when john ensign and his employee got caught having the affair, genius republican senator john ensign decided that his reaction would be not only to fire the woman he was sleeping with, but also to fire her husband as well. he fired them both from their jobs in his office. and just in case that wasn't smart enough, he then took some additional apps as a sitting senator who, remember, has presidential ambitions. that's why i spent several years talking about this a lot, particularly 2009. in the wake of this affair being exposed, john ensign arranged for his parents to make multiple payments to the couple, payments of totaled up to nearly $100,000. he then put the teenage son of the couple on the payroll of the republican senate campaign committee. he then lined up an illegal lobbying job for the husband. he set him up in a lobbying job in which he himself, the senator, would be lobbied by this guy, whose wife he is sleeping with, we got the illegal lobbying job for. i spent the time the time covering that scandal when it first happened in 2009. in large part because it just kept getti

so he was going to keep his role in the senator john ensign's scandal a secret because john ensign was his patient. he was an obstetrician. nobody ever got to the bottom of whether senator john ensign was pregnant, post-partum or actively giving birth at the time he was involved in this scandal with his obstetrician. but that was their line. doctor-patient confidentiality was their line on how and why they would keep this all secret. this line of defense did not hold. >> last year, i had an affair. i violated the vows of my marriage. it's absolutely the worse thing that i've ever done in my life. >> senator john ensign admitted publicly to the affair, and then when all the financial and ethical complications came to light about how he had managed and tried to cover up the affair with or without the advice of his obstetrician, senator john ensign ultimately had to resign his seat in the united states senate. he resigned from the senate with that scandal looming over him, and in fact at the time he resigned, the ethics committee was deep into a thorough investigation of what exactly he h

ensign bagley's bravery and fearlessness for our country has shown the world exceptionalism no longer exists. the philadelphia pressprinted the southern state in the first victim under the flag of a reunited country . the new york tribune and intensely republican newspaper says with his blood he had sealed the unions at arms of the north and south. the people in one spot against the stars and stripes said one of those sons had the first sacrifice with the honor and glory of that flag . there is no north and south after that, we are all bagley's countrymen. we also say tributes from the grand army of the republic organization . you all know who that was, grand army of the republic . those are union civil war veterans. they are sending their , because remember bagley is a son of the confederacy. his grandfather was part of the confederate government . so we see tributes from them as well as also the confederate groups. so this new memory that was purposely designed says that his blood paid for the south's secession. they say it restored southern honor and manhood but more importantly it

to be fair, john ensign was actively giving birth at the moment that tom coburn was counseling him abouthow to reduce his payments to his mistress and her family. if you're an obstetrician you know that's a very sensitive time with your patients. >> i met john ensign a couple of times. i forgot about this. it didn't enter my head in this whole crazy new set of sex scandals, and it should have. my plea is that i've had so much junk forced into me that i've lost some of the old junk, that was even kind of more interesting this way. >> i'm the walking, talking and cycle. of this stuff, lawrence. anytime you need it just dial me? rachel, we're going to discuss an article i have read, exactly one postmortem analysis of what went wrong for the democrats in the election, and it's nathan heller's piece in the new yorker, where he talks about the ambience of information, and the way we kind of just bump into information. and of course, how important that is for the low information voters, who are the last ones to decide, who end up deciding the presidential race. and it's just absolutely fascinat

these rarely ensign was boot before kickoff area protests took place quoted for an end, as well as the world goes up. i shouldn't homebuyer reports from paris. this was no ordinary football game. time security check points of the main roads leading to the start of homes. they are far, which is the ring, a replay of the violence that broke out in almost done a week ago. took no chances and delete and to terrorism school was tasked with protecting these very team a few hours before the game kicked off. tension was building protested from those of this square to the knows what they said was an act of the trial of innocent civilians killed by his vanity forces in gaza and 11 in france came and i live in sunny it's really strange. i'm here to denounce the position of friends and the governing lead to use a football game to express the support for the genocide of approach israel and garza and 11 in the countries made or position policy brands about the us, the game be cancelled. but i please the president not to attend, but he was the alongside with 2 of his brothers taxes nichol outside cuz

these fairly ensign was booed before kickoff area. a protest took place quoting for an end to israel, is $1000.00. demonstrators have been evaluating and supports of palestine. they urge french fence to boycott and match. professor buck that has the latest from powers. lots of police here. of course, thousands of police were deployed across the city because this was deemed to be a high risk match from in his role playing at the start default in the stadium itself. i mean, bailey, anybody units, if you think about it being the biggest stadium with across devices, you 1000, that were only about 15000 of funds inside there, a few very minor incidents. there was a small incident between is really funds and that part of the stage of nature, at some point someone pulled out. so kind of seeing a flag person since we understand just lost it a few minutes and the other was a pretty calm a rule early as though we were at a protest where people had gathered about a kilometer away from where we on. now, people that were protesting against the fro

and after his two year cruise, he was promoted to the rank of ensign and assigned as a captain's clerk on the uss maine you all recognize name that ship the one that blew up. but he was no longer on the named he was he became the executive officer of the torpedo boat winslow picture there in december of 1897, about two months before the main exploded. all right. if this works. all right. so the battle of cardenas now this is a map from a book by a.b. feuer about the spanish-american war. great book there. a lot of really good books on this topic. that's a that's a really one. if you like, narratives, battle narratives. this is a good one. okay. so it kind of gives you a picture that i'll talk about briefly. and this is the telegram that announces bagley's death to his family because they didn't have phones and, you know, texting this was texting through morse code anyway. so the battle took place on may 11th, 1898, in cardenas bay, cuba. the mission was eliminate spanish vessels. they they had encountered three days before in the harbor. so the following information about to tell you i

gates will be commissioned as an ensign and later lieutenant in the regiment. it will give gates his first military commission as a 17-year-old in 1745. one thing i want to point out on the screen here, if yolook on e left there is a recordof gates' 45 commission. this commission book there are quite a few names here. gates' name is about 80% towards the bottom and the person listed directly below him, kind of a funny coincidence. a little hard to believe. they will come to have much more significant connections 32 years later. that was kind of an amazing coincidence. so gates is probably in germany for a few years after initially entering his military career. the evidence is not solid that he is in germany, but i found a few hints that he was in germany for a little bit. when he emerges from the darkness and when we learn more about his life is when he goes to nova scotia in 1748-49. he goes there as an aid to general edward cornwallace who is another early patron and cornwallace is the uncle of charles cornwallace who will be gates' nemesis a few decades down

and finished after he left the house and the senate ethics committee released its report on john ensignfter he finished. so there's real precedent there. and you simply cannot, if we have a senate that is working anything like the weights normally work you cannot have consideration of this nomination with a very significant investigation report hanging out there that's not released to the senators who have to make this decision. when i worked as counsel in the senate, review for the senate judiciary committee reviewing background investigations we would never have, the community would never have proceeded to a vote without completing that file. >> yeah, i just want to be clear, i don't think anyone watching this is confused about this, but there has been some bad faith attempt to muddy the water including from elon musk that the standard here is would you bring a prosecution, or could you secure conviction against an individual to mark the standard for background checks, notwithstanding the top law enforcer in the country, seems to be a different standard . i don't particularly care abo

you may remember senator john ensign was, i believe he resigned from the senate and a report was releasedfter his resignation, as i recall. so it's happened. and as part of the vetting process for matt gaetz for attorney general position, since he is a nominee, both senators durbin and corbin would like to see this report. they would like this report to be part of their record as they consider him as -- as they consider gaetz as the next attorney general nominee. so i think that this is a -- i think there'll be tremendous pressure to release it. the fact that the committee canceled its meeting today doesn't mean they won't meet mexico week next week or the following week, but there'll be enormous pressure to release it and i think there's some precedent. >> charlie dent, it's always a pleasure. thank you so much for joining us early this morning. appreciate it. >>> today, we are introducing you to one of 2024's top five cnn heroes. since 2021, a record number of unaccompanied migrant children have traveled to the united states, many fleeing violence and extreme poverty. rachel rudder is a

and in may of 2011, the senate ethics committee released its report on senator john ensign even though he had also resigned days earlier. let's talk to our panel now, congressman kinzinger. speaker johnson is saying that this ethics report on matt gaetz shouldn't be released. but how important do you think it is for americans to see the report? >> oh my gosh shocking. jeh johnson no kidding. look, here's the thing that's crazy is last. what congress they were all about transparency, right? remember they wanted the sum conversation with joe biden released because the american people deserve transparency that's the case here. american people deserve transparency particularly because matt gaetz is up to be attorney general. and senators, your senator america, whoever represents you, has every right to know what is in that, because it's not like we're just appointing, you know, an ambassador to the un which they still would have a right to know. this is the chief law enforcement officer for the country so i, i think ultimately it will be released. it will have to be or, you know gates pull

john ensign, who is a former senator from nevada resigned after a cheating scandal that was that roiled the senate at that time. in 2011. >> i think also released after he resigned. so there is precedent for this. and the speaker is not really supposed to have any jurisdiction or any active role in the ethics committee in the house so he can he can make this decision but it's ultimately ethics decision to do this. yeah. and it is something of a norm that the speaker stays out of whatever decision they may or may not make. right? >> right, exactly. and the other thing is yes, the ethics. ethics will stop investigating him but this report was going to be voted to be released. what, a couple days after gates decided to step down so it's there and you already have members of the senate saying, no, i want to see this so they can properly vet him for this very important position that he's been nominated for. and i can't imagine senators wanting to just do this. see no evil as they're going through this process. yeah, because they do take it seriously regardless of what trump may think that th

in this volume, he was talking about the first ensign diary. so let's pick up on that title in his book, which was the lost story. and apply it to the first in cindy marie. so how is it that you discovered this unruly lee unnamed woman who was tarred with the title of incendiary? okay, well, i can't to have discovered her. right. there have been a couple of other scholars who have talked about, but relatively recently, linda kerber to our warming. but and also her story has been out there for a very long time. peter force published the american archives in the 1840s and 1850s. a bunch of documents from 1774 to 1776 and a reprinted a lot of british newspapers. and so her story and her printed speeches in parliament and so her story is in there through edmund burke's speech in parliament about her, he reads that her story in a british newspaper and he fits the story for his narrative to kind of say like, what does this mean? that that there's a woman in new york city burning, a city that the british army has just occupied in september of 1776. an