overcoming his past will be a challenge. we ll have a chance to if i decide to run, to discuss that. reporter: but not impossible. congratulations, congressman. reporter: just ask mark sanford whose extramarital affair didn t stop him from getting a seat in congress. do you think weiner has a chance at mayor? reporter: but weiner is getting a taste of the coming scrutiny, politico reporting his wife, a former top adviser of secretary of state hillary clinton, did outside consulting work, in her final months at the department. a clinton spokesman said she complied with her disclosure requirements, adding, this was neither special nor an arrangement. there are many people who operate as consultants throughout the federal government. i m very proud of the work my wife has done on behalf of secretary clinton. do you see how people would have an issue with it? being paid by the government and
months. it s the most rigorous training there is in the u.s. government. by the end of it, if you don t fail out, and a lot of people do, you know how to operate in a place like moscow and get away with it. we understand the kgb, how they operate, what they re capable of. frankly, wolf, being as modest as i can, we can run circles around them. what went wrong this time? i simply don t know. i think it s a provocation on the part of the russians myself. do you this i it could be sort of payback for what the u.s. did a few years ago? remember when the sufficient rounded up what the u.s. said was a russian spy ring in new york, and elsewhere, anna chapman, who was the good looking redheaded woman who was sent back to russia? that was highly publicized. a lot of tv, pictures, stuff like that. is this just payback to what the u.s. did then? you know, wolf, i think you may be on to something. keep in mind, that the president of russia, putin, was once head of the kgb, a kgb officer
to help secure the embassies. that was his response to the benghazi problem. he talked about the irs, and said, well, this was done, because i take these leaks very seriously, because they endanger americans. put it in a broader 50,000-foot context. this wasn t about reporters, it was about the safety of americans. he went after the irs, and said, i am angry. i m just as angry as you are, and i ve already fired people and we re going to prevent this from happening again. next step, change the subject. that s today. we re talking about jobs and the economy, and oh, my goodness, these people are looking at fleeting issues but i ll still focused on you. the pro be is, the third element for recovering from these, is time. you ve got all these house republicans in particular out there going, i m going to have a committee hearing on this angle and a committee hearing on this angle. so for the irs, the a.p. story of the phone records, as well as for benghazi, there are many more hearings to c
to decide whether, again, whether yale galanter was effective in his defense, or if o.j. simpson deserves a new trial. you ll let us know when we get a decision. thanks very much for that, george howell, in las vegas. the mayor of toronto has allegedly been caught on tape smoking crack. the video has been viewed by reporters from the toronto star newspaper. the mayor denies the allegations. absolutely not. it s ridiculous. cnn s paula newton is following developments in ottawa right now. paula, what does this video show us? the toronto star reporters say they each viewed it three times. they say in broad daylight, essentially, here is the mayor smoking crack cocaine with a pipe. and he is with other people who are taking the cell phone video. but it appears that the mayor
of that particular crime. now, in the last two weeks, three service members assigned to sexual assault prevention units have been relieved of duty for misconduct, including some allegations of sexual misconduct. all of this, wolf, adding to the pressure on the pentagon to get moving on this problem. they ve got to get moving, and they ve got to fix it, and fix it right away. barbara, thank you. o. jflt simpson s lawyers, past and present, do battle in a heated courtroom today. it got so nasty the judge had to step in. plus, a big city mayor who reporters say was caught on tape smoking crack. i want to make things more secure.