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Should politician Anthony Weiner get prison for sexting teen? · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: A photo of an anonymous man's bulging underwear was tweeted
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Speaker 1: from Congressman Weiner's account to be cleared, the picture was
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Speaker 1: with me and I sent it disgrace. Former congressman husband
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Speaker 1: to longtime and powerful Hillary Clinton adviser Whoma Aberdeen loved him.
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Speaker 1: I have forgiven him. During a comeback effort as he
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Speaker 1: ran for mayor, Weener was caught for a second time
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Speaker 1: sexting with women under the alias Carlos Danger. This is
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Speaker 1: crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Anthony Weiner called in yet
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Speaker 1: another sexting scandal, sexty a young woman fifteen years old.
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Speaker 1: Aberdeen said, I have made the decision to separate from
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Speaker 1: my husband. Aden's crawling right back to Anthony Weiner. Sources
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Speaker 1: to say the breakup was more for the optics for
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Speaker 1: the Clinton campaign transferring obscene material to a miner. He
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Speaker 1: well plead guilty of the prosecutor is saying twenty one
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Speaker 1: to twenty seven months in prison. Does it never end
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Speaker 1: with this guy? I mean, many people think he's single
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Speaker 1: handedly brought down the Democratic Party and let Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: skip into the White House jubilantly. Now you know, I
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Speaker 1: don't talk about politics because I hate politics. I think
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Speaker 1: Republicans and Democrats and Greens and everybody just lie through
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Speaker 1: their teeth. So I hold my nose and vote and
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Speaker 1: never reveal my vote. But this Anthony Weiner a k a.
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Speaker 1: Anthony Weiner is now set to plead guilty to sexting
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Speaker 1: with a fifteen year old girl. Now remember Winer married
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Speaker 1: to the right hand of Hillary Clinton presidential hopeful I
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. This is crime stories and it never ends
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Speaker 1: with this guy. Winer set to plead guilty to charges
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Speaker 1: he sexted with a minor for at least a year.
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Speaker 1: And when you hear what he said to her along
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Speaker 1: the lines of I'm gonna hit it. I ate your
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Speaker 1: private parts so hard you will leak and limp for
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Speaker 1: a week. Let's let that sink in just for a moment.
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Speaker 1: A grown man married texting that to a little girl.
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Speaker 1: He used the name Carlos Danger. I'm just so happy
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Speaker 1: to repeat that, he wrote to her on an instant
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Speaker 1: messaging app Kick, also using the handle tea dog and hard.
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Speaker 1: I would bust that tight p to why so hard
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Speaker 1: and so often you would leak and limp for a week. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I just read it again, Alan, But Luckily I memorized
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Speaker 1: it at the time it happened with me the Duke
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Speaker 1: Alan Duke joining me from his posh l a penthouse pad.
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Speaker 1: I can only I always imagine it as being like, um,
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Speaker 1: who do I love so much? He was like a
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Speaker 1: sixties Austin Powers. I always imagine your place to kind
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Speaker 1: of be like Austin Powers, groovy pad. Yeah, I'll send
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Speaker 1: you pictures. No, no, don't, please don't. Let me just
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Speaker 1: keep it in my mind the way it is. Okay,
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Speaker 1: don't ruin it for we'll do this on video time.
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Speaker 1: Please don't, because like to see your your your clothes
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Speaker 1: on a string drying behind you. Actually they're about three
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Speaker 1: feet away on the clothes line outside. I thought I
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Speaker 1: was the only one that still was their own clothes.
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Speaker 1: And can we get back to Wiener slash Wider slash
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Speaker 1: Curlos Dangerous slash tea dog slash hard. I mean his
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Speaker 1: wife is in the White House on the threshold of power,
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Speaker 1: the key to power, and the most powerful and influential
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Speaker 1: country in the world, and Carlos danger brings the whole
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Speaker 1: thing down. Let's just start at the beginning. Okay, here's
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Speaker 1: this guy with rape fantasies asking this little girl over
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Speaker 1: Skype to dress up in plaid skirts for role playing
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Speaker 1: with him as the teacher. I can only imagine when
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Speaker 1: he was teaching, Okay, your turn jump in. The significance
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Speaker 1: in history of this guy is actually much bigger than
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Speaker 1: Weener himself. It's Winer. I thought it was Weener on
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Speaker 1: south part. They call it Weiner. Oh well, if it's
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Speaker 1: on south part, then it must be true. Go ahead,
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Speaker 1: That's where I get my news. You do know that, Yes,
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Speaker 1: I know that. I know that, and I respect that.
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Speaker 1: His places in history is this? Back in October, you
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Speaker 1: remember the FBI director going out and acknowledging that they've
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Speaker 1: reopened the investigation of Hillary Clinton's email servers because they
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Speaker 1: had to examine a computer for possibly some leaked confidential
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Speaker 1: emails that turned out not to be there. But that
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Speaker 1: ten or eleven days before the election, some people, not everybody,
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Speaker 1: but a lot of people are saying it was that
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Speaker 1: that changed the momentum of the election. Whether Hillary would
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Speaker 1: have lost anyway or not. We'll never know. Now. What
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Speaker 1: about the allegations that Huma his wife, Hillary Clinton's aid
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Speaker 1: right hand, you always see her about ten feeb behind
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Speaker 1: Clinton carrying her fancy pocketbook, but didn't whom the wife
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Speaker 1: who has a pristine reputation, I might add pristine, well,
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Speaker 1: not pristine though there are some things that people say
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Speaker 1: about her. Say it, but he has never been arrested, nothing,
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Speaker 1: So I chalk a lot of that talk about her
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Speaker 1: up to cattiness. All right, And again I'm not supporting
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Speaker 1: anybody for president. I think they're all horrible, but of
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Speaker 1: course there's one that's less horrible than the other. But
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Speaker 1: can I get back to this. Isn't it true that
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Speaker 1: she Huma sent the husband, Anthony Weiner, a lot of
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Speaker 1: confidential emails and if so, no, Comy and Hearing a
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago said that there had been thousands
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Speaker 1: of them, and then yeah, and then the FBI director
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Speaker 1: at the time then came out and said, no, actually
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Speaker 1: I misspoke. That did not happen. That's ironically, President Trump
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Speaker 1: recently just this week scited that is one of the
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Speaker 1: reasons that Comey had to go, because he had slighted
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Speaker 1: Huma Aberdeen. But let me tell you what is shocking
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Speaker 1: in the story to me, back in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the presidential election, back in August, about the time of
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Speaker 1: the Democratic Convention is when this all came out, this
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Speaker 1: latest case against Carlos Danger and A k A T
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Speaker 1: Dog a k A hard a k A what was
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Speaker 1: the other one. So this blows up in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the campaign in August, a very important month. That's
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Speaker 1: when you kind of like to be ahead. And the
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Speaker 1: day after it came out, Huma announced that she was
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Speaker 1: leaving her husband, that they were splitting up. But you
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Speaker 1: know what I've found out since it didn't happen, they
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Speaker 1: are back together. They didn't split up. They did for
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Speaker 1: what they call optics, but now they're trying to make
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Speaker 1: it work again. Okay, you know what, don't use your
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Speaker 1: l A slash d C B saw me optic But
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Speaker 1: you said it, you repeated. I guess you mean a
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Speaker 1: visual that they split for pr purposes to make us
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Speaker 1: all think they split. Oh okay, you know. Let's take
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Speaker 1: a look at this from the beginning, from the very
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Speaker 1: first explicit photos to Anthony Weiner's denial, his resignation from Congress,
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Speaker 1: then his failed attempt for New York mayor, up to
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Speaker 1: today the latest scandal. This is how it all went down,
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Speaker 1: all the way back to July two thousand and ten.
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Speaker 1: Let's do you say Wiener, I say Winner. We'll just
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Speaker 1: say Carlos Danger. I think we can agree on that.
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Speaker 1: A Democratic congressman from New York. He gets national focus
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Speaker 1: for this great speech on the House floor about healthcare
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Speaker 1: for nine one one emergency responders. I mean, who wouldn't
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Speaker 1: fall in with that? Who wouldn't agree with that? Videos
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Speaker 1: of win ER's speech go viral and they thrust him
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Speaker 1: into the public spotlight and he's a star. Okay. That's
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Speaker 1: July two thousand ten. May. About one year later, two
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Speaker 1: thousand eleven, a disgusting photo appears briefly on his Twitter account.
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Speaker 1: What was that? His? Was that his? As we say,
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Speaker 1: t T If you accuse him of it, the evidence
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Speaker 1: won't stand up in court. Okay, thank you used that
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Speaker 1: one on me yesterday about a story and I laughed haha.
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Speaker 1: But now it's over, Alan, No more stand uping for
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Speaker 1: it with jokes. Um. Okay, so this photo up here
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Speaker 1: is but this was of his penis. Conservative bloggers were
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Speaker 1: the first to report the image and it should wait. No,
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Speaker 1: this was his bulging crotch of a man in his underwear.
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Speaker 1: We didn't see the full monty at that moment. All right,
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Speaker 1: that's two thousand and eleven and he just can't stop.
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Speaker 1: That's man. May thirty, he tells reporters a hacker got
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Speaker 1: control of his Twitter account and said, look, this is
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Speaker 1: a prank and not very creative. Okay, he says, I
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Speaker 1: was hacked. Move on. Okay. About one day later, he
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Speaker 1: tells CNN he didn't post the picture and he has
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Speaker 1: hired a law phone for him to investigate. He continues
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Speaker 1: to evade the question of whether it's really him or not.
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Speaker 1: He just says I was hacked, but he won't say
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Speaker 1: that he's taking pictures of his own penis. Okay. June six.
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Speaker 1: Let me advise you something, allan, if you've ever thought
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Speaker 1: of taking those photos, don't do it. Okay, just keep
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Speaker 1: that to yourself. Let it be extra special by keeping
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Speaker 1: it a secret. I'm a boxer guy anyway, so it
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Speaker 1: and work get to know. Kind of wish I didn't know,
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Speaker 1: but now I do what. I can't get it out
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Speaker 1: of my head. June six, two thousand eleven, about face,
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Speaker 1: he starts crying. Whiner cries and apologizes for lying about
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Speaker 1: his pep shot on his Twitter account. He admits he
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Speaker 1: wasn't hacked and he has engaged in naughty online relationships
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Speaker 1: with several women. He tells reporters he will not resign
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Speaker 1: and will not separate with his wife. To be clear,
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Speaker 1: it was me and I sent it, okay, and she
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Speaker 1: just stands around kind of smiling the whole time. June nine,
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Speaker 1: two thousand. Hey, it's bad enough to take pictures of
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Speaker 1: your t T on your Twitter, But then what I'd
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Speaker 1: really be mad about it's accidentally sending it and these
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Speaker 1: online relationships. You know what I'm saying, Alan, is this,
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Speaker 1: I'm working to three jobs. I'm making the dinner five
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Speaker 1: nights a week. I'm packing the lunches and the snacks.
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Speaker 1: I'm washing the school clothes, I'm doing the science projects.
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Speaker 1: When i'm doing all this, I'm feeding the cat and
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Speaker 1: the dog. And you have time to send lewd photos online.
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Speaker 1: You know what, I just want to burn down the
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Speaker 1: house on that one. G nine. Well, I guess members
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Speaker 1: of Congress have a lot of spare time. I guess
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Speaker 1: they do between filibusters. June nine, two thousand eleven, Winer
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Speaker 1: and his wife are expecting their first child. Oh man, Okay,
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Speaker 1: she's an advisor Hillary Clint, of course. Gune eleven, he
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Speaker 1: decides he will seek quote treatment that's two thousand eleven
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Speaker 1: and focus on being a better husband. He takes it
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Speaker 1: shortly from Congress. Okay, I never knew what kind of
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Speaker 1: treatment it was. TMZ publishes photos of him in various
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Speaker 1: states of undress, which he took of himself in a
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Speaker 1: locker room. Thanks Harvey at t MZ. That's the first
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Speaker 1: thing I woke up to that morning. They're always providing
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Speaker 1: us with cultural enrichment. Thank you. June two thousand eleven,
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Speaker 1: he announced as he's resigning from Congress for personal mistakes. Good,
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Speaker 1: good riddance. That's June two thousand eleven. December, his wife
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Speaker 1: gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. Jordan's July two
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Speaker 1: thousand twelve People magazine interview, he says he has no
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Speaker 1: plans to run. That was in July. The next May,
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Speaker 1: he announced, as he's running from there New York City.
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Speaker 1: You know this brings up visions of Elliott Spitzer. Okay.
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Speaker 1: July two thousand thirteen, I goss at website published his
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Speaker 1: screenshots of sexual conversation he has with a woman last summer.
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Speaker 1: Hours later, Winer says they took place after his resignation
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Speaker 1: and Whoma his wife joins him during the press conference.
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Speaker 1: All right, we need to shrink because I remember when
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Speaker 1: Spitzer's wife stood beside him with kind of a dazed
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Speaker 1: look on her face when he was doing his press conference.
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Speaker 1: There was a difference with Spitzer. I mean, Spitzer was
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Speaker 1: a woman of the night who was basically he had
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Speaker 1: a shoe fetish. He didn't have a teenager fetish. There
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Speaker 1: is a significant difference because a shoe and a teenager
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Speaker 1: are different kind of victims in different levels of badness.
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Speaker 1: All your horses sunny because from what I recall, the
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Speaker 1: victim and I don't care if she was a hooker
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Speaker 1: or a nun climbs spits er beat her up, okay.
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Speaker 1: And the Plaza Hotel no less. While I'm downstairs having
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Speaker 1: flower at the Mayflower Hotel, was it the Mayflower? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Well maybe there there Actually there was more more than
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Speaker 1: more than that. But in the Washington situation, it was
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Speaker 1: at the talking about in New York, and I think
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Speaker 1: it was the Plaza. And that's why while I'm downstairs
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Speaker 1: having the who's the girl that lives in the Plaza
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Speaker 1: and there's movies about her? And Lucy loves her little
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Speaker 1: girl that lives in the plaza. For Pete's sake, it's
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Speaker 1: a story, Eloise. Are you saying he was upstairs with Eloise? No,
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Speaker 1: I'm saying I'm downstairs with Lucy and John David having
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Speaker 1: the way overprised Eloi's tea for children. He's upstairs with
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Speaker 1: a hooker beating her. According to her, she was a
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars an hour call girl from the Emperor's Club.
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Speaker 1: V I P. That's who she was. Don't care anyway,
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about the why, standing by with the glazed look.
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Speaker 1: September eleven, two thousand thirteen, he loses the race. June
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Speaker 1: two thousand and fourteen, he apologizes for another misstep on Twitter. Okay,
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Speaker 1: that's when he favorited a tweet labeling a hook up
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Speaker 1: app tender as the ultimate sex machine. Okay, never answered
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Speaker 1: this guy. January two thousand and sixteen, a documentary on
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Speaker 1: his disastrous one for New York City mayor debuts at
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Speaker 1: Sundance Film Festival. It was awful, not it? But what then?
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Speaker 1: The content of it chronicling a redemption story but at
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Speaker 1: end in disgrace. August two thousand sixteen, she announces as
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Speaker 1: you say, her optical separation, and that leads us to today.
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Speaker 1: Now tell me about the plea. What what is he
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Speaker 1: pleading guilty too? Winner will plead guilty to a single
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Speaker 1: count of transferring of scene material to a minor, pursuant
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Speaker 1: to a plea agreement with U S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan.
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Speaker 1: I don't see the potential senence. Of course, we won't
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Speaker 1: know the senatece until the judge hands it down, because
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Speaker 1: sometimes the judge doesn't accept the plea deal. I saw
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Speaker 1: that happen last week with the Sheriff of l A County.
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Speaker 1: The prosecution was asking for two years. The judge gave
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Speaker 1: Sheriff Bacca three years. So you don't know. The judge
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Speaker 1: just may not, may be disgusted with the whole whole
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Speaker 1: thing and not even accept that plea deal. We don't
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Speaker 1: know that yet. Okay, hold on just a moment. Tell
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Speaker 1: me again exactly the charge he's pleading to. He's pleading
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Speaker 1: guilty to a single charge of transferring a scene material
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Speaker 1: to a minor, and that is with a potential sentence
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Speaker 1: of zero to ten years. But that means he could
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Speaker 1: avoid prison. The ultimate sentence, of course, to be determined
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Speaker 1: by a judge. And I doubt we won't even know
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Speaker 1: the sentence today because you know they're gonna gonna have
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Speaker 1: a sentencing investigation and all of that, and it's called
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Speaker 1: a pre sentence investigation investigation. And that is when the
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Speaker 1: probation department not that he's going to get probation. Could
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Speaker 1: they are responsible for doing a p s I presentence
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Speaker 1: investigation wherein they determine what they think is the appropriate sentence,
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Speaker 1: whether the judge follows it or not. I'm curious to
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Speaker 1: find out if probation is possible. It is, well, I
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Speaker 1: can tell you what it's going to be. He's going
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Speaker 1: to get probation. That's what's going down. I feel that
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Speaker 1: happening to Yeah, it's going to happen now. If this
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Speaker 1: were somebody else sending lead photos over the wires to
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Speaker 1: a my or and actually having the minor engage in
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Speaker 1: undressing herself and other lewd acts on the other end
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Speaker 1: as I recall or asking her to, there would be
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Speaker 1: jail time. But there's not gonna be jail time here,
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now. Would they even have been
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Speaker 1: caught though? Would they even have been caught unless people
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Speaker 1: are looking at this guy. Anything he tweets or whatever happens,
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Speaker 1: he's constantly under the I mean, he had the FBI
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Speaker 1: looking at his computer, so they don't normally do that
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Speaker 1: just for the average guy out there tweeting. Let me
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Speaker 1: tell you something, I listened to that kind of talk
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Speaker 1: when I was forced into some kind of esoteric class
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Speaker 1: in college about if the tree falls in the forest
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Speaker 1: doesn't make a noise, Do I care? Is the next question?
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Speaker 1: Because I knew it. I know it fell, And do
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Speaker 1: I care if they would not have been caught if
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Speaker 1: he were not living in the lap of luxury and
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Speaker 1: had one toe in the oval office. So it doesn't
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Speaker 1: matter if he would not have been caught. What matters
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Speaker 1: is it happened and this was a minor, And even
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Speaker 1: if she was put up to doing it, I still
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Speaker 1: don't care, and there's no evidence of that. By the way,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. What matters is did he try to
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Speaker 1: lure a minor into lewd behavior? That is what matters.
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Speaker 1: He's acknowledging that he at least sent the obscene material
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Speaker 1: to her, so that's looks like he's pleading guilty today.
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Speaker 1: So long story short, let's watch this train wreck as
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Speaker 1: it unfolds, if this is going to be a rich
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Speaker 1: Man's justice again, I apologize on behalf of the judge
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Speaker 1: and the criminal justice system because this deserves at least
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Speaker 1: a short stint behind bars for his ongoing behavior with
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Speaker 1: miners online. It's not okay and it needs jail time.
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Speaker 1: That's where I'm coming from. This guy you said was
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Speaker 1: one step away from the Oval office. That is so true,
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Speaker 1: because you see, they had been befriended by the Clinton's.
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Speaker 1: Hillary and Bill had sort of made them like their mentees.
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Speaker 1: Huma was the closest person to Hillary, and Anthony considered
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Speaker 1: himself to be a future of Bill Clinton. That were
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Speaker 1: going to be the power couple. I remember writing about
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Speaker 1: this seven eight years ago, how these two people were
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Speaker 1: going to be the next Clinton's and someday he could
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Speaker 1: be in the White House. And all of this has ended,
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Speaker 1: and thank god. Well, this is what I know. When
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Speaker 1: there's a child victim, it takes on a whole whole new,
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Speaker 1: whole new spectrum. To me, I think there should be
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Speaker 1: jail time, even if it's minor jail time, because this
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Speaker 1: is wrong. I think I think it should be serious
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Speaker 1: jail time. When you send porn to a minor child.
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Speaker 1: But that's just me, called me crazy. Let me throw
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Speaker 1: this out there. He's gone to some sex addiction rehab.
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Speaker 1: Is this not can't you look at this as a
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Speaker 1: an illness and not a criminal act? With that, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to sign off because I know if answer you truthfully,
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Speaker 1: I'll get assaulted by everybody and larn saying how mean
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Speaker 1: I am? You know, don't start with me. Ahoma is
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Speaker 1: standing by her man because he's sick and she wants
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Speaker 1: to help him get better. That is her problem. And
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Speaker 1: let me also add that he had his baby and
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Speaker 1: one of his sex pictures that he was sending the
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Speaker 1: baby was in bed with him. Okay, so let's just
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Speaker 1: stew on that. Okay, I'm signing off. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: see what happens at the court. Nancy Grace Crime Stories.
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Speaker 1: I hope you all agree with me today. I know
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Speaker 1: Alan does not me or him. Thanks everybody for being
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Speaker 1: with us. Goodbye friend