mary in. reporter: good morning, kate. anthony weiner would love more than anything else to change the topic back to politics but that doesn t look like that s going to be happening any time soon. the woman now at the center of the anthony weiner scandal says the best description of the former congressman is one he offered to her himself. that he s an argumentative perpetually horny middle aged man. reporter: sydney leathers talked about her sexually suggested relationship online and over the phone with weiner last summer, a year after he resigned from congress and why she s speaking out now. he was making these campaign promises that he had totally changed and he was a better man now and he learned from his mistakes and i am proof that that is not true. reporter: lisa weiss who exchanged explicit messages with then congressman weiner in 2010 and 2011 doesn t blame leathers. i understand to a point, yes, i do, because i would speak to him about politics and then he
james? in a word, no. if we weren t on television, i d say blank no. i think what he has to do is say we have to stay vigilant. these things while encouraging, still we re in the worst recession we ve had since the great depression. we have to stay really vigilant here. we have to really work hard, you know. but no, do not i think it would be a big mistake. what we found out in the 90s is you couldn t talk about any kind of economic progress until you were well into a sustained recovery. i suspect that s going to be true now because a lot of people just don t feel this at all. do you agree with that, mary in. i m going to agree with my brilliant husband, who s always brilliant, not always right. but in this case, the unemployment numbers are still close to double digits and they re twice what they were in the bush administration. so people are not this is we re not anywhere near robust
carville? i don t think so. if i d said something that was really stupid or something that came out the wrong way, i would probably be careful to say that. but how could i i cracked the joke. it was maureen dowd had it in the new york times during the campaign. so it would be kind of i don t know how it would have come. people sound so discombobulated when they say i offended anybody. if i say something stupid, i obviously meant to say it because i d said it before. having said that, given the way the president has come in in december, it shows maybe he stands maybe the quote wasn t as accurate as it was when i said it. now, mary, let me ask you, in the household there, does he not walk things back? does he apologize every now and then? he s a pretty olympian back-walker on occasion.