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Other day and said, you look a lot like lazarus. >> reporter: once left for dead in the political wilderness, mark sanford blazed a comeback trail that will take him all the way to washington. >> i just want to acknowledge a -- a guy not just with second chances, but third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth chances because that is the reality of our shared humanity. >> reporter: sanford captured a vacant south carolina congressional seat by a decisive margin, overcoming a scandal that nearly destroyed his political career. the extramarital affair with a mistress from argentina that he once...

Charleston, south carolina and he didn't win by a little bit, but by a lot. >> that's right. you might say the voters have forgiven mark sanford. a long and winning trail for the former south carolina governor, but he does appear to be out of woods. no longer that former governor of the appalachian trail. is he congressman elect mark sanford. >> some guy came up to me the other day and says you look a lot like lazarus. >> reporter: once left for dead in the political wilderness, mark sanford blazed a comeback trail that will take him all wait to washington. >> i want to acknowledge a good of s...

Agents tasked with chasing down 20,000 dangerous people with guns, and that's just in california alone. how do you enforce the laws already on the books with those odds? the national lead from the appalachian trail to the comeback trail. mark sanford is now the republican nominee for an open congressional seat in south carolina. the same state he ran as governor where he developed a reputation for fiscal conservatism, though he figured understood the cloud of an extramarital affair. he may have found a measure of forgiveness from voters in his victory last night with his former mistress, now...

Shows, one in six americans want stricter gun laws. from the appalachian trail to the comeback trail. in victory former governor mark sanford thanks the woman he ran off with, now his fiancee. >> i thank you, is guess to my fiancee for her long suffering, as she put up with me being on the road for more than just a few months. it is official, 24 hours after a mutual tease on late night, nbc has just announced jimmy fallon will be replacing jay leno after his 22 years in the chair of that iconic program. in addition, the show will move to new york, and will be executive produced by snl's aw...

Conversations in restaurants, is this how business is done in new york city? >> one of the people arrested said that but i can name you dozens if not hundreds of others who really sort of play it straight. the characters who were arrested are far from the a team. very undistinguished. sort of a freshman city council member. malcolm smith i just described. these are guys who weren't necessarily going to light up the sky any other way. i haven't heard anybody yet say, jake, that they're terribly surprised this happened. >> all right. errol lewis, thank you so much. >> thank you. hash tag you'r...