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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 o'donnell 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: because of senator ensign's decision to resign, the governor of nevada can make an appointment and i...

15 minutes after the hour. we're back with the most news in the morning. he's 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 wouldn't 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. cnn's mary snow is following the story for us. quite a happy birthday yesterday. >> it was. good morning. the big ques...

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 sestak's dotters and they only showed video of sestak greeting candidates. >> i know we got this in a few second ago. you haven't 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 morning only 2,500 votes or so separated the two candidates. democrats think they have a better s...

The mistakes i made so they don't make. and so they are -- >> okay. so we've 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. they're being investigated for steering money to her banker husband. waters was interviewed on the tom joiner morning show today, along with cnn contributor, roland martin. >>...

Place. so we are with glad where you are. but on a very troubling note, let's talk about senator ted stevens. you know him well. sean o'keefe, we both know well. and of course, we don't 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 thi extraordinary life he has led, then the trial, the whole record was expunged, overturned for p...