i have great respect for tim kaine. he's a wonderful guy. i respect his opinion. ultimately, the decision rests with congressman weiner. i'm sure he's -- he's doing a lot of soul searching. >> i want to focus on the biggest challenge for the president. he was out today talking about jobs again, talking about some of his plans, his proposals to invest more money in schools like that, to invest more money in infrastructure, to invest more money in research and development. however, with the certainty of a republican house that doesn't agree with the president on those proposals and others, will he have to go into the election campaign essentially without any new specific proposals on job creation because he can't get them through the congress? >> well, look, i'm not going to presuppose that the republicans in congress won't see all that and feel the same sense of urgency that so many of americans do to continue to be working toward recovery. what the president was talking -- >> they just have different ideas? the president's wrong, they would say? >> well, that's wh

tim kaine saying he definitely should resign? >> reporter: yes, and possibly the biggest name so far to come out and call for the resignation, but you can be sure that the democratic leader in the house, like nancy plosist, they're not running to his defense, in calling for an ethics investigation. on the republican side, a very big name, eric cantor calling for anthony weiner to resign, then the telling comment from the top democrat in the senate, harry reid when asked what advice he would give to anthony weiner if asked -- he said i would tell him to call someone else. so we'll be looking today, already making calls to see how this list of -- how this list grows, if there would be growing calls for him to resign, but you can see this already, kyra. while he is facing a potential ethics investigation, it seems his political troubles are worse. >> also now some democrats apparently trying to get rid of campaign contributions that they actually got from wiener? >> a shot of the political fallout widening. at least two democrats in

senate candidate and former dnc chair tim kaine said, lying about something publicly is unforgivable and he should resign. while the current rnc chair called on dems to pressure weiner to go. >> nancy pelosi needs to do her job and be a leader of her caucus until anthony weiner to really hit the bricks and go home. >> he does a good job, let him do his job. >> reporter: nancy ploes has asked the house ethics committee to investigate. >> if house resources were used in this sexual contact, he could face concerns or problems under the code of conduct of the house. >> reporter: but there are new allegations. tmz reporting weiner had an online relationship with former porn star ginger lee and offered to help her cover it up. >> cameras are showing up, calling her family members, stuff like that. she is upset about it and asking him and he basically says, look, do you have need pr advice? >> reporter: as for weiner's wife, the top hillary clinton aide left tuesday for a seven-day state department trip to africa. kristen dahlgren, nbc news, washington. >>> cal trains service is getting bac

tim kaine says his attempt to cover up the scandal makes him unfit for office. kaine says lying about the photo is unforgivable. >>> firefighters are throwing all they have against this so-called wallow fire, but still not enough. the flames are spreading fast, and jim spellman is with the firefighters on the front lines. >> reporter: a fire bigger than new york city, so far 0% contained. >> the wind's our enemy right now. as soon as they die down to give us an opportunity to get a handle on the fire, that's what we're waiting for. >> reporter: it could be days until that break. until then, they're doing what they can to try to get ahead of the flames. >> right now we just completed at least part of our buffer that we're creating just before the fire front hits here. we're trying to maintain it on this room. >> they've already created an intentional fire to eliminate as much fuel as they can. crewing are monitor this road to make sure no embers come across. >> this hotshot team has come from california to fight it. it's stifling heat, but you won't here any of t

former dnc chair tim kaine said lying about something publicly is unforgivable and he should resign. the current rnc chair called on d dems to pressure him. >> reporter: weiner has vowed to stay. a poll taken after he admitted inappropriate relationships online 51% of new yorkers think he should keep his job, 30% say resign. >> he does a good job. >> nancy pelosi asked the house ethics committee to investigate. >> if house resources were used, he could face concerns or problems under the code of conduct in the house. >> reporter: there are new allegations. weiner had an online relationship with former porn star ginger lee and offered to help her cover it up. >> cameras are showing up, calling her family members. she is upset and he says do you need pr advice. >> reporter: more lawmakers advise weiner to resign. >>> here in california governor brown is showing the state he is showing the state he is serious about cutting spending. he made a 44% reduction of state cell phones. brown's office estimated the state would save $13 million if some of the cell phones were retrieved. >> arson

watch this. >> may i have your thoughts on tim kaine's positions this morning on representative weiner? >> i don't know. >> he said he should resign. any thoughts? >> i think that weiner has some problems. >> problems in washington, but maybe not with his voters back home. look at a this. this is a new york marist poll that says that more than half says he should not resign. we took it live monday afternoon, but his future may not be up to him or the voters for that matter now that nancy pelosi has requested the for mall investigation, but still, the worst that could happen to congressman weiner is far less than what could happen to kids caught sending explicit photos and messages with fellow kids. some kids end up facing child pornography charges and the prospect to have to register as sex offenders. parents did you realize that? that could change in a half a dozen states including new york. i want to bring in rick perry who is sponsoring this bill to give prosecutors and judges another way to deal with teenagers accused of sexting and it is called the cyber crime youth rescue act. th

tim kaine, former governor of virginia, he is trying to run in a tough state. it is also coming up increasingly republicans trying on put pressure on the democrats saying why won't you call for him to resign and return campaign contributions. listen to this exchange hi with one of the seven republican candidates that will be in our debate in ham happen. santorum is someone that appeals to social conservatives. i asked him if he were the president today what would he say to congressman weiner. >> president santorum, none of my business. this is an issue that's a tragic one. one that, frankly, i would have handled differently if i was in congressman weiner's place. i don't think that this is for the president of the united states to speak out on. this is an internal matter of the house and should deal with it. >> you said you would handle it differently. how? >> well, i -- if i was -- if i had done what congressman weiner had done, i would be worried about my family and getting my life back together. and not trying to go out and be a congressman and try to profes

. >> reporter: more seriously, we heard, now, from former democratic party chairman, tim kaine, saying he believes weiner should resign. that's the first prominent democrat to say weiner should go. >> he's in a senate race in virginia. thanks very much. >>> let's get more with our legal analyst, dan abrams about the ethics investigation that weiner could be facing. you saw jon karl talk to the lawyer there. you're not allowed to use official phones, computers for this kind of activity. but the question will be can he argue it's incidental? >> you're not allowed to use it for personal use. but you're allowed to use the phone to call your wife. to call your kids. you're allowed to use the computer to send out e-mails to friends. >> it could work. >> that's right. it becomes a question of interpretation. it's sort of like when a prosecutor decides, i'm going to find a crime here. there was something wrong here. prosecutors can look new statutes. and often find criminal action. it's the same sort of thing. >> you could get the questions of volume as well. if there were hundreds of calls or

>> had prominent democrats, former party chairman tim kaine running for senate in virginia, allison schwartz, very progressive democratic congresswoman from virginia. the news today, if accurate, from the "new york times," if this young woman, 21-year-old, who got that underwear picture did not ask for it, did not s solaicit it, terribly damaging. when they all come back, i'm hearing more and more from democrats, they say it privately so i can't name them, more and more he needs to go. >> pelosi wants him out, which is not a good sign. i think it's going to be a touf road. the ethics committee is going to meet, in your view, it was unsolicited pictures. >> the investigation of the ethics committee that could last for months. >> it could and i think he should stick around for a while. >> i think weiner is in trouble. anyone who's vulnerable wants to him to leave. >> do you think al's up there to really tell him to thissicen up? >> not that i have heard from. there's a lot of people who say, look, there's a process, it's not obvious on the face of it that he broke any laws or congressional rul