a national joke. all because of some virtual bad behavior. at a raucous news conference, congressman wonder about it to the inevitable, admitting that he could no longer do his job. >> unfortunately, the destruction that i have created has made that impossible. today i am announcing my resignation to converse. >> when his habit of sending half-naked photos of himself first emerged, the new york congressman tried to deny it. >> i did not send that. my system was attacked. >> is attempted cover-up only made things worse. he tried confession and apology. >> i am deeply sorry for the pain this has caused my wife and our family. >> his pregnant wife is a top aide to hillary clinton, who knows a thing or two about marital sex scandals. desperate to limit the damage with the presidential election next year, the democratic party closed ranks against that wonder. >> if it was me, i would resign. >> his brash style had already marked him out, and he was tipped as a future mayor of new york city. yet again, a u.

mr. weiner, for a period of two weeks. >> without objection, requests are granted. >> after work with a oneweek break after he was told he should resign. >> a hilt-and-run accident for she ran and lied about it. >> house majority leader said democratic leader should consider taking away weaner's commit tee assignment. but there are still many members who say the decision should be left to the congress member himself. > when i give one person in my district a job, when i give one person size to keep them in their homes, i will not buy -- >> you don't think it's affecting your job? you don't think it's a distraction? >> i'm not going to let it be a distraction. >> well they may come off as a fashion statement at furs glance, but they serve a purpose. ken chews out athletic gear in tonight's good question. >>> tomorrow an east bay company hits the new york stock exchange in one of the hottest ipo's of the year. shares of pandora media will be up and trading for the first time. the radio service sold its initial public offering today at $16 per share. that's twice what was expected two weeks ag

mr. weiner for a period of two weeks. >> without objection, the requests are granted. >> back to work afterne week break, some of weiner's friends in the house said he should resign. >> i liken it to a hit-and-run accident. the accident is bad enough, but the fact that you ran and lied about it. >> house majority leader said democratic leaders should consider taking away weiner's committee assignments if he refuses to leave. but there are still many members who say the decision should be left to the congressman himself. along with his wife and his constituents. >> give one person in my district a job, when i give one person, keep them in their house. will not bring back any of the money they fought through this recession. >> you don't think it's affecting your job? you don't think it's a distraction? >> i don't have time. >> also tonight, a victory for opponents of proposition 8. federal judge has upheld a gay judge's ruling to strike down california's same sex marriage ban. chief u.s. district judge james wear says that former chief judge, vaughn walker did not have to disclose whether he

mr. weiner, for a period of two weeks -- >> reporter: weiner was granted a leave of absence from congress monday night after his sexting scandal began to snowball. the house ethics committee launched a preliminary inquiry examining weiner's behavior that could progress to an ethics trial. many lawmakers are calling for him to step down. >> this is about the body of congress, not about his body. >> let weiner deal with his problems. i want to make sure we don't, as a congress, get distracted. >> reporter: weiner himself is now reportedly considering stepping down. he's seeking unspecified treatment after admitting he exchanged inappropriate messages and pictures with women online. the latest photos posted on tmz apparently show the lawmaker at the congressional gym with and without clothing. the most recent photos were taken on government property. which could add to weiner's ethics troubles. >> it's just made it impossible for him to be an effective member of congress, to really actually anthony weiner will be more like a dead man walking down here. >> reporter: weiner's wife huma abedin

mr weiner i've seen it and believe you me you do not want to see it is what was the relationship like between casey and her parents and how is it now that she's accusing her father of sexual abuse the masterminds of the t.v. networks are knee deep in this historic news coverage who could believe that congressman weiner's pictures or not pictures could be the number one story on capitol hill sexy tweets of a congressman are being stretched to the likes of the lewinsky scandal i did not have sexual relations with that woman. who was looking right at me but he said that and every detail is getting sucked out of the child murder case she's looking to teach she looks pale in the fray are with her here back in a ponytail like a cheerleader. meanwhile new york city has seen the small town of it's only a few blocks away from wall street and near movers backyard. caliph protesters on the steps and people monica last week but the point is that this time the people pushing to camp out here are saying this is just the beginning and they will spend the night here till their message is heard but. a

mr. weiner in his underwear or who ever it was. i mind a lot to spend it on shrimp doing a treadmill. the only thing with less brains than shrimp is the member of congress who thought it was worth half million to put a shrimp on a treadmill. let's send forest gump to congress and he knows what to do with the shrimp. that's my view and i welcome yours. you can e-mail me. and it is a daily pod cast. and our friend ray stevens is here and he has a unique message to understand how washington is messing up our economy. the obama budget song. welcome ray stevens . ♪ i told my wife we had to get control of the finance in our household. that we had to sit down and make a budget we can live by. ♪ i said we'll list our incomes and all our bills. get the bills honey if you will and she got them and stacked them on the table three piles high. now i work two jobs and my cleans home and daughter baby sits and son mows lawns. that budget wouldn't balance no matter how we try. let's works for them and might work for us. i forgot my ethics and morals and swallowed my pride. yeah. ♪ we loaded them up w

mr. weiner? [ laughter ] >> steve: come on! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: "teach me?!"ome sports news, there are reports that if the lockout continues the nfl may shorten its season to eight games. or as the detroit lions will put it, "hey, we only lost eight games this year!" [ laughter ] i love detroit. and finally, i read that president obama's approval rating among college students is down 10 points since 2008. of course, if he wants to get it up, he should talk to anthony weiner. [ laughter ] ladies and gentlemen, we have a great show tonight. give it up for the roots! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hey! hey, guys, just want to say "thank you notes" is available right now. it's the number two "new york times" best-seller right now! [ cheers and applause ] taking over the world! i love it. it's only $1.50 in stores, certain stores. hey, we got a big show tonight, you guys. one of the best ever. a broadcasting legend, larry king is on the program tonight! [ cheers and applause ] we also got two of the hottest girls out there. we love them

mr. weiner which could imperil him from keeping the job. for instance, according to -- and it's all over -- it's all out there today. a 40-year-old blackjack dealer by the name of lisa weiss apparently has had a nine month on-line sexting relationship with him and in addition to receiving 220 dirty messages, essentially, apparently, weiner used a government phone to have phone sex with her. and she knows that it's a government phone because after he called her, she called him back, there was a recorded message. this was a -- an outgoing government phone. >> that is absolutely key. >> but i got a feeling, folks, this is just the tip of the iceberg. >> there's another woman who has now so far spoken out and she speaks to sean hannity for tonight. last night she did the interview. we'll show you a 30-second clip. this is megan brussard from texas. >> what that photo of his private areas came in, you know, you're a 26-year-old girl, this is a 46-year-old congressman recently married. what did you think then? >> i just thought at the time there'

mr. weiner has indicated he wants to take a leave. i would hope he does so. i hope he reflects upon whether or not he can proceed. it seems to me extraordinarily difficult that he can proceed to represent his constituents in an effective way given the circumstances this bizarre behavior has led -- >> you think he should resign? >> i think he certainly has to consider that option. i don't see how he can proceed and effectively represent his constituents. >> a neighborhood community association in weiner's home district in new york is joining in the demands that weiner step down. it's holding a protest rally at this hour outside weiner's district office. cnn's carol will join us in a little while with this getting under way. >>> the first photograph of gabrielle giffords since she was shot back in january. they show a smiling giffords and give us an indication how far she's come since being shot. lisa joins us from washington. lisa, she looks incredibly well, but these pictures were taken just before she had another operation, correct? >> yeah, that's right, de

mr. weiner has been an outspoken attack guy, criticizing republicans and conservatives who oppose his liberal point of view. now, last week as you will remember. the congressman lied about his internet activities. today he was forced to confess. >> i have not been honest with myself my family, my constituents, my friends, and supporters and the media. last friday night i tweeted a photograph of myself that i intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in seattle. once i realized i had posted it to twitter, i panicked, i took it down and said that i had been hacked. i then continued with that story to stick to that story, which was a hugely regrettable mistake. >> bill: now, congressman weiner says he will not resign even though congressman chris lee also from new york did quit for a similar escapade earlier this year. the question is the story important? well, yes and no. in the big giant scheme of things, the economy, afghanistan, stuff like that not so much. but, it erodes, another example of a story that erodes the confidence in the federal government. and a lot of pe

mr. weiner has indicated he wants to take a leave. i would hope he does so. i hope he reflects upon whether or not he can proceed. it seems to me extraordinarily difficult that he can proceed to represent his constituents in an effective way given the circumstances, this bizarre behavior. >> you think he should resign? >> i think certainly he's got to consider that option. i don't see how he can proceed and effectively represent his constituency. >>> protesters held a demonstration outside weiner's district office in queens, new york, today. cnn's jason carroll was there. jason, weiner has already announced he's going to take a short leave of absence. is that enough? do people just say he's got to go? >> reporter: the short answer is no. and also it would depend upon who you're talking to. because out here in his district, deb, basically you've got two sides to this. you've got those who strongly are still behind the congressman despite everything that has happened. but on the flip side of that you have a very vocal and some would say vocal minority of people

mr. weiner for a period of two weeks. >> reporter: while some of weiner's constituents demanded he step downay in office. >> his personal life is another issue. he has done nothing illegal !! >> he worked very hard for the people of this city. and he deserves better than to be crucified in the press. >> in the meantime, his wife is expected home this week from a trip to africa that she had taken with her boss, secretary of state hillary clinton. now, sources are saying that weiner wants to speak to his wife in person before finally making a decision on whether to resign at all. >> probably a good idea. >>> would you like a piece of facebook? well, you're going to have to wait until next year. the website will likely go public in the 1st quarter of 2012. the company is expected to be valued at $100 billion. the ipo will mean that for the first time facebook will have to release its financial information. >> that could be juicy. >> it's worth $100 billion, i can only imagine. should be fun. >>> it is 5:49 now. another reason to get eight hours of sleep? >> eight? >> eight. >> why anything less

mr. weiner was engaging in this behavior sometimes in his congressional office. that's the type of hypocrisy in mr. speakers where we get on that slippery slope. >> nancy pelosi found out about this, she's demanding that there be an ethics investigation. >> that's now. i'm talking about then. >> as soon as she found out about it she called for the investigation. >> i get that, totally. i'm talking about when pelosi ran -- when the democrats ran to take control two years, three years, four years ago they ran on this issue. we're going to clean up the zest pool. all the while members within their own party were engaged in that activity. that's why you have to be careful on how you go to the public. they do come back to bite. >> i think people screwing up is inevitable in life and in politics. >> it is. >> maybe more inevitable in politics because get get into politics who often think very highly of themselves and that often goes along with bad behavior. the ethical issue is how you handle it. that's why when the priebus thing makes my eyes cross. for him to say anth

mr. weiner has indicated he wants to take a leave. i would hope he does so. i hope he reflects upon whether or not he can proceed. it seems to me extraordinary difficult that he can proceed to represent his constituents in an effective way given the circumstances of this bizarre behavior -- >> you think he should resign? >> i think that certainly he's got to consider that option. i don't see how he can proceed and effectively represent his constituency. >> protesters held a demonstration outside weiner's district office in queens, new york, today. cnn's jason carroll was there. jason, weiner has already announced he's going to take a short leave of absence. is that good enough? >> reporter: well, i think for some of his constituents out here in queens, it is simply not good enough. evidence of that was at a protest, very small protest, we saw out here just a little earlier. just a small group of people came out to say it was time for the congressman to step down. and also a small fwrup of supporters also showed up. i want you to hear from both sides first. i

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mr. weiner, not just another six or ten examples -- >> but come back to anthony for a moment. >> and it is much more dangerous. >> but in this case it was not the government that initiated the disclosures. >> well, ha. it was not the government. but you know, you can't really tease apart. there was very good reporting on the complex network of right-wing -- >> but they were private. look, agree or disagree with them ideologically, they were private, not government. i think that -- to come back to the distinction. >> i don't agree that there's necessarily a giant distinction between these interest groups, these astroturf groups. there's so much fake advocacy out there -- >> you've got to be a little bit concerned that -- i mean, he's setting out a lot of this stuff unbidden if we understand the facts of the case -- >> he's not a lunatic. i'm not defending him. >> understood. but let's say the women weren't intrigued or titillated and it wasn't a flirtation, it was in fact a campaign of harassment coming out of a congressman's office -- >> that's got to stop. it's completely unacceptable. it

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we have not yet heard from mrs. weiner and it is necessary, i think, from a political view point forher to stand by her husband. i totally understand if she doesn't want to. but if she doesn't want to i think his career is at an end. >> rose: my impssion is that she said she'd... he said that she would be standing by him. that was my impression from what he said. did i misunderstand... >> it was his explicit representation, roger is right. we'll have to see whether it's true. i think he's got... roger laid out a lot of his problems. a big problem he has is he has the unfortunate position of being a congressman from this city. new york city media is tougher on this kind of stuff than anybody else. and so... >> rose: front page for a week. >> and you can only imagine what the coverage will be like tomorrow and now there will be a feedinfrenzy to look for details and there will be a compition between the "post" and the daley fuse and it's not just the tough is where the nata is headquartered and this is not a-- under normal c

mr. weiner was wearing.nk i will take a pass on that one. i want to talk to you about -- this is in the ultra bizarre file. what's this about alice cooper almost killing elvis? what is that? >> well, this sounds like something that took place at a deranged celebrity gathering. i believe it might have happened. alice cooper told the daily mirror when he first went to meet elvis he went up to elvis's penthouse suite. elvis

mr. weiner, not just another six or ten examples -- >> but come back to anthony for a moment. >> and it ismore dangerous. >> but in this case it was not the government that initiated the disclosures. >> well, ha. it was not the government. but you know, you can't really tease apart. there was very good reporting on the complex network of right-wing -- >> but they were private. look, agree or disagree with them ideologically, they were private, not government. i think that -- to come back to the distinction. >> i don't agree that there's necessarily a giant distinction between these interest groups, these astroturf groups. there's so much fake advocacy out there -- >> you've got to be a little bit concerned that -- i mean, he's setting out a lot of this stuff unbidden if we understand the facts of the case -- >> he's not a lunatic. i'm not defending him. >> understood. but let's say the women weren't intrigued or titillated and it wasn't a flirtation, it was in fact a campaign of harassment coming out of a congressman's office -- >> that's got to stop. it's completely unacceptable. it's got