guys. it s my own time. it s my own friend. did you use drugs last night. no, no. how did you get them? no, no. when did you start drinking again, mr. mayor? did you ever stop drinking. don t you need help, mayor ford. i ve answered all the questions. no, you didn t. for more on the story we re joined by daniel dale. listen, it s easy to make fun of him, daniel. this guy needs help. well, you know, he and his family say that or have said that he doesn t need help, but he needs to lose weight and just get himself on the right track but that he doesn t have a serious medical problem. in this video, i listened to it over and over and i know he s speaking in jake man can creole but he doesn t make sense. it s incoherent. is he drunk? is he on something? do we know? we don t know the for sure.
but mayor ford says he s not going anywhere. here to discuss this from new york, hln s host jane velez-mitchell, legal analyst, sunny hostin. jane, i m going to go to you and i want to talk real here. you re a recovering alcoholic. come on. this guy needs help. he needs rehab. look, as a recovering alcoholic with 18 years of sobriety, hopefully 19 year physical i get to april, i look at this and i see the incomprehensible demoralization of addiction. i don t know if he s an alcoholic and a drug addict, but the substance itself is not so important. this guy is in deep, deep, deep denia denial. you probably look at this and say how can he be in denial about having a problem when the evidence is right there on tape? but that is the insanity of addiction. you see, because when we re in our disease, our body, our soul, our mind, totally co-opted by the craving. all we want is that next drink,
building because everything was locked up. i came out and everything was filled with ash. can anybody hear me? i m a civilian. i m trapped inside one of your fire trucks underneath. stand by. there s people close to you. i can t breathe much longer. save me. i m in the cab of your truck. i can barely breathe. please send somebody. what happened? you were right there at the building? yes. you all right? a lot of people trapped. emt. this guy needs help. can you talk us to a minute to tell us what you saw and heard? how you feel? you all right? naw, not at all. i feel bad approaching these people, i mean, they re covered. they re obviously in pain.
give me a break, this guy needs help. this is humiliating. dr. gardere, what do you think about it? i m going to take a different tack on this. i don t think this is a defenseless wife by any means of the imagination. this is a very strong woman. she was behind him running for mayor. she didn t want him to resign from congress. and she is working with him in therapy so she claims, and let me just give her the benefit of the doubt, positive, unconditional regard. perhaps some of this came out in the therapy, but she s invested in this. she s invested in the marriage, invested in the campaign. she s not a stupid woman and she s not going to bail out right now because it would be much, much worse. so you don t see her as a victim, as defenseless i don t see her as a victim at all. i see him as the person who looks really bad through this, and i admire her strength. she s going to see this to the end. i also erin yes. erin, i also think it s significant some of the lang
was filled with ashes. can anybody hear me! i m a civilian! i am trapped inside one of the fire truck, underneath. what happened? you were right there in the building? yes. you all right? a lot of people trapped. e.m.t. guy needs help. you can talk to us for a minute? how do you feel? you all right? no, not at all. i feel bad approaching these people. i mean, they are covered. they are obviously in pain.