congressman anthony weiner s official letter of resignation. don t hold your breath because it seems the junk mailing congressman hasn t yet sent that letter to the house. representative weiner agreed to resign after he admitted sending lewd photos over the internet. yesterday he sent a letter to leaders of the house in the home state of new york we re told the house still doesn t have the appropriate letter and that could delay his exit. his resignation is supposed to take effect five hours from now. john edwards getting a little more time to deal with the fall-out from his sex scandal. the judge is now delaying the next court date in the criminal case until july. the feds say john edwards used campaign donations to help cover up his affair with rielle hunter and the baby that was produced from that affair. the former presidential candidate admits he has done wrong but insists he did not break the law. the judge says the lawyers need more time to figure out which documents the prosecu
in new york, control that. i thought the whole thing was surreal from the beginning. more importantly, i thought yesterday shouldn t have happened. he should have issued a statement. save the public embarrassment. the people that supported you, that s what i was wondering. when you have stood in front of them and lied so boldly and forcibly for so long. owing them something, is gone. that s a good point. nancy pelosi welcomed his decision saying, congressman weiner exercised poor judgment in his actions and poor judgment in reak. today, he made the right decision resigning. president obama talked about weiner s future with abc news. i wish representative weiner
iowa. but when you re in new york, you better mr. chairman, you better control that. well, i thought the whole thing was surreal from the very beginning but more importantly i thought yesterday shouldn t have happened. he should have just issued a statement, saved himself the embarrassment. but doesn t he owe it to the people that supported you? that s what i was wondering. when you have stood before them and lied so boldly and so forcefully for so long, at that point, owing them something, you ve already thrown that away. so the reality of it is, issue the statement, close your office down, and sneak into that goodnight as a soldier should. that s a very good point. house leader nancy pelosi welcome weiner s decision in a statement saying, congressman weiner exercised poor judgment in his actions and poor judgment in his reaction to the revelations. today he made the right judgment in resigning. meanwhile, president obama expressed optimism about weiner s future in an
let s get right to the president s reaction. take a listen. i wish representative weiner and his lovely wife well. it obviously has been a tough incident for him, but i m confident that they ll refocus. they ll end up being able to bounce back. bounce back. what exactly did the president mean by that? go ahead and just for one second play anthony weiner s strategist. oh, gosh. if he was going to make a comeback, what is the strategy here? he ll probably have a talk show like spitzer or host the newly wed game. it s tough. great thing about the culture we are in right now, it s microwave. you can be up today and down tomorrow. we love to see the crash and the comeback. if i were his advisor i would tell him to lay low for about six months.
unprecedented. i don t think they ve ever done that with any other candidate or any other figure of national prominence. that s why this looks to me almost like moby dick, the obsession to get the great white whale, this is which is sarah palin and this is ridiculous. at some point you have to say look, she s not likely to be a republican presidential candidate, she s a former governor a. celebrity. she is really using hollywood news judgment and applying it to a political story. bill: that interview was judge with the judge done with the judge and freedom watch. that was one topic we brought you in for today. the other is the fallout from what we witnessed yesterday, the spectac he ll on cable news with anthony weiner s resignation, president obama was asked about weiner s future earlier today. here he is on abc. i wish representative weiner and his lovely wife well. it obviously has been a tough incident for him, but i m confident that they ll refocus and he ll refocus