andrew young is the baby daddy of rielle hunter's child.his is when the story... gets invented that it's actually andrew young's baby. -yes. -whose idea was that? andrew young's. and his wife was cool with it? he sold her on the idea. i'm not sure she was cool with it. nobody was cool with it. to be clear, andrew young flatly denies that he was the architect of the plan to pass off john and rielle's baby as his. in his book, young recalls john edwards convincing him to lie by saying, "it's going to be a one-day story, andrew. no offense, but the press doesn't give a shit about you. they want me. but if we give them a story they can understand, a story about two staffers, they'll go away." levine: we then published a page one cover story-- "john edwards love child scandal!" and we reported edwards' response-- "this story is false. it's ridiculous." at this point, the scandal almost starts to feel like watching a horror movie. i wanna cry out to john edwards-- "just stop! don't go into the basement." don't layer a lie upon a bigger lie. just

he was who he was for rielle hunter, who he was for elizabeth edwards, and then it was who he was for the american public. and that's the paradox inherent to politics by design. individual human beings have to be the vessels for all our lofty ideals, and yet to this day, we keep on investing and believing in these candidates for higher office, hoping, praying that they do not break our hearts, because maybe, just maybe, this one is different. i do think a lot of his campaign staffers were diehard believe-in-the-cause fans, and a lot of them do work in the white house right now. that's his legacy, and i think that puts a nice bow on a story that is a big ol' mess. welcome to all. >> you want us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i'm kimberly hoover. this is cnn newsroom, us president joe biden meets with donors insisting he can lead democrats to victory in november. but now another media outlet says it's time for him to step aside following thursday's presidential debate french voters head to the polls for the first round. the parliamentary elections, one that