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 edwards

response. the story is false, ridiculous. >> at this point, the scandal almost starts to feel like watching a horror movie. i want to cry out to john edwards, just stop. don't go into the basements. don't layer a lie upon a bigger lie stop. go home, man but the potential to somehow get away with it. maybe even win the election kept john edwards and his enablers going diluted as it was. they went into the basement and the national enquirer was waiting there for them hey, mom, how many should i decorated? >> have ran half blue. >> that's a really tough call for you that's john king from cnn. let's look at the data your county leaned read i 15 points in the last presidential election however looking at the latest polling, you're going to need a lot of those purple sprinkles stuff average cost of a cupcake

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taylor.com. i was all alvarez traveling with the harris-walz campaign is santa president who's willing to stand up to these people, nothing will change. >> we will never have the america that all of us dream up in january 2008, rumors of edwards affair have been published and were dogging the campaign in a surprise upset barack obama won the iowa caucus where john had been heavily favored previously. >> but at least outwardly, edwards remained hopeful what people want and new hampshire as they want to see change. they want to see something different than they see now but the political tide had turned a few days later, edwards lost the new hampshire primary. >> john edwards, a distant third must be a disappointing 17%. >> and a few weeks later, the south carolina primary the wedding two counties, including where he was born, seneca obama broke out as the party favorite, just as edwards began to implode his time for me to

step aside so that history can blaze its path. john ever does still chasing his political career, even though he is not a candidate for president, he's looking for a role in the obama white house. >> he could still emerge as a vice president potential candidate, or attorney general. but right at that moment, still has real in the kid over there trying to keep this at bay if you are involved in a heated political scandal, best thing to do is admit it confess >> oh, gave birth to their daughter in california without him. john was still trying to keep his growing secret in

hiding, but the inquirer was watching his every move big tip came in that john was going to meet real and their daughter at the beverly hilton. >> we were subsequently able to obtain a spy photo of john holding his child hotel, or reporters sprang up to him and said, mr. edwards are from the national enquirer what are you doing here? visiting rio hunter and her baby. we believe your baby that point it all caved in for john edwards. he was panic stricken he ran into a bathroom and i'll reporters around the other side trying to get at and security came and john edwards was escorted out without making any comments. >> but we knew that we had we wake up to the national enquirer interview. i was with abc news. >> and what i found out is that john edwards had brokered a deal to sit down with abc news.

i worked at abc news at this time. and when edwards agreed to a sit down, it was a huge to deal. everyone in the newsroom tuned in to watch our colleague bob woodruff hold edwards feet to the fire. he'd have to tell the truth now, he was on national tv but then this let me ask you the question. >> did you have an affair with ms hunter in 20062 years ago? i made a very serious mistake mistake that i am responsible for is this a fair completely over? oh, yes, it's been over all up for a long path edwards ever maybe the picture in the tablet? yes. i haven't. no idea what that picture is. but you've seen that picture, right? i did say an ad. i cannot make any sense out of it. i don't know who that baby is. >> this is the part of john and

words that you have to really say, my god, turn it off. alrighty, just stop. >> he admits to the relationship but not the fatherhood. yeah. i mean, i don't even understand the hair the hair splitting, the deny that interview, denying paternity really change things. i i had a really hard time without one not do the right thing? >> why do i think that from a fear of elizabeth, probably multiple thing is hurting his kids. elizabeth embarrassment and shame just fear. >> but i think you're being very charitable by not thinking that a good chunk of all of these bad decisions was, i want to be president or i want to be vice president, or i want to be attorney general is his ambition. >> yes. >> you're attributing it to his love and to protecting his family. >> and i'm saying are more than ambition. i don't think he's that ambitious. i'm not so sure his political career

was him 100%. >> you think elizabeth question i think that she wanted it more than he did it staff to know what to think about reelz theory because elizabeth is not here to tell us her side of the story. what we do know is that just like the rest of his staffers elizabeth edwards supported her husband's campaign unceasingly for him as well as for herself, even as his affair tore her apart the biggest explosion is when elizabeth edwards is waiting for john, an airport hangar and she literally rips her shirt and her broth and she says don't you see me it is the hardest moment in her life and adwords responded by continuing to dig in on these lies, which takes us back to the abc news

interview. bob turn the topic to money edwards just dug that hole even deeper there has been evidenced. >> we've been told that there are about $15,000 a month than paid to ms hunt hunter so that she could actually live out in california. in fact, that money was from fred baron, who was your national finance chair. >> is that correct? >> i don't know this is when you can first see fear in edwards eyes, he seems to turn from a guy plausibly trying to protect his family into a lawyer, trying to cover his are tentacles began moving out into chasing down the money trail. >> john edwards was relying on at least two very wealthy donors that we were able to publicly identify one of those donors was erez rachel mellon, known to friends, family, and those seeking political contributions as beanie bunny melon she also found john edwards to be insanely

attractive. >> and a party thinks like, you know, watch john, you are no good not you hitting on a nine-year-old wanted but it worked they got nearly i think $750,000. >> what they were supporting ultimately was keeping real and they're child under wraps. >> if red baron and bunny melons contributions were being used to keep real quiet so the john edwards could win. that would make john edwards more than a philanderer. it would make him a federal criminal wow. this is this is big you want answers as stoop political analysis we have all kinds of questions about to feel so stupid person questions. what did biden do? that said the right call, stayed awake hard hitting questions. >> why did trump pulled out of 60 minutes? >> i love pulling out and done right. great. question. >> what are your predictions for next week's top stories, baby oil files for bankruptcy

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>> what is this politics is almost cult-like. i worked for john edwards for ten years and here we were on the verge of possible presidency the senator called man said, my wife, samantha dei. will you consider helping me cover this up so this is not on the front page of every newspaper in the world. >> so as federal investigators circle john edwards was out of options except one, john edwards now admitting he is the father of the child born to campaign aide, rielle hunter. it's sort of maury povich for the upwardly mobile, you are the father brought those are disappointed and hurt these words will never be enough. >> but i am truly sorry. >> and what about edward's wife of 32 years, elizabeth, she's not only had to deal with her husband the trail, she's dealing with a cancer that threatens to take her life. >> john edwards confession to elizabeth was reportedly done privately she added an afterword to her memoir, resilience, recalling the

horror she felt on learning the full depths of john's betrayal. writing quote, i simply wanted to be away from all of the things i had tried to accept. i wanted to take a long shower and be away from the lies. my husband had told me in the woman he told me about and the awful couple who helped him lived allies elizabeth edwards separated from john in january 2010, the same month that he came clean in the press john edwards finally confessed to being queen stabbed in 2010. >> he had wanted to come out for a very long time. the issues for internal family issues trying to hide it from elizabeth try not to hurt anybody, you know, he didn't want to hurt elizabeth or his family it appeared edwards wanted his lie to outlive elizabeth and may have thought it would be better for everyone instead, as elizabeth's cancer progress, she was left with the knowledge that not only had her husband gaslit her for years, a

team of people had known the truth and stayed silent or rationalized it as the right thing to do elizabeth edwards died on december 7th, 2010 from breast cancer in raleigh john had his two youngest kids hands and just i remember him leaning down and saying, guys. >> all right. yeah, it was it was a very heavy day when she could barely speak anymore my dad and i said at her bedside and held each of our hands and she just kept looking at us back-and-forth saying, i'm okay. i'm ok. >> she was way more worried about us than we were about her you felt when that happened did

you think when she passed away in they finally, you and john can be together >> when did not certain i ever thought john and i would end up together saying about all of it. >> yeah i never would have gone down this road. >> why? because i'm a parent. i'm a mom. i just would never have an affair. and do that to a family. >> so you maybe understand elizabeth edwards a little better now? >> yes, absolutely. the panda denials of the person you love you? >> no. denying that, you know, like your real hole reality is turned upside down yes, i get it. as a woman, you can understand it intellectually been on a motion, correct? yeah by 2011, the ongoing federal investigation into the edwards scandal came to ahead. john edwards, the one-time vice presidential nominee the democratic party is looking at the possibility of 30 years in prison. >> prosecutors contended edwards used campaign donations to cover up an affair and pay

his mistress. >> he's accused of conspiracy, making false statements, and violating campaign finance laws. >> remember those two donors, fred and bunny, by using their money to fund his cover edwards was now facing the biggest trial of his life what about all that money from like bunny melon and that i knew nothing about this money. >> i mean, just about who paid for your groceries? >> andrew young had claimed that he was paying for it out of his own pocket, right? then fred reimbursed him their argument was this money was not going directly to tell people vote for john edwards. this was going to kind of support him, the family, it was sort of, you know, auxiliary from there the details just got senior including the testimony that andrew young and his wife, cherie, had kept a very personal type of recording of john and real how did you end up with a sex tape of john edwards and rielle hunter there was a sex tape that sherry

young andrews wife, found in a pile of things at real had left behind in a house they had rented for her and they kept it as a kind of an insurance. you did though at one point, consider selling it, was somebody comes up to you and says, here's millions of dollars. will you sell it i'd be lying if i didn't say but do we ever seriously consider selling it? of course not it was it was crazy juicy trial for something about finance there's no question that i've done wrong. >> and i take full responsibility for having done wrong and i will regret for the rest of my life the pain, and the harm that i've calls but i did not break the law they ended up deliberating for nine days and it was like as a train going to crash a cnn presidential town hall, kamala harris, wednesday at nine eastern on cnn at verizon, every phone can be the new iphone 16 pro with apple

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uniquely terrible presidential candidate i did an awful, awful lot that was wrong and there is no one else responsible for my sands after the trial, edwards retreated from public life. he returned to his home in north carolina, where he declined to media requests to this day, including mine he in real stayed together for a while after the trial, but now maintain a relationship as co-parents he liked the attention and need a lot of people pushing him in that direction to make a difference. >> and he was conflicted about it. and he did not want to hurt anybody and he loved elizabeth. he loved his kids. and he was also in love with me, you know, like this. humans are complicated people. it's not just black and white. >> and you thought that if you didn't go along you lose it. >> now, i don't want to just felt like i was forced to go

along. >> the train was going in that direction and i just gave up one in every known reality of everything i believe in out the window we're going in this direction. what belief systems where you're throwing out oh, my honesty and integrity and, you know, my morals because you're lying yes. >> so the country line to the world line gone along with it on complicit whatever you think of real, it is fascinating that she is the one person in the story who was not invested in john politically her motivations for the deceit and the lies were purely personal. >> she wanted to make her own life better than honestly, she seems like the only person this worked out for well, maybe not the only one in an historic first for any tabloid libyans coverage of edwards was deemed eligible for pulitzer prize and i issued a public apology i

don't know. many people do what did you say sorry i heard anybody. >> i wasn't thinking about anybody else but myself i'm sorry your daughter's 14 now? yes. >> so he is part of her life now? >> yes, very much. >> and how i mean, that's ok. you and him and quinn like you've all moved on. it's now just a healthy situation as very healthy, she's so blessed and privileged and has great parents who love her yeah. >> both of you, you and john? yes. >> and he's part of it all n yeah. it's a great dad door. >> so in a weird way, there is a blessing from all of us. in a weird way. >> it's not aware she is she is the blessing yeah even with a silver lining at the end, looking back, the edwards side saga can feel like a twisted soap opera. >> the stakes felt larger than just a sex scandal. but what about the scandal's political legacy we have this dream of

who we want people to be. >> but john edwards couldn't be that he was who he was for rielle hunter, who he was for elizabeth edwards words. 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 vessel's 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 old mess