zuckerberg is saying i'm going after leakers an firing them. those are two different marks. >> absolutely. two different people. and mark is hopefully the way tech is going to talk going forward. that's it for this edition of "revolution." thanks for joining us. have a great night. ion. thanks for joining us. have a great night for weeks now, we have 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? and gary hart showed tremendous shame. >> gary hart believed the press would never dare report on someone's private life. and it is a bet he lost. >> i see an america too young to quit. >> hart is about as close to a lock to the democratic nomination that you're going to

get. >> he really believed that he could go all the way. >> it is a issue of recapturing our basic principles and beliefs and values. >> everybody knows he plays around. >> very much. >> the miami herald story was the journalistic political equivalent of an a-bomb. >> a story about sex and power. >> who is this woman and what is your relationship with her? >> i do not -- >> he went from being an icon to being a joke. >> >> america in the late 1970s was still emerge forecast 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-watergate. we were post-vietnam. the public had become deeply skeptical of its leaders. >> there was a great deal of questions about character and trust in character. look at what nix-shown us. lyndon johnson had shown us. incessant lying about vietnam. and then followed by watergate took a toll on the country. we were a more cynical country. >> out of a fog of mistrust emerged a brave new voice. >> our public servants have to be charged with a higher duty than merely staying out of jail. they must attempt, as much as humanly possible, to 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 hart.

they were willing to sacrifice for him and the greater good. >> gary hart started his climb in 1971. when senator george mcgovern tapped the 34-year-old yale lawyer to run his presidential campaign against incumbent richard nixon. >> he represented a new generation of hip, smart, and ambitious young democrats. he was going to go out and upset the conventional rules. he was a guerrilla fighter in a way. >> we have the votes from california. we want that challenge to be brought up tonight. we are prepared to stay here all night to get it brought up. >> even though mcgovern didn't win, it 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 but it was gary who radiated a certain quality not seen on the national political stake since john kennedy. >> he was very good looking and had sort of a chiselled face. and he had an anti-washington aura about him. he was from colorado. so there was this kind of cowboy mystique. he was a hot shot. >> women just swooned over him. and he returned the favor. i mean he looked at them lustingly. >> he is hanging out with all of the cool journalists and all of the cool -- he gets to know warren beatty really well who led legendary has the most sex appeal of any in his generation. >> and invited him to his pool where there were topless starlets and gary hart must have

thought he had fallen into nirvana. >> as hart gained national attention, sally quinn, in a 1972 "washington post" profile, revealed that the hot new political operative had a less than enlightened view of women in the workplace. >> there was this moment where i did ask him why there weren't any more women on mcgovern's staff and he said, well, you know, they just aren't as good as men. i mean anybody said that today, they would be fired. >> in 1974, with the nation reeling from the water gate scandal, hart ran for the united states senate, winning easily with 57% of the vote. >> hart understands when it comes to washington, as a newly-elected senator in 1975, that he will be seen as the long-haired leftist mcgovern-ite campaign mentor and he doesn't want that. >> hart soon landed a much coveted seat on the senate armed

services committee. >> he was serious minded and a good student about the military. made it his specialty, as a matter of fact. >> the nuclear arms issue is a fundamentally new and growing issue. what we are trying to do is address the agenda today and tomorrow and not the agenda of the past. >> he is thinking about coming together of state risk terrorist group, long before people are really talking a lot about terrorism. >> what people saw in gary hart was the emergence of something different, a new kind of democrat. very different from the mayor daly, lyndon johnson, hubert humphrey version of the 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 talked to him and couldn't quite fully understand

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vision. >> by 1984 gary hart was ready to challenge ronald reagan, with high unemployment and the marine barracks targeted in beirut. >> with younger people and people scared of where the democratic party was going and where ronald reagan was taking us, we needed new energy and we needed somebody who could pull things together in a whole different way. >> there was a generational change that was occurring anywhere. and hart was there to be the carrier of the champion for a new generation. >> i'm glad you're all here, because i have an announcement that 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 pollsters, we have no tv ads, we are zero in the poll, let's do

it. >> there was no money coming in. we were existing on fumes. we had a campaign headquarters on capitol hill that used to be a porn warehouse. >> besides bare coffers, hart faced luminaries, john glenn, jesse jackson and former vice president walter mondale. >> we need a president who will make the number one domestic priority of this country to create, in the 1980s, the best education th education -- and training system in the world. >> hart kicked off the campaign with an impressive barj of new policy ideas that ranged across a wide spectrum. >> he said i'm the people's representative. i don't represent the spoke-filled rooms. -- smoke-filled rooms. i don't represent the past. i'm the fure. i'm younger. 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 by demonstrating he was more than just a policy walk with a pretty face. >> he put the red suspenders on and did a little like this, and immediately walked over and picked up an ax. we were like scared to death he was going to kill somebody. >> and he winds up and he throws the ax and bang, he hits the target dead center. and he said it was the luckiest thing he had ever done and it seemed to be the picture for 48 hours and it seemed to be the emblem attic fighting strike for him that everything was going to go his way. >> what do you think is going to happen tomorrow? >> number one. >> a major upset appears to be taking shape in the new hampshire presidential primary. it appears tonight that senator gary 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, here is an alternative to walter mondale. it is one of the biggest upsets in american politics at that point and the contrast, it was so stark, there is less than ten years difference in their age, they look 30 years apart. >> the mondale people responding to their, of the shocking loss, in new hampshire, naturally went on the attack. >> the assault began at a presidential debate in march of 1984. >> let me describe your position. mr. mondale's hopes were quick and decise ive lead in all of t hasn't been fulfilled and i believe i heard him use the word clobbered in a defeat and mr. hart has done well and a man with ideas for the future and

his opponent says that is just tinsel, glam wer no substance. on to the substance, ladies and gentlemen. >> mondale stole a page from hart's new age script by using popular culture to land a telling blow. >> i think that the dedication of the democratic party to minority people in the south and elsewhere shouldn't just be jobs. >> but when i hear, when i hear, when i hear your new ideas, i'm reminded of that ad, where's the beef? >> where's the beef? >> om places give you a lot less beef on a lot of bun. >> where's the beef? >> it 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 echo this ad, and that ad essentially hits this touch point about hart that there is nothing there. >> here is the guy who was offering the most new ideas

across the board in 20, 30 different ways, and spelled them out in books, and articles, and journals and editorials. it was like calling the sun the moon, and getting away with it. >> the attack continued by stoking the 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 minds of the voter. and they did it with some ads that went to the heart of who is this man. >> the idea of an unsure, unsteady, untested hand, is something to really think about. >> do we really know who he is? have we really looked at him? who is gary hart?

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would you be happy to be runner-up? >> not at all. i want to win. >> with the national stature upset by walter mondale, gary hart began to come under more close scrutiny. >> as reporters began to dive into the biography, into the background, they discovered little inconsistencies that on the face of it didn't 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 sort of the gatsby analog for him but there is a gatsby-ish quality about him, he has reinvented himself and he likes to foster a certain air of mystery. >> his signature changed rather dramatically a number of times over the course of his adulthood. >> there was a big fuss about him changing his name.

he fudged his name for some reason. what is implied by a man who changes his name and began to fudge personal details? it is odd. and odd isn't good. >> the democrats have chosen their team, mondale and ferrarro and ready to move on to the main event of the year. >> although hart lost the nomination to mondale, he was greeted with a winner's ovation, at the democratic national convention in san francisco. >> i would like to introduce senator gary hart. >> gary, gary, gary. >> i see an america too young to quit. too courageous to turn back. and an america with unmet dreams that will not die. this is one hart you will not

leave in san francisco. >> he goes to that convention with over a thousand delegates and from that point forward, once walter mondale gets crushed by ronald reagan in the '84 general election, it is there for gary hart. he is the one for the future. >> encouraged by the 1984 primary, hart decided not to seek a third term in the senate and spent the last two years in office preparing for another presidential bid. >> i think he had almost a divine sense that he was the man for the moment. he had a sense of destiny. >> much of america seemed to agree. in the early polls , he led joe biden -- >> and he is about as close to a lock of the democratic nomination as you are going to get and a pretty good bet to win

the presidency. >> i intend to be a candidate for the presidency of the united states in 1988 and i do so for one single reason. and that is because i love my country. >> gary hart starts outdoors in the colorado mountains, to announce, okay, a young man from the mountains is coming. >> he saw symbolically red rocks as a kind of signal to the country he was not going to go into 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 is an issue of recapturing our basic principles and beliefs and values. >> in a clear reference to the iran-contra affair currently racking the white house, with calls for president 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 him 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 his candidacy, the rumors about his personal life went mainstream when a story by howard fineman appeared in "news week" magazine. >> howard interviewed a number of people and he quoted a person anonymously, saying gary hart is going to get this nomination, unless he can't keep his zipper up. >> so 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 and he said no, no, i get it.

>> the question of your marital fidelity. legitimate? >> i guess so. but there's no more question there where i'm concerned than anyone else. >> i think he just said, listen, eisenhower did this, lyndon johnson did this, roosevelt did this, jack kennedy did this, it may hit me enough but it won't be enough to ruin my chances. >> if you look at jack kennedy, most people knew that he was having affairs all the time. but it just wasn't written. and so i think that gary was operating on the theory that that was the way things were. and that would hold. that he could basically do what he wanted to do. and nobody would write about it. >> gary hart did not recognize that there were now women on the

campaign planes, and reporting, and that that whole kind of male secrecy bond that extended from jfk to ben bradley, to the "washington post," to many other politicians, was broken by women reporters. >> the nature of the washington press corps 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 e.j. deon of tooims. >> -- tooims. >> i asked him a general question and was specific enough and then that's when he came around with follow me around you'll be bored line and a very clear signal, at least for the duration of the campaign, he was going to lead a traditional married life. >> thanks very much.

how are ya'll 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 feedler of the miami herald objected to the sketchy reporting in a column published in 1987. >> my 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 unsubstantiated claim. >> on the same day the column appeared, he got a call in his office. >> the phone rang. i picked it up. and it was a woman on the other end. didn't identify herself. she said did you write that column in the paper this morning. about gary hart. and i said yes, i did.

and she essentially said, well, you're an idiot. that gary hart is having an affair with one of my best friends. and she also told me that senator hart had gone off on a boat trip to biminy with her friend. >> the biminy was an overnighter on a yacht called monkey business. >> i was beginning to think that well, there are some things here that perhaps i can actually trace. >> he pushed the caller for more tangible information. >> i said why should i trust anything you're telling me if you don't give me your name and other ways that i can essentially verify what you're telling me and she said i know how you can meet my friend, she is going to washington, d.c. this weekend, and she is going to fly up on friday, to spend the weekend with senator hart at

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. the death toll sup to 79 in california in the deadliest wildfire in state history. firefighters are still searching for victims in the ashes. nearly 1300 people remain unaccounted for. >> and in florida, democratic bill nelson concedes the race to scott. and it shows that he was trailing by 10,000 votes out of 8 million. now back to "this happened." faced with potentially explosive allegations about gary hart, political reporter tom fiedler stood at a cross roads. should he honor the old rule that says a politician's private

life is sacrosanct or run down the anonymous tip? >> i felt in some way personally invested now in pursuing this further. because hart told me face to face that there was nothing to these rumors and 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 and the mysterious woman she claimed would spend the weekend with hart in washington, d.c., feedler asked the herald's best investigative reporter, jim mcgee, to take a photographer, fly up to the capitol, and stake out hart's townhouse. >> as i'm walking down the terminal, there is this 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. >> mcgee took a taxi to hart's address. >> and i'm standing there, and out the front door of this house comes this same woman. >> the blond was later identified as miami model donna rice. a name that would gain instantaneously notoriety. >> with her was a gentleman who, to my eye, could have been senator hart, but at that point, i had never met hart. >> jim calls me and he said a woman that was on the plane has come 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 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. and he grabbed donna rice by the arm, and brought her back up into the townhouse, slammed the door, and a minute or so later, he re-emerges and walks down the steps and gets in his 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, my name is jim mcgee i'm a reporter from the miami herald and i would like to talk to you. >> the confrontation that i had been mulling in my mind at that point for many, many, many hours, was about to happen. >> i said there, we're here to ask you some questions, we need to know about the woman who you are 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. and 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 mcgee's hotel room, and we had the little portable laptops at that point and i sat

down at the laptop and just literally started writing that story. >> the expose that feedler and others from the herald published in that first sunday in may 1987 just -- >> the controversy over gary hart and a miami actress -- >> gary hart's private life. >> rumors of womanizing. >> his relationship with a miami woman while his wife was in colorado. >> it was the story about sex and power and beautiful women and boats and all of the elements that i think would have appealed to both the tabloid press and of course all of the elements that affected a presidential campaign, the front-runner in a campaign. >> shaken and unsure of his future, hart confided his feelings to a top campaign staffer. >> i remember we were talking and he said this is the worst day of my life and i'm thinking,

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characterizing tom feedler's reporting as faulty and irresponsible. for a while, the dam would hold. >> for about 36 to 48 hours, it is possible to believe that this is going to blow over and in fact, for days the hart team is winning. most of the media was revialed by what the herald was done. >> there was a big debate over the miami herald story, was it reasonable, was it fair, i was not convinced that it was journalistcally ethical. >> i sensed that the rules were being changed willy-nilly right around me as i was sitting at the computer righting these stories. >> there is a thin line between character questions and character assassinations. >> and of course they denigrated the whole thing, that we were slimy about this and you have

wronged this man and so clearly a correction has got to be in order. >> no correction was coming. not in the new age of endless news. >> cable news had to fill a 24 hour news hole and they did it by talking about the same thing over and over again. >> and they discovered what the audience loved. >> i am operating on two hours of sleep. >> what people wanted to know is who is this woman and what was their relationship? they wanted the tabloid details as filthily as possible. >> i think the first day, we didn't know her name but we quickly found out who she was. >> okay, guys. please. >> she too denied that there was anything untoward. yes, they had spent the day together. they were old pals. nothing of a sexual nature whatsoever. >> in new york, just two days after tom feedler's story broke, an embattled gary hart read the riot act to the american

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. >> he put forth the notion that this is 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 to the mess he was in. he said he had always held himself to the highest standards of both personal and public morale and gave a little lecture about that. >> i would just hope in the future, if anyone has me under surveillance, they have me completely under surveillance. >> i said boy, he has put some stuff out there that we just need to go after. and that was my mind set the following day when he held the first press conference. >> senator hart --

>> that press conference, on the campus of dartmouth college, would be remembered as the place where the rules of engamts between politics and the press -- engagement between politics and the press changed forever. >> he always said he held himself to the highest standard of personal and political morality, does he consider adultery to be immoral. >> do you believe that adultery is immoral. >> yes. >> i said have you ever committed adultery. >> you have ever committed adultery? >> i do not have to answer that question. >> it was a moment that sucked the air out of the room. it was simply a start ling thing to do. >> asking a candidate for president, have you ever committed adultery, which means, we have the right to know about your sex life. mr. presidential candidate. oh, my god. >> i thought it was i don't know appropriate. >> have you ever cheated on your

wife? have you ever 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" executive editor ben bradley. another woman had come up on the radar. to get hart's reaction, taylor sought out campaign press secretary kevin sweeney. >> we were getting a lot of tips about other women. one in particular that we are pursuing because it seems to have some credible evidence behind it. >> and hart says to his press secretary, kevin sweeney, this is never going to end, is it? and sweeney rather coldly says, you would know better than i, senator. and hart says let's go home. let's just go home. >> former senator gary hart is

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senator, we're not talking about having men and women for friends, we're talking about impropriety. >> on september 8, 1987, four months after dropping out of the presidential race gary hart went

before the nation to answer the question he had previously declined. >> did you have an affair? >> if the question is in the 29 years of my marriage including two public separations have i been absolutely and totally faithful to my wife i regret to say the answer is no. >> he is motive was he had to put the dona rice 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 dramatic development in the 1988 presidential campaign. gary hart is getting back in. >> three months after admitting his infidelity gary hart with life 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 constantly 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.

this is a jagged little puzzle of a story. here's some of the pieces. a bitter race for the white house. a candidate who would do anything to win. maybe even conspire with a foreign government. a secret campaign meeting in an iconic tower on new york's fifth avenue. and in this case, a woman, a mysterious woman who may have tipped the scales at a time