welcome back to state of the union, back with huma abedin. the decision of when to leave someone, when to stay, you say that people have come up to you a lot and i want to get you to what you say to them. in the narrative of your story, it happened because of the new york post putting out a photo of anthony sending an inappropriate text with the photo of your son, of your young son in it, and you said everybody has a limit. i finally reached mine, ages after everyone else had gotten there. i do think for me every time i made a decision as it was related to my marriage, i was judged. you were judged big time. i was judged big time and the point you made about strangers or friends coming up to me saying they ve been in similar situations, they ll say the same thing. i just had to go through all of this on the front page of the newspaper but certainly many women and men, because i don t think it s only women and yes, both men and women have come up
you god damned old senile [ bleep ]. you re as old and ugly as biden. you ought to get the [ bleep ] off the planet, you [ bleep ] foul [ bleep ]. they ought to [ bleep ] try you for treason [ bleep ] you and every one of your scumbug [ bleep ] friends. i hope your family dies in front of you. i pray to god if you got any children, they die in your face. i ve been getting those for a couple of years. terrible. a couple of years? a couple of years, ever since christmastime the christmas, right after john had died, president trump was in michigan. john, your late husband. john was my late husband and it you know, once you re in that trump hate tunnel, you kind of don t escape it. there are a lot of people that are good, wonderful to meet, et
there s no question about it. i mean, just before we adjourned probably for the christmas break, one of our members had their words taken down, usually you just apologize. you just say you know what? i was wrong and you just sit down and life goes on and no, he couldn t speak the rest of the day. he stood by the words that he had, but you know, metal detectors now going on the house floor, we get nasty threats at home. the tone gets, you know, tougher and tougher, and it s a pretty toxic place. i ve never seen anything like this before. you mentioned the threats, so i want to talk about that. i don t want to start off on such a negative tone, but since you mentioned it, and then we re going to talk about some of the positive stuff that s going on, because there really is, but congresswoman dingell, you had some pretty nasty voice mails last month. you ve had some recently. we re going to play one, but i actually want to warn our viewers that it is a bit disturbing.
conversation i was asked, you know, do you think you would have had a better assessment of the conditions, if you were a more present parent, and i was one of those working mothers that constantly felt torn between leaving for a campaign trip and taking care of my child, and i think a lot of working mothers can relate to what that feels like. it was one of the hardest things that i had to endure in the closing days of the campaign and i just share a story of sitting by the front door, not, you know, wanting to answer it, because i was scared of what was on the other side. angry about what was potentially on the other side. let s talk about the other side now, meaning where you are now. you and anthony are co-parenting your son? we are. is that a fair thing to say? it s a fair thing to say and i think that so much of the decisions that i make if i didn t have a child, i m not sure i would have made some of the decisions i made in years past. like what? you wouldn t have stay
in the narrative of your story, it happened because of the new york post putting out a photo of anthony sending an inappropriate text with the photo of your son, of your young son in it, and you said everybody has a limit. i finally reached mine, ages after everyone else had gotten there. i do think for me every time i made a decision as it was related to my marriage, i was judged. you were judged big time. i was judged big time, and the point you made about strangers or friends coming up to me saying they ve been in similar situations, they ll say the same thing. i just had to go through all of this on the front page of the newspaper but certainly many women and men, because i don t think it s only women and yes, both men and women have come up to me, but it is primarily women and this notion that they are judged for staying, judged for leaving, judged for what their decisions are and muddling their way through it.