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welcome back to the David Pakman show
welcome back to the David Pakman show joining me
is luv college Avani he is not only a long time David Pakman show supporter
he's also the editor of the we survived bush
you will survive Obama Facebook page in a journalist with examiner dot com
so lou we're here to talk about Anthony Weiner and the scandal that
has kinda blown up while I was on vacation so question one is
we now have learned the name love Sydney leather is our Sydney Elaine leathers as
she is is known by
and she has been identified as the individual who has been sexting
or exchanging these messages with Anthony Weiner so question one before we
get into it so people understand
how do you know Sydney leathers us it was employed my no
higher during the summer 2010 as a contact greater administrator
I'm not always right but you're so I'm Obama and we've been working closely
together
ever since that so for over two years good work together
okay so during the time that these messages were exchanged with Anthony
Weiner
was were you in contact with her at that time I was in contact with that in every
day
for business purposes we were %uh use me I wasn't made aware
the Anthony Weiner scenarios or a bro
well 2030 okay when you were made aware of it how did you find out about it I'll
well basically one day after RP
contacted by our Jason winner anthony Weiner's brother
I'll she felt threatened by our
by his to a contact and
she told me she had a story that you need tell me and a neighbor across you
talk to all
sort of their okay so in April Sydney
who has who had been in touch with it exchanging these
a sexual messages with Anthony Weiner comes to you and says
anthony Weiner's brother has reached out to me and and
you said threats were made can you kind of elaborate on that
I wouldn't say threats were made I i feel that she fell
rattan on my hand grenade do some retarded
ratner by any see more along the lines contact with her
you gotta keep my David this car April well
was coincidentally enough two days after New York Times article came out
were you mind Anthony's arm
play ball and so it's Quinn said Alan of the idea brought on April 12 Jason
Weiner contacts are unable to well
and also as evidence to show our dirty tar now
bad Anthony Weiner mentioned his own brother
unable to open a message which has been published by
Dirty Birds I also air well or in ok now
what do you know to be the nature or the specific messages that
anthony Weiner's brother sent to Sydney leathers I have no
I'll I don't have any official
documentation that contact between them
happen the only are references that makes two
Jason Weiner besides on that well besides
intimate making reference to my well she mentions that his brother is a weird
situation in a later conversation that we had at
in June and also it should be noted
that Jason winners publicly I'll
said that he had no involvement and in this guy at all
but the the time line that we're working with your simply doesn't make sense
either city
you there certainly is our why which i think is absolutely ridiculous this
border
to so stay there or anthony Weiner's lying
or Jason winters line a course or go on record
mind doesn't sometimes i think is more reasonable to believe that the story
does believe there are
facts what is the kind of concise summary
above what Jason Weiner's involvement is alleged to be
well years use use a deal I i sat on April 12 the contacts are
on this his position was just taker
jurors up and or in saying in the past he is
looking to see what her feelings were what
you know ok they're going to be a problem she was going to be a problem
for the campaign
are it wasn't a long conversation going to in fact I don't think that she even
responded and what so ever
but arm you know
there were certainly contact going to do about and that's all i got right on
us which is ironic in a nutshell because that was the trigger
the whole situation had he not made contact with her
who knows what a hair but after contact her she told me
she told other people mean this was the catalyst call situations
where intense on silencing her
only me to come forward even sooner and it's their own
it's their own fault this app is your sense
that sydney leathers initially
had any idea on her own
to kind of create a scandal
in her contact with Anthony Weiner or did the transition from whatever initial
contact to
took place to the sexual messages I
happen in a way where it was not planned by her I don't know if that questions
kind of clear but what how would you evaluate her initial intentions here
you know I've heard that question several times over the past few days
I don't believe the city after this maliciously I don't believe that she
entered it to become a media darling ish the as she has become
now but also as i was bored and CNN
and other publications heard I had a out very long very detailed conversations
well how to profit from this are the best avenues
Teresa I mean I set up the server two months
regularly said initially when Anthony Weiner announces get no secret that
wasn't
that that wasn't up the best time to release we want to wait for it to be
Barack a little bit more popular to see if he actually had Houston's
in his are capitulation to the public in saying that
he was gonna run for mayor damn and then he actually came back in the polls and
the george Zimmerman trials over time so it's the perfect time because
come out so talk to me about that a little bit why did you want to
time this in the way am i hearing that you want at the time it in such a way
that it would be as detrimental to his campaign as possible
yes guilty very bills get there and tell me why in other words in your opinion
and I'm I'm playing devil's advocate here her should this type of thing
matter in other words
let me give the Elliots pics spitzer example for second
done Eliot Spitzer is a guy that I consider to be incredibly capable
and I question whether even though he had this scandal that damage his
credibility the prostitution ring et cetera et cetera
compared to the stuff a lot of politicians do
getting with prostitutes is it not that influential in terms of his ability and
capacity to govern
if you believe that he is otherwise capable or am I wrong about that
not that that's a fair statement I don't think the Eliot Spitzer
scenario anthony Weiner's there are repairable except they expect the
analysts and Eliot Spitzer gave himself a downgrade for
job once rubber %uh roller anthony Weiner's I did he deserve promotion
after lying dozens of times
weeks the media solve the question is should they be allowed to you know
and hang around different sexual scenarios me sure
but at the same time politicians are held to a higher standard
not to mention the fact that when they go out and do the sorts of things that
give ammunition
20 to our political enemies the great a
scenarios to raise we can't discuss the issues anymore is now we're talking
about this was I don't really discuss the banking fraud or
know the Goldman Sachs aluminum manipulations and over you nest but
unfortunately it's where we find ourselves
what would be in the ideal scenario what what does Lou college Avani want to have
happen now that this information is broken you sat on it until the time
at at which you believe that would be most damaging to anthony Weiner's
campaign
what with the ideal next thing that happens overs while I want to clarify
that i sat on the information because that you told me
and asked me not to put a collar up in so I think that you know
fifty days ago last time I spoke with her about this matter
she told me that the information was not gonna go over but you'd spoken to a
lawyer
lawyers a as is are not but officials are
so that's that's one point where occasion but i sat on it knowing that
should build up momentum but I've never released a
because of her race shirt so there was a good release that at any time
before this period now the the second point what I'd like to see happen
are XIII our words like all pregnant women first page along with millions of
other people
back on the scandal originally bro that was there any better
was very detrimental to the party and now
scandal broke I mean its dedication as far as I can tell not to mention
how many times have we heard stories change purse he said
you don't have any relationship with anyone a study at
re when that 61 Ben 10 now the numbers thirty
now for individuals EE the best the actual number
after that's what is offered after lying about it for so long
and they went on CBS at most I'll up my wife from SAR
I wiped his original press conference that re
units that three other relationships after that press conference reset listen
I'm sorry to my wife
iris Lee was not sorry enough
alright blue-collar Giovanni editor if we survived bush will survive Obama
journalist with examiner
dot com I incredible stuff that this just landed in your lap let me just
amazing the way things have happened we can certainly disagree about
the importance %uh any particular scandal but it's a %uh it's just amazing
that this is the way things have happened and and I thank you for being
on the show
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