because it seemed to have some credible evidence behind it. >> and hart says to his press secretary, kevin sweeneyis 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 expected to appear momentarily at a denver hotel room where he is expected to withdraw from the presidential race. >> in the room, tom. he's coming in. >> there's lee hart and gary hart. >> clearly under present circumstances, this campaign cannot go on. i refuse to submit my family and friends and innocent people and myself to further rumors and gossip. it's simply an intolerable situation. >> less than a week after his story broke in the miami herald, tom fiedler watched what his reporting had wrought. >> the news room outside the executive editor's office, they were watching it on the tv there. sorry, i get emotional in this moment here. the news room broke into applause. i was feeling quite devastated, i think, that this -- you know, that this was the result. i didn't have any second thoughts about wh