Here’s the press conference video in full. It’s just over four minutes long – and that’s in spite of the fact that Anthony Weiner was repeatedly interrupted by hecklers.

He was (again) not accompanied by his wife, Huma Abedin, although he twice apologized to her and also to his constituents.

As we noted earlier, Weiner chose to hold this event at a Brooklyn senior center – the exact same location where he announced his first-ever run for elected office: NYC Council, 1992. He then went on to run for, and win, the House seat vacated by his former boss, Chuck Schumer, when he won a squeaker election against then-GOP Sen. Alfonse D’Amato.

UPDATE1: As per the comments section, I stand corrected. The results were 55% to 45% for Schumer, according to Wikipedia, which is no squeaker by any sense.

UPDATE2: According to Ben Smith, the man I mischaracterized as a “heckler” was actually a “Howard Stern association who stood up three times to ask questions.”

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