meanwhile, we're seeing signs the clinton world, the world of hillary and bill clinton are distancing themselves from the whiners. over the weekend, dee dee myers, former press secretary to president clinton blasted anthony weiner as unqualified and declared his campaign over and said the clintons would be happy to see the weiner story go away. let's watch her. >> look, isn't a story that anybody, particularly the clintons is happy to see splashed all over the news relentlessly. i think they, as much as anyone, would like to see this go away. so you know, if they could choose, they would certainly weiner get out of the race and have huma get on with their life. it's genuinely painful for the clintons because they're close. it's not a comparable situation to what hillary clinton went through. >> the new york post quoted a top state democrat who said the clintons are upset by the comparisons between drawn between them and the weiners. quote, the clintons are, and i have to say this word, blanked off that weiner's campaign is saying that huma is just like hillary. how dare they compare h

and the clintons in a bad position. i can assure you that dee dee myers didn't come out on face the nation with guns blazing basically speaking on behalf of the clintons had she not had good reason to do so as a former press secretary to the president. clintons stick together. the people in clinton world generally stay in clinton world. >> fellow that from reporting >>, of course. i know lots of people who are upset at the notion that huma and anthony are using clinton world, using their can the cas for fund-raising to try to get donors for his campaign. one thing i can assure you is dee dee myers' announcement on "face the nation" yesterday is a signal to whoever within the clinton world was willing to or thinking of contributing to anthony weiner that it not only is it acceptable not to do so, but probably it's a very good idea not to do so because lease nos desire in clinton world to see these stories mix together any longer than they have to be. >> one of the hoots of this whole thick has been weiner's contention tha

it is not just the clintons that have had enough. listen to david axelrod and former press secretary dee dee myers. >> at this point it is absurd, he is not going to be the next mayor of new york, he is wasting time and space. americans believe in second chances but not third chances. >> this isn't a story anybody, particularly the clintons, is happy to see splashed on the front pages and on the news relentlessly, they as much as anyone would like to see this go away. >> bill maher made an interesting point. why is anthony weiner any worse than bill clinton or -- >> i see him endlessly talking about how awful, he went on and on for a whole year about his book about john f. kennedy. he loves bill clinton, never stops kissing his -- those two guys did things way worse. i mean, kennedy, so much more reckless. bill clinton, paula jones, true sexual harassment. there seems to be no sort of consistency in the media. >> wow, okay. is it a fair comparison between anthony weiner and say bill clinton? greg, what do you think? >> hillary apparen

for the white house in 2016. let's assume that clinton is the democratic nominee. who would she presumably face? there's a major power struggle going on about the direction of the republican party, everything from foreign policy to the role of national security to defending obama care. and texas freshman senator ted cruz is right smack dab in the thick of all of it. he's only been in the senate for six months but he may have an early edge anyway. the tea party has been serving up more red meat than the salt lick. that's an amazing barbecue joint in his home state if you haven't had the weekend. over the weekend, senator cruz one one of the straw polls for the 2016 race. >> jake, by invoking the salt lick you're making me hungry and wish i was back in austin right now. >> we all wish we were in austin right now. the pope sat through 82 minutes of direct questioning, i'm hope we go can get through eight minutes of it with direct answers. you're known for your candor. >> i promise you, there will be nowhere near the wisdom that came from the

the budget stalemate? >>> breaking bread. hillary clinton makes the d.c. rounds, first lunch with the president, then breakfast with boo biden. was their potential 2016 match-up on the menu. >>> on the campaign trail today, anthony weiner brushed aside reports he's incurred the wrath of the clintons. >> i am not terribly interested in what people who are not voters in the city of new york have to say. i am focused like a laser beam on their interests. >>> good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. we are expecting bradley manning's verdict at any moment. we'll have that for you when it happens. >>> but first, it is the most important meal of the day and this morning, former secretary of state hillary clinton enjoyed breakfast with her former senate colleague and possible 2016 presidential primary adversary, vice president joe biden, on his turf at his house. joining me now for our daily fix, chris cillizza, msnbc contributor, managing editor of postpolitics.com, politico's senior reporter mag ihaberman and peter alexander, a new dad. to you first, peter.

the clinton question came up. obviously, because his wife huma has worked so closely with secretary of state hillary clinton. they have long-lasting ties there. but the question was if not the clintons, what would it take for you to get out of this race. let me make it clear. i have an enormous respect to the clintons and it should be no intent to disrespect but what i want to make clear is important to forme in this race is what animated me to run. i recognize i am not a perfect messa messenger. there are rumors this is bad press. you got to wrap it. it's not just going to happen. gracefulness needs to be your next execution. how to get out of this. >> yeah. i mean, he is really in a bind with the clintons but he has said i'm going to listen to the voters of new york. those are the people who matter. but the voters of new york, at least through the polls, are starting to speak. he is dropping like a stone. he is in free-fall and continue to drop. the voters are getting fed up with the changing stories and the fac

at the same time, ruth, the clintons are in the news for another reason. you've been watching this. connections to anthony weiner and weiner's wife, huma abedin is a long time clinton aide and a barrage of articles about her concern grows with abedin in clinton's world. and when the first scandal hit, i thought weiner was a creep. now it is clear he must be mentally ill as well that he has no respect for women including his own wife. it's also clear, yet i can't help but blaming abedin for condoning this behavior and allowing the charade to continue. she also says in her article, abedin may want power as much as weiner does. when does this stop? how long can it go on? >> it's really, really painful to watch. painful for people who are friends of huma's. i don't know a lot of a friend of anthony weiner's. and painful for the public to watch. i wrote a column about this last week also and really did raise the question of whether huma abedin was an enabler or a hero or victim or what. i really worry about their child and they are both making decisions that do not seem to me to be in the

the worst possible time. >>rose: what we don't know is whether hillary clinton is giving advice. whether there are conversations taking place, can you imagine they are not taking place because of the deep personal relationship between these two people, almost like a daughter. >> almost like a daughter. bill clinton officiated at the marriage. this despite the fact that many people in the clinton world never wanted them to get married. always found him to be a figure repellant, obnoxious, we don't know whether hillary clinton is talking about it. we are waiting to pick up the scraps of what they said so they are going to be extremely discreet about it. >>warren: how do you say to someone, i want to talk to you about your spouse, i don't think you married well? it's a conversation that's very hard to have. >> i don't think that's the conversation they would have. we are in the realm of pure speculation here. i think the question as a reporter i would ask is either bill or hillary clinton picking up the phone to say huma it is really time for him to cut his losses and get out of the

the clintons will say it and the press will say it.ld history, 15 years old, like all of the rest of the 1990s and the scandal will be old history. why are you bringing it up again will be the mantra. i think democrats have decided that this is a coronation. i mean, she has a better chance of winning the nomination than george alexander louie has of becoming the king of england. they have decided she is their one hope. and i don't think there is -- her position is unassailable. she has the opportunity to ignore all the hoopla, to make a lot of money in her speeches and declare at any time she wants. in the meantime nobody is going to it enter the field. >> bret: that is it for the panel. stay tuned for another local new lesson and make sure the taped piece actually runs. hey kevin...still eating chalk for heartburn? yeah... try new alka seltzer fruit chews. they work fast on heartburn and taste awesome. these are good. told ya! i'm feeling better already. [ male announcer ] new alka seltzer fruits chews. enjoy the relief! [ male announ

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the difference between clinton and weiner is that the republicans went after clinton so badly that alltually just because of the bad press he was getting. >> stephanie: you know -- >> the republicans overplayed their hands. >> stephanie: hillary was right. there was a right wing conspiracy. they were trying to remove the president through whatever means necessary. >> right. and you know, as faulty as he was, it didn't deserve impeachment. it wasn't something as high crime and misdemeanor. it was the same thing, thousands of people do all the time. >> stephanie: marty, i'm not going to get into the whole -- i don't judge people. hillary or huma or whoever -- what goes on in their marriage or what they decide to do or don't do, i'm talking about in a larger political sense. >> the republicans went after him tooth and tong and the democrats had to defend that. >> i'm getting a couple of questions on twitter. >> stephanie: yes. >> asking how can you defend eliot spitzer who had unprotected sex with a hooker -- >> stephanie: again, i'm not defending his behavior. i was saying first of all,

details of what happened, but the fact is both obama supporters and clinton supportersto pull together now and go for hillary. if she decides not to run for some reason, there is no obvious front-runner. joe biden would be the only one. but joe biden has got his weaknesses too. >> you think it's a political breakfast in the morning? >> i think so. i think it's basically trying to gauge where he is and making sure he is on board if she chooses to run. i also think if you see the transformation of biden, he has actually been much more care informal the way he speaks. he has also been courting different constituencies from the lgbt to the latino in a very, very big way. and he's starting to talk a lot of the talk you would see in presidency. she is holding court today with the president, trying to make sure that their legacies are uniting and basically making sure that biden is on board if she decides to run. >> in that little chat, i didn't ask her if she is rung. but i can say she looks great. she looks like she's got a pep in her step. let's put that it way. maria teres

. >> the clintons want nothing to do with his crotch. according to the new york post which is owned by our parent company, bill and hillary are furious with team weiner's attempts to compare his reckless sexting. the clintons are pissed off that weiner's campaign is saying that huma is like hillary. how dare they compare huma with hillary? he was the pervyperp himself. his campaign manager has quit. speaking of clandestine relationships. sometimes love can happen in prison. i think that dog means well. >> looked like a coyould yoteco. >> here's where i'm getting at. if he hired an investigator to find the guilty party and he was guilty, isn't that illegal? that's fraud. >> that's my favorite part of the story. he paid for it alleged lip with campaign contributions. $43,000 to a private investigations form. obviously anthony didn't hear about diligence. we are there for all of your security needs. we would have started the investigation and we would have realized anthony was sending those texts and we would have put that into an invoice an

clinton. now you've got reports at nbc, reports from "the new york post" that the clintons are trying to say, e, you know, we don't agree with the strategy that's now being employed by him and his wife. and we weren't the ones to tell her to stand by her man. this is their strategy. what do you make of the separation the clintons are now trying to do on this story? >> i do think they're very different situations. first of all, i'm a democrat, but i'm not a fan of anthony wiener, and i'm certainly not a fan of what either guy did, and i would have kicked either to the curb, to be honest with you, bill. although hillary stood by his man and anthony weiner's wife did work for her, they saw very different situations. i mean, one was private although in the oval office between consenting adults. anthony weiner snapping his privates and putting it out over the internet manges it very public. also, hillary hillary rodham cls not pregnant, it wasn't a new marriage, and if you remember in the clintons' marriage, there had been infidelities in the past that had been forgiven as well, so anthony weiner h

the differences couldn't be more stark. bill clintongenius and was propelled to office -- >> stop. stop. >> sean, it's the facts. >> created more jobs than any president in the modern history and fought off a ridiculous effort to remove him from office. >> i asked, is it fair to compare? and if not, why not? >> the reason why, anthony weiner is a complete political lightweight, he served 12 years in congress and didn't get much done. he's a disgraced citizen with electile dysfunction. >> and most people want him to drop out. bill clinton, continued to fight for his job because 60% of the american people wanted him -- >> i didn't ask you that. isn't that a problem he had, having sex with an intern in the oval office? >> that's worse. >> that was a private act and unfortunately for weiner his public sex antic sort of reinforced the notion that he's creepy and annoying. >> you don't think bill is creepy? >> one is a difference? >> he's internet and social media. he broadcast himself. i don't think most women would agree with that. >> it's

the spotlight back on hillary clinton after males in d.c. the vice-president today, the president yesterday, both visits fueling speculation she'll be running for president in 2016, and complicate can matters hillary clinton's top aide is also the wife of anthony weiner. weiner is in the middle of his weirdness and his poll numbers are plummeting. jonathan hunt will have more on that. plus two stars stars of the "rel housewives of new jersey --" full disclosure, i've never seen this, but i'm learning. anywhere serious trouble on serious fraud charges. why this could provide one of those stars a one-way ticket another of these united states, it's coming up at the bottom of the hour and at the -- the top of the news. >> shepard: it's the cover young not the crime. penn state university, the jerry sandusky trial, and now it's time for more trials. the former president of the pennsylvania state university, the former vice-president, and the then-athletic director, all will stand trial. state prosecutors allege these men knew but failed to tell po

i've got enormous respect for the clintons. they've been enormous friends to my wife and to my family, and there should be no intent to disrespect. but i want to -- what i've been trying to make clear is that what is important to me in this race is the ideas that animated me to run. >> what are the ideas that have animated him to run? >> he has released a back of policy ideas and he started his campaign with that. but no one is talking about them. anthony weiner is having a lot of trouble convincing people that this race is not about him, but is about other people, about new yorkers at this point, because it continues to be all about him and him alone. and one of the things that was really striking about that video that he released yesterday is that, yes, he was more forgiving, or more sympathetic, perhaps, than he's seemed at other times, but he was sitting there alone, by himself. and that is where a lot of people see this campaign going. >> let me play, michael, cindy leathers. she is the woman who said she was sexting with

the clintons were told are angry only at how weiner treated her and not angry about how the scandal couldt clinton's potential 2016 presidential bid as some claimed. kiki mclean and tim, great to have you with us. even if weaner were to drop out, the jokes borne from the scandal are likely to last longer. just this morning i woke up to the full age ad in the "new york post," this is my picture i took on my new phone. we give extra attention to our members, too. i have to say, and they didn't need to use the word weiner. they used the same ad and the boston globe for the boston sport club and a reader of the globe tweeted out that picture. weiner dropped from first place to last place in the new york city race and his campaign manager dropped out and it is bad press for him, his wife, and the clintons, too. do you buy it that the clintons only care on a personal basis, not professionally? >> i do think that it does bring back the memories of bill clinton. everybody is talking about not just because of the hillary thing but because we have a public official that repeatedly got caught in the

>> the obama years he had to deal with the fallout from the clinton years. the economy of the 90s. that got us in a stock bubble that burst that got us to the session in 2001. we got knew the housing bubble which guess what, burst. that gave us the catastrophe that we needed and large stimulus to boost the economy. >> do you blame summers for the housing bubble? because that occurred in the clinton years. >> well, it began in the clinton years. >> that's right. >> i think summers began -- >> it began. >> it began. bush was sitting there and the idea that he couldn't do anything to change the course, i don't necessarily have great respect for president bush's economic abilities. he was sitting there. he had plenty of time to change courses. >> i just wanted to ask that. dan mitchell, let me come back to the principle matter at hand, with i is a 15% tax on the repatriated profits of american corporations. these are overseas profits. what's your take on that? i'm sure you read summers' op ed. >> first, we should have a 15% corporate tax rate overall. we have a

clinton in the future in 20 caen and that could have been top of mind and might be as hillary clinton's residence with joe biden after a high profile lunch at the white house yesterday. hillary clinton arrived for lunch with the president on a spring-like day over salad, grilled chicken and pasta, aides said they were catching up and did they talk about the mayhem in cairo or vladimir putin. wiener is a tabloid nightmare for his wife. hillary clinton's aide. resurrecting embarrassing flash backs they hoped were long forgotten. wiener said he is not going away. >> i don't take my queues from the hadded line writers in the newspapers. those were the 15i78 people who didn't want me to run. >> his campaign manager quit over the weekend and he got a scolding. >>. >> i can talk to myself in that matter, my job would have been gone. >> my wife has given plea a second chance and she is a partner through thick and thin. she is a supporter through the tam pain. >> what do you tell his son? first of all the kid will grow up in a racy mansion and i will say kid, don't complain. others are complai

the -- secretary clinton's ability to shed a spotlight on this important work and also to have that be informed by the science and the data is -- has been absolutely unbelievable. >> good. >> and we have been an advisor to the small project and crow will continue to do so. >> beautiful. >> we're excited to also share the voices of the families we see every day. >> yes. >> and, i mean, imagine that secretary clinton gets to hear the stories of the families i care for. >> that is beautiful. yo yeah. >> and people whose voices need to be heard. >> make a note, center for youth wellness, run down there and help dr. burke harris. for information about the center for youth wellness, go to centerforyouthwellness.org on your screen and make a donation right there and can you volunteer to help. we all play a part in keeping our children healthy. dr. burke harris, thank you so much. it's an honor to have you here and stay right there. we have more straight ahead. . >>> ah, the 20th annual afrosolo arts festival gets underway in two weeks. clergy, legislator, and the community at large will be ex

the white house today. look at president obama and former secretary of state hillary clinton catching up on the west wing patio, fueling more speculation that she'll run in 2016. there was another image today that could complicate a clinton run, this one. anthony weiner, married to one of hillary clinton's top aides, refusing to back out his run for new york mayor despite a new sexting scandal. here's abc's white house correspondent jim avila. >> reporter: it was just lunch, hillary clinton arriving at the white house, heading for this al fresco table for two in a meeting described as largely personal between friends, while in clinton's adopted state of new york, her top aid, huma abedin, was nowhere to be seen as her disgraced husband, anthony weiner, kept on campaigning for mayor. reporters wondering out loud if hillary had weighed in. the sexting politician resisting mounting pressure and collapsing pole numbers. >> there are no second chances -- >> why did he get in? >> he's not qualified. >> he's wasting time and space. >> i'm not going to ask pendents or other politicians but let the people decide. >> re

the president had a big lunch date today. hillary clinton at the white house.the mideast peace talks, a new york merrill scandal and nm scandal, can you give us any details beyond what they ate for lunch? >> it is one of those days when you wish you could abfly on the wall. this lunch was outside. so a fly at the table. we know they likely discussed the middle east peace talks. the white house signaled that today, of course, given that the negotiations will begin this evening, given that the president traveled to the middle east a few months ago to jump start these negotiations. this is undoubtedly something that the president and the former secretary of state will talk about. you'd have to expect that they talked about egypt, as well. it's hard to imagine that they wouldn't touch on 2016. we certainly like to talk about 2016 quite a bit. i can tell you definitively what they had for lunch. grilled chicken, pasta jambalaya and salad. that picture we have of president obama and hillary clinton you see the salads there in front of them. both smiling. the white ho

that's what the clintons will tell you. ate, do you believe hillary will be in the race for 2016? >> i don't know that. i want her to run. i've been very public about it, i think she'd be a great president. ana navarro has cut her hair, too, and it's looking good. >> what shais she getting ready for. she's eyeing my seat in an odd way. so let's look at the obvious here, paul. you're meeting with the president and vice president. everybody knows about it. is this just about high profile face time? what makes this make sense? >> i think it's several things. first off, the reporting is dead on. they ran into each other at the bush library. the president has ban gone ale whole lot. hillary is transitioning into the nonprofit world where she's taking a leadership role with her husband and their foundation. but i also think it's really telling. optics matter. the president is relaxed. clearly these are into friends getting together and what a change from five long years ago when if the two of them had had a private lunch, it would

and this is not good for the clintons. is is not good for every story to compare this tawdry situation to what happened to bill clinton and hillary. >> erol, the last word from you, where does this story go from here and what does it say about new york and the new york media? >> where it goes from here is anybody's guess. we're like anybody else, you have to cover the candidates, you have to take them at their word until you know otherwise, you have to dig and go behind their statements, try and present the truth to your audience. we have all tried to do that even under these very strange circumstances. and then when the editorial boards kick in, and they try to make a judgment about how people should interpret all of this information, they're doing their job do. >> thanks for doing your job. and for those of you who want a serious take on the new york city race, smile, it says, one of you is going to be the next mayor of new york. it's the "new york times" magazine section this week and it has a good, deep dive on the pers

that means clinton's friend is s him put through the ringer in fe iic. mrs. clinton knows how brutal that can be from her husband's .ersonal troubles. that parallel means though the clintons are not involved in this race. they're being associated with die whole sordid business. she connections are inescapable. last night huma had dinner with a colleague and friend of 15 years. he also happened to be hillary clinton's former press secretary. e hichieffer: thank you very much, john. er: ave an update on the case of san diego mayor ball fillner. seven women have accused him of sexual harassment including his former communications director ito has filed a lawsuit. today the san diego city council fillner sue mayor fillner to recover any damages and legal fees if the city is found liable. egypt's military finally let an outsider visit the deposed president mohammed morsi late identnight. the european union stopped diplomat catherine ashton was taken to a secret facility where morsi is being held. morsmilitary ousted him nearly a month ago. since then his supporters

friends say the clintons are mortified and wish he would take the hint. many wonder why huma would let hillary get dragged into this. as for clinton she's pushing forward. in fact, after today's lunch with the president, tomorrow she's having breakfast with her chief democratic rival in 2016, if she runs, joe biden. andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >>> tonight emergency storm shelters are open. people across the hawaiian islands are bracing for tropical storm flossie. it's expected to dump heavy rain, causing flooding and mudslides. tornadoes are even possible in this. even though the storm is weakening as it approaches the island, and here on the mainland cleanup is under way after severe weather across the east. and in western north carolina two people were swept away over the weekend and drowned. in philadelphia, there was record rainfall. the storm knocked out power to parts of the philadelphia international airport for a time. >>> the u.s. senate late today confirmed james comey president obama's choice to lead the fbi. the vote was 93-1. comey

if you go for the clintons you're going back to the '90s. we've had all of that. >> it wasn't bad. >> kind of liked it. >> they're going after her because she's a woman and linking back to age and it's about the way she looks. >> after all the problems -- >> yes. absolutely. after all the problems that the republicans had with women in this last election is this really the question they want to be raising. >> right out of the gate. >> with swing voters. >> jonathan does mention that this old pushing forward of the youth, the hip and the republican party may be more he calls it a symbolic side step more than anything else. it's interesting. >> think about this contrast, we discussed it last week on the show, mike, you've been a part of this, some republican governors advanced job growth issues, their state and local economies moving in the right direction balancing the budgets and so forth, yet still a national chorus of republicans led by those that have not won races in a long time, suggesting the real test for democrats is can they nominat

i'm going to let the people decide. >> reporter: abc news learned mrs. clinton couple is ignoring all outside advice. and while bill and hillary have not gone public, aides and advisers say they're eager to see weiner exit the race before damage is done to a possible clinton run for the presidency, reminding voters of the clintons' own sex scandal with hillary clinton standing by her man. >> i'm sitting here because i love him and i respect him. >> reporter: much as weiner's wife has done. >> i love him. i have forgiven him. i believe in him. >> reporter: but at least one scandal expert says nothing huma abedin can say now will save her husband. >> i would recommend that she not campaign with him at all. the train has already left the track. it's already left the station, so he can't pull it back now. >> reporter: clinton advisers tell abc news not to expect to hear from the clintons themselves. their message will be delivered by donors and surrogates. another message not heard by anthony weiner from the pollsters, the latest saying more than half of new yorkers

in the clinton administration working under robert reuben in the treasury, summers was a hard dollar, king dollar guy who was more or less a fiscal conservative working under reuben. in the obama administration working in the white house, he became a very big spender and big fiscal liberal. will the real summers please stand up. what do you think, peter? >> i think the administration really wants larry summers. he may be a great leader but there might not be that many followers. he may have a hard time with the federal open market committee. they may not really want this. i think they're more pushing towards janet yellen. >> i remember a guy who was very prickley, didn't have a million friends but was very effective. his name was paul volcker. i was in the reagan white house when volcker was slaying inflation. i'm just trying to figure out what he would stand for because he has different opinions between the clinton years and the obama years. >> yes. and i think that he will lean towards that leadership. my guess would be that he would lean towards what obama would put him in that pos

will it's the kennedys, the clintons, the obamas. everybody is culpable. >> i wonder if her extracurricular ak tiflties might be king kier than his? >> if she's sitting on a board making double that much while he's working the system and being coached and mentored by the clintons, that helps me understand a little more. she said she was into kingy stuff and then into milking. it's swresing. they say always insist is that, like, she is this wonderful person. they never demonstrate. she's always consistent. she built this affectional relationship. now this foundation or this consulting firm that she's only was set up by a former bill clinton associate. her entire professional career is that she's clinton ajay sernt. think of the jokes you guys have for four years on redeye. you'd probably get tired of it. did you see that video? >> the bottom line is this. he hates work. out of 6 billion, there's 70,000 famous people. he believes that not getting recognition and not working is beneath him. even before all of this came out, he's a reall

give the clintons credit, both the president and hillary clinton credit. they stick by their friends and they stuck by huma and her husband and family. they stuck by them to the point. remember that the damage control worked pretty well until the second time around. that is to say, he was forgiven by a large section of the voting public in new york. more pictures provided on the scene. at that point it began to get creepy. too creepy even for new york. >> that is creepy. my hometown, adopted hometown of austin -- nobody in new york wants a t-shirt that says, keep new york creepy. once it reached that point, then it began to have at least the potential of harming not only hillary clinton's campaign in 2016 but also the democratic party, to say nothing of democrats in new york and the city as a whole. now the signals are being sent out. you probably saw dee dee myers former white house press secretary yesterday. she would not have said the things she said, suggesting weiner needs to get out of the race. there's no way, she had to have some signal indeed, if n

the clinton camp shows that it's an embarrassment the clintons.l candidate has called for him to exit including the guy who is now technical in second place in this poll. >> would you want his endorsement? >> look. >> great question. >> i think he has invalidate himself as a public figure. >> he is basically in that virtual tie. a democrat did his best to distance himself from the weiner disaster. >> you're not going to vote for anthony weiner. can you just say that? you don't think he should be mayor are new york? >> fair point. that is correct. >> he should not be mayor of new york? >> that is correct. >> ellioiot spitzer. how about that? david, i'll start with you. this spectacle writes about really we are doing a disservice to public service by emphasizing the freak show so much that is anthony weiner and the spectacle in new york city that it almost is a way to tell other politicians you have to be a freak to get attention. >> well, americans will elect creeps to public office. if you look at mark sanford, if you look at the fact that -- >> m

. >> there are reports that the clintons are not happy about this which makes me think could bill clintonave a come to jesus conversation with him? you know you're not helping yourself. you're not helping the party. what are you hearing about the clinton reaction to this? >> you put your finger on this. only two people in america that pick up the phone and end anthony weiner's campaign for mayor. that is hillary clinton or bill clinton because of their close relationship with his wife. we don't sense such a conversation has occurred. clintons know what a sex scandal feels like and both come out on the other side big successes. i feel unlikely they would put someone else in a position to drop out. >> maureen dowd wrote a particularly biting column. i thought about this and also about what friends of huma abedin are saying about the scandal's impact on her and ril read -- i'll read a quote from that piece. -- i'll read a quote from that piece. i'll read a quote from that piece. i wonder fair or not, is it hurting her? there were a lot of people who thought she would be a great candidate som

she couldn't be closer to the clintons than he is. they're all connected to form one grassroots movement that could well give hillary the advantage from the get-go if and when she gives the go. today the group announced that group has raised over a million dollars. three years actually ahead of the next election. these are what people in politics call optics. and they point to a much less coy hillary clinton profile as of this week, i believe, laying the groundwork to become barack obama's heir-apparent and the next lead other telephone democratic party and then on to the presidency. joining me is ed rendell and michelle goldberg of the daily beast. governor, i do think, and you are an expert and much closer to the clintons than i am, both to bill and to hillary. i think that they're no longer playing the cat and mouse game. she now is looking fabulous. i don't know -- i know i shouldn't talk about looks with a woman, but i'll just say it. the way she has presented herself, it always gets me in trouble. i'll say it again. she looks pre

coming up, the clintons are reportedly vid. finally signal the last dance for anthony wiener? maybe not. >> if you do hear from the clintons, would that influence your cappedcy for mayor if you or huma hear? >> i want to tell you something, i am not terribly interested in what people who are not voters in the city of new york having to say. it's back to school time and we're talking with maria about the walmart low price guarantee. you got your list? let's go. if you find a lower advertised price they'll match it at the register. really... yeah, in a "jif". you ready? what?! that's the walmart low price guarantee backed by ad match. bring in receipts from your local stores and see for yourself. okay, a? b? b. a? that's a great choice. let me show you some faucets to go along with that. with the latest styles and guaranteed low prices, you can turn the bath you have into the bath you want. good choice. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. right now, this abbey vanity combo is a special buy. just $299. >>>

. >> his vow to stay in the race angering the clintons. ce close to the political power couple tells cnn they are livid with weiner personally because they care about huma. adding salt to the wound, democratic candidate for comptroller eliot spitzer trying to resurrect his own career after his own sex scandal is turning his back on weiner. >> you're not going to vote for anthony weiner, can you say that now? you don't think he should be mayor of new york? >> correct, fair to say. >> i'm interested in what politicians say, but not that much. >> despite all, he continues campaigning across the city and finding supporters at every stop. wooing voters in queens with a little mandarin. making it clear he's fighting for every vote he can get. now weiner has also been sending supporters e-mails asking them for their vote and, of course, for their money because, as you and i know, campaigns are very expensive. now i can tell you that right now he's in the bronx and he is hitting the campaign trail again, shaking hands, carol, again trying to get th

there's a cozy relationship between the clintons and the hollywood/artistic community. this is just going to further that narrative. again, i don't think it's fair to blame the news division but it is awfully coincidental that both of these decisions were announced within a week of each other. >> howard, chris, leslie, when they come out, to be fair and balanced let's have a hosting party. i will bring the popcorn. >> i'll bring cocktails. >> maybe we'll come up with a drinking game for the movies in particular. gentlemen, ladies, thank you. >> you'll like the movie better. >> good to see you all. >>> making it safer to go back in the water with the largest great white shark expedition in u.s. history, details of this monsterous undertaking. ahead, live. >>> plus, this is as real as it gets. a reality tv star slapped with dozens of federal charges. trace has the story and our legal panel will help break it down, next. ... ... ... ... ment: block >>> this is a fox news alert. we want to bring you pictures, this tape just came in moments ago. this is apparently in kansas

the former secretary of state hillary clinton going to have lunch with the president today.be their third meeting. we'll be watching that for you. that wraps it up for me. thomas roberts. i'll be back tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. eastern. "now" with alex wagner is next. >> hey, richard. temper tantrums and party pooping. we will talk ultimatums and republican schisms with the gop's deputy whip congressman tom cole. >>> plus we will discuss president obama's left turn on the economy and the country's problem win come inequality and social mobility. >>> and it is the trial of the decade that almost nobody is talking about. we'll talk about salon's david ceroda and an artist and activist witnessing the secret bradley manning proceeding from the inside. all that when "now" starts right after this. [ metal rattling ] ♪ hello? boo! i am the ghost of meals past. when you don't use pam, this is what you get. residue? i prefer food-based phantasm, food-tasm. poultry-geist works too if you used chicken. [ laughs ] resi-doodle-doo. [ female announcer ] bargain brand cooking spray can leave a

the charges. president clinton hanging in the balance surrounded himself with an "a" team of lawyers. president clinton survived that senate impeachment trial. what do you do for your second act after you help to save a presidency? well, you help save the next presidency, too. it is not that weird in washington that some of the a-team of lawyers who helped keep president clinton in office in his impeachment scandal went on after that to help president bush and vice president cheney defend them in their -- defend themselves in their own political scandals. washington lawyering is sometimes partisan but not always. sometimes you're just the guy who gets the call, the guy who everybody calls when the rich and politically powerful are in really big trouble. when trouble strikes, the people in charge, trouble has this guy on speed dial. so yeah, now, trouble has struck again and that same lawyer who kept bill clinton from getting impeached, who got the call from vice president cheney, who got the call from president george w. bush, that same guy got the call again from a governor who's in r

second coming of the clintons.'re really not making any friends internally amongst democrats right now. he definitely needs to get out and i really want him off my titles. >> americans are willing to give a second chance but not necessarily a third. >> the crazy thing if he stays around there's going to be a third and fourth and a fifth necessarily because there's more out there. >>> let's turn to mitt romney, not that there's a connection between the two. >> absolutely not. >> he's trying to rewrite history. he said "actually i didn't say that, that's how it began to be perceived and so i had to ultimately respond to the perception, because perception is reality." but he absolutely did say that 47% of the population didn't want to take responsibility for their lives. so, a, why is he doing this now and b, why with something easily verifiable. >> there's no need to rehash the whole situation. the comment was not that bad. he should have stood up for it earlier and said i did say it, that was my view at the time, th

former middle east negotiator aaron david miller says it's a key change from the carter era, to the clinton era to bush 43. nothing was resolved until everything was. so there's a stalemate. >> the assumption now is you agree to what you can along the way. if the israelis and pale stintians buy that shift, you may be in business. >> reporter: the israelis agreed to release palestinian prisoners. kerry and his new middle east point man are optimistic. the state department says both sides agreed to a nine-month timetable starting with dinner tonight. from washington, i'm steve handelsman, nbc bay area news. >>> and health matters, back pain is a common problem. people may not be getting the right treatment. recommended treatment usually starts with over-thcounter pain relievers and physical therapy. a new study shows many people are being prescribed narcotics and undergoing expensive scanct scans which can unnecessarily increase patient's expose your to radiation. >>> mothers know diapers are expensive. a new study says that is stressing them out and causing depression. the study says diaper

he's also the author of the essential book, dog ar okay ras ski is i. and katherine clinton is part of the advancement project. it is a pleasure to have you back. welcome to "viewpoint." >> great to have you back, john. katherine, it is your first time here. i'm going to ask you to help talk me off a ledge on this one. the supreme court struck down the rule for preclearance so let me ask, how can attorney general holder come in and say texas you're going to need to go through preclearance. does he have that power as attorney general to somehow make this a reality? >> absolutely. he needs to prosecute under the voting rights act under section 3c of voting rights act which is a vital remedial measure. it is part of the voting rights act but has not been struck down by the supreme court thank goodness and basically, can be applied in the states in the south and southwest that used to be under section five of the voting rights act to make sure they need to submit voting changes so they're not discriminatory. states like texas who have the worst history and continue to discrimina