it's just wrong. >> that's what he used, the martin act is what spitzer -- what drove spitzer, actually. real quick on aig. how would you characterize the performance of the company? the stock has done well. >> the stock has done well. look, aig is half the size it used to be. ben did a good job. time will tell. but it's not the same company. >> right. aircraft leasing is out there. >> yes. you need to be a triple a rated company to run airline leasing. we were triple a rated. once you're not aaa rated, the cost of money to buy aircraft gets very expensive. and i just think that -- that's not the most important part of aig. the most important part is diversification. >> hank you, like the markets here, are you investing. >> yes. >> where are you investing. >> here and i'm looking at several other places outside the united states. >> europe? emerging markets. >> europe, yes. >> what about emerging markets. >> selectively. >> yes. there's been a lot of outflows there. good to have you on the program as always. love to talk to you. hank greenberg, former chairman and ceo of aig. >>> apple

wins comptroller, is eliot spitzer running the city? >> it's not over until it's over. i voted for joe lohta this morning. he's perfect candidate for mayor. he has all the qualifications. he's a strong, tough but really smart guy. his whole background is finance. that's what he was -- >> running the mta. >> he was also an investment banker who did municipal finance. this city needs somebody who really understands finance. when i got elected it needed somebody that understood crime and how to bring it down. when mike got elected it needed

spitzer outspent him many times.u watch tv over the weekend all you see is eliot spitzer ads. he is the son of a very rich real estate mogul. he helps control that real estate empire, worth anywhere, depending on the market 500 million to a billion. it is right in between there. these are rich people and he is able to buy a lot of ads. spitzer's undoing was himself, no doubt. remember he used that office, the ag's office and the misuse, some would say of the office, to become governor and he will be in a perfect position to become mayor i would say with this office. he gets a national stage as institutional investor. not only that gets to critique the current mayor on his budget. that is another function of the city comptroller's office. this will be interesting. eliot spitzer if he wins tomorrow is back in it. lori: we're starting to see big municipalities go bankrupt now. detroit obviously most glaring example. i know new york city is not in peril but it is an important job, i don't think we can repeat this enough

and spitzer is -- for for stringer is at 51.6%. uh-huh. >> i think eliot spitzer. 48.4.t to listen into the phone call with the control room. so that's too close to call. that's for sure. >> yeah, that has been a tossup for a while. early polls showed spitzer who has better name recognition with a huge lead. as soon as stringer got his ad up. he really, really closed the gap. i think you see a tossup. spitzer has name recognition. >> looking good in the poll from the outset. for what i thought was a perfectly reasonable reason. he may very well be the most qualified candidate for that office in the history of new york city. and his problem as the a candidate is his personal history and the reason he had to resign his governorship. what, what has been the die name -- the dynamic of the race? >> well i think eliot spitzer has a reputation as a wall street crusader. what stringer has is the support of the establishment in new york city. he has gotten all of the endorsement in the race. spitzer has been out of the game a while. and nowhere on the field. in a race where there

who is a moral guy and they feel that it is an injustice that spitzer is winning.ank you very much, doctor. julie hanks, thank you, doctor. thanks for being with us. good night from new york. of all my interviews with bill gates, the one you're abou% to see is most controversial because he says a lot of the good we do as a country is threatened by paralyzed washington that will do no good for this country. the primary target, foreign aid. the other target, people who want to block it. hoe of republicans who criticized this the equivalent of good money after bad. today, gates firing back.

and spitzer is -- for for stringer is at 51.6%. uh-huh. >> i think eliot spitzer. 48.4. the phone call with the control room. so that's too close to call. that's for sure. >> yeah, that has been a tossup for a while. early polls showed spitzer who has better name recognition with a huge lead. as soon as stringer got his ad up. he really, really closed the gap. i think you see a tossup. spitzer has name recognition. >> looking good in the poll from the outset. for what i thought was a perfectly reasonable reason. he may very well be the most qualified candidate for that office in the history of new york city. and his problem as the a candidate is his personal history and the reason he had to resign his governorship. what, what has been the die name -- the dynamic of the race? >> well i think eliot spitzer has a reputation as a wall street crusader. what stringer has is the support of the establishment in new york city. he has gotten all of the endorsement in the race. spitzer has been out of the game a while. and nowhere on the field. in a race where there are 3 million r

spitzer was known over the years for going after those firms.n the case of the settled out of court. >> the comptroller, first of all, the comptroller's office ought to be focusing on trying to root out problems in the city government and making sure that the city's books are in order. then, of course, to try to build the retirement funds for city employees when they retire. what he could possibly do is -- those are spread out into various securities. he could be a very activist investor, as we say which may not be for the good of the shareholders of various companies. connell: potentially damaging affect if that were the road we were to go down. one question outside of spitzer. we are now approaching the five year anniversary. where are we? >> it is a mass of all sorts of things. it was never very well put together or taught through. i think it is creating a lot of uncertainty for businesses, especially in the financial sector there. that is one reason why the recovery is still not on solid ground. connell: we hope you will come back at some po

anthony weaner and spitzer get departing strikes after they strike out at the poll. >>> here in studio 57 on the scandal shaking up nascar. >> we begin with today's "eye opener "your world in 90 seconds. >> the united states mill tarp doesn't do.

eliot spitzer..e ex-gove who was caught in a prostitn . >> their wives may have given them a second chance, but the voters? no way. elliot spitzer lost. anthony wiener was caught sexting again and again. he got 5% of the vote. >> there is no doubt about it. we had the best ideas. sadly i was an imperfect messenger. >> he ended the night by flipping off a reporter. it looks like they are will will win the primary. >>> napa the unveiling is tomorrow. they had a special viewing for linda yee. >> 30 tons for a non profit that wanted to make this moving tribute. kpix viewers have an exclusive first look. >> look at that. this is like a phoenix rising up. >> reporter: he wanted a memorial. >> the destruction of the towers. >> their names are etched. >> you think of all of these names. all of these people, all they did was go to work that day like most of us do. people know somebody and put their hand on that name, and that's what we want -- we want people to connect in that way. >> reporter: this was a 4-y

anthony weiner and eliot spitzer, both famous for sex scandals got defeated. wiener got just 5%. spitzer lost his race for city comptroller. >>> after some startling words on the issue of celibacy, there's an issue getting a lot of attention. is the catholic church ready to make a big change when it comes to one of the most sacred vows made by priests. the very question shows that the vatican is under new management these days. >> reporter: in st. peter's square, a huge and enthusiastic welcome for pope francis. crowds have quadrupled draunl by his warm and welcoming style and a new openness. case in point, the suggestion from his new number two that the idea of married priests is open to discussion. it's already got people talking. >> hey, we've got a gem here. am i open to listening to people talk about it? you bet. >> reporter: nobody expects to see married priests anytime soon, but for this pope, subjects like this aren't off the table. pope francis has changed the tone in a church plagued by a sex abuse scandal. his weekend peace vigil against the war in syria drew more than

. >> eliot spitzer does not look like he will be city controller tonight.railing scott stringer, right now, stringer benefitting from big union support getting a boost from female voters, manhattan borough president on his way for the nod. in this city, if you are a democrat have you a big edge, but not all of the time. bloomberg, a depend now. but after 12 years of running city as moderate to a liberal shows how tough it is for a republican to win here, but rudy giuliani did it. that means republican race too close to call, frontrunner would appear to be bill deblasio as very liberal guy to beat, he called for clamping down on investment banks and hiking taxes on the rich, a familiar left prescription that left wall street community shaking in its boots, one tonic that their favorite nemesis, eliot spitzer does not look bound for city controller office. >> back to syria and your tweets, no money. >> still 94 other, syrian war is a war between two evils, no vital interest or threat to u.s., and another, he is found his way out, putin making it sound like he

. >> eliot spitzer does not look like he will be city controller tonight.railing scott stringer, right now, stringer benefitting from big union support getting a boost from female voters, manhattan borough president on his way for the nod. in this city, if you are a democrat have you a big edge, but not all of the time. bloomberg, a depend now. but after 12 years of running city as moderate to a liberal shows how tough it is for a republican to win here, but rudy giuliani did it. that means republican race too close to call, frontrunner would appear to be bill deblasio as very liberal guy to beat, he called for clamping down on investment banks and hiking taxes on the rich, a familiar left prescription that left wall street community shaking in its boots, one tonic that their favorite nemesis, eliot spitzer does not look bound for city controller office. >> back to syria and your tweets, no money. >> still 94 other, syrian war is a war between two evils, no vital interest or threat to u.s., and another, he is found his way out, putin making it sound like he

art spitzer has read the letter to the council and sees no violation at all. >> all he said was that a 5-month-old baby had died. i can't see how that could possibly violet patient privacy. >> in his letter to the fire chief art spitzer wonders why the investigation has gone on this long. >> this is a classic case in the d.c. fire department. i've been litigating since 1980 and i've seen this kind of thing repeatedly where the fire chief wants to let people know who the boss is around here. >> as we've reported botwin apps late -- letter pointed out less than half the paramedic positions were staffed including the two units stationed closest to the girl apps apartment. botwin told the council citizens are in danger the remaining paramedics are burning out and it's only getting worse. he spoke out on the 10:00 news last friday. >> if you call 911 and you want and need an a.l.s. provider, the question is do you want it coming from over here which is farther away or the one that is supposed to be there and the people knew how many times that the city is left with less than half the amou

eliot spitzer, when i'm with him, i like him, i see the charm, i understand why people like him.ently the guy who ran against him, stringer, did a really good job of saying, hey, you were against sex trafficking, the toughest guy in the world against sex trafficking is and now you hire sex workers for you. >> this is directly analogous to david vitter, who survived the same thing, a prostitution scandal. and eliot spitzer is a brilliant guy, probably no more qualified than the job he was going for, but there was a certain amount of, i don't know if you want to call it arrogance, a certain amount of lack of contrition, an in-your-face quality to him. and in vitter's case, he finished state. >> i can't explain vitter. maybe it's new orleans, or louisiana. joy, thanks for being on. and steve mcmahon, thanks. we'll be right back after this. i dbefore i dosearch any projects on my home. i love my contractor, and i am so thankful to angie's list for bringing us together. find out why more than two million members count on angie's list. angie's list -- reviews you can trust. >>> let me

and eliot spitzer -- >> but she is 23, as you said. we cut her a little more slack than we do for anthony weiner. >> eliot spitzer's race was tight. >> 53%. now, diana nyad, we were talking about it yesterday. we were sort of standing up for her for this 64-year-old woman who finished this 110-mile race from cuba all the way to the keys. >> she swam all the way. and then there were these naysayers saying oh, diana nyad, blah, blah, blah. >> so for 3 1/2 hours yesterday she was on a phone conference call with these swimmers that were questioning her. >> well, she actually spoke. >> yes. >> why don't we listen to what she had to say? >> okay. >> don't i deserve a little luck after i've had so much bad luck on my previous four tries? i had at least the persistence to keep trying until finally we got a little luck on our side. when you set a huge world record like this, you've got to vet it. you've got to ask every question. you've got to put the swimmer under a microscope and make her answer all these questions. i did the swim with my own

scott stringer beat out eliot spitzer.pitzer spent millions financing his own campaign, but ultimately he paid the political price for the prostitution scandal that forced him to resign as new york governor in 2008. >>> on the "cbs moneywatch" now get ready for faster cheaper iphones and changes on wall street. marlie hall is here in new york with that and more. good morning, marlie. >> good morning, anne-marie. asian markets before flat despite japan's strong second quarter growth. tokyo's nikkei was unchanged. horng congress's hang seng lost a fraction. >>> on wall street an optimistic day as the risk of an attack on syria appears to be fading. the dow rose 127 points and the nasdaq gained 22 points to finish at its highest level since september 2000. >>> a big shakeup at the dow. three companies are in and three are out. alcoa, bank of america, and hewlett-packard will be dropped from the index of america's top companies because of low stock prices. taking their place, goldman sachs, nike, and visa. it's the biggest cha

i think there is a 51% chance eliot spitzer will lose tomorrow. establishment is against him. although he has outspent his opponent by 10:1 or something. we shall see, to be very interesting to see how this thing goes tomorrow. it is the democratic nomination in a heavily democratic city putting eliot spitzer in office. we got into that, you and i. it looks like he is leading that race, but that could be a little tighter. my guess is if they are in a runoff, thompson will actually win when the runoff is over because i think everybody who did not vote will now vote for thompson. it'll be an interesting coalition. a really smart guy, think is much more conservative fiscally. and much better mayor. he was city controller. cheryl: charlie gasparino, thank you very much. it will be fun in new york city tomorrow. 30 minutes to go. coming up next, trading on treasury worries. what that means for the broader market. the playbook for rising interest. 10-year treasury note hovering below 3%, and the fed getting ready for the big meeting next week. we went out and asked people a simple q

weiner and spitzer sounds like a future law firm both lose their races in new york.one gets cheaper, gets more colorful but it means you'll actually -- who doesn't already have one? that's another question. this is "way too early." good morning, everything. brian shactman here. it is wednesday, september 11th, 2013. the 12th anniversary of the attacks on the twin towers as we all take a moment to think about certain things. for me i always go back to where i was and what i was doing at the time and want you to look at this image from david dusek from "golf" magazine. he took it from seat 12f on a plane over new york city last night. of course, those lights representing the twin towers. we will have coverage of obviously all day on this including ahead on "morning joe" and ta

anthony weiner and eliot spitzer. >> good morning. mor both weiner and spitzer were look for a come back after sex scandals. w weinerr garnered 5% of the vote. >> there's no doubt about it we im have the best ideas. i was an imperfect messenger. >> weiner was the first to call it a night finishing in fifth place. it sounded more like a victory speech. >> we did 125 new ideas every single day. >> reporter: weiner looked like a winner in may leading the ike polls among democrats. his campaign took a nose dive after he admitted to sending lewd pictures to women. >> i have said other texting photos were likely to come out. today they have. >> rep >> reporter: the scandal dominated front pages. the online alias became the bud -night of late night jokes. when it finally seemed the if the attention was starting to fade a se e reez of public feuds landed the new yorker back in the spotlight. as as he took his final bow tuesdaynight h night, he thanked his family and what he called the wonder women of his campaign. there was no mention of his

. >>> new this morning, new york city voters have given a resounding no to the comebacks of eliot spitzer and anthony weiner. the former congressman received just 5% of the vote in the democratic mayoral primary in the big apple. weiner's campaign imploded amid his sexting scandal. after his concession speech last night, he was giving the finger, the middle one, to a local reporter as he left his campaign's event. >>> as for spitzer, the former new york governor that left office amid a prostitution scandal was running for comptroller for the city. that's a position that controls the city's budget. he was defeated despite spending nearly $7 million of his own money. >>> and two democratic state lawmakers in colorado have been kicked out of office in recalled elections. john morse was colorado's senate president. he and the state senator, angela giron, had backed tougher gun laws in the aftermath of recent mass shootings. the national rifle association says their defeat should send a clear message to lawmakers about protecting gun rights. >>> and firefighters in northern california are gain

spitzer lost his bid for comptroller.einer lost his for mayor of new york city. >>> and news about american 401(k)s tonight. if you were watching the markets today you saw it, the dow soaring, closing up 135 points, optimism because of a deal with syria. it's the third day of triple digit gains. >>> and now to a twist in the case of that young man who came out of the shadows confessing in a youtube video that he was driving drunk when he killed a man. he told the world that he would take responsibility. so what is going on now that he's in court. abc's linsey davis has the story. >> we enter a plea of not guilty. >> reporter: it was not the plea matt cordle's video confession implied it would be. >> when i get charged, i'll plead guilty. >> reporter: the surprise plea had the judge incensed yesterday. >> i'm sorry you all came. i'm sorry you all came for this whole big thing. >> reporter: the 22-year-old made headlines after posting this video that quickly went viral online. a confession to a drunk driving crash that kill

not just anthony weiner but eliot spitzer.e were surprised with eliot spitzer going down. >> he had a lead in some polls but his opponent scott stringer had been taking the advantage and was seen as a slight front-runner going into last night's activity. tamron, this year we have had three scandal plagued expoliticians who tried to get back to them and ended up losing, as mentioned anthony weiner and ellioyol spitzer. a lot to cover there but interesting insight. thanks, mark. >>> a tough day for the world's most valuable company, apple stock taking a tumble a day after the company unveil d its new line of iphones which seems to have left investors unimpressed. joining me now is tyler mathison. they released two new phones, one for the more affordable market and another iphone that was supposed to attract these techkys out there. >> it was guess a case of expectations not met, tamron. 51 weeks ago apple stock sold $702 a share, on september 19 of 2012. today 469.18. yesterday it was above $500 and today down more than $25 a sh

anthony weiner, eliot spitzer both lost their primary elections.vernor who resigned in a public scandal wants to be new york city's top official. weiner who responded in an off-color conversation. >> that's an interesting way of putting it. he texted pictures of his -- >> i know. everybody knows. both have been in the lead when they first entered their races. but controversy and criticism from their opponents brought their numbers way down. >> i'm proud to run a campaign over the past nine weeks that many thought was incapable from the very beginning. >> we might have come up a little short in this campaign. if you keep fighting, i'm going to be keep fighting because we're going to keep new york the capital -- >> and weiner was still fighting giving a local television reporter the bird as he drove away. are we seeing that -- >> somewhere back there is a man flipping the bird, we're told by a team of researchers. >>> a montana accused of pushing her newlywed husband off a cliff is due in court today. jordan linn graham faces a hearing in missoula. a

the night saw another huge loss, eliot spitzer losing out in his comeback.ell said. >>> president obama says he is willing to give diplomacy a chance but won't take the use of military force off the table when it comes to chemical weapons in syria. the president laid out his case against the syrian government but also said he would delay his request for a congressional vote on a military strike. we're obviously covering this like no other network can. let's begin with brianna keilar at the white house this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. last friday when president obama said he would address the nation last night, this was not the address that he thought he would be giving. but pulled between a war-weary public and his and the u.s.'s credibility on syria, what was supposed to be a speech on pushing a military strike, instead became a speech about buying time. from the east room tuesday night, president obama told americans why his administration is certain syrian president bashar al assad's regime is responsible for a sarin gas attac

. >> reporter: first, former new york governor eliot spitzer.ting he used prostitutes. >> i've hurt a lot of people. >> reporter: now preelection polls show him nearly tied in his run for new york comptroller. a drastically different story for former u.s. representative anthony weiner. he pulls nearly last among major candidates in the new york city mayoral race and he is facing the fallout of a sexting scandal. >> i want to look forward. >> had i conducted myself in the manner in which you conducted yours, my job would have been gone. >> reporter: voter anger at weiner keeps rising. >> you're putting on a show. >> so? >> reporter: if anything, you would have expected that spitzer would have had much more of an uphill battle in this race given his behavior was clearly illegal. weiner's may have been unethical but it wasn't necessarily illegal as far as we know. yet the opposite has transpired in that weiner has found it very difficult in the aftermath of a second scandal to recover from it. >> reporter: hard to believe that weiner was once at th

was jim downey was my first ever saying live from new york it was so how do you find someone like spitzer you watch him i just want it that i watch that and just try to get is the voice and i'm either i get it immediately or i don't have it at all like i kind of i can work on a little bit finesse it a little bit but usually it's like immediately i can get it. i've interviewed some of the great in person is over the years and some of them told me it's not so much the voice as the characteristics of the yeah it is and i it's good to watch them being interviewed instead of then actors big mission yeah but you know one came from him to give an exit any acceptance speech and he was just kind of being i was no jimmy. oh thank you so much for you just very like there's a very light all right. and you know. we i think i did thing about him my first thing was the as like it was anderson cooper my first line i think ever and as an els anderson cooper was doing a thing about hurricane katrina. he said i was out but you know helping build a. house and i said anderson we are building the new new orlea

wins comptroller, is eliot spitzer running the city?t's not over until it's over. i voted for joe lohta this morning. he's perfect candidate for mayor. he has all the qualifications. he's a strong, tough but really smart guy. his whole background is finance. that's what he was -- >> running the mta. >> he was also an investment banker who did municipal finance. this city needs somebody who really understands finance. when i got elected it needed somebody that understood crime and how to bring it down. when mike got elected it needed someone who understood the terror attack. right now we need a man or woman who understands finance. the city has to lower its expenditures, keep the tax base reasonable and not lose the goose that laid the golden egg, the people that produce the money. >> that's a great point. good to have you on the program. mr. mayor, rudy giuliani joining us. we appreciate it. we'll be thinking about you tomorrow. >> 15 minutes or so to go before we close up the market today. a big gain, highs of the day, up 123 points on

know he was there from oklahoma everyone you do and in person i just he was just with as early as spitzer. how did you get to do him how do you even have doing you know i remember when that scandal broke i walked into the office and everyone was like oh guess who's going to get to do is first called open. and it was jim downey was my first ever saying live from new york it was so how do you find someone like spitzer you watch him i just like is that i watch that and just try to get is the voice and i'm either i get it immediately or i don't have it at all like i kind of i can work on a little bit finesse it a little bit but usually it's like immediately i can get it. i've interviewed some of the great in person is over the years and some of them told me it's not so much the voice as the characteristics of the yeah it is and i it's good to watch them being interviewed instead of then actors big mission yeah but you know one came from him to give an exit any acceptance speech and he just kind of being i was you know give me. a thank you so much for here this is great like your very life all

before we wrap this up i have to ask you about eliot spitzer.for defamation claim against him. he made comments on tv. you know, long time nemesis of yours. we should point out that the charges he brought against you have been mostly thrown out. >> yes. >> vast majority, the ones that are left seem pretty picayune. how did you feel the night that eliot spitzer lost the bid to reenter politics as new york city comptroller? >> i felt very, very good. >> did you? >> i did. >> why is that? >> first of all, you know he, he was, he was a disgraced politician. he did not, i -- >> right. i do not believe that he understood some of the things that he was bringing charges. >> do you think he was a bad guy? >> yeah, i do think he was a bad guy. >> we have breaking news. guys back to you. thank you, hank. a pleasure. >> good to be with you, charlie. >> thank you, gentlemen. lori: this is a bit of a breaking news. this is another trading glitch. options trading halted after several u.s. exchanges because of data feed pricing options to traders. omx, bats, mi

that was the eliot spitzer contest. the new york city comptroller race. you put an ad in the independent. it was a full-page ad. you said are you going to let eliot spitzer buy your vote the same way he bought young prostitutes' bodies? jerry della femina. >> i was really feeling no one was taking him on. he was running around saying he was going to be the sheriff of wall street. you know, i think when he was here, he did more harm than good. i thought that he was going to get by with just, you know, that same very slick commercials. he was buying -- literally buying votes with those commercials. i wanted to do something or say something that stopped it. interestingly enough, i thought that many more people would pick up on it. but i think that they were still a little nervous about him. he lost. it's good for everyone. >> people are afraid to go up against him. >> yeah. he's tough. you know, a combination of him and also having dibasio now as our next mayor, maybe. >> yep. what do you think about dibasio? >> he frighte

in new york elections could spell the end for a anthony wiener or in the spitzer or find out they are in a forgiving mood. a whiff of colorado recall election for those that supported tough gun-control law following the tragedy aurora colorado and newtown connecticut. tonight we begin with the president's eager the address to the nation. obama since the decision to attack syria to congress but now he wants to try diplomacy one more time after rush-hour brokered the ad hoc deal with syria but the year-old the vladimir putin has said must include united states removal of the threat of military strikes. the obama administration already taking credit for a deal that has not been agreed to. here is secretary of state kerry earlier today. >> is the credible threat of force that has been on the table that for the first time brought this regime to even a college that they have a chemical weapons arsenal. it is the threat to this force, and our determination to hold them accountable that has motivated others to even talk about their real incredible international action to have an impact. >> de

no spit swre r and no -- spitzer and no wiener. i was actually happy and surprised that sydney leathers didn't try to extend her 15 minutes of fame by showing up at the celebration party. i don't know. >> i'm sure when she showed up something was extended if you snow what i mean. lame joke. >> did not 10 minutes ago in the green you tell me no [bleep] jokes. >> but it may not have been one of those jokes. >> he was talking about the upcoming holbrook story. >> will wiener live to go down in flames again, or is this just another stop? >> i think he is done. he is so gross. sydney leathers is so gross and they need to fade away and be the foot notes they deserve to be. the big thing is we are on divorce watch. how long will it take his wife to divorce him? i am guessing that will probably happen before hillary's 2016 campaign kicks off. gill i think you are absolutely right and i wasn't even listening. bill, you are well familiar with pain and humiliation. what would you say to wiener to lift his spirits? >> i wouldn't say it. i woul

>> it is a come back story, but isn't it spitzer and pat tron niecessing prostitutes?> i am talking about what we would be covering otherwise, we would never cover the new york city comptroller. we noticed even client number nine cannot rows interest -- rouse interest. >> that is so wrong. >> moderately long. >> the los angeles mayor's race before this and the new york city mayor's race, two important jobs and the amount of national attention either one got for non-hijinx related stuff. thank you for joining us. >>> he is back. keith olberman has a lot to say. did you know sports writing could be the worse in enjoy "mea buzz" with howard and i will see you at noon. >> this is a fox buzz alert. a new media critic is making waves on television. he is keith olbermann. you remember him with the messy divorces and now he returned to espn and he is securing the press about sports. here he is slamming cbs columnist for writing while he is sympathetic to football players who suffer concussions his selfish view is that his job depends on the nfl. >> the columnist states, boasts

maybe they got a pass on spitzer. >> that is a great thing. neil: what happened?e had a 20 point lead. >> i started doing some reporting. >> explain. >> i pointed out many of the inconsistencies in his rhetoric, what he did, and how he handled himself in particular that whole prostitution thing, how he a aranged to get in a house committee meeting the same way he brought the prostitute to washington. i just thought that was -- >> what a write-off trip. >> or we paid -- the expenses of her, he got a free ride. neil: interesting he and weiner, different scandals, were impiewimfutiated by voters. >> they were unfit for office, deblasio is unfit for a different reason, he will take this city, which is left to begin with, if he is worried about problems of the city, this is a tale of two cities run by liberals, what are you talking about? we want to give more of the same stuff that failed that is what we want to give? it is sort of a contradiction. >> he will be new york's next mayor? >> if bill thompson gets in the run off i believe he can beat him. neil: not going to

>> it is a come back story, but isn't it spitzer and pat tron niecessing prostitutes? >> i am talking about what we would be covering otherwise, we would never cover the new york city comptroller. we noticed even client number nine cannot rows interest -- rouse interest. >> that is so wrong. >> moderately long. >> the los angeles mayor's race before this and the new york city mayor's race, two important jobs and the amount of national attention either one got for non-hijinx related stuff. thank you for joining us. >>> he is back. keith olberman has a lot to say. did you know sports writing could be the worse in the world? >>> we are live from america's news headquarters. hi, i'm jaime colby. there are new developments in the white house push to rally congress and the american people behind a military strike on syria. the obama administration dispatching chief of staff dennis mcdunno to the talk shows and the white house holding a dinner for senate republicans and president obama is lining up six television interviews on monday before a major tuesday night address to th

>> come back story is election but isn't it about spitzer and the circumstances under which he resignedich was for frat fraternizing prostitutes. >> we would never cover that election at all. even client number cannot get up interest in that. >> so wrong. so wrong. >> that drives me crazy. the los angeles race and the new york mayor's race and the amount of national team that either got for non-he jinx-related stuff is minimal. both of you, thanks for stopping by this sunday morning. ahead on "media buzz," he's back, keith back to espn and he has plenty to stay about the press. did you know sportswriters and be the worse in the world? clear how long have you got on your battery? justboutwo d clear the new droid maxx by motorola. when endurance matters. droid does. >> heather: the white house is attempting to rally congress and the american people behind a strike on syria. the administration dispatching white house chief of staff to five morning shows today and tonight, vice president biden hosts the senate republicans at a dinner. tomorrow, president obama has six scheduled television i

anthony weiner and spitzer sent home last night.in fifth place in the primary forÑi mayor. he wasn't too happy about losing. after his concession speech, he gave a local reporter the one-finger salute. >>steve: depends on which finger. did he go "we're number one"? >>brian: i don't think so. he also want hitchhiking. you make the call at home and call us. i watched the president's speech, watched the replay, a lot of analysis and reports and i came to the conclusion, why did we have a presidential speech yesterday? >>gretchen: he was on the line to give one. >>brian: for what? ladies and gentlemen, stand and pause. >>gretchen: he was arguing for an endeavor he's abandoning and appealing for public support for action he's not going to take. >>steve: he asked the congress to vote on something and then yesterday said hold the vote. although he made it very clear yesterday, we've got to do something. he says the situation is awful. watch. >> if we fail to act, the assad regime will see no reason to stop using chemical weapons. as the ba

spitzer, you heard what i -- i'm not going to repeat that. >> really? >> i don't know. no, maybe we better not. >>> coming up, new york city rejecting comebacks for anthony weiner and spitzer in his quest to become controller. we'll have details next. your guy is looking strong. but first on a day where we learned about wealth disparity again -- >> you saw that. >> yeah. we need this. just move it over. first, let's check on the national forecast with the weather channel's alex wallace. >> good morning, guys. tracking a cold front. this is going to be a big player for us in the coming days. right now, it's helping to bring us a few showers and storms. parts of the great lakes into the plains. it will move through those areas and eventually getting into the northeast as we head into tomorrow. that could bring storms to some of these areas. today, it's mainly great lakes interior northeast where we have the threat for strong to severe storms. there will be a lot of lightning to those storms, damaging tail or tomorrow. from maine down into the mid-atlantic, over the ohio v

eliot spitzer. for a while they looked like shoe-ins.his job after inappropriate pictures were public and then he didn't stop when he said -- so anyway, that's the primer for those of you not following the story. you would expect new york city voters to be more forgiving. >> you would but they're ripped up in the tabloid for weeks. their situation is so different than mark sanford's. >> she doesn't waste any time. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. look at. the infidelity rate in the country is pretty high and recent poll back in may said 28% of americans don't hold -- hold that against their politicians. only 28%. so the difference you have here is that you have infidelity with another marriage for sanford and you have the sexting and the prostitutes and i think it went beyond the pale of what the american public was willing to accept. and then, you had the issue of trust saying he had stopped and then still continued the conduct. >> the campaign went on. he started to become a complete caricature of himself. it really was just one sideshow after ano

elliot spitzer lot the primary. spitzer was governor in 2008. he was reported involved with prostitutes. weiner quit congress in 2011. he lost a lot of support in this year's mayoral race after sending lewd messages to women. one of the women involved with weiner she tried to crash his election night party last night. cindy leathers said she was hoping to meet the man who manipulated her into a sexting relationship. that is her in the red dress. apparently weiner does not feel the same way about her. >> he decided to rearrange his schedule because apparently he doesn't think he can handle confronting me or me being in his presence. >> at one point weiner was the front runner in the race for mayor of new york but his campaign fell apart after miss leather's came forward about sex messages and photos she shared. >>> fremont police arrested a man in connection with a hit and run crash that seriously injured a woman. 46-year-old sero is accused of crashing into several parked cars. police say he sped away hitting and injuring an elderly woman in the

but anthony weiner and eliot spitzer were both knocked out.nd you've done a lot of polling on this, i know, but i want to know what pushed bill deblasio to the front? because he campaigned on class warfare, beat up on wall street, beat up on the banks and he also brought race into the campaign. you've done the polls and what put him on top. >> 89% of new yorkers didn't find the city to be affordable right now so there's a basis to build from. only a third think the mayor can make a difference about that, but that's a separate question, you know, the issue of term limits and michael bloomberg getting a third term extension. and the fact that three quarters of democrats want to move in a new direction, turn the page. he tapped into the change message as well. so, and the dante effect, new yorkers saw with his son and-- >> his wife is black, mixed race son. put the son in the ads and his stock, so to speak, went up at that point. >> absolutely. stuart: look, we've got viewers all over the country and all over the world and they want to know, is t