in 2009, south carolina carolina, getting the papers like no one knows with the governor is the south carolina governor is missing. where is he? is he dead somewhere in a ditch with each day that tick by the mystery grew. totally believable. so when folks begins speculating about cd possibilities, i wrongly wrote it off as the worst kind of sensationalist journalists when it was proven true, i felt dong i felt duped for naively believing that i ever knew mark sanford, the person when i really only knew mark sanford the politician, and i wasn t the only one right there with me caught between image and reality. was sanford s closest aide, his former chief of staff, scott english thank you so much for sitting down with us. you worked for mark sanford from 96 to 2015, is that yes. i have my impression upon which was that he was a nice, affable guy. he issued a proclamation for our wedding, which i do not have hanging up in my house anymore but i mean, my point is i knew him a
in 2009, south carolina governor mark sanford was a republican rock star his reputation as a budget slashing deficit hawk family man had the gop betting on him to beat obama in 2012 until he became a missing person. the search for sanford through his office into chaos and turned up a secret love affair and a bizarre set of lies that coined the phrase to hike the appalachian trail but it also revealed something deeper how even the most tightly controlled political persona can mask the messy, imperfect reality of a human being and counter-intuitively, when the world was crashing down around him, bearing at all might have been the savviest political move of mark sanford career it s monday night. do you know where your governor is? that s what the citizens have. south carolina are wondering where in the world is our governor of mystery tonight in south carolina? the state s governor, mark sanford disappeared for days. governor alert. the search for mark sanford in june 20
what do you throw me back in prison? no, but i mean, he can t hurt me in 2009, south carolina governor mark slashing deficit hawk family man had the gop betting on him to beat obama in 2012 until he became a missing person. the search for sanford through his office into chaos and turned up a secret love affair and a bizarre set of lies that coined the phrase too hike the appalachian trail. but it also revealed something deeper. how even the most tightly controlled political persona can and counter-intuitively, when the world was crashing down around him bearing at all, might have been the savviest political move of mark sanford career it s monday night. do you know where your governor is? that s what the citizens have. south carolina are wondering where in the world is our governor of mystery tonight in south carolina the state s governor, mark sanford disappeared for days. governor alert. the search for mark effort in june 2009, south carolina governor mark sanford bec
just a short time ago cnn s manu raju reported that there would be a republican conference meeting tomorrow morning. that, however, we understand has now changed. i want to go to cnn s melanie zanona at the capitol with the new reporting on that and mccarthy s frame of mind as well. melanie, what have you learned? reporter: well, things have not moved in kevin mckarth chriss direction since that third ballot where he failed to get the votes. it s been back to the drawing board for kevin mccarthy and his allies. we ve seen supporters going into his office. we re told he has been working the phones. he is still hoping to negotiate and not planning to drop out. but meanwhile, i just spoke to a gop lawmaker, this is some breaking news here, this is a lawmaker who texted me, this is someone who supported mccarthy. they said they had just gotten a phone call from one of the never kevin republicans who is trying to grow their opposition and is trying to get that member to flip. so
that third ballot, where he failed to get the votes. it s been back to the drawing board for ken mccarthy and his allies. we have seen supporters going into his office. we are told he has been working the phones. he still hoping to negotiate and not planning to drop out. but meanwhile, i spoke to a gop lawmaker. this is some breaking news here. this lawmaker texted me and said this is someone who supported mccarthy. they said they have just gotten a phone call from one of the never kevin republicans, who is trying to grow their opposition and is trying to get that number to flip. essentially what you have here is kevin mccarthy and his office in the capital, trying to get to 218. and you have this opposition digging in and trying to work directly against him. look, this is one of the potential drawbacks of doing the motion to adjourn. there is a lot of concern initially about whether, if they were to send members home, about whether the opposition would have time to grow, whe