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Ensign's conduct with cynthia hampton constituted employment discrimination on the basis of sex in the form of sexual harassment and referred to the press report in which an anonymous source stated that the senator had made a severance payment to ms. hampton it. goes on to specify how they asked to you submit more documentation. you did. and then following that, they began their investigation. the report issues no other initiating action other than getting your request for the investigation. how do you feel this evening having in effect started this investigation in the senate and seen where i...

2009, john ensign got caught cheating on his wife. he was shtooping one of his own staffers, who was married to another staffer, all of which was taking place as he was serving as the republican party's senate campaign chairman. in the next election, the republicans lost a ton of seats in the senate. when john ensign's affair was outed, the senator cut both of the staffers in the situation loose. he cut loose the one he was shtooping and the one he was married to. both of them had to leave john ensign's employ. but when they did, john ensign's parents cut their family a check for $96,000. his ...

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...