tom fiedler of the "miami herald" objected to the reporting. >> my column was essentially saying thiss not good journalism. this is troublesome when we are focussing so much of our attention on what is an unsubstantiated claim. >> the same day the column appeared he got a call in his office. >> the phone rang. i picked it up. it was a woman on the other end. she didn't identify herself. she asked, did you write that column in the paper this morning about gary hart? i said, yes i did. she essentially said, you're an idiot. that gary hart is having an affair with one of my best friends. she also told me that senator hart had gone off on a boat trip to bimini with her friend. >> the bimini trip was an overnighter on a yacht called monkey business. >> i was beginning to think there's some things here that i can actually trace. >> fiedler pushed the caller for more tangible information. >> i said, why should i trust what you're telling me if you won't give me your name or other ways to verify what you're telling me? she said, i know how you can meet my friend. she's going to washington d.c

tom fiedler of the "miami herald" objected to the reporting. >> my journal said this is troublesome whenare focussing so much of our attention on what is an unsubstantiated claim. >> the same day the column appeared he got a call in his office. >> i got a call from a young woman on the other end, she didn't identify herself. she said did you write that paper today about gary hart? i said, yes i did. she essentially said, you're an idiot. that gary hart is having an affair with one of my best friends. she also told me that senator hart had gone off on a boat trip with her friend. >> the boat trip was an overnighter on a yacht called monkey business. >> i was beginning to think there's some things here that i can actually trace. >> fiedler pushed the caller for more information. >> i said, why should i trust what you're telling me if you won't give me your name or other ways to verify what you're telling me? she said, i know how you can meet my friend. she's going to washington d.c. this weekend, and she's going to fly up on friday to spend the weekend with senator hart at his townhouse in

. >>> faced with potentially explosive allegations about gary hart, political reporter tom fiedler stoodt a cross road. should he honor the old rood that said a politician's private life is sack crow sank or should he run down the lead? >> i felt in some way personally invested now in pursuing this further, because hart told me, face to face, that there was nothing to these rumors. and at that point i'm thinking he looked me in the eye and lied to me, and i am not going to just let that go right now. >> still in the dark as to the identity of the caller and the women she claimed would spend the weekend with hart in washington d.c., fiedler asked the herald's best investigative reporter, jim mcgee, to take a photographer, fly up to the capitol and stake out hart's townhouse. >> as i'm walking down the terminal there's this striking young woman, could have been a model, headed for the same gate. she got on the plane, and i went right in behind her. >> mcgee took a taxi to hart's address. >> and i'm standing there and out the front door of this house comes this same woman. >> the blond was