the state newspaper, that reporter, gina smith now the lead political reporter for "the island packets great to see you. don't you wish you were in south carolina where you could cover the story for back in your home state? >> there's never a shortage of political news in the palmetto state. for folks not familiar for this, recount that moment for us when governor sanford stepped off that plane in 2009 and saw gina smith standing there waiting for him. >> i got really, really lucky. basically, we had reason to believe that the governor was not anywhere near the appalachian trail. that he, indeed, was in argentina with a woman who was not his wife and we figured out which flight he would be on and i was standing there around 6:00 a.m. in the morning and he was part of the crowd that came up and was headed toward baggage claim, and i walk up to him and i said, governor, it's gina, where have you been? we all thought you'd been hiking the appalachian trail and at first he seemed very calm, very cool and collected and we sat down and had a conversation about why he had been in argentina.