roller came and stayed we would change things for the better, that didn t happen. but i can point to my success as borough president and a member of the assembly where i live to fight rules reform in the state legislature. i want to talk about the tax returns a little more. i want to get into that a little more. you have been hammering home at it. there s been writes in the new york times all over. you have been calling on spitzer to release his full tax returns. something, frankly, he s done in the past, something as you re right on his former program on current tv, he called on mitt romney to release his full tax returns. i want to play you this and then talk about that. romney has now made paying taxes the litmus test for good moral standing in our community. so while i had grown tired and lost interest in mitt s tax rushes, i have a sudden newfound interest in examining them. game on, mitt.
and they have a come compelling case. he won t go to jail. this is a secures and exchange case. but that means they ll bar him from the business. changing the nature of oversight. they re looking to basically end his career as a public fund manager. basically looking to put him out of business, managing other people s money. this is a pretty big case, and what is interesting is that they re going at it not with a the charge you think is explosive, but because at it they have so much in their arsenal they can basically throw him out of the business. we ll watch for your report on that, charlie, along with the one on spitzer. what a multitasker. thank you. all legal. all legal. charlie, thank you very much. nit n my contract. the morality clause in my contract. after the snow job with snowden, is the white house thinking about putting america s
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
wall street. but in new york city, that s the heart of your tax base and that s why the city runs as well as it does as far as all of that revenue going in there. it is a delicate balance. delicate is the right word because also it should be subject to scrutiny. should it not? yes, it should. this is just a question of whether eliot spitzer was overly zealous or not. that s up to the voters and i think they are going to come up on spitzer s side. you ask why i m going on to the next story, mike bar na kl, because perhaps if we expose these situations maybe we ll see less of them. we have in the past. there s so many people in power. san diego s mayor is facing real backlash. i m going to san diego now, joe. accused of sexual advances by a