when gary hart dared reporters got messedim and around with "monkey business," a boat that he took a weekend on, politicians realized their private lives were fair game. it is not just the reporters. the managers, the executive producers, the management of ,etwork television news decided yeah, we can go after the stories. what do you think the impact is on the population? do they care? >> unfortunately. i think the general viewing audience love stories like that. and like to see the high mighty, when they become hypocritical, take a fall. figurese to see public on a pedestal. gossipy and see personal, coverage of men and women as men and women and their personal lives. the public has an appetite for that and it has spawned news-l hardcopy, sli, mecopy, the ones that look like newscasts. it has lower the common denominator. >> what has happened since you have been reporting over the years? >> i love twitter and the immediacy of social media. it does not all pan out as a positive for us. to be able to write in 140 characters is an art. it is done quickly. it still has lasting power bec

. >> o'malley's political career began when he worked on the 1984 presidential campaign of gary hart. he then worked for senator barbara mikulski and later moved to baltimore where he became a city council member and eventually the white mayor of the predominantly african-american city. he focused on reducing overall crime rates in struggling neighborhoods. in 2006 he was elected governor where he raised the minimum wage, legalized medical marijuana, granted in-state college tuition rates to immigrants and enacted gun control laws. >> i think we have too many guns and too much killing. >> reporter: he abolished the state's daept calling it wasteful and ineffective at deterring crime. >> what kind of society do we want to be? >> and in 2012, he signed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage. >> the way forward is always found through great are respect for the equal rights of all. >> but the economy has been bumpy. taxes have risen under o'malley, including a controversial gas tax hike last year. >> a rain tax, a flush tax, higher costs for health care, for being born, for dying, trips, sli

you were not around when gary hart upset walter mondale in every primary.overn knocked off the guy who couldn't be beat. [ all speak at once ] >> it's not -- the threat to hillary clinton from jim webb, if there's going to be one, is not going to be in iowa. it's going to be in new hampshire. because jim webb's profile, as a sort of vaguely libertarian yet conservatively social in some respects, skeptic of military involvement, but an authentic guy with a military background, that's perfect for new hampshire. and new hampshire is the place where it's easy to vote in the other party's primary. part of this is premised on the idea that white conservative men will vote in democratic primaries. the only place to do that, new hampshire and maybe south carolina. >> the hillary people, run of the runners, putting the word out he's nuts. are they going to keep that up? >> i don't agree with the plemis of the article in the "new york times." i think jim webb pushing hillary to the left would be great for her in the primary. >> absolutely. >> but it isn't clear. the

gary hard, fueled paul tsongas. you could see, this could end up breaking down in the same way we saw gore/bradley, mondale/hart, perhapson. m mondale had something going for him when he had progressive whites. >>> we are back. the political earthquake inside the >>> we are back to the political earthquake inside the party. he is running until he says he is not. before, he was thinking about it but we all assumed he wasn't. he is in. you are from bush world. is bush world excited about this? >> they are so excited. one of the operatives told me there was a palpable cheer outside in the bull pen when that came across the transunm. all of us close to the bush family saw our inbox line up. financially, he would dominate raising money in texas, florida, maybe even wall street. one of the reasons i wanted you on, representing the wing of the party. that is going, wait a minute. no more establishment. no more bushes. >> he is already showing bell inge rans toward the base. how much you need the base to turn out. >> here is the thing, chuck. all you have to do is look at the florida press core that covered jeb bush when he was