it s just so weird that the focus of the weiner campaign just draws this connective tissue to whether or not hillary is going to run or not but then we have got the data about weiner himself. polls don t necessarily predict the outcomes but give us guidance here. we have weiner setting unfavorable rating 80% according to this new poll and on top of his ratings sinking in overall donations as we see here before july 23rd. it was over $800,000. after that, $24,000. then buzz feed ben smith said the unusual combativeness was kind of gone. does it seem like he is just getting to that date in september, i think the 10th, and he has to stick it out until the 10th? at this point, it doesn t seem a way to drop out that would make any sense so he is staying in the race. it is until september 10th. he has to fight through it and
it s a guy coming into our private lives with his strangeness. it s an invasion of our privacy, if you will. we keep hearing about a guy as you said or joan said, it s exhibitionism to the point where he s streaking digitally down the street to us. you know? why do we want to know this? things we can not unsee. can t unsee the guy. i don t want to know all this about weiner. your thoughts, steve. this is maybe below your pay grade. it s embarrassing to us all. this guy s called a press conference on national television in a minute. he s going to be the big story of the night, not trayvon martin, not the princess having a baby, but this stuff. well, you know, two things. first of all, there are few politicians i ve seen, i ve written about who is as overtly ambitious as anthony weiner. what does he want out of life? he wants to be mayor of new york. other ambitions. ed koch is sort of his personal political hero.
hold on a second. pat, hold on a second. a year from now we won t be even talk about anthony. we will miss him. well miss him on the fights on the floor and around the country because nobody fought like he did. in 2012, here is where the democrats made a mistake. they thought this was a distraction in 2012. they won t be talking about anthony weiner s wienor. they will be talking about jobs. this was and they use the term distraction. it was a distraction for eight or ten days. i haven t been reading about weiner for the last week. nobody has. it s all gone. basically. until you guys kept pushing him and pushing him. the president, himself, grabbed the rug and pulled it and said, get out of here.
there had now been talk that they were going to the house democrats were going to kick him off the energy and commerce commit taoerbgs which was his big committee. there were a variety of ways in way they could increase the pressure on him and it was just a matter of time before he cracked. what were yo you hearing. reporter: this wasn t something that was going to hurt the party, the election is a year and a half away. sure, it was a distraction. if you re sitting there and they thought they had a pretty good issue with republicans about paul ryan s medicare plan, nobody wanted to hear about that. they wanted to hear from house democratic leaders, what about weiner, why can t you get him out. why is this going on for days and days. it was a distraction. i don t think it will have any
alex loudoun, he is a professional critical player. critical not paying the bills. she was seen with an exboyfriend last week, the son of a duke. house speaker john boehner has broken his silence on anthony weiner scandal telling reporters he does think the new york congressman should step down and democrats are voicing similar opinions after wrapping up their weekly caucus meeting. some lawmakers say now is the necessary time to shift the focus. i wish you would come to my district in ohio and deal with the unemployment faced by 520,000 people that still remain in ohio. i just urge you to concentrate on what s important for the whole country. those remarks after the house democratic caucus meeting today. nbc s luke russert is joining us from capitol hill. democrats can t avoid that question about weiner, can they as long as the story sticks around? no, they can t, peter. as long as anthony weiner remains a member of congress, which he is at this point, the