his name was gary hart. a couple years out from that race, 1986, really the start of the campaigning season, "washington post" started polling on the 1988 race. quote, early polls show it's hart and bush for '88. a public opinion poll shows gary hart and vice president bush running neck and neck at the head of a pack of would-be contenders. hart and bush were shown significantly ahead of rivals for their 1988 party nominations. in a race between the two, hart leads bush, 47%-46%. here's the a.p. that year. gary hart generally perceived as the early democratic front-runner for 1988. here is upi that year. hart, quote, the current front-runner for the nomination. here is the "miami herald" that year during a big profile on gary hart. quote, gary hart, the democratic front-runner for 1988. now you know how this story ends, right? the democrats didn't run gary hart against george bush in 1988. they ran michael dukakis instead. and dukakis lost, and george h.w. bush became president, and it's fun/maddening to pla

was it really gary hart?it for him? the idea of the lies and this has become more in recent yea rs. and this has become more in recent years. what made it such a good story was that he had the quote in the near times in which he said the press should just follow me around and that could happen to come out the same day as this article from the same day as this article from the miami herald with people who had sta ked the miami herald with people who had staked out his apartment and seen the young women go inside. they have forever been linked. this is how we remember things, we remember them are stories of exactly how they happened. it happened in less than a week. i don't think enough time was thinking, what are we doing right now? heard someone's private and public alike start? this hugh jackman playing gary hart. in the states, your film opens jackman playing gary hart. in the states, yourfilm opens in cinemas on the day that people go to the polls for the mid—term elections in just a few weeks' time. is th

[applause] . >> i worked on the gary hart campaign with 270 electoral votes but you would think after mcgovern in 72 and 84 the cuomo of new york northern liberals could have gotten 270 votes? because clinton only did it arguably because perot sabotage sabotaged. >> [laughter] think you. i hear this all the time. who knows? i take the point we don't know if cuomo could have one. maybe he was a disaster as a candidate. what you saw in 1982 george w. bush approval rating was in the thirties the unemployment rate was climbing all year. a traumatic moment a big decline from where it had been there was a number of scandals a strong sense that washington was broken but he cannot manage the economy. two, the republican side because of the fracturing of the republican party. and michigan in pennsylvania and i can do an hour. but on ross perot i would say and to say that ross perot cost the election but to me was a symptom of george h.w. bush's cause. . >> and then to fall from the thirties to the forties. dropping out of the race for a ten week stretch from the middle of july to the end of se

hugh jackman plays gary hart, does an incredible job, we caught up with him and he told me what surprisedu most about this story? you like myself leaped through it. >> i feel like i have a sensible idea what it must be like but if you are watching on tv and watch how closely i really thought, surely there are advisors it is happening so fast, there is chaos and this movie captures that. really surprised me. he realize it is a bunch of humans making mistakes as they go and fumbling along as they go. >> a very different role for hugh jackman. one of his finest performances of his career. it opens up in theaters in november. definitely a must see. there is a lot. >> it has been a great season at the box office. >> i like that. >> what did you think? >> that schedule. >> appreciate it. the cavanagh confirmation circus hits startling new low after congressional intern is caught and charged with endangering republicans lives. >> you don't know what dangerous people are out there and the american people are starting to see how terrible and dangerous this has become. >> the serious charges he is

hugh jackman plays the part of gary hart and he was amazing.e we were tailing him and chasing him down this alley and he's like the nicest guy ever but he's a big guy like 6'4" and he's ripped. we went down the alley. his character is mad at our character and turned around and looked at us and for half a second, i was like, oh, [ bleep ], that's wolverine and i literally -- i legit got scared and he's a big guy, you know. so -- what's funny in the scene is as the reporter i have like a notebook and i dropped it and after the screening we went to the toronto film festival and all these actors are coming up to me. i love the choice you made. i love the choice you made to drop the notebook. i was like, no, dude, that was real. he didn't turn around. he was just standing there. we came flying out of the alley. he was full on wolverine except the knives coming out. that takes me back to the days. >> jimmy: i think it's acting. makes no difference whether you're faking it or real. great to see you. congratulations on the movie. it's called "the front

." >> my name's gary hart and i'm running for president. >> hugh plays the real life former senator.residential campaign was torpedoed by this photo with model donna rice, who was not his wife. >> the intrusion that you see in this story which is the beginning of that is probably ten times now. >> earlier this year the aussie star and his wife debra climbed the iconic sidney harbor bridge. some 440 feet over the water. that's something i plan to do when i'm covering harry and meghan at australia's upcoming invictus games. >> it's fun. yeah, just do it. but don't do it like we used to do when we were young which was illegally going up. >> listen, it's a long way up and a long way down. hugh's new movie "the front runner" opens november 6th. >> the best selling r&b group of all time boyz ii men burst on to the scene in 1991. the band is still going strong today. now nathan morris is doing something different in his new tv series and brook is with him. >> this is nathan morris from boyz ii men for 25 years i've been a singer, but now i got a new gig, real estate. >> where did the love f

his paintings are photo realistic yet alien much like those by the successful contemporary artist gary hartwho struck his aunt was killed by the nazis while his father in law was a nazi gun ecologist who carried out the forced sterilization of women. ones i. believe in fun elements from get out of if there's life became the starting point for this film. but then i created my own path and story from there. because i find fiction somehow becomes more real and true when it isn't tethered to pure facts and real life events. and thoughts of. a noble ambition but don't as mark wanted to much he squeezed decades of german history and love story and art theory into a three hour film. the results doesn't quite add up despite many strong scenes and strong performances. that sent from a twenty one this week before we go if you're in berlin be sure to drop by the. video installation at the hamburger bahnhof gallery the artist won the national gallery prize last october our work is poetic hypnotic for provoking definitely worth saying join us next week for more arts and culture until then good bye and t

and gary hart alfonse is here now with another controversy this one in saudi arabia where a bad investor conference has just gotten underway that's true in the conference has been plagued by a series of high profile cancellations all cancelled over the presumed murder of the journalist a mark of. u.s. treasury secretary stephen minuit in and i.m.f. . chief christine lagarde have both canceled their planned attendance so as a joke as a c.e.o. of the german industrial john john simmons he has pulled out as well albeit only reluctantly. seaman c.e.o. decided to pull out of that conference only after criticism is growing louder especially from politics a little earlier i must. go he's a member of parliament for the business friendly f.t.p. and liberal party and i asked him if business should be voting itself with more also strictly stick to making money. specially be ensuring many. want to be new what it means if politics as it to extreme affiliation business and business respectively business politics i do not believe in milton friedman same the business of business is doing business busine

because gary hart quite frankly investors are spoiled and they have been spoiled especially by fang sharesof the shares of facebook amazon netflix and google these huge tech companies that have really only seen one way and that was up up up up sort of following investors into this kind of sleepy mode autopilot mode maybe because they were driving for the last for the last two years this bull market you know they're pushing pushing up and pushing up and so expectations were really high or are really high and also they've been very reliable with their results so now that results aren't what people expected it will suddenly woke up and got scared of course and now they're starting to hear these voices in the back of there hasn't been there before that say well maybe the companies have been overvalued we read there's even a bubble comparable to the dot com bubble because it's all. lots of background noise so far but it is driving investors out. paul briefly if you can see lots of stocks crash off the earnings reports not just the big tech but is that with pot that. there is and it is not the l

is one that you can't be chancellor without being leader of your party she was very critical of gary hart schroeder who is her predecessor as chancellor when he did essentially what she's doing now for the last six months of his chancellorship he wasn't the chairman of the party she said you can't be one without the other essentially because if you are a chancellor without being head of the party you're essentially a well chancellor at the behest of that party and whoever is in charge of the party and that's where things could get interesting because there are two types of candidates that could potentially take over from angela merkel there are the center wrists which is very much the same tack which mrs merkel has kept the party on or put the party on and kept it there during her tenure and then there's also those more conservative voices those to the right of angular merkel c.d.u. party that say that her policies have taken them closer to that of the social democrats and that that's why they've hemorrhaged votes to alternative for germany that they want to get the real conservative voic

well gary hart is here we're talking also about something that is falling credit rating as you can see dressing agency moody's has italy's credit rating by one not over concerns about rome's plans for larger deficits and the already high public debt load one hundred percent of g.d.p. italy has the highest national debt in the eurozone after greece rome says it's ready to discuss its budget with the european commission after clashing with the bloc last week over its plans to increase borrowing one underlying concern is italy's shaky banking sector which has only just recovered from the financial crisis but now italian banks are being blackmailed by the new populist government into financing their expensive election promises italy's banks are in trouble again. just as they were getting over the last crisis a mountain of debt is shrinking cash reserves were growing and bottom lines were beginning to shine in march this year italy's top twelve banks had a market capitalization of one hundred thirty billion euros but since dropped to ninety five billion a fall of over a quarter and they con

and now gary hart is here and asian markets still jittery over trade fairs that's right a true route has actually hit asian stocks the nikkei two to five slumped three point six percent tokyo saying and hong kong fell two point one percent after a major sell off on wall street on wednesday asian markets are now on track for the worst months since the global financial crisis from the u.s. companies are stoking fears of a global economic slowdown also geopolitical uncertainty has rattled investors who have already had to put up with it i'm going traits between washington and beijing right now seeking safe havens for the money. let's see what's happening on european markets and check in with paul because fritz at the front was talking strains. european investors are equally spooked. well garrett i have to say first personally as a market watcher i'm getting quite excited about this week because first such a long time there's been talk about how there's too much money in the market but still investors are playing this wait and see game and now risk involved silty are back things are movi

all right gary hart is here with us now on a possible case of espionage guard in the form of computer hardware that's right sumi the bloomberg financial news agency has reported that chinese spies installed hardware back doors into many service of some u.s. tech giants tiny chips produced. alleged to have spied on the cloud service of. the us government may have known about it since twenty fifteen should the tale prove to be true it could be the greatest unveiling of text spying since edward snowden. was in are strongly deny the allegations. according to us magazine bloomberg business week apple and amazon discovered minute spying chips in the service back in two thousand and fifteen these chips were allegedly added to motherboards by chinese supply is they allowed back door access to company's service the report says a special department of the chinese people's liberation army is behind the hack what's new is that instead of using manipulation software they've attacked the hardware directly a software solution can easily be fixed with a patch so i mean if you look at what kind of lik

but first gary hart is here with the latest german employment figures his unemployment rate fell below five percent in october it's lowest level of unemployment ever recorded since reunification only two point two million people are without a job the continued to show a downward trend despite the headwinds in the global economy. bust economy has helped push germany's joblessness rate down for the first time since the one nine hundred ninety unemployment has fallen below five percent. the unemployment rate has fallen from five point eight percent in general to four point nine percent in october that is the lowest rate recorded since germany reunified in one thousand nine hundred ninety. the trade dispute between washington and brussels doesn't appear to have had an adverse effect on the german job market and neither has the us china trades but the recent turbulence in the market has strengthened the dollar over the euro that means that german products have become cheaper abroad also record unemployment has helped boost consumer confidence and household spending in europe's biggest econo

it will be a hectic award with political movies, i said i'm with you jacqueline who plays senator gary hartt runner about that scandal, fantastic movie. vice is written and directed by adam mckay who did the big short which was a big hit two years ago. can't wait to see it. maria: a lot of films i getting people back to the movie theaters. if you get me into a movie theater -- >> good movies. everything hitting on all cylinders for hollywood this year, they are up 9%, some are up 11% but the thing is it is not just the ticket prices. attendance is up too. maria: people watching movies again. have a great weekend. i will bring it to you monday. still ahead, the songbirds in minnesota are slamming into windows because apparently they are drunk. why? we will tell you why, you have got to see this on "mornings with maria". ♪ everyone is working hard on the weekend ♪ everybody is a new york man ♪ can i get some help. watch his head. ♪ i'm so happy. ♪ whatever they went through, they went through together. welcome guys. life well planned. see what a raymond james financial advisor can do for you.

it is clear in hindsight that there were a lot of concerns with the gary hart scandal.e had just been pushed out of the democratic race. bill clinton had to sit out 1988. michael dukakis asked bill clinton to give a speech at the convention. clinton, this is his chance to be mario cuomo. he was given an equally powerful spot. they overstocked the speech. they put every thought they had never had into it. in the middle of the speech, he is going on and on. the broadcast networks pull away from the speech. he gets to this line toward the end of the speech where he says, in closing. the whole hall breaks out into sarcastic applause. ,linton is looking at it like you needed a certain -- he needed to be taken seriously by the national media. he was very worried. the johnny carson appearance was a chance to show he can take a joke. he can laugh at himself. up inears later, he shows 1992 as the nominee. are, ist words he gives came here to finish that speech i started four years earlier. host: what was your big take away in researching this book? guest: there was a certain amo