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name for their liaisons. at the c street national prayer breakfast, he tells her he wants to marry her. he makes $1,000 worth of phone calls to her. during a delegation to iraq, he lists her as aunt judy in his cell phone to cover up the calls he is making to her. it does not work, this cover-up. senator tom coburn whether i haves with senator ensign in c street. the husband of cindy hampton asks tom coburn and three of the leaders of the family in c street to tell john ensign that the affair needs to stop. john ensign says, ok, ok, the affair will stop, but he does not stop. two days after the interception, tim coe gets a call from cindy's husband again saying he spotted his wife's car and john ensign's car both parked at the same time in a motel parking lot in summerland, nevada. he calls ensign on his cell phone and says, i know exactly what where you are. i know what you are doing.
special council that investigated this noted that senator ensign had an extreme amount of power over these two people. they both worked for ensign. doug hampton worked for senator ensign's senate office. cindy hampton worked for the campaign. so senator ensign was really responsible for their entire livelihood. the two couples vacationed together when the hamptons' house was broken into and cindy hampton felt unsafe. john ensign said please come move in with us. that's about when the affair began. and so, you know, this was -- destroyed a lot of personal lives. but when you look deeper into it, senator ensign also dragged down a lot of people important to the power and political structure in the state of nevada. he dragged in his very well respected chief of staff not only covering up the affair, but covering up these illegal actions of possibly circumventing the-one year cooling off period for hampton to become an analyst. and also circumstance up venting rules that the payment senator ensign's parents made to the
but a far sadder chapter for those who's lives were affected. and destroyed. by his actions. >> an ethics report shows ensign arranged secret meetings with his mistress, gave her thousands to book hotel rooms, even considered buying her a las vegas home, and marrying her. but cynthia hampton was already married to one of ensign's former aides turned lobbyists doug hampton. as the whole thing snowballed ensign asked his parents to give the hamptons $96,000. a political reporter for the las vegas sun joins us. good morning. >> good morning. >> i seldom read details like this. one of the most unbelievable quotes to come out of this report was tim coe, ensign's spiritual adviser, quote, i know exactly where you are. i know exactly what you are doing. put your pants on and go home. did everybody involved in this realize it wasn't only toxic but could be illegal? >> well, that's what's really
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fascinating about this report. obviously there's a lot of salacious details about the affair that senator ensign carried on with, who was really his best friend's wife. the woman who was having an affair with went to high school with his own wife. so it was a very tangled affair. but what this report really details, that obviously any man who's engaged in an extramarital affair is going to try and cover that up. but, senator ensign, rather than just covering up an affair, really went to a lot of lengths to cover up what could be illegal actions, and that's what the senate ethics investigation has really uncovered for the first time. >> yeah. in getting this guy a job. now can you talk, because you mentioned the tangled affair. can you talk about what's really kind of a strange relationship between these families. each spouse caught them. but they vacationed together. cindy testified she always wanted to live near the ensigns. >> that's right. the two couples were inseparable. they were best friends. and the ethics report, the
at the c street national prayer breakfast, he tells her he wants to marry her. he makes $1,000 worth of phone calls to her. during a delegation to iraq, he lists her as aunt judy in his cell phone to cover up the calls he is making to her. it does not work, this cover-up. senator tom coburn whether i haves with senator ensign in c street. the husband of cindy hampton asks tom coburn and three of the leaders of the family in c street to tell john ensign that the affair needs to stop. john ensign says, ok, ok, the affair will stop, but he does ç not stop. two days after the interception, tim coe gets a call from cindy's husband again saying he spotted his wife's car and john ensign's car both parked at the same time in a motel parking lot in summerland, nevada. he calls ensign on his cell phone and says, i know exactly what where you are. i know what you are doing. put your pants on and go home.
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headed to the house. didn't seem to be problems. something to give fda more authority. recalling food, here's the thing. there's something in this bill that's unconstitutional. contains a tax provision and tax provisions have to start in the house, not in the senate. we heard kind of a sarcastic comment that number two, democrat in the house saying the senate know this rule. nobody ought to be surprised by this rule. it's in the constitution, wolf. >> the senate version is different than the house version that passed earlier. they would have to reconcile that. can't they do that quickly since there's overwhelming support? >> the house is expected to pass the bill and send it over to the senate but the senate would have to fast track it. that would require every senator signing off on it. that's the rub. tom coburn objects to this bill. he'll object to this fast tracking process. that means hours more debate on