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Recount a few for you. >> give us the headlines. >> the biggest one is who is individual a, the person who seems to have gotten the ball rolling in this case by demanding $3.5 million from denny hastert for alleged past misconduct? not specified in the indictment but we know from other reporting, sexual in nature to a young boy who was his student when he was a teacher in 1965 between 1965 and 1981. >> do you expect this case to go to trial? >> even though he pled guilty yesterday -- excuse me p...

Hastert is out on bail. gabe gutierrez was in court yesterday and reports from his home town in chicago. >> reporter: good morning. hastert is a huge part of this community, teaching at this high school decades ago for 16 years. now he faces the legal fight of his life. it was a wild scene as he made his first public appearance in nearly two weeks. this morning dennis hastert is out on $4500 bail after facing a media frenzy. he pleaded not guilty to charges he broke banking laws and then lied to...

Now hastert taught high school here in this community for 16 years but now he faces the legal fight of his life. and it was a wild scene yesterday as he made that first public appearance in nearly two weeks. >> reporter: this morning dennis hastert is out on $4500 bail. after facing a media frenzy. he pleaded not guilty to charges he broke banking laws and then lied to the fbi. inside the federal courtroom, he whispered yes when asked whether he understood the terms of his bond. they include sur...

Former speaker of the house dennis hastert made his first appearance in federal court today since he was charged with violating banking laws and lying to federal investigators while trying to pay $3.5 million for a quote past misconduct. to according to reports the past misconduct allegedly involved the sexual molestation of a male student when he was a high school wrestling coach. dennis hastert pleaded not guilty to those charges today. the judge said he would recuse himself from the case afte...

Male pages in the house and the speaker was then publicly accused, his office was publicly accused of knowing about this for a very long time and taking absolutely no action. >> yeah i mean i was watching bureau chief of the chicago bureau at the time and i have known him since 93 and you are a bureau chief in washington. lynn has been in the delegation for a long time. we heard rumors about philandering of different people of deceit by different people alcoholism. you name it. a lot of alleged ...

Donated $500 and $1,000 in 2004 to hasterts campaign unless both sides decide later this week to wave objections to the judge handling the case. joining us is jim warren the chief for the new york daily news. lynn why is this landing as such a shock? why didnt people know more about dennis hastert? i know i had heard a bt bunch of things from illinois people and some illinois media people years ago that indicated there were some -- id say some odd aspects to denny hasterts background. >> well la...

The courtroom. he was quiet. he was, as you would expect with these charges, somber. but it was someone who looked a bit more bent and a bit more broken. >> what about the media scrum out there? i never saw so many people. i guess i have. but for a case like this to see this many reporters and cameras, almost like running the gauntlet there. they werent letting this guy through. >> chris, you have to remember this is illinois, this is chicago. the last time we saw that kind of scrum, it was for ...

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He kept his eyes down even in the courtroom. he was quiet. he was, as you would expect with these charges, somber. but it was someone who looked a bit more bent and a bit more broken. >> what about the media scrum out there? i never saw so many people. i guess i have. but for a case like this to see this many reporters and cameras, almost like running the gauntlet there. they werent letting this guy through. >> chris, you have to remember this is illinois this is chicago. the last time we saw th...

Lets put it that way, are they invoking banking laws because of the statute of limitations only allege sexual misconduct that you have alluded to have run out? >> exactly right. its like when they went after al capone for tax evasion. thats wasnt what they were concerned about. you charge a case that you can prove not the case that you want to bring. >> brian, the feds say hasterts payments were meant to compensate and conceal misconduct against individual "a." so why isnt individual "a" facing ...