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   >>> more fallout from the anthony weiner scandal and the congressman's rest seg nation on thursday, in a moment, we'll talk to one of the women weiner was involved in with online. but first, nbc's maria campo has more on his secret life .

   >> between facebook , twitter, e-mail, text, and instant messaging, technology is making it easier than ever for people to have secret sexual relationships . but the flip side , once caught, it leaves a trail that is hard to erase. for democratic congressman anthony weiner the long and embarrassing road that ended here --

   >> today i am announcing my resignation from congress.

   >> reporter: -- started here with so-called sexting, lewd online chats with strangers he met online.

   >> i have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over twitter, facebook , e-mail, and occasionally on the phone.

   >> reporter: weiner 's secret life was first unearthed three weeks ago when he sent a lewd picture via twitter to 21-year-old college student janette cordova. at first he denied sending the picture, claiming he had been hacked. but then other women came forward, including 26-year-old single mother megan brussat who told fox news he send her to photos.

   >> what i thought at the time, this is something that's regular, he's done all the time. he's comfortable.

   >> reporter: as the scandal dragged on, vegas blackjack dealer told radar online she exchanged hundreds of expressive facebook messages with weiner for almost a year. this week adult film actress ginger lee held a very public news conference to say weiner sent her steamy e-mails and texts and then tried to cover it up, asking her to publicly lie about their online relationship .

   >> it might have never turned into this if he had told the truth, but he kept lying.

   >> reporter: now traci nobles, a 34-year-old cheerleading coach for a christian organization says messages she got, including one suggesting he was at his office during his graphic chat, writing, oops, staff at the door.

   >> the internet and technology in general has changed the face of cheating. that it is easier to tell yourself that it's not cheating when it was.

   >> reporter: last saturday he announced he would be entering treatment for help with his online obsession, a problem experts say is very real.

   >> sexting is often considered a form of sexual addiction , in that it's a sexual acting out that one can do over and over again to the at the timery meant of their life functioning.

   >> reporter: a lesson weiner has now learned firsthand after a series of virtual relationships led to very real consequences. nobles, the most recent woman the come forward said she developed a friendship and they exchained not just written messages but through skype. ann?

   >> thank you so much. traci nobles is now with us exclusively along with her attorney jason slider and john baker . good morning to all of you.

   >> good morning.

   >> how did this relationship start?

   >> i was a -- i follow politics pretty closely so i was a big fan of anthony weiner 's politics. facebook , i started to follow his public page.

   >> you reached out to him.

   >> yeah, the public page. you can like or, you know, like politicians or music or different things.

   >> how did got from that to a relationship over the internet where you actually were talking about stuff that was pretty intimate?

   >> well, he friended me. i liked his post or i would make comments on the post because i was and still am a huge supporter of his causes. but, you know, i follow that -- i'm a progressive, so i followed him. but he reached out or friended me. and so that's how it started.

   >> how does it go from that, talking about politics and move into this intimate? did you encourage that or did he encourage that?

   >> i -- it was mutual probably. i'm not a victim or, you know, i'm of age. i mean, i just turned 35.

   >> you're 35 years old. grown woman. physical education teacher. you work with elementary and middle school kids. and you would say things to him online that were very intimate, very sexual.

   >> yeah. and so -- but it happened. it is what it is.

   >> what do you mean it is what it is? why did you do it?

   >> just the time in my life. i was flattered. and it was more than just sexual. there was a lot of -- i mean, we exchanged music or just talked about life in general . so it wasn't really personal as far as going into personal lives or that kind of thing. but just --

   >> we've seen a lot of images. did you -- have we seen -- has the public seen the worst of the images or are there more? how much more are there?

   >> i have -- i have no idea.

   >> i'm asking you from your experience in terms of what you know of.

   >> i've seen the two images, and that's all i have.

   >> you've not been given any more images?

   >> right, uh-uh, haven't.

   >> and did you know that he was married?

   >> i did. i did. but we never really went into personal -- personal things as far as that. there are different reports that something i said, like i can't remember the source, but things that it said i mentioned about his wife. i would not -- i know it's bad enough, but that's not my style. like i wouldn't have done that.

   >> you want to basically set the record straight on any report that you actually talked about his wife with him on the internet.

   >> exactly.

   >> you never met him in person?

   >> never met him, no, not face to face as far as you and i are right now.

   >> but you -- but you knew he was married.

   >> uh-huh.

   >> and you're engaged in a conversation with him.

   >> right.

   >> it is very sexual.

   >> huh sgluh-huh.

   >> at one point you had an image of yourself that you sent to him.

   >> right.

   >> i guess the question i have, and i think the public has is what would you say to his wife this morning?

   >> i don't -- i don't even like to think about that, really, because at the time i didn't think about his wife. i mean, i'm just being honest, you know. it was something we both engaged in. i was flattered that he friended me. i follow his politics. if everybody's dirty laundry was aired out, you know, everybody would have a lot of embarrassment.

   >> are you embarrassed?

   >> i -- well, like i said, it is what it is. like i know that's very general, but there's nothing i can do about it at this point.

   >> do you regret it?

   >> i don't regret it.

   >> you don't regret it?

   >> i don't regret it.

   >> why not?

   >> it changed me. just the actual ctual content of the communication. it changed my life. it made me who i am today. i don't really regret anything. i try not to.

   >> you have two attorneys here with you today. they've come. traveled here with you.

   >> right.

   >> why do you have two attorneys? what's the worry? what's the concern?

   >> no worry. we're just here and, you know, to support her, to make sure that everything is taken care of and that she gets -- presents her side of the story and gets to tell the world what happened.

   >> she's got an opportunity just to, as you put it, ann, to set the record straight . it's a great opportunity and she's taking advantage of that.

   >> i see. and is this it now or do you intend to -- when you say take advantage of this, you tend to move this forward in some way?

   >> well, not necessarily. i just want to get -- i mean, i'm a good person. i don't think i'm a bad person at all. like it's two adults, you know, both consenting.

   >> but one was married.

   >> right.

   >> one was married. you're not married. he was married.

   >> right. i understand that. and that's -- but you know, i don't know really what to say about that other than i'm not trying to capitalize off of it in any way. it's just, i've been effected just from being from georgia and small towns and that kind of thing. so it's -- it's been hard. there were a lot of inaccurate things said that i didn't say. but i supported, like, the place i currently work. they still want me to be there as far as the executive director.

   >> right. it's a christian -- right. the ywco, so i teach different aerobics classes, pilates and what not. friends and family, i just apologize for them for everything that's hand to them as far as the press. it's been a little crazy for them as well. i never imagined it would involve everybody.

   >> right. or that you would be here on the "today."

   >> right, exactly.

   >> thank you for being here. gentlemen, thank you. i hope you feel as though she's gotten her chance to present her side of the story.

   >> thank you.

   >> thank you so much.

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