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I wanted to ask you if i got it right. first of all, i have to tell you that i don't -- i am not familiar with the name raymond struther who was a key player in your account. i'm not even sure if i'm saying his name right. am i? >> i think since you're of tender years you would not have been around in the hart campaign. there is no exact counterpart. if there were a -- if you could think of some benign version of steve bannon, that would be the kind of -- somebody who has prominent in the campaign, and he's somebody i had covered hart in the days when he was a leading military affairs expert. ...

Democratic senator gary harte in 1988, james reports 30 years down the road from that scandal tonight, that gary harte's supposed affair and the photographic evidence that that supposed affair, that in fact ended his presidential aspirations. james fallows writes in the atlantic, the former chairman of the republican party, famous political operative who worked for the george bush campaign that year, says he confessed on his death bed that he orchestrated that whole supposed scandal to set up gary hart so that george bush wouldn't have to run against him for president in 1988. really? joinin...

His death bed that he orchestrated that whole supposed scandal to set up gary hart so that george bush wouldn't have to run against him for president in 1988. really? joining us now is james fallows, national correspondent for "the atlantic," who broke the story. thank you so much for helping us break this tonight. congratulations. >> thanks for your extremely clear and helpful setup to this story. i've learned a lot these last few minutes. >> well, thank you. i wanted to ask you if i got it right. first of all, i have to tell you that i don't -- i am not familiar with the name raymond strothe...

He's somebody i had covered hart in the days when he was a leading military affairs expert. i wasn't on the campaign trail in '87 and '88 because i was in japan. but i had known hart and strother earlier in the '80s. i recognized his name when i started hearing about the story earlier this year. >> so, the basic kernel of your reporting, lee atwater who had worked for george h.w. bush, on his deathbed as he's making up -- atoning for his sins and talking about wrongs he had committed in his career, on his deathbed he confesses he concocted this whole plot. he tells his counterpart from the 198...

That she was sick? >> she turned completely yellow when they diagnosed her with pancreatic cancer and she literally died quickly after that. >> with shirley on her death bed, pepper tried to act like the dutiful daughter, went to see her regularly, tried to make her comfortable. but there was another terribly important reason to see her then. maybe the most important. one last opportunity to find out who she was. as she was dying, did you try to find, do you know, maybe she'd make a deathbed confession and say, i did take you and here are what your parents' names are and how to find them. any ...