where you are, i know exactly what you re doing, put your pants on and go home, but ensign said, quote, i can t, i love her, tim, who is tim coe? he s a minister for the secretive religious organization known as the family. the family runs c street a boardinghouse for certain members of congress. john ensign lived there, so did senator dough burn. that raises some interesting questions as well. let s talk about that. jeff charlotte joins me. he literally wrote the book about c street. jeff, let s start with coburn. how does he get sucked up into this thing, and why is his behavior so questionable? well, coburn gets involved with doug hampton, the cuckold
he never made the call, despite the fact that tim coe says he made the call, that michael ensign at first denied making the call and later until questioning says, yeah, maybe that call did take place. senator coburn is sticking to his story. we have him on tape saying he wasn t involved and now we find out apparently he was. this c street house, you have sanford, who fell head over heels for his love on the appalachian trail, he lived in c street, the same thing happens to ensign action and pickering, also involved in an affair. what i m fascinated is how in love them became with their mistresses, what was in the water on c street? yeah, you know, it s a some bloggers call it the pray-boy mansion. sanford did not actually live in the c street house.
well, it s important to emphasize not just people are saying this looks like hush money, but the special counsel to the ethics committee recommending that the justice department pursue further investigation, saying the idea that this money given to the hamptons were gifts from john ensign s father was absurd, there s no evidence, no relationship. in fact, coburn seems to be at the crux of that. one of the most dramatic moments in the ethics reports, which reads like a joan didian novel, is when tom coburn, at the behest of tim coe, calls michael ensign, this very wealthy casino executive, john ensign s father, and michael ensign calls his son, his son calls tim coe, says you weren t supposed to bring daddy in this, and coburn says