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bill press is with us tonight and "roll call" political reporter shira tuppetts.ve you all here. mike, should he resign? should anthony weiner step aside and live politically for another day to get the story out of the media? what do you think? >> no. i'm not ready to throw him under the bus. look, this shouldn't be a political career and more importantly shouldn't be something he resigns over. when republican david vitter for example was caught on the top of the d.c. madame's list he didn't resign. republicans stood behind him. when you had john ensign, he was caught in the steamy sex tyrst and then tried to cover it up with campaign money, well, he didn't resign. he was around for four years. john boehner. people forget the story about boehner. this is a guy who helped -- who helped cover up the mark foley story where foley was basically soliciting sex with young male pages. so i think it's wrong for us to say let's throw him under the bus. look, we need courageous. progressives need courageous people with conviction. he's one of them. >> okay. >> this is the ti