whatever one s rod had been, you need to show that you ve changed. is it spitzer and weiner who have changed or the public s tolerance? let s bring in john stanton. live from new york, and a reporter for wnyc, the host of new york s inside city hall, thanks for all for being here. the same poll that puts them in the lead also proud three times more concerned with financial fraud than with infidelity, so i guess the question is are these change the men or do new yorkers just not care about sex scandals? sill you know, people are sort of used to it now. we have more and more of this stuff out in the open in our personal lives. i think that helps a lot, but
political reporter for politico and errol lewis, host of new york one inside city hall. he had the first meeting with weiner. thank you both for being here today. good to see you. is weiner ready for a comeback in new york? well, he thinks she is. he has obviously talked to some people and has decided that now is the time. as you know, weiner was running for mayor four years ago and he saved $4 million from that campaign. he broke off that campaign when the scandal broke and he s got a whole bunch of money that he can use actually to run this time. he s got a real head start and i think that alone makes a mysterious candidate. well, we saw maggie sanford,
in 2008 the phillies won the world series obama carried pennsylvania and went on to win the election in 96. in 96 the yankees won, clinton carried new york. tigers won, reagan carried mitch, you get the picture? tigers won, reagan carried michigan, he won the election. you get the picture. we could keep going. you get to go all the way back to herbert hoover. the world series champs this year the san francisco giants come from california, the state president obama has carried. and one of the newest predictors is in college football. the winner of the university of alabama-lsu game. they have accuratedly predicted since 1984. let s bring our saturday super panel. kelly wallace, nbc news special correspondent tom brokaw and host of new york one s inside city hall, erin lewis.
a far cry from this tuesday s knockdown, drag-out debate. with me, bob shrum, and host of inside city hall earl lewis. here we are thursday night in new york, two days after the big fight the other night in hempstead, new york. the big debate between the presidents with candy crowley as the moderator. we had the other debate on foreign policy coming up monday. how does this fit in between tuesday and next monday in this sort of obstacle course to the presidency? if it works the way it s supposed to, chris, it will be a moment of sort of bipartisan not unity but comedy where they can sort of get along, even tell jokes on themselves and each other, in a setting of what s left of the american establishment is all there. the military leadership, political leadership, financial leadership and of course the catholic religious leadership all in one place, all sort of pushing in the same direction. of the business at hand, is, of course, to raise some money for those who need it. more impo
a lighthearted setting tonight, a far cry from this tuesday s knockdown, drag-out debate. with me, bob shrum, and host of inside city hall earl lewis. here we are thursday night in new york, two days after the big fight the other night in hempstead, new york. the big debate between the presidents with candy crowley as the moderator. we had the other debate on foreign policy coming up monday. how does this fit in between tuesday and next monday in this sort of obstacle course to the presidency? if it works the way it s supposed to, chris, it will be a moment of sort of bipartisan not unity but comedy where they can sort of get along, even tell jokes on themselves and each other, in a setting of what s left of the american establishment is all there. the military leadership, political leadership, financial leadership and of course the catholic religious leadership all in one place, all sort of pushing in the same direction. of the business at hand, is, of course, to raise some money