his staff said he was hiking the appalachian trail.ight we find out this e-mail coming through just a few minutes ago. the governor's actually hiking the appalachian trail. the governor is said to be, "clearing his head" somewhere along the appalachian trail that stretches from georgia to maine. the governor is hiking the appalachian trail. why would that be such a big secret? a reporter with "the state" newspaper had gotten a tip that mark sanford never went anywhere near the appalachian trail and goes nowhere near argentina, which is actually where he had been. what could compel a sitting governor to up and leave his state all the way to argentina without any kind of notice at all? the answer could only come from mark sanford himself. so the bottom line is this. i, um... i've been unfaithful to my wife. i developed, um, a relationship with a dear, dear friend. savage: turned out he was a man in love. his cover is now blown. mark sanford was not, after all, hiking by himself on the appalachian trail. hiking the appalachian trail, whic

perfection of the past and start building a new story, even if it took him a long walk along the appalachian trail to get there. [birds chirping] ♪ tapper: being from philadelphia, i have an inherent distrust of anything that comes from new jersey. although i do acknowledge that the garden state punches way above its weight when it comes to political scandals. [indistinct conversations] in 2004, the democratic governor of new jersey, jim mcgreevey, stepped into a press room just like this and became an overnight sensation when he admitted to a gay affair and resigned in the same speech. a governor coming out of the closet was genuinely shocking, a career-killer at that time. looking back, though, i can't help but feel that we were also quick to embrace the headline that we may have forgotten to dig a little deeper, because the reason why jim mcgreevey resigned is a lot more complicated than we remember. ♪ ah, new jersey-- america's communal jacuzzi, or cesspool, depending on who you ask. [glass shatters] a land with its own unique culture and customs and a political landscape than can be rather...