we begin this half-hour with fallout from the anthony weiner sexting scandal. a woman came forward and said she engaged in an online sexual relationship with weiner after he left congress. sydney leathers tells inside edition that weiner tells her he loved her she feels manipulated. the latest allegation rocking weiner s bid for mayor of new york city. here s abc s john karl. reporter: how bad are things for anthony weiner he couldn t say how many women he sent sexually explicit messages and photos. it s not dozens and dozens. it is six to ten i suppose. but i can t tell you absolutely what some one else is going to consider inappropriate or not. reporter: how many after weiner a democrat left congress in disgrace promising it all stopped. i don t believe i had any more than three. weiner s wife, huma abedin, a long time confidant of hillary r hesdame confidant of hillary but has not been seen since. i wonder all the time what i did to deserve such an amazing woman.
sticker regurgitated. guess what? we re not getting better. we ll hear from rand paul and austan goolsbee, but first, tonight what i wanted to say is i love him, i forgive him, i believe in him, and as we have said from the beginning, we are moving forward. is it love or lust for power? we re going examine why weiner s we re going examine why weiner s wife has you re not made of money, so don t overpay for at insurance. geico, you re not made of money, see how much you could save.
with at least one woman more than a year after, after the lewd behavior forced hip to resign from congress. weiner faced the music at a news conference. perhaps the most revelation came from his wife. good morning. we have not seen anything in politics, weiner s wife, huma abedin actually spoke at the press conference. it s a very powerful assist but is it enough to save his campaign. i have said that other sexting photos were likely to come out and today they have. reporter: attorney weener admitting to online sext chats with women after resigning from congress. some of these things happened before my resignation, some of them happened after. reporter: the disgraced congressman once again guilty of the same behavior that publicly humiliated his wife while she was pregnant.
mr. weiner has said he will now undergo a period of therapy toy help him understand why he kept ex-talling the virtues of his libido online. a number of politicians said mr. weiner s behave hear ban distraction from the serious issues of got and they re obviously right. in is one important lesson worth reiterating because it relates directly to mr. weiner s chapses of recovery and the very nature of the american people. i have to say, that it s one of this country s most important characteristics. forgiveness. you compare this country with almost any other around the world and you will not find a more forgiving people. in britain, where political scandals are not unusual, it s almost impossible for a politician to regain his seat if involved in some kind of inappropriate behavior. most disappear from public life for good. that s nothing when compared with other places around the world. last friday a woman in saudi arabia drove her own car around
of it. this is a complete breach of our arrangement that the photo would not be made public. it was a complete violation of trust. in his own tweet, opie hughes said the singular image was taken by a video camera that someone had in the studio, shepard? shepard: there is also word that congressman weiner and his wife reached out to the clintons. congressman weiner supposedly apologized to president clinton. weiner s wife, huma has been very close to the clintons for many years. the former president officiated at their wedding last year. she has worked for hillary clinton for 15 years. huma started as an intern back in 1996, then in the first lady s office. and there are reports the clintons are deeply disturbed about what happened and that huma sought advice from mrs. clinton about this unfolding and seemingly growing scandal. shepard? shepard: eric shawn in the newsroom and lawmakers are now moving to disassociate themselves from congressman weiner by returning money that he has