bitter end. he had been there for three weeks, right? he had been through the fire, every single day. if bill clinton survived this kind of thing anthony weiner has got to start listening to advice, but if he gets off the ray car screen, 2013 is a mayor election in new york, people say he s dead, america is a very forgiving country. martha: very forgiving country. 2013, he s refreshed, revitalized anthony weiner announced he s throwing his britches back in the ring. martha: how about november of next year? little too early. martha: a little too early? that s what i think. martha: you know, it s a study in public relations, media relations relations, this entire thing. we listened to bill pascrall, congressman from new jersey say if he had just admitted it right off the bat he could have hung on to his job. never. martha: why not? he s arrogant. the lie was part of it. the lie was part of it. martha: and the fact that i ll tell you why, if the democrats ran with
hearing. no one wants to go through the spectacle of that. the other question, some commentators are saying you know, a lot of times, politicians will resign and there will be some wink or nod or overt understanding with prosecuting authorities they re not going to go forward. people theorized about that with former governor spitzer. i don t think that s the case. martha: and mcgreevy. i don t think that s the case because, a, i don t understand prosecutors to be involved and b, i m not sure there are criminal violations but we to carve out the caveat that we don t know the potential facts, if you re talking about under age females, that s a problem, and lying. martha: that was pursued in delaware and dropped, the one underage case that was brought up on this, and clearly that puts this into a different realm pros cue torally. lie something. i think it s interesting, you talk about things dying down. if as one of your former public relations guests
and politically do we know if anything changed in terms of his reality in that time period. well, the biggest thing that changed, and i think that congressman bill pascrall from new jersey, summed it up perfectly, talking to reporters on the hill, which was if he wouldn t have lied about this in the first place, he d be fine today. that he would have endured this storm and by now, it would be a joke. as you said, it was a weird picture, if he had owned up to it, yes, his detractors on the internet would have continued this probe into his conduct online and maybe there was more to come later, but once he brought his fellow democrats into the lie and made them complicit, without their knowledge, once everybody understood the depth of that and the anger of that inside his own caucus was real, i think he realized that it would be unsustainable to stay in washington. martha: how many times have we seen that story, right? it goes back to the lying and the coverup, every single time. it s u
obviously not, and i think it s a shame. let me address whether the coverup was worse than the crime. i think he didn t have any choice but to cover up once he hit that tweet. he had a chance to confess to his wife, to be humiliate or to lie and lie and lie. he lied as long as he could until it became clear that andrew had even more pictures and he was utterly caught and the lie wasn t going stand up. he couldn t have initially said i stood in front of the mirror at the house gym in a towel, grabbing my crouch. he could not have had he not said, shooken his fingers and said i did not have sex with that woman. and weiner came forward to get ahead of the scandal. he could not have fully confessed to it.
martha: as most our mops and dads tell us when we are kids, one lie leads to another. thank you very much. bret baier on special report. our thanks to you, bret. and the first to reveal that congressman weiner s twitter account was a little more interesting than most people s was andrew breitbart. he exposed the first of many of these lewd photos from the twitter account setting off the sexting sandal. an grew breitbart joins me now by phone. when you heard this news that it was over at least for now for congressman weiner, what was your reaction? it was expected. when debbie wasserman shultz and nancy pelosi ask him to step