MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show April 23, 2011
jor ensign's affair was with a staffer. a staffer married to a top-senate aid. when the affair was reported, the staffer he was having an affair with and the one she was married to. they cut the family a $96,000 check. a check the lawyer said was a gift from the family because if it was sef rens pay, it was illegal. he contradicted that assertion. he said the payment was severance. investigations have been started by the fbi, the justice department, senate ethics committee. senator ensign stuck through it, hanging out in the senate, maintaining innocencenessish. he illegally lobbied ...