[laughter] now, spitzer's... look, clearly spitzer has got his work cut out for him here. but maybe he'll be okay as long as his opponents are willing to focus on the issues rather than on his past mistakes. >> and get this, spitzer is challenged for the post by libertarian kristin davis, who says she was the madam who supplied him with escorts. >> oh, boy. really? he's running? i will say, she really is the classic archetypal sexy libertarian. takes off her glasses, shakes out her hair and won't pay her taxes, oh, yeah! incidentally, it shows just how strange this campaign is that in the race to decide who would be best suited to make financial decisions for new york city, the serious candidate is the guy who spent $4,000 for one session with a hooker rather than the woman who figured out that he would pay it. wait, hold on, hold on, wait a second. serious candidate? new york city? why is this reminding me of something? >> if spitzer makes september's primary, he'll be on the ballot with former democratic congressman anthony weiner, who is also trying to make a comeback f

so they wanted eliot spitzer's campaign and for new york city comptroller a former new york governor resigned after a prostitution scandal and two thousand and eight he told the times over the weekend i am hopeful they'll be forgiveness i am asking for it but has the big apple exterminated this worm for good in light of his recent endeavors let's revisit the profile of eliot spitzer he was raise an affluent area of new york city and walk the halls us. some of the most prestigious universities he received as an undergrad from princeton university and a law degree from harvard to prevailing in academia he went on to conquer white collar crime in the manhattan district attorney's office he became the chief of the labor racketeering unit and led the investigation and that brought down the gambino mafia on an organized crime scene sting he soon took an interest in politics and successfully ran for attorney general this is where he dug himself the sheriff of wall street where you played an untraditional role and prosecuted the federal cases against the most powerful firms on wall street us

this is possible and how it might add we talked to part naylor a public citizen finally we have eliot spitzer who resigned in disgrace in two thousand and eight just as applied anshul panic was heating up well he's back and he's looking to oversee new york one hundred forty billion dollars city pension plan he won't be able to bring charges or things cool right so. find out what's in your prime interest. you by it. elementary school lesson how would bill becomes a law the law or statute is an act of by congress it's usually somewhat vague by design but what happens after it's passed it's up to government regulators to make specific rules or regulations to implement the law this rule making process goes on usually with the help of the very entities that are being regulated now that's why j.p. morgan attends all those meetings with the c f t c and it's a c f t c the commodity futures trading commission that has been charged with writing the dodd frank rules that deal with derivatives this is a seven hundred trillion dollar industry well dodd frank just celebrated its three year anniversary and

this is possible and how it might add we talked to the partner of public citizen finally we have eliot spitzer who resigned in disgrace in two thousand and eight just as a plight anshul panic was heating up well he's back and he's looking to oversee new york's one hundred forty billion dollars city pension plan you won't be able to bring charges of things cool dry so. find out what's in your prime interest. you might. elementary school lesson how would bill becomes a law the law or statute is an act of by congress it's usually somewhat vague by design but what happens after it's passed it's up to government regulators to make specific rules or regulations to implement the law this rule making process goes on usually with the help of the very entities that are being regulated now that's why j.p. morgan attends all those meetings with this you have to see and it's to see it to see the commodity futures trading commission that has been charged with writing the dodd frank rules that deal with derivatives this is a seven hundred trillion dollar industry well dodd frank just celebrated its three yea

so they wanted eliot spitzer is campaigning for new york city comptroller a former new york governor resigned after a prostitution scandal and two thousand and eight he told the times over the weekend i am hopeful they'll be forgiveness i am asking for it but has the big apple exterminated this. for good in light of his recent endeavors let's revisit the profile of eliot spitzer he was raised in the affluent area of new york city and walked the halls of some of the most prestigious universities he received as an undergrad from princeton university and a law degree from harvard to prevailing in academia he went on to conquer white collar crime in the manhattan district attorney's office he became the chief of the labor racketeering unit and led the investigation that brought down the gambino mafia on an organized crime scene sting he soon took an interest in politics and successfully ran for state attorney general this is where he dug himself the sheriff of wall street where you played an untraditional role and prosecuted the federal cases against the most powerful firms on wall stree

this is possible and how it might add we talked to part naylor a public citizen finally we have eliot spitzer who resigned in disgrace in two thousand and eight just as a flight anshul panic was heating up well he's back and he's looking to oversee new york's one hundred forty billion dollars city pension plan he won't be able to bring charges of things school so. find out what's in your prime interest. you might remember that elementary school lesson how a bill becomes a law the law or statute as an act of by congress it's usually somewhat vague by design but what. happens after it's passed it's up to government regulators to make specific rules or regulations to implement the law this rule making process goes on usually with the help of the very entities that are being regulated and that's what j.p. morgan attends all those meetings with this you have to see and it's to see have to see the commodity futures trading commission that has been charged with writing the dodd frank rules that deal with derivatives this is a seven hundred trillion dollar industry well dodd frank just celebrated its

in the former new york attorney general eliot spitzer you won't want to miss what she does up on him then i will do all the breaking the sets many of us follow all of these astounding cause of all these wiretaps we've been hearing about as well as c.e.o. bonuses. i would rather as questions for people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question more. on the. record every doctor from the field that you won't find it here if you're looking for relevant stories unique perspectives on top my scans. all right i'm back with more from bart naylor we were just talking about eliot spitzer i'd like to correct myself is one hundred forty billion dollar pension fund that he wants to oversee what are his handicap his odds here of getting this position what is he well i know the voters as well as anybody in new york as well as anybody raised in idaho would know them so i don't know if he's going to win this position but the new york controller is already one of the more active shareholder proponents br

democratic governor eliot spitzer is trying for a comeback. he launched a petition campaign today in a bid to become new york city's comptroller. >> john: that's right, eliot spitzer is running for office again, and i've got to say, that is a bold move for man still living down the hideous, embarrassing, career-killing incident where he and a... i don't even know how to say this. you must remember, he co-hosted a cnn show with kathleen parker. [laughter] the shame he put his family through. oh, and of course there was also that thing when he banged a bunch of prostitutes with his socks on. it's because of that last little sexual snafu that spitzer kicked off his campaign by going on jay leno for his official hugh grant memorial prostitute apology tour. >> how did you make this big a blunder? >> big a blundzer? that's a very nice way of putting it. but i don't think blupsder is the right word. there it's not like spitzer accidentally tripped and fell dong first into a prostitute on

the eliot spitzer, former governor of new york, eliot spitzer, will join to tell us why he is getting back into elected politics. >>> all right. pop quiz. which single industry spent the most money on the 2012 elections? wasn't the oil industry, not the pharmaceutical industry. it wasn't lawyers or even lobbyists, actually. the single industry that gave the most money directly to campaigns and superpacs during the 2012 election, there's no drum roll, i'm hearing, wall street. the financial sector spent more last year on politicians than any other single industry. they gave $61 million, $61 million to the romney campaign and about $19 million to the obama campaign, which by the way is like you and me giving a quarter. but wall street was also the biggest single sector donor to superpacs. wall street spends a ton of money on politics and politicians, and that might be why, although there is much main street versus wall street grandstanding in washington. most politicians do not make a habit of trying to actually take on wall street in any real way. that was one of the things that shocke

is possible and how it might add we talked to the heart naylor public citizen finally we had eliot spitzer who resigned in disgrace in two thousand and eight just as a financial panic was heating up well he's back and he's looking to oversee the new york one hundred forty billion dollars city pension fund he won't be able to bring charges that things go awry so. find out what's in your prime interest. you might remember that elementary school lesson how a bill becomes a law the law or statute is an act of by congress it's usually somewhat vague by design but what happens after it's passed it's up to government regulators to make specific rules or regulations to implement the law this rule making process goes on usually with the help of the very entities that are being regulated and that's why j.p. morgan attends all those meetings with the c.f. to see and it's to see have to see the commodity futures trading commission that has been charged with writing the dodd frank rules that deal with derivatives this is a seven hundred trillion dollar industry well dodd frank just celebrated its three

eliot spitzer is not releasing tax returns. he told mitt romney he had to release his tax returns but eliot operates for what's good for eliot and the rest of us have to play by the rules. the more we get the issues out and talk about integrity, talk about leadership and experience, i believe i'll win this race and i'm very confident and we're getting a tremendous response out on the streets throughout the city. i'm out in every neighborhood. i'm shaking hands talking to voters, and i think that's going to matter on primary day. >> are we going to see any bolder, surprising moves from you to try to grab the spotlight? because you're on the program with us now, but i have seen spitzer all over the airwaves since this announcement was made. it's the voters in new york that matter. i know you're out there shaking hands, but anything we're going to see you do to shake this race up? >> the way i'm going to shake the race is up by doing it the old-fashioned way. i'm going to talk about what people care about in new york city. look, w

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allen dershowitz once taught eliot spitzer at harvard law and spitzer worked for him as a research assistant. with regard to the investigation, dershowitz once told me, "they used 5,000 wiretaps, intercepted 6,000 e-mails. every hour spent on going after prostitution is an hour that could have been spent on going after terrorists and people who victimize." which is not to say spitzer shouldn't have emerged from his escapades unscathed, but the discipline should have come from within his own family. there's another argument. some among us are never going to find companionship for a variety of reasons. their solitary existence, the constant barrage of sexual stimulation we see every day on television, on billboards, in our mailboxes and the form of fashion catalogs. it can't be healthy for some people to feel the amassed pressure of such images and have their personal expectations go unfulfilled. yesterday when i asked spitzer whether he believed we should legalize prostitution, he demured, i won't, we should. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" start

eliot spitzer. at least i want to come back. i intend to come back. and i'm going to run for controller of the city of new york. what's that all about and why and how's it going to get there? eliot spitzer joins us next here on the "full court press" this monday morning. >> announcer: this is the "full court press." the "bill press show." live on your radio and on current tv. (cenk) it's go time! it's go time! it's go time! go time. you know what time it is. go time! it's go time. it's go time. what time is it rob? here comes the young turks go time! it's go time. oh is it? oh, then it's go time. anybody? anybody? what time is it? oh, right. it's go time! this show is about being up to date, staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. in reality it's not like they actually care. this is purely about political grandstanding. >> announcer: heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the "bill press show." >> bill: 14 minutes before the top

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i'm not saying eliot spitzer is a more peaceful guy, but eliot spitzer for better or worse, i think for better, really took on the big institutions in -- on wall street. he, of course, went overboard in many cases, especially later in his career, but i remember, mika, you and i having a debate on whether to hahave him on the show. >> it was a fight. >> it was a fight. you did not want to have him on the show. i said he can explain a lot of this wall street stuff as well as anybody else. and we really did, we were very angry. you got very angry at me. i only bring this up, mika, first of all you're a new york voter, i'm curious how you'll vote there. not really that curious. secondly, because i know how you're going to vote, against him, but secondly -- >> no -- >> don't you think the fact that he's economy tept and would actually be the best comptroller for the city most likely. >> all right. >> wouldn't make a lot of sense to vote for this guy regardless of what's in his background. >> i would like to clarify our fight which you still get wrong, still get it wrong today. it's unbelieva

when asked would you vote for eliot spitzer 43% said they would vote for spitzer 34% for wiener. >> it was amazing let's watch the clutch where it's addressed. >> you'd think that women would not like the idea of a guy using a prostitute, which spitzer did and yet women somehow or another apparently have forgiven him. don't ask me why. i can do political questions but psychological, i don't know. cenk: you know, i love that. you know why? that's old school political way of thinking. oh yes a sex scandal you're done, women are going to hate you, i know politics, right? that's all the pundits talk about, right? no, you don't. yes, as ana said, we've all had sexual impropriety at some point in our live. women are basing him on his record. i know stop the presses. anytime people actually base politicians on their substance the old school poster's like wow! i thought they only reacted based on emotion and sex and stuff like that. they actually care that he took on power and are willing to vote for him? yes, they are. that brings us to the racial break down, ana. >> yes. both eliot spitzer a

can't we just find somebody else besides weiner and spitzer? >> the people we have are great, that is why we do not need any other singers than chris brown. he is amazing at it. let him do his job. who cares what he does in his personal life. >> nobody wants to deal with what people have to go through to get in office now. so you have these people coming back in the rotation. it's about being hypocrites. they parade their families around and then say it's none of your business when peep call them on their lies. don't make it about your families if you do not want your family values called into question. >> this in my home does not mean family values. >> she is marrying a so this is good. otherwise the milk building up. >> i am just curious, as if your 40s. >> yes. >> what's with the shirt? >> i'm a huge fan, i collect the figurines, and the movie is coming out, it will be cgi. >> they will not be mute ants. >> they are by definition, mutents. >> this is interesting to me. >> if they are not mutants, then they would be this big and you would not

>> well, look, let me say, i'm a fan of spitzer. he did something when he was the a.g. -- the attorney general that the s.e.c. was unwill to do. he went after the biggest crooks on wall street. he went after some people who weren't crooks on wall street. i don't think he'll be able to take his new office, assuming he gets elected, and turn it into another a.g. office. he won't have the power, he won't have the ability to indict like he did when he was the attorney general. he's not going to have the power of the martin act. so i think we are going to see a very neutered eliot spitzer, and you jeff won't see him as effective as he used to be, and i don't think wall street has anything to fear from the new eliot spitzer. >> but he has already said in interviews that, for example, he would go after jamie dimond's position as both chair and ceo of jpmorgan chase. >> yeah, you know, he can say that all he wants, but without having the ability to really indict and the power of the martin act, i just don't think he'll be able to do what he

wiener and spitzer is not doing that. i think that people are supporting spitzer and wiener because it is a protest vote. you are sick and tired of what people in office behaving responsibly are doing. it is not in their personal lives, but their public lives. people say, you know what, i am going for that crazy guy because he may be weird and immoral or whatever, but he is not one of the people i have come to expect. he is a protest vote which is why he is doing well. >> bill, women recoil from spitzer almost as much as they recoil from you. can he win without them? why aren't you answering the question? >> he can't because there are women in new york and i have seen them, a lot of them. that's how i know because they recoil from me. the big argument is him against prostitution and oh he was with a prostitute to begin with and human trafficking goes hand in hand with prostitutes. first of all, maybe that is the case. >> of course that is the case, but he got a call girl and there is a big difference there. call girls hav

allen dershowitz once taught eliot spitzer at harvard law and spitzer worked for him as a research assistant. with regard to the investigation, dershowitz once told me, "they used 5,000 wiretaps, intercepted 6,000 e-mails. every hour spent on going after prostitution is an hour that could have been spent on going after terrorists and people who victimize." which is not to say spitzer shouldn't have emerged from his escapades unscathed, but the discipli discipline should have come from within his own family. there's another argument. some among us are never going to find companionship for a variety of reasons. their solitary existence, the constant barrage of sexual stimulation we see every day on television, on billboards, in our mailboxes and the form of

allen dershowitz once taught eliot spitzer at harvard law and spitzer worked for him as a research assistant. with regard to the investigation, dershowitz once told me, "they used 5,000 wiretaps, intercepted 6,000 e-mails. every hour spent on going after prostitution is an hour that could have been spent on going after terrorists and people who victimize." which is not to say spitzer shouldn't have emerged from his escapades unscathed, but the discipli discipline should have come from within his own family. there's another argument. some among us are never going to find companionship for a variety of reasons. their solitary existence, the constant barrage of sexual stimulation we see every day on television, on billboards, in our mailboxes and the form of fashion catalogs. it can't be healthy for some people to feel the amassed pressure of such images and have their personal expectations go unfulfilled. yesterday when i asked spitzer whether he believed we should legalize prostitution, he demured, i won't, we should. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hay

i'm traveling around the city and they're not buying the spitzer thing. >> does spitzer qualify for this office? would you say he's qualified? you would argue on the financial sector this has been something of a -- forget the past, you call him qualified for office? >> this job is about having two d distinct skill sets. you have a $2 billion pension fund. so you have to build relationships. that's something spitzer knows nothing about. look at his failed governorship. the whole thing collapsed. why? because it was all about eliot spitzer. now, he used to champion campaign reform. he hasn't released five years of taxes as i have. >> did you support him when he ran for governor though? >> i did. like many, we were disappointed and obviously shocked at how it all sort of came apart. >> one question on the issues of questions. we know this is a huge issue. how does new york city avoid the fate of detroit when it comes to pensions? >> this is a warning sign for us, detroit, what's happening in syracuse. we have to create a pension system that is bull let proof. >> what does that mean? some pe

we all live in spitzer nation. >> spitzer here today. weiner can't be far behind, right? >> i don't know. and in the house, we've got immigration we're going to be talking about. gene, it looks kind of -- like it's in trouble in the house. >> you think? >> i know. >> you think? you got your finger on the pulse there. >> yeah. >> yeah. i mean, they say they want to do it incrementally, maybe like some day later. >> some day later. >> it's not going to happen. >> looks like it's not going to happen. i mean theoretically ways it could happen. john boehner could change his mind and bring it up for a vote, it could happen tomorrow. >> sam stein, think about this, where does this president go if he doesn't get immigration reform, lost on background checks where 90% of americans were with him, where does he go next for an agenda? how do the last two years end up. >> things only get done if there's a trigger mechanism attached to them. you have to look down the road and see what has a trigger and sadly the next thing with a trigger is the debt ceiling. and so maybe there's some s

elliott spitzer is he going tore city comptroller. what about his past with high priced call girls, he said that it should not disqualify himself at all unlike say not paying your taxes. >> people lie about their taxes and not having paid their taxes and all the rest. but you lied about illegal activity. >> i lied about personal sexual activity, yes. i'm not trying to diminish it. sglurp not lying about an affair, it was illegal activity, so lying about illegal activity to you is not a problem? >> i will let the public make the determination. >> that the guy from morning joe? i do not watch it. it's too early. things get emotional. >> how are you different from five or six years snag. >> a lot of pain. a lot of pain. >> that's it? >> yeah, you go through that pain, you change. >> all right. former governor elliott spitzer, thank you for coming on the show. >> he tried to give they are tongue after this. you know who will never change? this cat. >> well that was interesting diane, you claim to be a woman. do you believe that spitzer pa

spitzer and he -- in essence called me not a very polite name myself. so i know this is how he operates. >> you use the phrase here. >> we are a family network. >> exactly. >> these politicians are very clever because had ask for forif i haveness which as dorothy said puts the burden on voters. what they ought to be saying, because it is what they are asking, is that trust me again. despite the fact i broke the law and i lied and i misused my power and abused everything, this time i won't do it. when you put it that way it is much harder to think they should be re-elected. >> is something particular here about new york that this -- these folks are coming to the fore here. >> oh, yes. i was watching those people gather here. and -- protect him, mr. weiner. they were like grand sxhoers gra mothers and grandfathers. transcendent passion and everybody is going to forgive these people. using this forgiveness as eliot spitzer is doing, have to talk about this. he doesn't have to talk about that very dark past. all he has to do is focus on i'm in the forgivene

eliot spitzer told me he expect he will get a fair hearing. he admitted to spending thousands of dollars on prostitutes. admissions that left his political career in taters. late night comedians are not waiting to have their say. >> eliot spitzer, and you remember him, he was caught freaking prostitutes several years ago is running for office again in new york. his campaign slogan is spitzer creating jobs by the hour. >> they never forget headlines like these, but five years later will they for give? >> i think five years is long enough for me to go to the public and ask them to for give. will they? i don't want to protect. just as i would never predict a jury verdict, i never predicted elections and i don't want to predict what the public will do, and i asked for it and if the public is willing i want to serve. that's the most i can ask for and if i get that opportunity i will be happy. >> there's also a feeling, in new york and elsewhere, that you had your chance as governor of new york, and you had your chance and you blew it. why do you de

we saw a survey this week that showed eliot spitzer 11 points over his opponent. the manhattan borough president, who is not a household name. and you're seeing anthony weiner also inching up in the polls. the longtime frontrunner was the speaker of the city council, christine quinn, also not a household name outside of new york city but now you're seeing weiner in one poll in first place, another poll in second place. gwen: is it that voters have gotten used to the coarsening of politics and don't care anymore? >> i don't know if that's true. there are so many variables that go into these kind of races. you mentioned mark sanford. the former governor of south carolina who had an extramarital affair in office and misled the voters. mitt romney won that state by 18 points. he had a weak democratic candidate who had never run for office before and the voters in that district, all they saw was republican and democrat. not so much mark sanford's past. as one voter said it's not like he committed murder or something. >> is that the standard? criminality? these things h

and spitzer for comptroller, remember he even has receipts. >> christian, it's the return of eliot spitzer, not john. and the rest of them, if you want to go to #waytoowitty, you can see what they are. "morning joe" starts right now. ♪ >> i was working in the window because i was just working and i could realize we were basically it sounded like we were about t the whole plane shook. so we knew something terrible had gone wrong. >> the top totally collapsed on a lot of people. >> i was holding the things so tight. and bang. the impact was so powerful. i felt, you know, i was dying. that was the moment. nobody was moving. no sound, nothing. >> good morning. it is monday, july 8th. welcome to "morning joe." with us on set we have former treasury official and "morning joe" economic analyst steve ratner. a perfect morning to have you on, steve. you've landed on that runway in san francisco as a pilot many times. >> can i also be the senior aviation

can't we just find somebody else besides weiner and spitzer? >> the people we have are great, that is why we do not need any other singers than chris brown. he is amazing at it. let him do his job. who cares what he does in his personal life. >> nobody wants to deal with what people have to go through to get in office now. so you have these people coming back in the rotation. it's about being hypocrites. they parade their families around and then say it's none of your business when peep call them on their lies. don't make it about your families if you do not want your family values called into question. >> this in my home does not mean family values. >> she is marrying a cow. so this is good. otherwise the milk building up. >> i am just curious, as if your 40s. >> yes. >> what's with the shirt? >> i'm a huge fan, i collect the figurines, and the movie is coming out, it will be cgi. >> they will not be mute ants. >> they are by definition, mutents. >> this is interesting to me. >> if they are not mutants, then they would be this big and you woul

ari melber, buddy of eliot spitzer gets tonight's last word. thank you. >> thank you. >> up next, "hardball" with chris matthews. >>> who was trying for help? trayvon martin or george zimmerman? let's play some "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm michael smerconish in for chris matthews. leading off tonight, day 20 of the trayvon martin murder trial. it's the first full day for george zimmerman's defense team, which say they could rest their case as early as wednesday. zimmerman is pleading not guilty to second-degree murder charges, citing self-defense. well, today the defense team called witness after witness, including trayvon's father, tracy martin, in an attempt to counter last week's dramatic testimony from trayvon's mother, sybrina fulton. she told the court it was absolutely her son's voice yelling for help in the background of a neighbor's 911 call, but mr. martin previously said that it wasn't his son's voice. it was key testimony. at the heart of the issue whether or not zimmerman acted, as he claims, in self-defense. since the prosecu

they felt the pressure of eliot spitzer on wall street. if you haven't seen the movie "client nine." you should see the movie "client nine." >> it will anger you. >> i don't know what motivates anyone to public office. i always hope it's a sense of public service and they want to make a difference. spitzer did make a difference. now it's in this odd way. he comes from the highest heights, after all maybe he wants to make a political difference and a public service difference in the state of new york. >> the things he did, of course, were wrong, of course? maybe in that aspect he can come back as a smarter better person to run for office. i mean, sometimes--i think he mentioned sometimes you get up with your own hype in what you think you can get away with. >> and you feel you're invincible. >> and maybe even though it was a witch-hunt, maybe he can come back, and there isn't really anything else they can come after him for. they've already done that. we've played those cards. it's over now. they can't hit him on that again. >> it's funny,

here to tell us is candidate for new york city comptroller eliot spitzer. elliott, thank you for coming. good to see you. (cheers and applause) >> thank you. >> stephen: okay, elliott, you also got a book here. >> i do. >> stephen: it's call product tecting capitalism case by case. we'll get to that later. >> can we do that now. >> stephen: elliott. >> yes, sir. >> stephen: what is a comptroller. what does a comptroller do. >> i thought you were going to tell me. that's why i showed up. this is actually a hugely important position. you control or have a say in the investment of over 140 billion dollars of pension dollars that are the pensions for forming municipal wormer-- workers, you see overthe the budget, you see that the tax dollars are used for the purpose-- you seem so intent in listening. >> stephen: no, i do, it's good to know. given a position of this responsibility, shouldn't the job of comptroller go to someone who has shown a modicum of self-comptrol. (applause) >> you are right. >> stephen: why-- why, why should, why should the people trust ne

former governor and now candidate eliot spitzer joins me now. governor, does running now mean that resigning was unwarranted? >> no, i think what it means is that -- and when i resigned, i felt very deeply that i had violated the public trust. i needed to act in accordance with my move that accountability means something. so i resigned. some people said, try to hang on, try to stay in office, and i said, no, i must resign. i've spent five years teaching, had some tv shows that are interesting, i have a book that's m coming out next week, which is a discussion of many of the market principles that drove what i did when i was a attorney general. so five years later, i think i can ask forgiveness. i can say to the public, look at the entirety of my record as attorney general, as a prosecutor, as governor. i have heaerred, i have acknowledged it, i have sinned, i make no denial of that. i am asking for an opportunity to come back and serve, which is what i love to do. >> how long have you known that you would get into this race? you looked at anthon

dagen: spitzer, wiener, you, me, the whole crew. spitzer is just the gift that keeping ongoing. connell: in some ways. who knows, you're right. dagen: still keep op trucking is the word of the day for the markets. top of the hour, stocks now, nicole at the new york stock exchange with why the optimism, nicole? >> we continue to see the strength. the dollar pulled back some today, and last week, we've seen strength in the dollar recently, and when the market rallies, you see a dollar pull back which is what turned the market around after the financial crisis, the multinationals did better, but right now, as i said, the dollar pulled back. we've seen dividend paying stocks and utilities, those things out of favor with the treasury yields gaining, and financials continue to do well and up arrows. we are not too far off all-time highs again. a good month, up 2 #% this month. back to you. dagen: thanks, nicole. con cop to the national transportation safety board saying the asiana plane that crashed in san fransisco was coming in too low and too slow before hitting the sea wall in fro

neil: this mayor's race with eliot spitzer what do you make of this? >> please then to begin even before this telling people couldn't get any worse? then all of a sudden we wake up to eliot spitzer. i don't know where he is doing. neil: do you think i am back in? >> i am not tempted although i am very worried about the city. he could do the job a and he is actually qualified to do the job he was an investment banker and a deputy mayor, a budget director. neil: he is a great guy. >> and very nice and decent. neil: could we have mayor weeder? >>. [laughter] >> i will plan eliot aside for a minute. ian denny is not prepared to be mayor forget the crazy stuff. he was not an effective congressman. charlie rangel was being interviewed and he said i don't remember him. he never passed anything. if you talk to democrats about weiner. neil: they did not want him to run. >> because he was not a good congressman. neil: eliot spitzer will be the next mayor. >> his time as governor was a disaster. neil: always a disaster. always a pleasure. play with that idea home

eliot spitzer's back! let me just preface this saying i'm the most biased man in america on this story. i really like eliot spitzer i think he was terrific when he was in office. can't wait to have him back. flat out hope he wins. i'm sure there are other lovely people in the race, but of course not a lot of people in the media share my sentiment. instead of worrying about what he did with wall street and kept them in check they're like oho we have scandal sex. not only do we have these headlines behind us where all the different papers come out with this like ha ha, we got you, the media is all over him. >> he's been making his rounds with the media trying to ask for forgiveness and trying to get 36,000 signatures so he can get on the ballot to run for new york city comptroller. one interview he did, he was interviewed with tough questions. >> as personally as you can answer this question, don't give me a pat answer, don't give me one that you prepare in your mind, how are you different than you were five

neil: this mayor's race with eliot spitzer what do you make of this? >> please then to begin even before this telling people couldn't get any worse? then all of a sudden we wake up to eliot spitzer. i don't know where he is doing. neil: do you think i am back in? >> i am not tempted although i am very worried about the city. he could do the job a and he is actually qualified to do the job he was an investment banker and a deputy mayor, a budget director. neil: he is a great guy. >> and very nice and decent. neil: could we have mayor weeder? >>. [laughter] >> i will plan eliot aside for a minute. ian den is not prepared o be mayor forget the crazy stuff. he was not an effective congressman. charlie rangel was being interviewed and he said i don't remember him. he never passed anything. if you talk to democrats out weiner. neil: they did not want hi to rn. >> because he was not a good congressman. neil: eliot spitzer will be the next mayor. >> his time as governor was a disaster. neil: always a disaster. always a pleasure. play with that idea home. >> be

with elliott spitzer it's been five years of rehabilitation. i do think the amount of time is also on almost a proxy for how sorry you are. >> well, i appreciate your time. thank you, frank. thanks, karen, and thank you, alex for being here. >> thank you, matthew. . >> your brain is involved in everything you do, yet few girls or women, ever think about their brains. i'll show you five ways to unleash the power of the female brain and the amen clinic's method for radically improving it. it works so well for our patients, i know it can help you too. [music] >> the information in this program will also help boost your energy, mood and focus and it will help you look and feel younger and more beautiful, no matter what your age. [music] >> if you adopt the information in this program and apply it with a great attitude, you'll begin to unleash the power of your female brain in a very short period of time. now is the time to get healthy. you and your loved ones

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spitzer enters the race. numbers change. you're now down 15. >> i am in a good place because at the end of the day we'll win this race because it is going to be decided by prime voter democrats, progressive democrats, folks who believe that the middle class needs a voice, people who don't want the drama of eliot spitzer who is a failed governor by any measure and is now coming in to the race, refusing to release five years of taxes, refusing to file a conflict of interest form and this show is basically making clear to people that elliott represents a different set of rules than the regular public and that's not going to play well in the city of new york. >> the rules were different for eliot spitzer specifically given his previous incarnation as a crusader. >> the tax returns will reveal what we paid him. will you not be impressed. i think this race is screwed up because i happen to think that scott stringer has a really impressive record. eliot spitzer has an impressive record. they're both running down the ticket for cont

former governor and now candidate eliot spitzer joins me now. governor, does running now mean that resigning was unwarranted? >> no, i think what it means is that -- and when i resigned, i felt very deeply that i had violated the public trust. i needed to act in accordance with my view that accountability means something, so i resigned. there were some people who said try to hang on, try to stay in office. i said no. i must resign. i've spent five years teaching, had some tv shows that are interesting. i have written. i have run our family business. have a book coming out next week that is a discussion of many of the market principles that drove what i did when i was attorney general. so five years later, i think i can ask forgiveness. i can say to the public, look at the entirety of my record as attorney general, as a prosecutor, as governor. i have erred, i have acknowledged it, i have sinned, i make no denial of that. i am asking for an opportunity to come back and serve, which is what i love to do. >> how long have you known that you would g