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hardy forget this handsome face. john edwards honest to changing course and iraq is the first step in trying to restore america's moral leadership in the world. >> and and we're just hot stuff and within striking distance of the white house for years he had been john kerry's vice presidential pick in 2004. and even though that didn't work out, it made him an early

favorite. during the 2008 democratic presidential primary. >> he was a good talker. he was good looking. he had the right politics. >> yes. edwards was the dream candidate, perhaps even the dreamy candidate that beautiful head of hair just stole my heart articulate the economic issues like this country able to talk about the two americans that was his famous speech. >> we can build what america well, we no longer have to health care system edward stated mission to bridge the gap between rich americans and poor americans still seems progressive, more than a decade later, he was young, smart married to his law school sweetheart. >> though he'd made a fortune as a trial attorney edwards proudly champion the working class andy was from a southern state. they called him bill clinton without the baggage until the baggage arrived china and words seemed too good to be

true at once and i, john edwards political career laws in shambles, his personal life and lies laid bare. >> he lied about an extra marital affair karen, when he ran for president this year, john edwards now admitting he is the father of the child, born to campaign aide, rielle hunter, andrew young, a former aide to john edwards fall for edward saying he was the father of the baby. >> what about edward's wife of 32 years, elizabeth, she is not only had to deal with her husband betrayal, she's dealing with a cancer that threatens to take her life. >> yes, it was as bad as it sounds. edwards who cheated on his cancer stricken wife, had a baby with his secret girlfriend slash him chloe, and then tried to pass it off as a key campaign staffers kid for years, edwards followed the three simple rules for unfaithful men. deny, deny, deny i have no idea what you're asking about. >> i don't respond to these lies. >> so when the truth came out, he looked like the most untrustworthy politician in the

united and it states, here's the statement john edwards issued today. i am quinn's father. it was wrong for me ever to deny she was my daughter and hopefully one day when she understands, she'll forgive me the scandal torpedoed his career and with it, the dreams of so many people who had believed in him isn't very shocking as a man i was willing to vote for as president why would he to his name like that why would he do that? >> he had to know that his personal failures would detonate his political career. yet he still seemed to believe that he was destined to transform the united states and it wasn't just him. so many smart people surrounding him accommodated his lies, believing that the ends justify the means this story is 15-years-old, but it burned so many people, including many staffers who still work in politics and refused to talk about the scandal to this day. john edwards isn't talking either. and his ex wife,

elizabeth, sadly died in 2010 thankfully, i was able to find answers and understanding in kentucky sitting and talking with someone who wants fairly or not was the most infamous woman in the united states. rielle hunter the image of john edwards was this john grisham hero come to life crusading southern lawyer had some difficulties in his life, wants to fight for you we held him responsible for not being the image that he had given us and held me responsible for that to we did in the media, yes. it's hard talking about it. and even you know, 15 years later, i don't want anybody our him. i don't want to hurt john either. you know, what we're here to get your side of the story by february 2006, rielle hunter had lived many lives she was an actress with bit roles in films such as ricochet, where she played a reporter alongside denzel washington mr.

wright, a new york party girl and muse for her ex-boyfriend, j. >> macron, ernie's novel, story of my life. a self-described spiritual healer. and finally, an aspiring documentary filmmaker john edwards by contrast, was soft launching a presidential campaign and a leader of the democrats at a party. so let's just start with the very beginning you're at the regency hotel oh god. in 2006 were you there to meet him being there was a fluke. >> was he by himself who he was in a business meeting? >> i was with my friend or at a table and john edwards was behind her and he kept looking at me as though he knew me as well and then we got up and left and when we were standing on the corner, john edwards turn the corner and saw me there. and he literally like almost jumped into my arms and my response, what came out of my mouth was you're so hot and

what did he say back? >> well, i think yeah, i said i can help you. and he said, i want to hear he said, could you know, can you come over so you want up to his room? >> i did that. >> i didn't feel like it was sexual either. you didn't know? i did not because it sounds like there was an attraction you said you're so hot i know i know. i know what a sexual i get it. yeah did your intimate relationship with him began that night? >> yes. >> i was in love very quickly. >> not because he was john edwards no not at all make no mistake like all of that like added to the package. >> like just like i'm human. right. he's good-looking guy. he was very charismatic and he was like john edwards. he had all the boxes except it wasn't single that's a that's a box.

>> it's a big one clearly, john's marital status was no barrier to pursuing real and the feeling was mutual. >> ironically, at the same time, the country seemed infatuated with john edwards picture perfect marriage and his wife, elizabeth edwards, a former attorney herself, turned health care reform crusader who was said to be edward secret weapon on the campaign trail. >> my value is that people trust me they trust me to say what's on my mind and to be a direct the election was still two years away, but elizabeth and john seemed like they were everywhere pushing john as the next great democratic hope it was the beginnings of a 21st century presidential campaign which created a unique opportunity for real and john's relationship at what point does he start talking about figuring out a way for you to come on board the campaign. >> i pitched him the idea doing a webisodes series because my entire thing about him was who he really is, did not translate

onto the camera and i wanted to help them capture that because i thought it was pretty cool footage real captured, more than maybe even she imagined at the start she showed who john edwards really was as a person for better or for worse, you think most people have any idea what we're doing. >> we're not on the stage. >> you're trained be careful. >> conditions. >> saying what's say, where conditioned to be political i actually walked the country to see who i am yeah. no, i really i'd rather be successful or unsuccessful based on who i really am, not based on some plastic kendall that you put up in front of audiences that's not me be careful what you wish for john

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read it so i can read it the webisodes, did they suggest anything? maybe when he was like he was a little florida, but he flirted with everybody. i wasn't that wasn't unique to me but everyone read into it that oh, he's so flirty, you know? >> that's right. speed life presence on the campaign trail had some staffers and journalists talking, but it was just that talk. and even though he had not officially announced he was running yet, there was so much heat behind an edwards candidacy. >> it was really about the sense of the failed george w bush administration when coming out of katrina. we were heading into an economic crisis the war in the middle east was so badly managed and prosecuted with so

much at stake, elizabeth had the idea to target young voters as a break with politics as usual, i was hired in dubai the campaign because they were looking for bloggers. blogging was really knew and that was the edwards campaign trying to stand out from the more traditional campaigns at the time elizabeth had been out front, she had joined the blogosphere. she was writing about universal health care and progressive policy generally, for the first time in 15 years, we're actually trying to fix a broken health care system and deal with the twin problems of the status quo, which are skyrocketing health care costs and millions of americans living without health care coverage i first met elizabeth edwards on the campaign trail and she was at the front of the bus working on something. by the time we get to our campaign stop elizabeth says, i have this for you and it was a sketch of me and i was just so sort of impress and mike, what a nice gestures you'd have to do that for me. and she was good i knew then she was a

phenomenon she was the brains of this mission. >> she knew how to make it look soft when it felt far are she really was the all-american fabric part of what made the edwards campaigns. >> so riveting and why so many people rooted for john and elizabeth was the story behind their relationship? tragedy had compelled them to get into politics. >> now, willis and wade, died in an automobile accident seven years ago. and this is his outward bound fans are aware they began getting involved with the community in new and different ways when their son died as a way to try to have some good come out of his death good morning i'm here in new orleans to announce that i'm a candidate for the presidency of the united states in the election in 2008 by early 2000s seven john had made his official announcement for the presidency. reelz webisodes, which revealed a little more

truth and edwards was perhaps ready to admit disappear from the internet. but their relationship continue. >> how often were you seeing john at this point? every week. every couple of weeks? >> a lot more i went everywhere. >> thanks. staffers knew who i was so like for me to get into his hotel room was challenging john edwards believed he could outsmart anyone, but someone has to be complicit here on this. the person rielle and john say enabled to their affair was campaign staffer andrew young andrew denies that he was doing anything more than following john's orders. >> so keep in mind this is a story full of unreliable narrators and opinions differ. and of course, the only person cheating on his spouse and lying to voters about who he was, was the candidate himself. >> they had a separate phone they called the bath phone whenever john would want to talk to real, they'd start humming the theme from batman and that was kind of the cue for andrew to flip him the phone to talk to real. so it

was quite elaborate why would andrew young do that? >> well, in his book, he wrote quote, i joined in the deception and at the time, amazingly i believed it was the right thing to do. i did this for one primary reason. i believed in john edwards and all the things he said he stood for how much was he involved in helping this relationship to happen. >> oh, it wouldn't have happened without him every time we reach some sort of obstacle, are hurdle andrew would clare. clare that remove it one of the things that's that's hard to get across to folks is how much it was really possible to john edwards was going to be the next president of the united states in my personal opinion, i didn't thank he should run for president. you didn't think he should run for president because of the relationship? yeah. yeah did you tell him that you know, i was the only

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journalists ended up in the tabloids putting together a story was the easy part. >> getting the information that was the hard part, and that took a certain type of journalist barry levine was executive editor of the national enquirer when it tip came in on john and real about john had been the price of his haircuts it was right before the iowa caucuses. he was running right with obama and hillary clinton i thought, wow, if the story is true, the rug would really be pulled out from under him in march 2007, a few months after be'eri started looking into the affair, rumors, the edwards is received devastating news elizabeth breast cancer, which had been in remission since 2004, was back this time the doctor said it was not curable. the candidates says he'll be there for his wife any time, any

place, despite the presidential campaign. yet john edwards says that campaign will continue elizabeth was sec and elizabeth had found out about may at the same time, you know, she called the cell phone that we had together. >> there is only one number on the cell phone and it was mine and she called it and i answered the phone and she hung up he ended up confessing to her that he had had an affair with her, but it was over and he was never going to do it again. >> so and she believed she actually believed that at this point, editors and executive producers in the mainstream press seemed to have no stomach for digging into rumors that john edwards was cheating on his dying wife. >> we had heard rumblings and we were all sort of thinking about how we would report on it. there just was no evidence of it tabloids in the u.s. >> play by different rules then mainstream reporters. they use checkbook journalism, paying

for information for access for photographs. the standards may seem lower, but in this case, the enquirer was going to do whatever it took to break the store i went into my battle mode in the sense of organ to go full court the first thing we're going to do, try to find out a little bit more about who this woman is. we went to a home in new jersey where we believe that rielle hunter was living and national enquirer ended up on my doorstep so i bought a ticket and i flew and andrew pick me up at the airport and took me to his house in north carolina where sherry and the kids were. i stayed with him and then he rented me my own house but the enquirer was still circling and leveen had enough to start publishing came out from the national enquirer and they didn't name me he gets asked about this and he denies it on camera in front

of everybody. he's on the campaign trail. he's still running for president the national enquirer. sorry. >> i don't talk about these tabloids hello tabloid. trash is full allies. i'm here to talk about helping people what was your response when you heard that you got mad, you got you cried. i mean, it's just sad because he's denying your love cracked so he's still he's still in the relationship yeah. >> you're still in the relationship edwards campaign staffers all saw the articles and many of them knew were at least suspected the rumors had merit what's remarkable is no one inside the campaign blew the whistle at this point. john's political machine kept going full throttle. even as barry levine and the enquirer were getting ever closer to blowing it all up subsequently, we were able to develop the source. >> now closer to rielle hunter who says that not only is the a affair true, but she's pregnant

now with john's child and there freaking out so when did you find out you're pregnant july 2007. >> how do you tell john the news that he's about to have kid with your new before i knew i he just sensed it. yeah. he said, this is your choice. whatever you want to do with with us, i support. yeah. >> i was 43-years-old and never been pregnant in my life. i was like, i'm having his baby. this is my shot of being a mom through the source that we had developed. we found out that john edwards had moved her to a gated community in chapel hill, north carolina. she's five or six months pregnant. she has to be traveling to an obstetrician nearby. >> that's right. be'eri and the national enquirer staked out every ob-gyn in the area

and waited for real to come in for an appointment. >> she left the doctor's office to a grocery store we attempted to question her than and said real we're told through multiple sources that john edwards is the father of your child. >> what we have to remember is rielle hunter doesn't really exist until the national enquirer says she does. and when she does everything changes really fast that day changed my life. >> you know, suddenly i had to become aware of my surroundings all the time cameras popping up out of weird vans parked down the street with their windows cracked. >> now, with physical proof of reelz pregnancy, a plan was hatched to get the media off of john edwards, sent what happened after that, when into a scenario that i had never experienced. week again receiving phone calls from various lawyers saying this is

a case of two campaign workers and john edwards campaign who are having a child together. >> andrew young is the baby daddy of rielle hunter's child now, this is when the story it gets invented that it's actually andrew young's baby. yes whose idea was a andreacchio and his wife was cool with it. >> he sold her on the idea. i'm not sure if she was cool with that. 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 reelz baby as his in his book, young were calls john edwards convincing him to lie by saying, quote it's going to be a one-day story, andrew, no offense, but the press doesn't give a about you. they want me but if we give them a story, they can understand a story about two staffers. though go away we've published a page one covers story. >> john edwards, love child scandal we reported