mr. hampton has also gone public with a letter that ensign wrote mrs. hampton shortly after he found out about the affair. "i betrayed everything i move in and lied to myself over and over," ensign wrote. "i threw all of that away over wanting to feel good." the swirl of admission and accusations has increased pressure on ensign and make it likely he will face an ethics committee investigation. the senator has been at work and voting, something his spokesman says he intends to continue doing. jonathan karl, abc news, capitol hill. >>> overseas, in iran, protesters took to the streets again to object to the outcome of the recent election. witnesses said the crowd estimated in the thousands, chanted "death to the dictator." a large deployment of police responded with tear gas and clubs. it was the largest protest since the government began cracking down on demonstrations 11 days ago. >>> chinese president hu jintao warned of severe punishment today for anyone inciting the violent protests in the northwest part of the country. throughout the day, loudspeake

mr. hampton checked the box marked, no, in answer to that question. ds, apparently that money was not seen by the hamptons as a gift. mr. hampton already said publicly they didn't see it as a gift. they saw it as severance. which, again, isn't the kind of thing a senator usually has his mom and dad pay for. for that senator's employees. joining us now is lisa miskaro, the washington correspondent for the "washington sun." and she's been crunching the numbers opinion lisa, thanks for joining us tonight. >> hi, rampal. thanks for having me. >> have you been able to have direct comment from senator ensign's office whether this huge payment from his mom and dad was a severance payment or a gift? >> well, you know, right when the, when the gift was announced or payment was announced last week, the senator's attorney did put out a statement where he said very clearly that the $96,000 according to the senator's office, according to the senator's attorney, was a gift, and he said it was made as a gift and accepted as a gift. now, in our course of reporting, we

mr. hampton said it's a severance and mr.torney's office says it's a gift, how do we know? the tax experts tell us this is really what an investigation would have to determine. just because something is called a gift now doesn't mean that it necessarily was a gift at the time. there would need to be contemporaneous evidence explaining what was said at the time, how the gift was given and how it was received. maybe documents, maybe a verbal conversation. maybe a witness, a third-party witness who was aware of these discussions, who could say, you know, what exactly happened at the time. >> and which would help us figure out whether or not in addition to potentially implicating himself on campaign finance law issues, he may have also somehow implicated his parents on tax issues. that remains to be seen and in the absence of any real investigation, any explanation from senator ensign we don't yet know. i was sort of surprised to see senator ensign's office talking about this particularly to a columnist in "the washington post."

mr. hampton also said th within 24 hours of wting this plaintive tt, senator ensign was alady back to pursuing his life. ensign, that weekendreportedly telling doug hampton, que, i'm in love with your wife. and know from ensign's own admission thathe affair didn't end until six months afterhis, all has to be over now,t was sin letter was dat. mr. hampton also says that h wife was paid er25,000 sevence by john ensign when e left his office during the affair in april of last year. that may pe some serious ethic problems for sator eign. we already knew at her pay had been doubled during e me of the affair, but it was not previously known how mh her severance package was worth. and cindy hamptoherself is now publly calling for her ex-boyfriend, john ensign to resign. mewhile, from ensign's republican colleagues in senate, we have still heard nothing. senator vitter, still no comment, really? also, no comnt from the republan party establishment. that's aimportant part of this. because weearned at the start of the scandal that republican party fus were used to put engn's mistress' 19-year-old son on

mr. hampton we return to the innovative newew style of journalismsm w pionened here, senator john e ensn,n, puppet theatat. you u veve t stop this affair, senator. you u ne t to pay f for cindy a herramamy to move awawa >> you owe them moy. >>>>if you had listened to m me none off this woululd h hve eve happened. . >> shut up, cobobur >> you nene write her a a letttterrereakg it f. >>'l'l do ithisafternoon. >> you'll do itt right w, young man. >>>> ifact, we'r'reoioi to drive you to fedex an watch toakake sure yououenend it to her. >> if you'd'd listened totoee ne ofththisould have ever happenened >> shut up, cobubu!! >> does s absolutetely,, potitive have to be there tomorrrrow >>overnight. ten blocks f fro here and that'l be $2$22 >> if you hadad listenened me ne ofhihiwould have ever happenen.. >> shut up, cobobn!n! >> can wetoto at a a dairy queen or something? >> shut up, coburn! >> ccdydy, e mean menaa made me write aaast letter toyoyou and d ionon't mean it a you ouou disregard itand i'll alwaysys le e u. >> whoho iththis >> it's john.. hnhn ensign. senator johnensigig >> oh, rr di

. >> joining us, host of face to face interviewing ug hampton exclusely. mr. ralston, congratulations on your big scoop. thanks f joining us tonight. >> thank you, rachel. >> today a senator said at doug hamptonhould not be believed. when fox newreceived a letter from mr. hampton abouthe affairn ne, they didn't run with the story because ty didn't think mr.ampton was credible. do you feel like he's credible >> well, ihink he's credible to the extent he kw john ensign verwell, was involved in all of the events. is he a guy that see like a broken man, a guy after money? a guy trying to put his life back together? yeah, sure. you can questi his credibility. t lebe clear. besides coburn a ensign saying briefly what doug hampton says is not true they provid no evidence to unter what they id and, in fact, john ensign having to put out at statement today, which i'mure you want to talk about, about his dadnd mom pang off the hamptons came becae doug hampton started talking about those kis of payments. so he has some credibility. he telling 50% of the truth, %, 80%? we

mr. hampton? >> the belief from tom coburn and many that some restitution -- >> you believe that still, don't you? >> absolutely. >> you believe you need to be made financially whole because john ensign destroyed your ability to make a living. >> correctly. he thought if he handled everything that way, he could go on with his life. he never looked past the moment. down the road, what would this mean, impact of friends, what does this look like, how in the world would you ever believe a cover-up or something like this. when you look at the details and we talk about all of the things that have taken place as a result of john's actions in leadership and the decisions that he initiated and things that were covered up to help this happen and to keep this from coming out and to keep this from taking place is really genuinely impacted my family greatly. it's unbelievable. >> and will it impact the senator's career. the man who conducted that interview, by the way, is john rolston. he's a columnist for th

mr. hampton also says that hi wife w paid over $25,000 severae by john ensign when she left his office duringome serious eic proble for senator ensign. we alrdy knew that her pay had been doubl during the time of the affair, but it s not prevusly known howh her verance package was wor. and cindy hampton herself is now publicly cling for her ex-boyfrie, john ensign to resign. fr and ensign's republican colleagues in the senate, we have stilleard nothing. stilno comment, really? also, no coent from the republican party establisent. that's an important part of this. because we learned at the start of the scandal that rublican party fund were used to put ensign's stress' 19-year-old son on the payroll of the natial republican senatorial committee while eign shared that k. it means, essentially, republican party donors were paying ensign's mistress son at his behest. we cled the rsc today and they referred all quesons on the matter to snator ensign's fice. like i said,e's not callin us back. buthe nrsc did tll us that they haven'teceived any complaints from republican party donors thus far. what,

mr. hampton. what about in this incident? >> well, it could be perceived as being racial profiling. i think if mr. gates had been a white man it wouldn't have ended or resulted in him being arrested. it would have been handled altogether differently. there's an expectation that he doesn't live in that community. >> you have come across that as being a black police officer those expectations about who lives in what neighborhoods? >> oh, absolutely. >> who drives what kands of cars? >> oh, absolutely. i've worked with guys who draw conclusions based on those assumptions. they didn't know anything about the person other than the fact they are an african-american person. >> james, real quick, are these conversations happening online? has this sparked something? i know the deblg of michael jackson, what is this doing online? >> it's chilling that online in the -- that's where the truth is happening. if you want the true heartbeat selection, go to the boston globe about professor gates. there are plenty of honest people having conversations. >> do you find that is happening online? that's

hampton pearson. he'll give us the full report on mr. bernanke. hampton. >> reporter: good evening. fed chairman ben bernanke says unemployment is slowly on the mend but unemployment is a trouble spot. >> the recent decline of unemployment has slowed significantly and tentative signs of stable zachlgts the labor market however has continued to weaken. >> reporter: bernanke also told lawmakers the central bank will keep the fed funds rate at a record low amount for an extended period and they have an exit strategy for unwinding its stimulus. we have been paying attention to issues related to the exit strategy and are confident we have the necessary tools to implement that strategy when appropriate. >> yes, bernanke says the fed is ready to take on the role of the regulator. but they clashed on the insurance giant aig and opposition lawmakerses called for more audits of fed action. >> is that your position, that this bill, if it were to be passed, would interfere directly with setting interest rates? >> if we were to raise interest rates at a meeting and someone in the congress didn't

mr. hampton's wife who also worked for senator.about the matter with a tv reporter on the program "face to face." this is just over 20 minutes. >> welcome to "face to face the " imagine your best friend had an affair with your wife. it is bad enough when you are friend is an employer and your senator. that can be life shattering. welcome to our two-part interview. but let's get to the part where year as to the fire. his conduct and relentless behavior led to our dismissal. i like to say to stop the heinous conduct and pursue. it cannot consign until august 2000. let's focus on the first car. you say that the relentless pursuit of your wife led to dismissal. what exactly happened? >> the worker is did -- they orchestrated him getting out of his official office. he told me that he said he was in love with my wife and you cannot work for me anymore. when a center city cannot work for you anymore and he initiate and takes the initiative to talk to people and meet in an official office. to be part of a cover-up and we are going to keep

mr. hampton's y., who also worked for senator ensign.ext, doug hinton talks about the matter with the tv -- doug hansen talks about the matter with a reporter on the tv program "face-to-face." >> imagine your best friend has an affair with iraq. that is bad enough, but when your friend happens to be your employer and a u.s. senator, the affair can be like shattering. joining us is doug hinton. his wife, cindy, had an affair with senator john ensign. >> in your letter to fox news you said, let's focus on the first part of that. he said that his relentless pursuit of your wife in the affair led to your dismissal. what exactly happened? >> he orchestrated me getting back to the state and getting out of his official office. he told me at the same time, i am in love with your right. you cannot work for me anymore. when he initiates and personally takes the initiative to talk -- to make medium in an official office and tell me what is going to go down, and then be part of a cover-up, and we are just going to keep this between us because what w

mr. rollston interviewed doug hampton exclusively last week. thanks for coming back on the show. >> hi, rachel. >> you're much closer to this story than i am. you've talked with some of the principals involved. do you believe that there are still some important loose ends to tie up or at least explain here, like the payments from ensign's parents? >> well, of course you're right on about that, rachel. i mean, you just described it and you wonder about the third child. my point on that would be, why should we believe anything that john ensign's lawyer has said? no one has produced canceled checks. doug hampton, as you pointed out an my program said his wife had received more than $25,000, well over. is that the $96,000 he was referring to? was it given to her by john ensign, or was it a pass-through from mike and sharon ensign? were those really gifts? you had the sarcasm that i had, that no one believes this was the generosity of the ensign family. and if it by some chance was, what other generosity did they show toward the hamptons or other pe

mr. gensler will come on. hello, hampton. >> good evening, larry. day two of the cft hearings on those wall street speculators ended begoldman sacwith goldman jpmorgan endorsing those deals that there should be exemptions for swaps dealers to help buy and sell derivatives and the swaps dealers and end fund clients have come under fire from wall street and some regulators after last year's oil price spikes. skeptical about swaps dealers at major banks being passive mechanics. >> i don't see a goldman sachs swap desk or jpmorgan swap desk as a passive mechanic, and the billions of dollars of transactions you do as passive mechanic or billions of dollars of profits or billions of dollars of compensation would be a passive mechanics. >> it's absolutely the case we do play a major facilitating role for hundreds if not thousands of clients around the globe. it is a complex business, hedge powers with futures, power with natural gas, et cetera. we have to have some language where buy we explain to each other what do we mean by intermediation. >> and creati

ensign's parents wriritehehe hampton famimilyhehes totaling $96,000 0 cingng pattern of generosity b betenen t ensign familyly a t theamptons. mrsmptonon'senenerity took a more nonmomoneryryorm. enter ensisign g godquad a group of men hampton askeded tcoconfnt ensign, rankining mbmberenator tococobu with tim co, david co, and martrty erermathe latter three with the family,y, a seseetetivgroup associated with e e c reet christian llowship. haton says these men enencoururag ensign to pay for e hamptons' hoho a andheir move to colorara a andampton alleges the urur m urged the to write the letterer tcicindbreaking things off with two r rigigio prprectors driving ensign n to fedex to get the letteter toto t maililmmmmedtely. after the e leerer w indeed sent enengngn ge cindy hampton a cacallsays disregard the letetr comimi u up out that stuff about ususinheher r her own pleasure and his pleasure and 24 hohour lalateenengn is in las vegas wiwithindy. in the biblical sense. toto t it all off when it wawa time to o gi c cin the old heave ho from her day job withth eigig thsesenar couldn't do it msmsf. the family asked cinin t to ave tho

we're in the hamptons today. mr. evans? this is janice from onstar.n automatic signal you've been in a front-end crash. do you need help? yeah. i'll contact emergency services and stay with you. you okay? yeah. onstar. standard for one year on 14 chevy models. two identical rooms. so why does this one cost so much less on hotwire.com? because when four star hotels have unsold rooms, they use hotwire to fill them, so you get them at prices lower than any other travel site. guaranteed. like four stars in san francisco, travelocity price $195. on hotwire just $98. the same great room, just less than other travel sites. hotwire.com. four star hotels. two star prices. h-o-t-w-i-r-e, hotwire.com save big on car rentals too. from $13.95 a day. >>> welcome back to "squawk box." we'll start with general electric, per share profit three cent ahead of estimate. revenues of $39.1 billion, short of estimates.s. the company points out much of that was currency related. bank of america earned 33 cents a share for the second quarter compared to analyst estimates of 2

mr. g's got nothing on you. >> you are a hampton man. >> let's move it along here.e builder pulte. >> credit suisse really likes the sector as of last week. they made that announcement. i went through toll brothers and kb homes, i scanned the sector. i like pulte because i can define my risk. i have a stop in at $7.70. i think you can take a long position here. we get through $9, it is south beach, it is total sun, melissa. >> greg, you need some props, brother. you got to have some sunglasses umbrella, little rain. >> melissa tells me that every day. we're working on it. >> you got your slicker on. we'll check in with you in the future. >>> "fast flash" is coming up next. they decided to break through the other side of the key resistance level, the credit crisis. we'll tell you who it is, right after this. (announcer) it is the most advanced automobile we have ever created. a car that can help awaken its driver if he begins to doze... keep him in his lane if he starts to wander... even stop itself if he becomes distracted. if you want to see the future of the autom