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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Million, which means theres about 16 million unaccounted for. That was unreported to the irs, so hes not paying taxes on that. A lot of that was money that he made from his work for ukraine overseas, and then funneled that through Bank Accounts in cyprus. We know that he used a lot of those funds to pay for that lavish lifestyle we heard about last wee...

May be considering a run for president in 2020. will you rule that out? youre shaking your head no. >> im running for one thing and one thing only, for re-election as mayor of new york city. >> things change. you have "new york times" asking who is running new york city, talking about the ethics cloud, deblasio for president, nah. >> here is the thing about deblasio which we have to keep in mind. manhattan is not his dojo. >> as savannah sellers just learned. >> in the outer suburbs hes more pop...

Ethics cloud. then youve got the trump family and associates. youve got their own woes from russia to security clearances to questionable business dealings. ashley, does the white house worry that this midterm election is going to be a referendum in part on ethics in washington? >> well, first of all, its certainly undercuts the presidents boast that he only hires and surrounds himself with the best people. the white house i can tell you is generally worried about the midterms, particularly the ...

But its the voters of alabama. this is a democracy and they get to make that decision. its not up to me and the president said we want to keep the seat republican in the white house and we want to support the presidents agenda. >> they are in. not everybody in the republican leadership is happy about this. for example, the number three republican in the senate, john thune, heres what he said this morning. >> i said all along if he comes to washington, he will immediately be under an ethics cloud...

President trump. he doesnt get to exercise as much foreign policy power as every other president has. talk about humiliating. thats more humiliating than the mean tweets but its only substantively humiliating. richard, you have been an outspoken critic of the way this white house has run from the beginning. you have suggested at times that there is an ethics cloud and potential at time a criminal question hanging over this white house. your views of this rather dramatic friday afternoon ousting ...

Under an ethics cloud, nevada republican senator john ensign is quitting instead of finishing his term. that means nevada republican governor can appoint his replacement, that gives the republican a chance to win as an incumbent. it is the latest chapter in an ethics scandal allege iing payo with a hush-hush affair. kelly odonnell and jonathan capehart here with me in new york. kelly, this is first step in a domino because we may have sharron angle on the hill. how will that work. >> reporter: b...

15 minutes after the hour. were back with the most news in the morning. hes under an ethics cloud that could get him expelled from the house, but last night new york congressman charlie rangel was all about the good times at a combination fund-raiser and 80th birthday celebration. >> you wouldnt know about any of his problems last night. many prominent democrats were there to show their support and that included a rather surprising gesture from a former new york city mayor. cnns mary snow is fol...

In fact, quite the opposite. a bit of bad timing. he stayed in d.c. for that vote if you remember on the $26 billion aid package. what wound up happening is our producer had reported yesterday on "first read" that clinton took the stage with sestaks dotters and they only showed video of sestak greeting candidates. >> i know we got this in a few second ago. you havent had time to analyze this. they were saying that race was too close to call but now it is official. >> it was a close race and this...

The mistakes i made so they dont make. and so they are -- >> okay. so weve got an acknowledgment of mistakes being made there by new york representative charles rangel there on the house floor, talking about the ethics cloud he is living under right now. and then there is california representative, maxine waters, the congresswoman is denying ethics charges, saying she will not be, quote, a sacrificial lamb for anybody. theyre being investigated for steering money to her banker husband. waters wa...

Place. so we are with glad where you are. but on a very troubling note, lets talk about senator ted stevens. you know him well. sean okeefe, we both know well. and of course, we dont know yet officially what has happened in that plane crash, as they go trying to get to the -- to rescue those potentially survive that plane crash in alaska, but ted stevens, the longest-serving republican senator who faced re-election and an ethics cloud, a federal trial, and after his con vuk aviction and losing t...