Anthony Weiner in Candid Interview
BOLDUAN: Welcome back to NEW DAY. New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner is opening up for his most extensive interview since new sexting allegations and revelations rocked his campaign last month. Weiner is facing some of his worst poll numbers yet. It remains to be seen if this sit-down with Buzzfeed will help or hurt him. Here's CNN's Jim Acosta.</s>JIM ACOSTA, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): As he sat down for a Buzzfeed Brews interview, Anthony Weiner passed on having a beer in what was perhaps the easiest question of the evening.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you back in therapy?</s>ANTHONY WEINER, NYC MAYORAL CANDIDATE: I -- you know, apparently you never go out of therapy.</s>ACOSTA: For nearly only 40 minutes that can only be described as quintessential Weiner, the embattled candidate for New York City mayor veered from one uncomfortable subject to the next.</s>WEINER: I feel that what I've done has hurt her, yes. It's hurt her professionally. It's hurt her personally.</s>ACOSTA: From his marriage to Hillary Clinton aide, Huba Abedin.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is Huma still working on the campaign?</s>WEINER: She's helping out every day.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is -- do you know what her role in Hillary's 2016 campaign is going to be?</s>WEINER: I do.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What will it be?</s>WEINER: I'm not telling you.</s>ACOSTA: To the latest revelations that he continued sexting other women well after leaving Congress.</s>WEINER: I did these things. No one did this to me. I did this to me. I made these mistakes.</s>ACOSTA: But his campaign for mayor has been more than a personal train wreck. Weiner's had a few political ones as well.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Had I conducted myself in the manner in which you conducted yours, my job would have been gone.</s>WEINER: In the privacy of your home?</s>ACOSTA: No shocker that a recent poll found 80 percent of New Yorkers have an unfavorable view of Weiner.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So are you on the way back up? Or are we bottomed out?</s>ACOSTA: Numbers that were likely not helped when he dropped an F-bomb near the end of his interview.</s>WEINER: I said to Mike Bloomberg, you know, the first thing I was going to do as mayor was hold a press conference -- this is the Internet right? -- tearing out your</s>ACOSTA: The question for Weiner is whether he can stay in his own lanes between now and Election Day. Jim Acosta, CNN, Washington.</s>BOLDUAN: It keeps getting more and more interesting.</s>CUOMO: It's bad.</s>BOLDUAN: Exactly right.</s>CUOMO: Coming up on NEW DAY, Hillary Clinton back in the political limelight making a sweeping policy speech. You know what we're going to ask? A sign of things to come? What do you think? John King has your political gut check.</s>BOLDUAN: Reading the tea lives. Also coming up, a former Bank of America executive charged with plotting to have his wife killed. He's behind bars and she's appearing live on NEW DAY exclusively to talk about the ordeal next hour.