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admitted to smoking crack and being in a drunken stupor when you did it and knowledging a city official to the floor and this list of infractions go on and on, sir, you have been a perennial joke and my guess is that robin dolittle doesn t find much of it very soon. she has actually seen the mysterious video of the mayor with a crack pipe and drug dealers, using a gay slur to describe a popular canadian politician. she has written a new book since this whole mess opened, crazy town the rob ford story. she is live with me today. every time i go over this list. it is a truncated list. i still can t believe we are talking about an elected official in the fourth largest city in north america. since you are one of only three people who has witnessed this video of the crack smoking, could you just remind me again what it looked like and what you
straight and narrow can champion rob ford s agenda. the big thing hurting the mayor is he is still not getting help for his issues. we had two incidents last month where he popped up on video looking unmayoral. one at a vancouver bar and another at a toronto fast food restaurant where he was speaking jamaican. he was obviously on some sort of substance. two a month, that s pretty good in terms of his track record. i m going to say this, robyn, there is still some time that video could surface and people might feel what you feel deep in your gut. i am going o tell you this. that is really telling stuff. you are very descriptive of what it made you feel as a person and feel as a person to witness what you saw on that video. that is being lost in all the rhetoric and the jokes and the comedy over this story i appreciate the book and the story. you are doing some great work.
a question from a caller on a radio show he co-hosts with his brother doug, also a toronto lawmaker. mayor ford, is that you in the gawker video? and is that you photographed with your arm around drug dealer anthony smith? there s number one, there s no video, so that s all i can say. you can t comment on something that doesn t exist. yet as the toronto star newspaper reports today, ford told senior aides not to worry about a video showing him smoking crack cocaine because he knew where it was. in fact according to sources, ford was very specific about the location of the video, offering details, none of which he cared to elaborate on at today s news conference. one photographer catching a glimpse of the mayor s prepared remarks, a star reporter noting ford scratched out the following line, i take my role as mayor very seriously. joining me tonight from toronto, robin dolittle, city hall reporter for the toronto star.
robin has seen the video at the center of the story. i have to start there. this is like a hitchcock film. you have actually seen it. so does the video exist? are you sure that that is a video of rob ford smoking crack? yes, the video exists. i, along with my colleague, kevin donovan, have seen the video. it s crystal clear in our eyes that this is mayor rob ford appearing to smoke crack cocaine. okay. you saw the video under the circumstances of it being shown to you, i believe, on an iphone, am i correct? yes. kevin and i saw it about two weeks ago a month ago now on an iphone. here is my question. all this talk about knowing where the video was, isn t this thing presumably stored as a digital file somewhere? it s not like there s some vhs tape with some curier with a bulletproof suitcase who has the thing? no one exactly knows where it is right now. we have an idea of where it is.