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AP-APTN-0930: US Weiner 2 Tuesday, 7 June 2011 STORY:US Weiner 2- WRAP Congressman admits tweeting lewd photo to woman, Broussard sot LENGTH: 03:40 FIRST RUN: 0330 RESTRICTIONS: See Script TYPE: English/Nats SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/AP PHOTOS/ABC STORY NUMBER: 692059 DATELINE: Various - 6 June 2011/Recent/File LENGTH: 03:40 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY ABC - NO ACCESS NAMERICA/INTERNET (++PLEASE NOTE: SHOTS 21 AND 23 ARE MANDATORY COURTESY ABC NEWS++) AP PHOTOS/BIGGOVERNMENT.COM - NO ACCESS CANADA/FOR BROADCAST USE ONLY - STRICTLY NO ACCESS ONLINE OR MOBILE AP PHOTOS - NO ACCESS CANADA/FOR BROADCAST USE ONLY - STRICTLY NO ACCESS ONLINE OR MOBILE SHOTLIST: (FIRST RUN 0130 AUSTRALIA NZ PRIME NEWS - 7 JUNE, 2011) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY New York, New York - 6 June, 2011 1. Congressman Anthony Weiner walks into room to give news conference (FIRST RUN 0130 AUSTRALIA NZ PRIME NEWS - 7 JUNE, 2011) ABC - NO ACCESS NAMERICA/INTERNET New York, New York - 6 June, 2011 2. Wide of Weiner walking to podium (FIRST RUN 0130 AUSTRALIA NZ PRIME NEWS - 7 JUNE, 2011) AP PHOTOS/BIGGOVERNMENT.COM - NO ACCESS CANADA/FOR BROADCAST USE ONLY - STRICTLY NO ACCESS ONLINE OR MOBILE Date and location unknown 3. STILL taken from the BigGovernment.com website that purports to show Weiner without his shirt ++NOTE: This is not the image that Weiner expressly discusses in Shot 4. This is a different image that he apparently sent to another woman on another date. BigGovernment.com did not identify the woman.++ (FIRST RUN 0130 AUSTRALIA NZ PRIME NEWS - 7 JUNE, 2011) ABC - NO ACCESS NAMERICA/INTERNET New York, New York - 6 June, 2011 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Anthony Weiner, US Congressman: "Last Friday night I Tweeted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realised I had posted it to Twitter, I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story, which is a hugely regrettable mistake." (FIRST RUN 0130 AUSTRALIA NZ PRIME NEWS - 7 JUNE, 2011) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Washington DC - 2 June, 2011 5. Weiner walking out of his Capitol Hill office 6. Close up of name plate next to door (FIRST RUN 0130 AUSTRALIA NZ PRIME NEWS - 7 JUNE, 2011) ABC - NO ACCESS NAMERICA/INTERNET New York, New York - 6 June, 2011 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Anthony Weiner, US Congressman: "I brought pain to people I care about the most and people who believed in me, and for that I'm deeply sorry. I apologise to my wife and our families." (FIRST RUN 0130 AUSTRALIA NZ PRIME NEWS - 7 JUNE, 2011) AP PHOTOS - NO ACCESS CANADA/FOR BROADCAST USE ONLY - STRICTLY NO ACCESS ONLINE OR MOBILE FILE: Huntington, New York - 10 July, 2010 8. STILL of Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, on their wedding day (FIRST RUN 0130 AUSTRALIA NZ PRIME NEWS - 7 JUNE, 2011) AP PHOTOS - NO ACCESS CANADA/FOR BROADCAST USE ONLY - STRICTLY NO ACCESS ONLINE OR MOBILE Washington DC - 5 January, 2011 9. STILL of Weiner and Abedin on Capitol Hill (FIRST RUN 0130 AUSTRALIA NZ PRIME NEWS - 7 JUNE, 2011) AP PHOTOS - NO ACCESS CANADA/FOR BROADCAST USE ONLY - STRICTLY NO ACCESS ONLINE OR MOBILE FILE: Islamabad, Pakistan - 19 July 2010 10. STILL of Abedin, deputy chief of staff to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, looking over notes with her boss (FIRST RUN 0130 AUSTRALIA NZ PRIME NEWS - 7 JUNE, 2011) ABC - NO ACCESS NAMERICA/INTERNET New York, New York - 6 June, 2011 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Anthony Weiner, US Congressman: "This was me doing a dumb thing and doing it repeatedly and then lying about it. And that's all there is. I'm here to accept responsibility for this. I'm not asking to shift the blame to anyone, to anyone else, or to any external force, or anything else." 12. Andrew Breitbart, conservative activist, walking through room where Weiner held news conference 13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Andrew Breitbart, conservative activist: "Everything we've reported about this story has been true." (FIRST RUN 0130 AUSTRALIA NZ PRIME NEWS - 7 JUNE, 2011) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY New York, New York - 6 June, 2011 14. Cutaway of Breitbart looking at Weiner as he makes his statement (FIRST RUN 0130 AUSTRALIA NZ PRIME NEWS - 7 JUNE, 2011) ABC - NO ACCESS NAMERICA/INTERNET New York, New York - 6 June, 2011 15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Andrew Breitbart, conservative activist: "I want to hear the truth from Congressman Weiner. Quite frankly, I'd like an apology for him being complicit in a blame-the-messenger strategy." (FIRST RUN 0130 AUSTRALIA NZ PRIME NEWS - 7 JUNE, 2011) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Washington DC - 2 June 2011 16. Wide of hearing room on Capitol Hill 17. Weiner seated before hearing begins (FIRST RUN 0130 AUSTRALIA NZ PRIME NEWS - 7 JUNE, 2011) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Washington DC - 1 June, 2011 18. Weiner sitting in his office about to be interviewed 19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Anthony Weiner, US Congressman: "I didn't send the photograph that this hacker did. I didn't send it to the woman in question. She didn't get it. She made a statement to that effect. I saw it immediately, took it down. It looked like a joke. It looked like a bad joke about my name." ++NEW (FIRST RUN 0330 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 7 JUNE, 2011) AP TELEVISON - AP CLIENTS ONLY Washington DC - 2 June, 2011 20. Weiner speaking to media on Capitol Hill ++NEW (FIRST RUN 0330 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 7 JUNE, 2011) ABC - NO ACCESS NAMERICA/INTERNET ++MANDATORY COURTESY: ABC NEWS++ Washington DC - 6 June, 2011 21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Meagan Broussard, college student: "Just good morning. How are you doing? What are you doing today? What are you wearing? What do you like, you know, in the bedroom? That sort of thing." (Question: Really?) "Uh-huh." ++NEW (FIRST RUN 0330 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 7 JUNE, 2011) AP TELEVISON - AP CLIENTS ONLY Washington DC - 2 June, 2011 22. Tilt up from media to Weiner getting into an elevator and door closing ++NEW (FIRST RUN 0330 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 7 JUNE, 2011) ABC - NO ACCESS NAMERICA/INTERNET ++MANDATORY COURTESY: ABC NEWS++ Washington DC - 6 June, 2011 23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Meagan Broussard, college student: "No, I don't think he's a bad guy. I just think he's got issues, just like everybody else." (FIRST RUN 0130 AUSTRALIA NZ PRIME NEWS - 7 JUNE, 2011) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Kew Gardens, Queens, New York - 6 June, 2011 24. Building housing Weiner's district office 25. Close up of building address, pan to sidewalk 26. Wide of apartment building where Weiner lives in his District 27. Apartment building doorway 28. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox Pop, Andrew Louie, Weiner constituent: "I mean how can you trust him now? I mean, like, he's not the kind of person I would want representing me. I'm a family kind of guy, and he doesn't represent family value." 29. Street scene and subway elevator in Weiner's neighbourhood 30. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox Pop, Carole Marko, Weiner constituent: "I don't think that because of this he should step down because we all make mistakes." 31. People and traffic on street in Weiner's neighbourhood STORYLINE: A tearful US Congressman on Monday admitted sending a lewd photo of his underwear-clad crotch to a young woman over Twitter and then lying repeatedly to protect himself. But Anthony Weiner refused to resign even as Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi called for a House ethics investigation into whether he broke the rules. The confession at a packed Manhattan news conference was a remarkable turn of events for Weiner, once tipped as a potential mayoral candidate in New York, who conceded to a "hugely regrettable" lapse in judgment. Democratic leaders tersely expressed disappointment and embarrassment, casting doubts on whether Weiner could hold onto his seat. Weiner, an outspoken liberal congressman, insisted he had done nothing wrong and said he would fully cooperate with a House inquiry. The congressman, married last July to Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, also acknowledged that he had engaged in inappropriate contact with six women in three years of social networking on websites like Twitter and Facebook and occasionally over the phone. He said he had never met or had a physical relationship with any of the women and was not even sure of their ages and he also said he had never had sex outside of his marriage. Before his marriage, Weiner had been known as one of New York's most eligible bachelors with a glittering political career ahead. During the almost half-hour news conference, Weiner, close to tears, repeated several times that he had made "terrible mistakes" and done "a very dumb thing" for which he alone bore responsibility. The scandal began more than a week ago when a conservative website reported that a photo of a man's crotch had been sent on Weiner's Twitter account to a female college student in Seattle. For days, Weiner claimed his account had been hacked. The scandal escalated on Monday when the website, BigGovernment.com, run by conservative activist Andrew Breitbart, posted photos purportedly from a second woman, unidentified, who said she received shirtless shots of the congressman. In a strange twist, Breitbart attended Weiner's news conference and spoke to reporters before Weiner appeared. "I'd like an apology for him being complicit in a blame-the-messenger strategy," he said. Breitbart claimed to have another photo of Weiner which he described as "X-rated" but would not say if he planned to release it. Genette Cordova, 21, the intended recipient of the crotch photograph, is a college student in Washington state. Weiner said they had exchanged a few messages before he sent the photo on May 27, which he said was intended to be "a joke." Among the women Weiner contacted, Meagan Broussard, told ABC News that Weiner "friended" her on Facebook after she commented on one of his speeches. They exchanged more than 100 messages, and Weiner constantly tried to steer the conversation toward sex. "I don't think he's a bad guy. I think he's got issues just like everybody else," Broussard, 26, said in an interview aired on Monday night. Weiner confirmed during the news conference that Broussard was one of the women with whom he had exchanged messages. Congressional rules that say a member "shall conduct himself at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House." Weiner apologised to his wife and said they would not be separating over the scandal. Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: infoaparchive.com (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. APTN APEX 06-07-11 0607EDT