chase the behavior. we've seen no sign either of those things happen so the end game is very uncertain. >> i, for one, watching the special election coming up in ohio where republicans could potentially move the seat they were most definitely not supposed to lose, future sign potentially of a coming blue wave. i thank audrey on twitter. send us your pictures of the dogs watching our show of the that's all for us tonight here on "kcbc". we're back next week from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. eastern. for now, good night from washington. ♪ for weeks now, we've been hearing about the porn star, the president, and the payoff. >> the president ignoring questions about the sex scandals swirling around him. >> is this a message to all future politicians? just show no shame and move on. gary hart showed tremendous

shame. >> gary hart believed the press would never dare report on someone's private life. and that, he lost. >> i see an america too young to quit. >> ours is close to a lock to the democratic nomination as you're going to get. >> really believe that he could go all the way. >> it's an issue of recapturing our basic principles and believes, and values. >> every knows that hart plays around. >> i like my husband very much. >> the story was the journalistic political equivalent of an a-bomb. >> it's the story about sex and power. >> what was his relationship with her? >> i do not answer that question. >> went from being an icon to being a a joke. ♪

america in the late 1970s was still emerging from the fog of vietnam, mired in a stagnating economy, and suffering through a 444-day hostage crisis in iran. the country was in the mood for change. >> we were post-water gate, post vietn vietnam. the public was deeply skeptical of its leaders. there was great deal of questions about character and trust in character. look what nixon had shown us, what johnson had shown us. lying about vietnam followed by water gate took a toll on the country. we were most cynical country. >> out of the fog of mistrust emerged a brave new voice. >> our public servants have to be charged with the higher duty than merely staying out of jail.

they must depend as much as humanly possible, embody the highest values of this nation's society. >> gary hart was the original new democrat. his slogan was, "new ideas for a new generation." >> people believed in gary and willing to sacrifice for him and the greatest good. >> gary hart started his climb in 1971 in senator george mcgovern tapped the 34-year-old lawyer to run his campaign against richard nixon. >> really represented a new generation of smart, ambitious, young democrats. he was going to go out and upset the conventional roles. he was a glorifier in a way. >> we have the votes on california. we want that challenge we

brought up tonight. prepared to stay here all night to get it brought up. >> even though mcgovern did not win, this put gary in the limelight, and he was, by that time, a national figure, and he was really on the move. >> married since 1958, gary and lee hart were attractive political partners. it was gary who radiated a certain quality not seen on the national political stage since john kennedy. >> he was very good looking. and had sort of a chiselled face, and he had an an anti-washington ora about him. he was from colorado, so there was this kind of cowboy mystique. he was a heart shot. >> women just swooned over him, and he returned the favor. i mean, he looked at them lustingly. >> he's hanging out with all the cool journalists, all the cool, gets more -- legendarily has the

most sex appeal of anyone of his generation. >> and what does warren do? invites him to the pool where they sit around with topless starlets. you know, gary hart probably thought he fell into nirvana. >> as hart gained national attention, sally quinn in a 1970 profile revealed the hot new political operative had a less than enlightened view of women in the workplace. >> there was a moment where i did ask him why there were not anymore women on mcgovern's staff, and he said, well, you know, they are not as good as men. i mean, anybody said that today would be fired. >> reporter: in 1974 with the nation reeling from the water gate scandal, hart ran for the united states senate, winning easi easily with 57% of the vote.

>> hart understands washington as a newly elected senator in 1975, he'll be seen as the long-haired leftist campaignist. he doesn't want that. >> hart landed a much coveted seat on the senate arms services committee. >> he was serious-minded and a big student about the military. that was his specialty, as a matter of fact. >> the nuclear arms issue is a fundamentally new issue, and what we're trying to do is the agenda for today and tomorrow, not the agenda of the past. >> thinking of coming together stateless terrorist groups long before people talked about terrorism. what people saw in gary hart was emergence of something different, a new kind of democrat, very different from the daily lyndon johnson democratic party. something new, young, vigorous, and dynamic. >> hi. >> hi. >> gary hart. nice to see you.

? nice to see you. >> while many found hart refreshing and charismatic, others sensed something untold behind the public persona. >> people will talk to him and couldn't quite fully understand what made him run and tick. >> to washington insiders, however, there was nothing mysterious to gary hart. >> everybody in politics knows that hart plays around. >> friends and staff cautioned hart about the behavior, but ignored the warnings secure in the belief he was shielded from exposure by a long held tradition. >> gary hart believed in a curious way he believed in the press. the press would never dare report on someone's private life, and he banked on that. that was his bet. it was a bet he lost.

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i have a vision of america in the '80s that's much, much different from ronald reagan's vision. >> by 1984, gary hart was eager to challenge president ronald reagan, whose first term had been marred by double digit unemployment, and the bombing of the u.s. marine b. >> people were scared where ronald reagan was taking us. we needed energy to pull things together in a whole different way. >> there was a generational change that was occurring anyway, and hart was there to be the carrier or champion for a new generation. >> i'm glad you're all here because i have an announcement i want to share with you.

i am a candidate for the presidency of the united states in 1984. >> he said, let's do it. we have no money, we have no posters, we have no tv ads, we're zero in the polls, let's do it. >> there was no money coming in. we were existing on fumes. we had a campaign headquarters on capitol hill that a used to be a porn warehouse. >> besides bare coffers, hart faced a daunting field of ill luminaries like john glenn, jesse jackson, and walter mosdale. >> we need a president who will make the number one domestic priority of this country to create in the 1980s the best education and training system in the world. >> hart kicked off the campaign with an impressive bramg ivive

policy ideas ranging across a wide spectrum. >> he said, i'm the people's representative. i don't represent the smoke-filled rooms, i don't represent the past. i'm the future. i'm younger, and i'm going to change not just my party, but the country. >> on the campaign trail in new hampshire, hart earned respect from older voters demonstrating he was more than just a policy walk with a pretty face. >> he put the red suspenders on, did a little like this, and immediately walked over and picked up an ax. we were scared to death he was going to kill somebody. >> and he winds up and throws the ax, bang, hits the target dead center. he said, that was the craziest thing i've done. of course, it was the picture for 48 hours. emblematic fighting strike for him that everything was going to his way.

>> what do you think is going to happen tomorrow? [ cheers and applause ] >> a major upset appears to be taking shape in the new hampshire presidential primary. it appears tonight that senator hart is on his way to a clear cut victory over walter mondale. >> i look forward to a vigorous debate about this party's future. >> now? okay, there's an alternative to wa walter, one the biggest upsets in american politics at that point, and in contrast, it was so stark. less than ten years difference in their age. they looked 30 years apart. >> the people responded to their shocking loss in new hampshire. lastly, went on the attack. >> the assault began in the presidential debate in march of 1984. >> let me describe your positions. mr. mondale says for a quick and

decisive lead, it's not been fulfilled and used the word "clobbered" to describe a defeat. mr. hart has dope well, presenting himself as a man with ideas for the future, but opponents say it's just tinsel, glamour, no substance. well, on to the substance, ladies and gentlemen. >> mondale, an old-school politician, stole a page from hart's new age script using popular culture to land a telling blow. >> i think that the dedication of the democratic party to minority people in the south and else where shouldn't just be jobs, when i hear -- >> when i hear -- when i hear new ideas, i'm reminded of that ad, where's the beef? >> where's the beef? >> a lot less beef, but a lot of bun. >> where's the beef? >> there was an ad that was extremely popular on tv where a little old lady, a grandma, says, "where's the beef"?

>> hey, where's the beef? >> they echoed this ad, and that ad essentially hits this couch point about hart that there's no there there. >> here was the guy that offered the most new ideas across the board in 20, 30 different ways, spelled out in books, in articles, in journals, and editorials. it was like calling the sun the moon, and getting away with it. >> the attack continued by stoking a traditional and far more ominous fear. >> the most awesome, powerful responsibility in the world lies in the hand that picks up this phone. >> the mondale people decided to question whether we really knew who gary hart was and placed that kind of doubt in the mind of the voter, and they did it with some ads that went to the heart of, who is this man?

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happy to be runner-up? >> not at all. i want to win. >> with his national stature elevated by his upset of walter mondale in new hampshire, gary hart became to get under closer media scrutiny. >> as reporters then delved more deeply into his biography, his background, they discovered literal consistencies on the face did not amount to much, but they did add to a narrative that gary hart was in flight from his past. >> he gets very upset when people use the gatsby analog for him, but there is that quality about him in that he reinvented

himself and he likes to foster a certain air of mystery. >> the signature changed dramatically over the course of his adulthood. >> there was a fuss about him changing his name, going from hart pence to hart, fudged his age for some reason. what's implied by a man who changes his name and fudge perm details? it's odd, and odd isn't good. >> democrats have chosen the team, and they are ready to move on to the main event of the political year. >> although hart eventually lost the nomination to mondale, he was greeted with a winner's ovation at the democratic convention in san francisco. >> i'd like to introduce senator gary hart. [ cheers and applause ]

>> i see an america too young to quit. too courageous to turn back. an america with unmet dreams that will not die. this is one heart you will not leave in san francisco. >> he spoke to a thousand delegates, and from that point forward, once crushed by reagan in the '84 election, it's there for gary hart, the guy still standing and he's the future. >> encouraged by his showing in the 1984 primary, hart decided not to seek a third term in the senate and spent his last two years in office preparing for another presidential bid. >> i think he had an almost devine sense that he was a man for the moment. he had a sense of destiny. >> much of america seemed to agree. polls in 1987, hart led democratic hopefuls, biden and

gore and ahead of george h.w. bush. >> hart was as close to a lock for the democratic nomination as you're going to get at that point in presidential politics and a good bet to win the presidency. >> i intend to be a candidate for the presidency of the united states of 1988, and i do so for one single reason, and that is because i love my country. >> gary hart starts standing out in the colorado mountains, okay, the mountains, it's coming. >> symbolically red rocks as a kind of signal to the country he was not going to go under some hotel ballroom and stand before a microphone. he was a new kind of candidate. >> this election in 1988 is not a question of whether our country should move left or right. it's an issue of the capturing our basic principles and beliefs and values. >> in a clear reference to the

iran contrast they are currently racking the white house with calls for reagan's impeachment, hart made a promise to a nation disspirited by decades of political scandal. >> he said, among other things, that he wanted to return honor and integrity to the office of the presidency, and that he expected to be held to the highest standards in the campaign. >> but even as hart pledged himself to the highest standards, a drum beat of rumored affairs was gathering in the press. >> so you have his announcing for president, and a lot of the coverage right at the time of the announcement raised, quote, the womanizing problem. >> on the same day hart announced candidacy, the rumors about the personal life went mainstream when a story from howard fineman appeared in "news week" magazine. >> he interviewed a number of people and quoted a person anonymously saying gary hart is

going to get this nomination unless he can't keep his zipper up. >> people went to him, close to him, and said, gary, you can't play by the rules, whatever they were that you played by before. he said, no, no, i get it. >> the question of your marital fidelity? legitimate? >> i guess so, but there's no regards about anyone else. >> i think he just said, listen, eisenhower did this, johnson did this, roosevelt did this, jack kennedy did this. it's not enough to ruin my chances. >> if you look at jack kennedy, most people knew that he was having affairs all the time, but it was not written. and so i think that gary was

operating on the theory that that was the way things were, and that that would hold, that he could basically do what he wanted to do, and nobody would write about him. >> gary hart did not recognize that there were now women on the campaign reporting, and that that whole kind of male secrecy bond that extended from jfk to ben bradley, the washington post, to many other politicians was broken by women reporters. >> the nature of the washington press core changed. it became more feminist, more sensitive, more caring about these issues. >> in the spring of '87, at the urging of his staff, hart agreed to be interviewed by the "new york times." >> i asked him a kind of general question, but that was specific enough, and that's when he came

out with the follow me around, you'll be bored line. part of me thought he was actually setting a very clear signal that at least for the duration of the campaign, he was going to lead a traditional married life. >> thanks very much! how y'all doing? >> the other part of me was startled that if he had not made that decision, this was a very dangerous thing to say. >> suggestive stories continued to appear in the national press. some noting that hart and his wife, lee, had separated twice. tom of the "miami herald" objected to the sketchy recording in a column published in 1987. >> the column was essentially saying this is not good journalism. this is troublesome when we are focusing so much of our attention on what at this point is an unsub stanuated claim.

>> on the same day the column appeared, he got a call to his office. >> the phone rang, and i picked it up, and it was a woman on the other end, did not identify herself, saying, did you write the column in the paper this morning about gary hart? i said, yes, i did. and she essentially said, well, you're an idiot. gary hart is having an affair with one of my best friends. she also told me that senator hart had gone off on a boat trip with her friend. >> this trip was an overnighter on a yacht called monkey business. >> i was beginning to think, well, there's some things here that, perhaps, i can actually trace. >> he pushed the caller for more tangible information. >> i said, why should i trust anything that you're telling me if you won't give me your name or other ways that i can

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♪ >> with close allegations about gary hart, tom stood at a cross roads. should he honor the old rule that says a politician's private life is sacrosanct? no matter the consequences to hart, the democratic party, and even to himself? >> i felt in some way per persoy invested now in pursuing this further because hart told me face-to-face that there was nothing to the rumors. at that point, i'm thinking he looked me in the eye and lied to me, and i am not going to just let that go right now. >> still in the dark as to the identities of the caller who claimed her friend was spending the weekend with hart in

washington, d.c., he asked the herald's best investigative reporter, jim mcgehee, take a photographer, fly up to the capitol, and stake out hart's townhouse. >> walking down the terminal, there's a very striking young woman who certainly could have been a model headed for the same gate, and she got on the plane, and i went right in behind her. >> he took a taxi to hart's address. >> and i'm standing there, and out the front door of the this house comes this same woman. >> the blond was later identified as miami model, diana rice, a name that would gain instant notoriety. >> with her was a gentleman, to my eye, could have been senator hart, but at that point, it couldn't have been. >> he called me, a woman on the

plane is coming here, and this is the address, but i need you to come up here and see what i'm seeing, and before we really feel comfortable. our plan, such as there was one, was we were just going to watch the townhouse until i would actually have the chance to see senator hart, and at that point, talk with him. >> somewhere around 8:40, i'm walking on the back alley side of senator hart's house, and right in front of me come the same gentleman and this same young woman walking my way. >> hart realized that something was wrong. he grabbed donna rice by the arm and brought her back up into the townhouse, slammed the door, and minute or so later, reemerges, walks down the steps, and gets in the car and starts driving off. and what ensued for several minutes was this sort of crazy

drive around capitol hill. ultimately, senator hart parked his car a block or so away and walked up the alley to go in the back door of his townhouse. >> i went down the alley, and i was startled because this gentleman was standing against the stone wall, and i walk up to him, and i said, excuse me, senator hart, it's jim, i'm a reporter from the "miami he herald", and i would like to talk to you. >> the confrontation i mulled in my mind at that point for many, many hours was about to happen. i said, we're here to ask you some questions. we need to know about the woman who you were with, so that kind of began this very testy exchange. >> i asked him the question, did you have sex with this woman? or words to that effect. he said, we're not going to get into that. he turned to walk away, and at

that point, a photographer took a picture. >> we went directly from there to jim's hotel room. we had the little portable laptops at that point, and i sat down at the laptop and just started writing that story. >> the expose published on that first sunday in may in 1987 just, again -- >> the controversy over gary hart and miami actress. >> gary hart's private life -- >> rumors of womanizing. >> while his wife was in colorado. >> that was the story about sex and power and beautiful women and boats and all the elements that appealed to the tabloid press, and, of course, all the elements that affected a

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>> at campaign headquarters in washington, d.c., staffers called their media contacts, characterizing tom's reporting as faulty and irresponsible. for awhile, the dam would hold. >> for about 36 to 48 hours, it's really possible to believe this is going to blow over. in fact, for day, the hart team is winning. most of the media was reviled by what the herald had done. >> there was a don'ebate, was i reasonable? was it fair? i was sensing it was not journalistically ethical. i felt the rules changing in front of me willie-nillie in front of me as i wrote the stories. i kept thinking, what's going to happen here? >> it's out of hand. there's a thin line of character question and

assassinati assassination. >> they said we wronged this man, and so, clearly, a correction has got to be in order. >> but no correction was forthcoming. not in the new age of endless news. >> they had 24-hour news hole with cable, and talking about the same thing over and over again, but they discovered the audience loved it. >> i'm sorry to offend anyone here, i'm tired and operating on two hours of sleep. >> what people wanted to know, who was this woman, and what was their relationship? they wanted tabloid details as quickly as possible. >> i think in the first day, we did not know the name, but quickly found out who she was. >> okay, guys. please. >> she, too, denied there was anything untowards. yes, they spent the day together, they were old pals. nothing of a sexual nature whatsoever. >> in new york, just two days

after tom's story broke, an embattled gary hart read the riot act to the newspaper publisher's association. >> last weekend, a newspaper published a misleading and false story that hurt my family and other innocent people and reflected badly on my character. >> putting forth the notion it's a conspiracy. there was at no time did we spend the woman involved and i spend an evening together, a night together as was suggested. he did not make any discussion of his own contribution, he said he always held himself to the highest standard of personal and public morale and gave a lecture about that. >> i would just hope in the future if nanyone has me under surveillance, they have me completely under surveillance. >> i thought, boy, he's put stuff out there that we just need to go after, and that was

my mind set the following day after he has held his first press conference. >> senator hart, mr. hart -- >> that press conference on the campus of dartmouth college would be remembered as the place where the rules of engagement between politics and the press changed forever. >> reminded -- held himself to the highest standard of personal and political morality, does he consider adultery to be immoral? >> do you believe adultery is immoral. >> yes. >> i said, well, have you will committed adultery? >> have you ever committed adultery? >> i have no intentions of answering that question. >> it was a moment of fear in the room. it was a startling thing to do. >> asking a candidate as president, have you committed adultery, meaning we have the right to know about your sex

life. mr. presidential candidate, oh, my god. >> i thought i was going to -- have you cheated on your wife? have you cheated on your husband? whose business is that? >> it was an absolutely appropriate question. this was a breaking story, and my job as a journalist was to find out everything we could about it. >> later that same day, paul taylor got a call from his boss, washington post editor, ben bradley, another woman came up on the radar. to get hart's reaction, taylor out kevin sweeney. >> we got a lot of tips of other women. one in particular we are pursuing because it seems to have some credible evidence behind it. hart says to his press secretary, kevin sweeney, this is never going to end, is it? he says, coldly, you'd know better than i, senator.

hart says, let's go home, let's just go home. >> former senator gary hart is expected to appear momentarily at a denver hotel room where he is expected to withdraw from the presidential race. there's hart, and lee. >> under the circumstances, this campai campaign cannot go on. i refuse to submit family and friends and innocent people and myself to further rumors and goss gossip. it's simply an intolerable situation. >> less than a week after the story broke, tom watched what his reporting had brought. >> the news room outside the office was watching it on the tvs there, and -- i'm sorry -- i get emotional -- the news room

broke into applause. i was feeling quite devastated, i think, that this was the result. i didn't have any second thoughts about whether we had done the right thing, but i think i realized then that the stakes involved, you play at that level, it's serious, and it's not something that you cheer about at the end. it's not -- sorry.

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previously declined. >> did you have an affair with mrs. rice? >> mr. cupple, if in the 29 years of marriage including two public separations, have i been totally and faithful to my wife? i regret to say the answer is no. >> his motivation was to put this whole thing behind him. >> but i also am never going to answer any specific questions about any individual. >> what he was looking for was a clean slate to go out and run for president again. >> there has been a drawed make development in the 1988 presidential campaign. gary hart is getting back in. >> three months after admitting his infidelity, gary hart with wife lee at his side, surprised the nation by throwing his hat back in the ring. >> getting back in this race is about the toughest thing that i have ever done. we trust the fairness of the american people.

and we are prepared to let you decide. >> that march he failed to win a single delegate on super tuesday. >> gary hart went from being, you know, an icon of democratic politics to being a joke. >> three days later on march 11th, 1988, with his presidential dreams dashed, gary hart stepped back from politics for good. >> the people are the strength of this country. i said i wanted them to decide about my candidacy. i got a fair hearing, and the people have decided. and now i clearly should not go forward. >> was he the victim of some considerable hypocrisy? yes. did he bring it on himself? yes.

there was no doubt that gary hart's downfall changed the game of politics and the press. the only question left was by how much. >> it was that moment at which we went from being willing accomplices to a politician's indiscretions to being the vultures of their indiscretions who would chew it up, spit it out, chew it up, spin it out until we finally arrived at where we are today. when you have wall-to-wall coverage of every single stupid thing that anyone in authority ever does or says. >> we really did shift our focus away from world views and ideas. and toward this hunt for character flaw. it's about predatory journalism that says you're lying about something, and all we have to

figure out is what it is and that will be the end of you. >> as americans have a lot riding on this election, we face big challenges, big problems, big opportunities. >> among the first politicians affected by the new media coverage was arkansas governor bill clinton. shortly before declaring himself a candidate for president in 1988, clinton was pulled aside by an aide. >> betsy wright came to bill clinton right beforehand and gave him a list of women, women he purportedly had affairs with and there were stars or checks next to some names, because these were the ones that might go to press, these were the ones that may cause you trouble and he said, i'm out. >> less than a year later, clinton posed a legal question to none other than veteran political reporter tom feedler. >> his question to me was, is there a statute of limitations on behavior?

which at the time i thought was kind of an interesting question and didn't pay too much mind to it until, of course, a couple years later when we realized that his reference was quite specific. >> in 1992, in the midst of his presidential run, clinton was blindsided by his past. >> bill clinton took his case to the people today saying the woman who claims a love affair is a liar. >> unlike hart, clinton dug in and refused to budge. >> he'll do anything. he will lie with his finger in the face of the american media when he knows he's lying. and he will lie under oath. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman. >> and he will do or say whatever he has to do to get around that other obstacle and get to the governing part. >> but few politicians could match clinton's prowess with a media bent on the hunt. and the body count of ruined political careers mounted well

into the new millenium. with one noted exception. >> when you're a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. >> whatever you want. >> grab them by the [ bleep ]. >> people were saying, how can he not drop out? this is awful, he'll never get elected. but he didn't drop out and he did get elected. >> i donald j. trump do solemnly swear -- >> we are living in this world with whatever boundary is left is being tested. and it seems as if the new rule that's emerged sort of a generation later after all this is that you can survive maybe anything as long as you don't quit. after his fall in '88, gary hart returned home to a private life in colorado where he practiced law and wrote books.

in 1998, he agreed to co-chair the u.s. commission on national security 21st century. an in early 2001, he announced the commission's chilling finding. >> we have called attention to the fact that americans could die for the first time on our soil since 1812 by hostile attack. >> he issued a very strong warning to america about terrorism coming to our shores. he laid it out. nine months before 9/11. >> he predicted there would be a terrorist attack. the airplanes, in particular. it was extremely precedent of him. he realized he saw it coming. >> he raised a big flag, but people weren't paying attention to it. >> now 81, gary hart and his wife lee, are approaching their 60th anniversary.

he remains fully engaged in world affairs. his list of accomplishments is long and distinguished. but just one item, the one that might have been, is missing. >> he's expressed to me that his greatest regrets about the whole thing are, one, how he hurt his family, and two, how he let down various supporters and people who, you know, believed in his cause. i imagine he thinks about it every day. >> i think he would have made a very good president. gary hart's misfortune was that he fell right into that crack of time when morality and the perception of morality began to change. >> it's tragic when you think of a man who had enormous potential, who was a very bright

man, and yet threw it all away. gary hart is a tragic story. > she was the love of my life. katie and i had a very special bond. >> she was a very kind person. >> then she vanished. >> i call the police. something is wrong. >> something was. days passed. then months. no leads no clues. no progress.