to those utterly convinced of their own greatness, there will be many more like spitzer in positions of power posing even bigger threats to our fragile democracy-- crusaders wanting their portraits on the walls of history. every governor of new york has the chance to be immortalized in a painting that hangs in the new york state capitol, a self-directed monument to his or her own illustrious legacy. all of them are there-- all but two. the first served in the early 19th century and left no likenesses behind. the second...is eliot spitzer. ♪ ♪ tapper: in 2009, south carolina governor mark sanford was a republican rock star. his reputation as a budget-slashing deficit hawk family man had the gop betting on him

>> rockstar, his reputation as a budget slashing deficit hawk family man had the gop betting on him to beat obama in 2012 until he became a missing person. >> the search for sanford through his office into chaos and turned up a secret love affair and a bizarre set of lies that cohen mean the phrase to hike the appalachian trail, but also revealed something deeper. how even the most tightly controlled political persona can mask the messy, imperfect reality of a human being. >> and counter-intuitively when the world was crashing down around him bearing at all oh, might have been the savviest political move of mark sanford is career it's monday night. do

you know where your governor is? that's what the citizens have. south carolina are wondering where in the world is our governor a mystery tonight, in south carolina the state's governor, mark sanford, disappeared for days. >> governor alert the search for mark sanford in june 2009, south carolina governor mark sanford became a missing person. >> news began to go route in south carolina, getting the papers like no one knows where the governor is, the south carolina governor's missing. >> where is he is he dead somewhere in a ditch with each day that tick by the mystery grew in south carolina, don't know where he is, not even his wires, just so strange this well-known father of four young boys wasn't home for father's day. and more and more people started asking the headline of today is local paper says sanford awol, who's in charge. >> it was going to complete dereliction of duty. imagine if there was a mass shooting hurricane or anything. >> i think all of us are concerned. we're worried about where he might be speculation

was rampant. >> some people thought he was dead a fringe view thought he'd been abducted by aliens. it was only after he'd been gone for nearly a week that sanford staff finally offered an explanation of where he was his staff said he was hiking the appalachian trail tonight, we find out this email coming through just a few minutes ago, the governor's actually hiking the appalachian trail. >> the governor is said to be quote, clearing his head somewhere along the appalachian trail that stretches from georgia to the maine, the governor is hiking the appalachian trail why would that be such a big secret reporter with the state newspaper had gotten a tip that mark sanford never went anywhere near at the appalachian trail that goes nowhere near argentina, which is actually where he had been what could compel a sitting governor to up and leave his state all the way to argentina without any kind of notice at all. >> the answer could only come

from mark sanford himself, considered the bottom line is this. >> i i've been unfaithful to my wife hi developed a relationship with a dear dear friend, turned out he was a man in love his cover is now blown. mark sanford was not after all, hiking by himself on the appalachian trail. >> i king the appalachian trail, which then instantly entered the lexicon as a euphemism for an affair was hiking on the appalachian trail, which is a trail that starts in maine and ends in an arginine tarun woman's it was all over the late night shows. >> it was every monologue, hiking what do you mean? what's that lipstick i was hiking the appalachian it was just such a huge contribution to the english language so the guy had an affair when was really sloppy about covering it up. he's hardly the first politician to do that. but

there was something about this man dropping off the grid to see his secret international lover that truly shocked people. myself included full disclosure. i was friendly with mark and jenny sanford. i first met them more than 20 years ago when i was coming bring the south carolina primary. my now wife and i watched the super bowl at the governor's mansion in 2000 for mark going awol, reading poetry and the bible while on a weeklong solo hike that frankly seemed totally believable so when folks begins speculating about seedy possibilities, i wrongly wrote it off as the worst kind of sensationalist journalism and when it was proven true, i felt dong, i felt duped for naively believing that i ever knew mark sanford, the person when i really only knew mark sanford the politician, and i wasn't the only one right there with me caught between image and reality. was stanford's closest

aide, his former chief of staff, scott english thank you so much for sitting down with us. you worked for mark sanford from 96 to 2015, is that yes. i have my impression of him, which was that he was a nice, affable guy. he issued a proclamation for our wedding, which i do not have hanging up in my house anymore but my point is, i knew him and i liked him and jenny and marshall and bohbot and blake and landon what did you think of them? >> i love and respect this guy. i put in a lot of effort with this guy okay. i missed a lot of my children's life for this guy which is by the way is why i've never done an interview about this ever in my life. and until today, but i could just never imagine him he had no game. i mean, he just didn't. and when someone threw out to me that maybe he had a mistress, i just laughed and said there's no way this guy has got a mistress. >> you and i both thinking that was absolutely appalachian trail which is good. i mean me

feel better? i'm like, yeah, that makes sense. he's a weirdo maybe you think we're being dramatic or exaggerating. >> how could we be so shocked at a politician having an affair? >> but you got to understand the mark sanford had one of the most convincing political persona's in the game. >> and this was the guy we thought we knew. >> time magazine named you one of the five most boring governors in america that staying what you learn in politics is if you're going to be some folks that don't like us, some folks that love us and the real key is are we staying true to what we believe in what, what we promised to voters in the first place. >> and then you can live they've, with that and sort of leave it alone with the other 49% because you're going to please everybody you are incredibly boring i was, i was actually there when that was filled and it was like yeah, you're boring. you were like manila envelope stapled to a brown wall, boring? yeah. >> that's complete. lee accurate, which is again, why

we were just like completely shocked that it was just very passionate, emotional affair with this woman other side of the cotton, it was just completely out of character or for what we thought we knew about the guy here's the thing i can accept that politics is a bit like professional wrestling. candidates play a part to make headlines and win elections. but there's a fine line between marketing and outright deception and mark sanford scandal may me question, is, there any truth to a political persona? >> and what's the cost of keeping it out? so when you worked for him, you described him by saying he's willing to say what he believes act accordingly and live with the consequences but more recently you have suggested that that's part of an image and a brand and not reality. so there's a duality to mark. one is the mark sanford that you meet? in political life? that's the brand guy. that's the image

that it's not unique to marketing you know, all, all of these people have exactly the same thing it is about them. they are the brand. so you always have to be cognizant of the fact that you weren't just working for an individual person, but you are working for this his brand. what was his brand? his brand was focusing very much on limiting the size of government and balancing the budget that was for him, that was his way of connecting with the audience congressman mark sanford, republican of south carolina, is the fresh face of this new breed. >> i've actually got the remnants of last night's dinner here. >> this is at a new way. >> this is not the hundred and $50 dinner where it caused them i did say at the cross. i mean, i didn't want anything to go to waste the fiscal conservative thing with mark sanford was not an act. >> he was painfully fiscally conservative. and for example, there's an infamous freak out. the congressional office about him finding a discarded paper club in the trash can and he

dug around in there and grabbed it back out and, you can reuse this does he really making a safe paperclips? of course i remember jenny sanford an interview complaining about he would not buy new suit jackets that he would just wear the same clothes for years and years. >> he didn't just talk a big game about being frugal. he really was a frugal man and while being frugal, does not necessarily block a man from a little romance, mark inhabited this penny-pinching, sweetly curmudgeon lee character. >> so thoroughly, i just could not imagine there were other aspects of how he's mark sanford family man. he's mark sanford, father for boys. he's mark sanford physical conservative, but that's the distinction between being the character actor and being the person there's method acting involved in politics and there's a character they build that's real to them, but it's not real.

>> it's not real. each one of these political figures, they're playing a character and sooner or later the fourth wall breaks that was the americans there how much is too much? >> i think if everything felt a lot more i shall not seek and i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term. as your president. >> 1968, tomorrow at nine on cnn couple. think again, from my homework, you're still brimming with the good cartridge to the carters free absolutely. go take no more spending big bucks on tiny expensive cartridges. >> eco tank comes with up to two years of iq. that's enough to print up the 5,000 pages and

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sanford when he got elected, i could tell you exactly when i'm met and we had a reception in december 7, 1994. >> he had just been elected to just been elected to the house, and we had a good conversation. >> but one thing that he and i share here was a common philosophy about the world. >> you were just they taken with this could be a really good leader, you believe denam that i believed in the issues he believed it really disliked gets into my mind, like it really i really didn't think mark was capable of doing anything slimy, not mark as to afraid of jenni and he's, you know, all of these were like what they like college sweethearts. >> they'd been together 20 years at four beautiful kids. she was such an integral part of his professional and personal lines. they seemed great to me that 20 year journey pretty together from congress to the governor's office. when you're partnered with someone like that and you're you're full yet relationships forged in steel under fire. there solid as a rock you know that when you find a good one, you got to help them and you found a good

one. >> and mark sanford but more importantly, the mob, jenny sanford on the great future first lady of the state of south carolina jenny sanford was invaluable to mark sanford rise. >> she was a smart, skillful woman, a georgetown educated wall street vice president. i don't thank that. mark sanford would have had a political career at all if it were not for jenny sanford help, it's not my love. >> i'm not driven to run campaigns, but but we worked well together jenny sanford had been a right-hand woman throughout all of mark sanford political career she managed his congressional campaigns and she also managed his first campaign as governor, something that she has said since she really tried to get out of doing because she had forced sohn's, all of whom were still have school age. but she was

free labor and it was somebody that he really wouldn't have to hire on on behalf of the people of the state. i wish you godspeed thank you. sure. mark and jenny made a great team. but it turned out there were some elements of the sanford union. very few people knew about or even suspected right before we were getting married when he said, you know, there's, your priest gives you a menu of different vowels and he says, well, you know, i, with all due respect, i'd rather not use a vow that uses the word faithful in it. and i said we've got to be kidding me. and there's no question you have my own doubts about mark, but fidelity was the last thing i was worried about but jenny brushed the red flags aside, been with her health marks political brand grew until it seemed unstoppable. >> he entered the governor's office as a sort of folk hero to south carolina voters, saltine cracker of a man on a single-minded crusade to save taxpayers money when you have a $5 billion-dollar budget that's essentially $1 billion out of out of balance changes needed but when he actually got

to work at the state house, sanford found his passion for cutting budgets had also made him some enemies mark sanford, he's a republican the legislature for years has been controlled by republicans, so they're all in the same party. >> and extensively from the outside, you would think, oh, okay. well, these guys are all going to get together and get a lot of things done that's not really what happened when mark sanford was in the governor's mansion. >> instead, mark sanford lean further into character and started slashing his fellow republicans budgets with a vengeance. >> may one-year he be tied the entire budget i mean, just spent the entire budget that we never got to a budget cycle where there weren't dozens of budget the details. >> there was no democrat versus republican. it was, you know, us versus mark sanford. so he would send hundreds of vetoes back and we would just get together and all override them because it was more during one particularly volatile session in 2004, sanford kept vetoing

budgets and the legislature overrode 100 good five of those vetoes in 90 minutes. >> this is a republican lunch as a republican legislature, and that's, i mean, that's how bad this was. and how did that go over that morning? >> there's just like this epic freak out of the press office in everybody is franticly on the phone dialing and hey, look up, say get on the phone, find some pigs. i'm like, what get on the phone, find pigs. martin needs to pigs. he's going to take him upstairs and do a press conference. i'm like kay and i dislike google and where to find pigs. columbia, south carolina. i'm like you have no idea, right? >> they drove back election than county, which is a rural area outside columbia. and i'm still up on the house floor working on legislation, trying to move that the governor's agenda in some other areas. and i can remember lots of people turning their heads and craning their heads and looking toward the lobby and then somebody said, oh, my god, he has pigs

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governors seem to reveal the one issue that could stir him to reckless passion protesting his fellow republicans bloated mark filled budget with actual pour gasoline. >> she lost yesterday and pork one for one. >> and the taxpayers lost mark had one under each arm and was maybe squeezing them a little too tight. >> and so there was a trail of pig excrement as he went up the stairs gets it down his pants and on his shoes and on its code, our boy which for a guy who wounds one coat or the house majority whip is yelling at me that we have to clean this mess up. i went up there with with the spray and the rags a little bit elbow grease and clean up pig. do you that day. >> and then he let the page go run free. and so the pigs ran free in the lobby and ran into the house annual room chamber. and of course, all the lobbyists were around there. the press was there and sure enough it was a lead story on all three local television

stations. and it was a huge hit in the public. >> was it an effective punch in the face? it was good timing because we had a primary just coming up a week later and one of the republicans who ended up losing their seat was the house majority leader and he said point blank, that his polling numbers flipped completely because of that pig episodes. >> so we had a number of incumbent republicans who ended up losing the challengers they started taking him a lot more seriously. it worked yeah, it was very effective but at the same time, mark sanford was becoming a political rock star for letting pigs loose on the capitol floor. >> a chance encounter was about to make a complete mess of his personal life in 2001, sanford had taken a guy's trip to oregon and they're at an outdoor dansie matt and instantly connected first as friends with a woman who saw the man behind the brand. argentinian journalist maria berlin, chip war she was a very

likable person and for a guy like mark sanford who surrounded by people who are basically beating the out of him every day you don't go over on the senate when you get this oasis of compassion it can be appealing and she's an attractive woman. >> she's age-appropriate. this the whole nine and all of a sudden he's in love he's got this email exchange with this woman. he prints these letters out and puts them in a file cabinet in his office at the mansion his letters to his mistress and the ones from her there to file this dumbass printed them out and put them in a folder and then filed i just keep coming up to it just so weird to me because all these politicians who worked so hard, right and they throw it away for sex. and it's just always so crazy to me as somebody who covers politics

it's so common and it's so dumb. and i just, i never truly understand it. >> the thing about a political figure that you've got to keep in mind number one is compartmentalization their ability to isolate each segment of their world as though it didn't exist. they have to be able to do that. >> if you meet jenny sanford and you meet berlin, they're poor opposite peep, all of a sudden berlin found the whole to get into the gap in his life and filled it but then he compartmentalizes and he says method actor. so he goes back to being mark sanford actor, governor without ever letting on these having an affair to maintain his office and reputation, sanford had to hide his love for maria and continue to pretend to only long for balanced budgets 2009, he topped pork and barrel with a bigger stunts that would

catapult him from south carolina local legend to the national spotlight. south carolina's republican governor has become the nation's first to reject some of the economic stimulus money south carolina was still reeling from the 2008 recession when sanford was offered relief funds from president obama's economic stimulus plan if we spend all this money, we end up $700 million in the hole 24 months from now. >> the question is, then what people started legitimately talking about him as a presidential contender to challenge obama in 2012, i was a white house reporter at the time. that's how it looked from where i was sitting. oh, sanford is emerging to challenge obama and it sounds like that's what you guys were thinking to right? >> next thing you know, we've got the tea party and sanford is the man become a darling for fiscal conservatives? >> i met people who had moved to south carolina, just kind of quietly to begin forming what was going to be potentially a

national level bid for him you know if mark sanford is a stock like in spring of 2009, your buy it, right? >> anybody who knows anything th about politics or about republican politics? the eggs, you're buying mark sanford stock in spring of 2009 then father's day weekend of 2000 was when everything started to fall apart because the governor disappeared it was honestly one of the most bizarre things i have covered in 20 years of journalism. >> he left he was gone from the state and didn't leave anybody else in charge. it seemed totally out of character, but his constituents would soon learn that they did not know the real mark sanford at all? all i get chills just thinking about is this really true? never. jan, i think that something like this could happen and i was 10-years-old

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>> absolutely free text love to three-to-one, three-to-one today five good things. >> listen wherever you get your podcasts was a thursday so i had a scheduled meeting with him in the morning, except he didn't show up for the meeting i remember i was standing outside the state house and marisay for told me personally that he was going to be gone for a few days. i am i gonna be able to reach on yourself and i'm probably not. all failing comes up, joel, handle it. okay but as the weekend came and went, no one had heard from mark sanford father's day weekend, so i'm with my children and my family and i get the work the next day on monday and they're sort of these rumblings of do we know,

where mark is meanwhile, i've been calling him trying to get a hold of them and i couldn't get him on the phone. >> all of a sudden this appalachian trail story comes up. where did it come from? >> the appalachian trail when he planted that with a member of our staff but even an eccentric guy like mark sanford would spend father's day with his four sons whom he legitimately adores. >> right. did you talk to jenny sanford? >> she didn't know where he was and he wasn't known for father's day and the last thing she said to me is he's your problem now shanna from there, the day got worse for scott because one of san for its enemies in the state senate was starting to ask questions. i get a call from someone with sled state law enforcement division, which is the governor's security detail center node's is asking questions about samford's whereabouts jakey nots he single single-handedly block

tattoos, becoming legal in south carolina because it got it wanted you to have a tattoo. he to put it on your body himself? i mean, he he is that guy jake nods ii was one of the top foils of governor mark sanford. they absolutely did not get along every day is another embarrassment. >> we're something else is popping up. it started out and he just simply took a vehicle and was missing. >> jake was trying to stir up this idea that nobody at sled knows where he is, nobody knows where the governor is he didn't tell me about where he's going. he's missing i know exactly where he is. he's hiking the state newspaper was tipped off by senator jake knots when we started calling and asking, where's the governor you know, at first they were like, why do you want to know? well because he's the governor. >> then of course, you're going

to get the media's attention right? when you don't answer where a governor is, there was a mystery. this morning surrounding the whereabouts and south carolina governor mark sanford mystery is unfolding surrounding the whereabouts south carolina's governor reportedly, even his wife didn't know where he went and he wasn't even around for father's day. the very simple solution to this thing has governor sanford callback come back home to people of south carolina warranto way you communicate. >> dmz called all a hunch 170 members, i believe, of the state house. i'll never forget i got a message from tmz and the guy on the other end, he was just like do you know where the governor is and i was like, i do not any hung up and so then i was like something something's going on at this point are being bombarded from everywhere. i've got news trucks all around the state house right now because where is the governor? i should know. i don't know. >> and so what did you do? >> i put the hiking the appalachian trail story out because i've got members of my

staff confirming it the mystery is actually growing deeper. south carolina governor mark sanford vanished last thursday. well, yesterday because office say he wasn't hiding. he was hiking. >> his office said that governor had gone hiking along the 2,200 mile-long appalachian trail, but wouldn't specify where i can only assume he has been sustaining himself by boring wild game to collapsing at his feet and here's where i must make my confession. the sanford story breaks and the white house correspondent for abc news. >> and i know mark, i've known him for a decade at this point i completely buy the appalachian trail thing and then good morning, america asks me to we need to get the stanford interview. it's a mystery where he is and they said send me a copy of the story that nbc or msnbc had done in which he's like basically talking about how shady and weird it is that the governor is disappeared. i

forwarded it to maybe to joel. sorry, i forgot who i sent it to, but i sent it to somebody goes and said something like pretty slimy stuff like alluding to the fact that like don't give the interview to nbc or the today show, give it to abc news and good morning america, because nbc, whatever they're, they're casting aspersions and then of course, way after the truth of samford's escapades have come out my email was released and a freedom of information act request. i called the reporter and an executive at nbc and apologized. it was to be clear, inexcusable. and beyond that, i'd been wrong wrong about this guy who i thought had been a devoted dad and husband, wrong wrong. wrong. lesson learned that was just embarrassing and i also felt dumb for just automatically believing the best possible scenario when it came to a politician, you, you've always

been on the reporting side of things. >> welcome to the hell we all have by our 144 of mark sanford, disappearance pretty much everyone who knew mark sanford was starting to question how much we really knew him as the day goes on tuesday, little things, little bits of information started coming out that maybe kind of say we learned that his last cell phone pinging was an atlanta some googling. >> well, there's an appalachian trail trailhead just north of atlanta. we find out late in the day, tuesday that his car is parked at the airport. surely there's not something else at play here you're saying he's over at the apple biden trail weird. >> the state had some information that led us to believe something different so about a year before mark sanford, mysteriously disappeared from the state, we had gotten an email, the subjects that that said this is your governor, that that

appeared to be back-and-forth emails between mark sanford and a woman in argentina but they could not be proven to be legitimate until the governor disappeared and here is an actual excerpt from one of marx many emails, 2 belem. i could digress and say, you have had the ability to give magnificent, gentle kisses. or that i love your tan lines, are that i love the curve of your hips the erotic beauty of you holding yourself or two magnificent parts of yourself, and the faded glow of the night, slight but hey that would be going into sexual details so do you know what i'm saying? it sort of start swirling at that point we didn't know, but we hoped that we put everything together correctly and he was going to be getting off of a flight from argentina they're in the

atlanta airport and there was only one flight coming in from argentina that morning remember being at the atlanta airport, it's 6:00 a.m. that morning and one of the last people off the escalator is mark sanford. >> and i mean, i jump pick up my digital cameras just could not believe he was standing there the atlantic so now the question was, would sanford actually come clean? all my life i haven't done it to my house on the ground and somehow none of it matters. >> we are at war you said to my throat side, do you want no warren foegele to defeat house

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>> would would you like to talk about it yes, sir. >> yeah. yes, i would he told me the story about the pressures of public life and he just needed to get away right? and he wanted to take this trip well where did you say you have friends there? we did. you visit with? >> he told me he was alone and i think it's started dawning on him that i knew more than i was letting on and he he got up and left and then i'm grabbing for myself phone and calling my editor and yelling, oh my god you're not going to knowing it was only a matter of hours before jeanna filed her story. >> mark sanford race back to the capitol to get ahead of it

all with a now infamous press conference, i was there and i can't recall a time being more squished in in what is a very large atrium in the middle of the south carolina statehouse let me help me here. >> how are we going to i couldn't get i couldn't talk to the guy. i had no idea what a messy was proxy, which geno smith not here. okay so i'm standing there and i'm off camera and i'm watching this fiasco. so the bottom line is this. i i've been unfaithful to my wife had developed a relationship with a what started as a dear dear friend argentina. >> he walks through this experience and his relationship with this woman and how he feels about this woman it began

very simply is that suspect many of these things due in just a casual email back-and-forth in advice on one's life there and advice here but here, recently over this last year it developed into something much more than that is explanation of where he was was so deeply narcissistic so deeply about himself and his feelings. that is a suspected continual process all through life of getting one harrak right? in light and so i will never stand before you as warren who just says, i'm completely right, but we've got to my heart on all things but what i would say is i'm committed to try and get my heart rate. because i found love. i'm sorry. i'm sorry. i lit the entire building on fire but i felt like guys be happy for me what i hurt my wife i heard a boys. >> i hurt friends like tom davis. >> i heard a lot of different

books and all i can say is that i apologize. >> what was your reaction? because he i mean, he's he spoke from the heart. you could say it's the best thing i can say about it. >> i started with him in 1996, were 13 years later and i'm just watching my entire career, everything that had built up for the last 13 years, just fallen to a flaming pile of big basically, yes. >> he effectuated the escape but then he didn't do the cover of well at all if mark would have had any friends say mark, is kind of a loner mart would a loop them in i mean, what would have happened? i think his only friend was probably ginni. >> it turned out she had discovered mark secrets ahead of the press and no she would not be standing by her man for the photographers to ginni anybody who is observed her over the last year 20 years, my

life knows how closely she has stood by my side it wasn't very surreal and for the part of a lot of the reporters who came in from out of town there like, is it always like this isn't there always this kind of weird stuff that's happening. >> and i mean, the answer is yes. but this was definitely a different level and it took us a while to figure out exactly what we we had all just gone through but it all might have gone away quickly because mark sanford, new cycle was interrupted by perhaps an act of god, the la times has reporting the pop star michael jackson has died the entire national media apparatus turn their focus from marks sanford over to remembering michael jackson all the governor has to do now is keep his head down, not say anything, and the whole thing will blow but then mark held basically a almost two

today interview with members of the associated press on the record in which he called. >> berlin his soulmate, gave another interview surely it couldn't be that bad, right? a whole lot more simple affair to love story across lines that i shouldn't have crossed with a married man remember that? older couples sitting to our they could see as far yeah, it was a lot. >> i think there was in marc the sense of trying as hard as he could to explain to people some very complex things that he was feeling when you compare it to edwards or it was somebody had gone to a crisis management expert and say, okay, this is the way you go about explaining things in a way where you can salvage your career or a way you can position yourself to come back mark didn't do any of that. >> and that might just be what saved him will just have

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there's not run for three people in a marriage, and there were calls for his resignation across the state. mark sanford said no because he felt he could still effectively govern critics, then called for stanford's impeachment they opened an ethics investigation in the hopes of finding that has tripped argentina contained criminal use of taxpayer dollars i was on the judiciary committee it's 20 to 23-years-old at the time and i voted to impeach mark sanford and i shouldn't have when i think about it and look back at it. >> i don't think it rose to the level of impeach ability the majority of the state senate at the time sought that way too, because nothing mark sanford spent on that trip crossed over into criminal territory after he paid a small fine and reimburse the state the hearings were dropped. >> now, he just needed to win back the public. >> he embarked on what i remember turning in his story at one point an apology tour, and he did that for months. >> i am compelled to say that i'm sorry, one more time for the situation that i created,

the reality is none of us are perfect, not moving forward. >> i think the people south carolina rages mark sanford, serve out his full two terms as governor. >> the maximum allowed by south carolina law in 2012, we got engaged to his soulmates, maria berlin's chip war. and then the following year, he ran again and won his old congressional seat back once left for dead and the political wilderness, mark sanford blazed a comeback trail that will take him all the way to washington i just want to acknowledge god, not just a second chances, but third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth chances. >> because that is the reality of our shared humanity i think that we've learned that voters can be really forgiving and we love to watch the fall. >> but man, we really love good comeback, right marks re-entry into politics wasn't stumble free in 2014, he broke up with maria via a 2,300 word post on facebook but after all that, it

was in 2018 that sanford finally faced a foe. >> he could not bounce back from when he denounced trumpism as bad for the republican party. and trump clapped back in a tweet donald trump endorsed samford's opponent in the gop primary race. and for the first time in his entire political life sanford lost sanford lost his primary race because to a degree, he stood up to donald trump to a degree. >> now, if you need that narrative, that's fine. i don't if you don't think it's true to tell me what you think it's. >> he doesn't have a campaign manager. he doesn't have campaign staff. he has a campaign account and doesn't spend it the guy spent $300,000 on the ads and the night he was declared the loser in a republican primary at one-and-a-half million dollars in his bank account. he took a dive. >> why he needed the universe to make a decision for me was unhappy in congress. >> christ knows, i watched it be unhappy in congress, but he can't, he can't quit things.

let's go back to 2009 for a second. okay? >> he couldn't quit his marriage. so what does he do? he gives her the clue by disappearing for five days. >> so that becomes an international scandal from the outside, the mark sanford scandal was an absurd comedy. but for insiders such as scott or me, if i'm being honest it was a really hard lesson mark sanford seemed like the rare politician who is exactly what you saw on the podium and that's because who he seemed to be was based on some real truths. but the persona was just one facet of who he was packaged up and made clean and comprehensive all for the american public the big surprise was that even after mark sanford is brand had dissolved so spectacularly, the south carolina public embraced him even more authenticity trumping perfection ironically, a lesson harnessed by his main to detractor, the 45th president, who took an aggressive brand of filter free politics all the way to the white house. >> i could stand in the middle

of fifth avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn't lose any voters. okay. it's like i still occasionally talked to mark who declined to participate in this documentary. i think because of how guilty he feels about what this all did to his four sons. he says he's working hard on those relationships and maybe i'm a fool but i believe him scandals the capitate people scandals take people completely out the game and mark sanford that didn't happen tomorrow mark didn't get impeached when he finished his term and he actually won another race for the united states congress by being honest to himself, being honest to his conservative political values, and being honest with the public. the real mark sanford was able to shake the perfection of the past and started building a new story even if it took him a long walk along the appalachian trail to get there