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Referable. if they found evidence that represented a crime, they have the option of making a referable providing the documentation they collected and letting the justice department decide if they want to pursue a case. >> your reporting was sharp and to the point of the timing of the planned departure from the senate. he says he will leave on may 3. he was due to testify on may 4th. could the ethics committee make his testify before may 3rd? can they move that up? >> i don't think it's possible. the chairman, the chairwoman and the vice chair are in china now as part of a congressional delegat...

Me it was scheduled for may 4th. it's not an accident. he timed the actual departure to be may third. >> in terms of the universe types of investigations that the senate ethics committee does, how big an investigation was this and what do you know about what specifically they were looking at in terms of the senator? >> this is a pretty -- you know, this is a comprehensive deeply digging they have done since the 1990s when they looked at senator packwood who resigned after they recommended he be expelled from the senate. this is the most far reaching of a sitting senator since then. there's two...

Senator announced he would not seek re-election. he took pains to emphasize he was not resigning. he would not run again, but he wanted to be clear he was not resigning. why wasn't he resigning? >> i didn't break ethics rules or break any of the laws. i didn't do any of those things. resigning is admitting guilt. >> resigning is what he did today. he says effective may 3. may 3. the tuesday after next. it's a weird specific date to pick. may 3rd unless you were forced to testify under oath about the $96,000 check on may 4th thachlt is the bombshell from "the new york times." it allows him to l...