how did you end up with a sex tape of john edwards and rielle hunter? hat cheri young, andrew's wife, found in a pile of things that rielle had left behind in a house they had rented for her, and they kept it as a kind of an insurance. you did, though, at one point, consider selling it. when somebody comes up to you and says, you know, "here's millions of dollars. will you sell it?" you know, i'd be lying if i didn't say, "hmm." but did we ever seriously consider selling it? of course not. it was a crazy, juicy trial for something about finance. there's no question that i've done wrong, and i take full responsibility for having done wrong. and i will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that i've caused to others, but i did not break the law. they ended up deliberating for nine days, and it was like, is the train gonna crash? here's why you should switch fo to duckduckgo on all your devie duckduckgo comes with a built-n engine like google, but it's pi and doesn't spy on your searchs and duckduckgo lets you browse like chrome, but it block

he was who he was for rielle hunter, who he was for elizabeth edwards, and then it was who he was for the american public. and that's the paradox inherent to politics by design. individual human beings have to be the vessels for all our lofty ideals, and yet to this day, we keep on investing and believing in these candidates for higher office, hoping, praying that they do not break our hearts, because maybe, just maybe, this one is different. i do think a lot of his campaign staffers were diehard believe-in-the-cause fans, and a lot of them do work in the white house right now. that's his legacy, and i think that puts a nice bow on a story that is a big ol' mess. ♪ tapper: in 2009, south carolina governor mark sanford was a republican rock star. his reputation as a budget-slashing deficit hawk family man had the gop betting on him to beat obama in 2012 until he became a missing person. the search for sanford threw his office into chaos and turned up a secret love affair and a bizarre set of lies that coined the phrase "to hike the appalachian trail." but it also revealed something dee

he was who he was for rielle hunter, who he was for elizabeth edwards, and then it was who he was for the american public. and that's the paradox inherent to politics by design. individual human beings have to be the vessels for all our lofty ideals, and yet to this day, we keep on investing and believing in these candidates for higher office, hoping, praying that they do not break our hearts, because maybe, just maybe, this one is different. i do think a lot of his campaign staffers were diehard believe-in-the-cause fans, and a lot of them do work in the white house right now. that's his legacy, and i think that puts a nice bow on a story that is a big ol' mess. >> oh mess >> every day in every state across the country our political system is bankrolled by an army of fundraisers pulling in millions of dollars a race sometimes it looks like you might imagine knocking on doors, calling every name in the phonebook, and emails, so many emails. >> but >> for all those little fish drawing $100 to their local race, it's the whales, those campaign fundraisers really need powerful and rich in

i mean, you just on its face, you learn their perspective the perspective of rielle hunter, john edwards, girlfriend what was going through her mind and her she said she didn't even want him to run for president. she was the only person who was like du didn't want him to run for president. also, it was very interesting getting the inside look at that when john edwards admitted the affair but denied paternity of their daughter. >> i feel >> like that's the moment issues like we're not in love. >> yeah. >> that was that she fell in love with him that moment. my interpretation, not hers. i mean, you can understand why that might happen. >> there >> human dramas. i mean, we try to glean a little wisdom analysis intellect out of them, but they are human dramas. they are what shakespeare would be writing. were he alive today and they're fascinating and they do tell us something about ourselves as a voting public, and also how we have evolved as a country. >> yeah, i mean, look, i have to say when i think about how to cover politics, how to do this job day in and day out. the one thing i always