0 he's got the whole world against him. it's a time for self-reflection and selfie reflection. but when you look at what he's done here, there's a desire to make it feel like he's doing something that's so much worse that no one can get their arms around. and i think that's actually an interesting part of this story that tells us what's wrong with us and why we have such a problem with these sex scandals, because it brings back this sort of schizophrenic part of american culture where we're very puritanical and we want to take him down but we're also sex crazed and we love talking about it. and i want to make one point about the sexting here. anthony weiner has brought sexting back. we're all talking about sexting now in the political media and the broader media. but a lot of people sext, lawrence. and if we're going it talk about this -- >> really? >> yes. let me tell you one example. snapchat is an application you have on your iphone, and it's a way that you can trade or send photos to someone and they disintegrate in ten seconds or less. no hard copy. that's what snapchat does. now, what do we know about the existence -- >> are you saying this is going to help him with like the youth vote? >> let me tell you something. this same scandal in 30 years will go over differently. but snapchat you say what does that mean if there's that application? >> well-i -- >> let me give you something to think about. 200 million photos on snapchat every day. 200 million photos. majority of people who use snapchat in a poll say they have received dirty pictures that way. okay? we are talking about something that a lot of young -- >> but we're also talking -- >> 200 million a day. >> 200 million. and ari -- 12200 million? >> what's the website again? >> log right on to snapchat. free advertising. >> the other element, here, is he's not just sexting with someone. he is using his position of power to essentially lure in young girls -- >> oh, come on. this one? she's on every tv show she can possibly sell herself to. she's marching down the beach at sandt monica saying please take a picture of me. he didn't lure this one in. the -- guess who has jumped on the anti-anthony weiner bandwagon. i'll just show you this little piece from "hardball" today. >> can you just say that now? you don't think he should be mayor of new york? >> fair point. that is correct. >> he should not be mayor of new york? >> that is correct. >> he doesn't take the who am i to judge position that you will actually hear the pope taking later in this show. >> right. >> there's eliot spitzer, i'm willing to sit in judgment of others. >> yeah, it's a tough place for him in particular to sit. and i do think that there's a distinction between the two of them. i don't think it's fair to lump them together. because as far as we know at least eliot spitzer hasn't gone back to his old ways. so -- and he's also not asking for a promotion. so i do think there's a difference there. and he has a record of accomplishment. >> but he had physical carnal sex -- >> he touched somebody. he committed maybe two crimes in the process. one, a currency control crime of withdrawals over $10,000. issues of how much money he withdrawed in cash -- withdrew in cash. and also he engaged in the crime involved with prostitution, which anthony weiner hasn't done. i find it very interesting that people are weighing these things and trying to say one's worse than the other. >> right. >> or clinton's worse than this or he's not worse than clinton. all this stuff. and i'm wondering, have we become more prudish, more conservative? by the way, i don't believe there is a more prudish group on earth than the political press corps and pundit world. they all live at a level far on the extreme side of prudishness compared to america itself. but it's fascinating to me that -- it may be something in the graphics of the weiner story that makes it harder for the political media to face than any >> hold on. but it's not just the political elite. you showed the polling numbers that a majority of likely democratic voters in this city think that he should get out of the race. so it's not just people -- >> for the moment. but those numbers work both ways -- >> he was talking on television -- >> he was number one -- he was number one two weeks ago when they also knew this about him. they were all over the place. >> and remember, in this poll he's gone from top to bottom. but there's only 10 points 1:001 points separating him and the front-runner, and he's got 16% of new york with him tonight still. >> you just want to talk about him for the rest of the race. >> lawrence-i think those are the snapchat voters. >> there you go. krystal ball, this discussion was just empty without you. we needed you here -- >> you know, i actually watched you guys last week, and i was like i want to be there. >> thank you very much. krystal ball and ari melber, both. >> thanks, lawrence. coming up, mitt romney is trying to rewrite his most amazing moment as a presidential candidate, that 47% thing. now he says "actually, i didn't say that." the delusional mitt romney has worked his way back into the "rewrite." and today the pope had some extraordinary things to say about gay people and women's role in the church. sister simone and jesuit priest james martin will answer the question, which is not only half a joke. is the pope a catholic? and north carolina has passed an extreme voter suppression law. today the president and attorney general met with civil rights leaders to strategize the way forward under the voting rights act now that the supreme court has limited its use. and later a real fight, this is real, erupted between chris christie and rand paul. you've got to see it. that's coming up. 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