Thomas Daffron

Nixon jump scare number two.

Okay, so the dude who hired Susan was Cohen's chief of staff, a man named Thomas Daffron.

The two became close friends for years and years and years.

Daffron even worked for a few of Collins' campaigns.

He was married for many of those years.

Now, in 2011, Daffron's wife, Margo, was diagnosed with cancer.

In 2012, 40 years after they met, Thomas Daffron and Susan Collins were married.

He was 73 and she was 59.

PAC, 1820 PAC.

It's chaired by Scott Reed, who, as Susan Collins campaign manager said this week, is close friends with Susan Collins' husband, Tom Daffron.

And so so they they make this deal to do this donation and it's through a shell company.

But a week later, according to an email we received, an employee or consultant actually of the pack reaches out and says, we'd like to get Martin's phone number so that Susan Collins can call him and thank him.

The fact that the FBI was seriously investigating this.

The fact that Cal told FBI agents that he saw it as an explicit pay-to-play arrangement.

The fact that this $150,000 donation through a shell company was organized by the head of a PAC who's close to Susan Collins' husband.

That seems to me like all crucial information that's in the public interest.

Amy Abbott, who is his wife and was working for her campaign at the time period we were looking at, is also still in Collins' orbit.

Scott Reed, as you said, who allegedly... brokered this pay-to-play agreement, is still running the pro-Collins super PAC, and is also longtime friends and sometimes business partners with Susan Collins' husband, Tom Daffron, who is a lobbyist.

Well, Molly Redden, I thank you very much for joining us here today.

Thank you so much for having me.