messages weiner sent to her. how often do you talk? we talked. i mean, he would instant message me every day. reporter: broussard s phone shows she received a two-minute phone call from weiner s official office in his new york district may 1th. but does it matter? house ethics manual says congressional computers must be used for official business. but there is a loophole, allowing for, quote, incidental personal use. but weiner may have run afoul of the very first house ethics rule which says members shall reflect credibly on the house. this is a twitter hoax, a prank that was done. i am a victim of it, the poor girl is the victim of it. reporter: the problem for weiner is not that he repeatedly lied but how he did it. look how he lashed out at us last week. is it inappropriate for a member of congress to be following young women on their twitter accounts? from not even from their district. you know, several young women on your account.
that violated my oath of office to uphold the constitution. i have engaged in inappropriate online conversations with people that included photographs. it was a mistake to do that. i don t believe i did anything that violates any law or any rule. one of the women who is alleged to have engaged in a computer sex and telephone sex relationship with weiner told radar online, quoting now, i gave him my number and he called me from his office and me proceeded to talk dirty for 30 minutes. a few days later, i tried to call him back on that number but the number wouldn t connect to his office. instead there was a recorded message that it was outgoing u.s. congress line only. if true, that may be significant. house rules state anything supported with official funds is an official resource. that is from the house ethics manual. further, representative weiner s series of interview on wednesday, june 1, with major media and including this
insulation. it comes back to the idea if this becomes a constant distraction for more than the next week, then the chances are bad. for the moment he hang in there. bret: he says he didn t think he used congressional resources over the many communications. one woman says she called back and said she got the line at the office. the other thing is the house ethics manual. anything supported with official funds is an official resource, including congressional offices. the regulations generally advance solicitation, commerciacommercial bret: he called all the reporters including me in his office and spent the day with this, what he says now is a lie. that s that tangential? no. it s clear violated the rule. that s not a matter for
answers and responses by senator reid and nancy pelosi, the leaders of the democratic party in congress, are very telling, because they re stopping short of purging their own rank. house ethics manual says that members should comport themselves in a manner that is bee pitting bee fitting their office, and they have a leading spokesman for their party who lied for ten days, using his office, using his staff, inviting people like bret baier into his office, to lie to their face, and essentially lie to the world, for ten days, about what he had done wrong. in fact, even in his so called apology yesterday, he lied if when lied in that, saying sending the picture to the woman out here in seattle was a joke. well, we all know that wasn t a joke. so nancy pelosi and harry reid are showing very clearly that they have wide lat feud in terms of what is bee fitting conduct of somebody in their party. martha: or you could look at
ethics investigation. that gives democrats some insulation. it comes back to the idea if this becomes a constant distraction for more than the next week, then the chances are bad. for the moment he hang in there. bret: he says he didn t think he used congressional resources over the many communications. one woman says she called back and said she got the line at the office. the other thing is the house ethics manual. anything supported with official funds is an official resource, including congressional offices. the regulations generally advance solicitation, commerciacommercial bret: he called all the reporters including me in his office and spent the day with this, what he says now is a lie. that s that tangential? no. it s clear violated the rule.