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there were allegations about lance's doping. most of the allegations though were covered in europe but didn't make their way to the united states and the postal service in fact did renew the sponsorship in november 2000 around the time when there were some allegations covered in europe. >> we want to talk more about armstrong's claims, dominique romano is a sports and entertainment lawyer. it sounds outrageous when you think about the claims he says you guys should have known. didn't you know? >> in audacity it's unmatched. he's saying i lied and you should have known that i lied and i was guilty until proven innocent. i haven't been proven innocent. actually i admit lying but i get to ride away into the sunset with $18 million. agency of the u.s. government, see you later. that's his argument. >> how is that going to work? does that argument stick at all? >> i can't imagine a judge accepting a motion based on that premise and dismissing this lawsuit and not allowing it to go forward.
UsBlanket-wayHybrid-isn-tDopingAllegationsFactMostEuropeLanceServiceSponsorshipNovember-20000 sexting scandal has people calling for him to back out of the race for mayor of new york. so will he give in? plus the woman who was sexting, sydney leathers, did she spill of course to make money off the online relationship? when will more women actually come out? then new video of a train derailing in spain. the train may have been going too fast, but was it human error or a mechanical one. this is "cnn newsroom." i'm suzanne malveaux. former congressman anthony weiner pressing ahead with his campaign for mayor of new york. he is resisting now calls to drop out of the race because of his latest sexting scandal. new poll shows him falling out of first place. that's right, weiner was back on the campaign trail today, visiting a non-profit group in brooklyn. things however you see him in the kitchen getting a little hot. he couldn't escape more questions about the lewd e-mail exchanges. we'll bring in mary snow who joins us with the latest. what is he saying now? >> well, suzanne, anthony weiner keeps trying to stress this is behind him but clearly the questions at this brooklyn campaign event were focused on how many more women may come forward. this, of course, after revelations became public on tuesday that he had been carrying on a sexually explicit relationship online with a woman after he resigned from congress in disgrace in 2011, saying that that relationship had ended last summer. he was pressed on several occasions and he said finally that in his words, "i don't believe it was any more than three." when asked how many women he had these sorts of relationships with after he resigned from congress. he was also asked about how many women all together did he engage in these kind of conversations with, this also includes before he resigned from congress, here's what he had to say. >> it's not dozens and dozens. it is six to ten i suppos but i can't tell you absolutely what someone else is going to consider inappropriate or not. >> reporter: and suzanne, at this event today, he was asked straight out, does he think he has an addiction, and he said that he does not believe that he has an addiction. he said that he has spoken previously about his therapy and he acknowledged today that he is still getting help. >> mary, we see a new poll out today. give us a sense of how this is impacting the race. >> reporter: one thing weiner keeps stressing this is a personal issue between him and his wife but obviously questions about credibility and judgment have come into the public realm and this poll was taken after tuesday's revelations came out. it was a poll done among registered democrats showing him dropping to second place. [ horn honking ] we're on a busy new york city street, excuse the horns. he has dropped, he had been in the lead just about a month ago. people in the poll were asked should he remain in the race, 47% said yes. 43% said that they felt he should drop out. >> mary, thanks. good focusing on there with all that going on in the background. appreciate it. we're going to talk about the political implications straight ahead with "state of the union's" candy crowley and hear from sydney leather's friend about this incident. turning to spain witnesses say they heard thunderous bang, what they saw horrified them. this is a passenger train sprawled out on the tracks, this happened last night. security footage now showing the train speeding around the bend and then a huge plume of smoke, it flies off the tracks, you see it on its side, slams into that concrete wall. at least 80 people were killed from that crash, more than 140 injured. >> translator: we heard a huge explosion, there were lots of people injured. we started to help the injured in the train car there. we went to the other cars and that was shocking, indescribable. it was crazy. i was shocked. wounded people carrying children. there are no words to describe it. i was devastated. >> it is devastating. many people were traveling to the town for religious celebration. spain's prime minister has declared three days of national mourning to honor the victims of that crash. in florida, hazmat teams are working to contain an ethanol leak after a train derailed there. you can see firefighters using foam on that spill to prevent any kind of fire. the accident happened just after 1:00 this morning. this is in tampa. officials are still trying to figure out why that train jumped the tracks. fortunately no one was hurt. and disgraced cyclist lance armstrong raising some eyebrows again today saying his former sponsor the u.s. postal service should have known that he was doping. that is his defense for $120 million lawsuit filed by the postal service. the suit claims armstrong defrauded the government by using performance-enhancing drugs. well, armstrong told the "des moines rental stgister" he was by public reaction when he admitted the drug use. >> the reaction and the fallout was more than i expected but that's life. i'm a big boy. >> hmm. earlier today two "wall street journal" reporters who have covered armstrong talked with my colleague, carol costello, about this lawsuit. >> i mean, it basically says you can't sue us for, you can't sue me for defrauding you because basically my fraud was all over the news, and there were rumors of it. >> it's interesting that his lawyers are arguing essentially the u.s. postal service renewed its sponsorship at a time when there were allegations about lance's doping. most of the allegations though were covered in europe but didn't make their way to the united states and the postal service in fact did renew the sponsorship in november 2000 around the time when there were some allegations covered in europe. >> we want to talk more about armstrong's claims, dominique romano is a sports and entertainment lawyer. it sounds outrageous when you think about the claims he says you guys should have known. didn't you know? >> in audacity it's unmatched. he's saying i lied and you should have known that i lied and i was guilty until proven innocent. i haven't been proven innocent. actually i admit lying but i get to ride away into the sunset with $18 million. agency of the u.s. government, see you later. that's his argument. >> how is that going to work? does that argument stick at all? >> i can't imagine a judge accepting a motion based on that premise and dismissing this lawsuit and not allowing it to go forward. i mean, you know, he says this morning in that interview that he had no idea the public would react this way. it's his advisers must be tone deaf. i don't know who is spearheading his team but it doesn't seem like they're in touch with the public. >> have we ever seen this before where there was a similar case by a celebrity or athlete who thinks you should have known better and this is my argument? >> his argument is basically there were $30 million of exposure, lots of spectators of events and you didn't conduct an investigation into my veracity into my telling the truth, into my performing the contract that i should have. in 20 years of being an attorney i've never heard that argument made much less been made successfully. >> and how many years was he being untruthful that he was actually lying about his drug use? >> it goes back to the 1990s. we're not talking about one or two instances here. the government's position is that they asked him about it during the whole investigation in 2000 when the contract was renewed they asked him and his team and they said we're clean, haven't been cheating, haven't been doping. this is just the french authorities and now we're seeing the result. >> does it make a difference whether or not he was lying under oath or not, if he says well you should have known during this time but not this time? >> yes, it does make a difference and there could be other consequences, so it's quite a remarkable legal strategy. >> all right, dominic romano thanks so much, we appreciate it. we'll follow that closely. coming up he spilled the beans on nsa surveillance techniques and congress responded by keeping the controversial data collecting program. coming up how the white house is responding and a look at what edward snowden's next move could be. and she shared her sexual conversation with anthony weiner with the world, and now people are asking did sydneyleters come out to strategically destroy new york city mayor hopeful? 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