politicians. the storms pass and if you handle it the right way, lay low, as mark sanford did,ant knee weiner has done, spitzer is doing now, you come out, confront it, talk about every question asked about it, it passes and people forgive you. >> key point is authenticity and honesty. >> joe? >> speaking of that, mika, authenticity, after we got off the show a lot of people were asking whether you believed that he was really crying, was he really upset, was it all just a bad act? you talked to me right afterwards and said that you could tell it was, again, and you've been as tough a critic on spitzer as anybody, but you said it was very clear in person a few feet away, it was very authentic and he was, in fact, very upset. >> he was shaking. he definitely was. and the questions that we put before him were not just the questions. people have asked him the