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FOXNEWSW Shepard Smith Reporting June 9, 2015

Do you buy it . Lets get to it. Breaking news Shepard Smith reporting live from the fox news desk. Well its that time again. There has been a rule for reporters, you do not report on bomb threats, because when you report on bomb threats, you get more bomb threats. You report on bomb threats when its confirmed there is actually a bomb. It would appear that rule is now suspended when the threat is to the White House Briefing room as witnesses here and everybody else has poor cover. Secret Service Agents evacuated the west wing. This after they say somebody phoned in a bomb threat targeting the white house. It happened as press secretary josh earnest was giving his White House Briefing. You can see all the reporters then shuffling out of the room. Security officials minutes ago let reporters back inside. Josh earnest has since resumed the briefing as you saw, and said the president was in the white house during the evacuation. A live look here as you can see. Check out the map here you can see how close the Briefing Room is to the oval office as was being discussed in the last hour. Thats Public Knowledge and available on line. We wouldnt put it on here if it werent. Meantime police also cleared a suspicious package in the courtyard of the Dirksen Senate office building. They report they did not find anything dangerous and that it turned out to be nothing but a lunch cooler. All of this said one other thing on reporting a bomb threat is when it is happening in front of your face like you cannot ignore it for instance suddenly the George Washington bridge is shut down in all directions and people are curious why is the George Washington bridge shut down and its a bomb threat then you report its a bomb threat. That said every News Organization i know about, including the Associated Press and us reported there was a bomb threat at the white house. All of that said news from the future now work with me more bomb threats at the white house. Right now the former republican speaker of the house, dennis hastert, is due to federal court, his first appearance since the feds accused him of giving hush money in a coverup. We have video of hasterts arrival and it was brutal at the federal courthouse in chicago within the last hour. They allowed cameras outside, and what a skirmish it was, but no cameras inside. The former governor lied about bank laws to pay somebody to keep quiet about misconduct. However, according to many public reports, the former speaker of the house was trying to cover up his sexual abuse of a teenage boy back when Denny Hastert was a High School Wrestling coach decades ago. After those accusations came out, we learned of a second woman. She said Denny Hastert sexually abused her brother, who was the wrestling rooms equipment manager. His sister said he stayed silent because he thought nobody would ever believe him. The brother died of aids in 1985 and she said Denny Hastert showed up at the funeral. Denny hastert was stunned at the accusations. He had a squeaky clean image. He took the job after Bob Livingston resigned after admitting he cheated on his wife. This was after president clinton and the Monica Lewinsky scandal. It was quite a time. Speaker hastert later presided over president clintons impeachment proceedings. They looked the other way when mark foley was accused of sending sexual messages to pages. He resigned. At the time he told reporters, quote, our children need to be protected and were going to do everything we can to protect them. Now Denny Hastert finds himself facing criminal charges from the feds and from his critics, accusations of hypocrisy and much more. Mike is live in the federal courthouse in chicago. Tell us how this is unfolding, mike. Reporter the arraignment for the federal speaker should be under way soon. No lack of chaos where he made his way to the Federal Building where hes now assuming the role of defendant. He seemed to breathe a sigh of relief after he got through the metal detectors and past all the cameras. He will have the opportunity to enter a plea. Most defendants at this stage of the game enter a plea of not guilty really as a matter of procedure, and the motions are saved for discovery. There has been no special treatment extended to the former speaker of the house, so we anticipate he will exit publicly one more time. You can see behind me what the officers of the department of Homeland Security are trying to do is get the cameras to line up in even rows to try to get them to behave and prevent the chaos we saw just about an hour ago, shep. Breaking news now, and seconds ago as mike was speaking the former speaker Denny Hastert did plead not guilty in court. We suspect its over or just about over. Mike what about these alleges of sexual abuse . What are the details well be getting . Reporter well as far as the allegations of sexual abuse, the only person who has come forward and spoken publicly is the sister of steve reinbold. He was the equipment manager. She said he was abused by the teacher back when he was working at yorkville high. Even the indictment talking about hush money going to an individual that individual has only been identified as individual a, shep. When Denny Hastert comes out, well be watching the cameras to see if he has anything to say. Well go back out there live. Our legal analyst is here and the associate editor of the wall street journal. John watching this come together, of all figures in my adult life so for the last 70 years, i cant think of anyone where you could put this kind of irony together. Yeah. The prosecution of the president in an unprecedented way. Bob livingston preceding him, all that weve just reported and now Denny Hastert is said to have been an abuser of children . Its just allegations at this point. Hes not guilty. Were now about to find out the details. If they are true what you point out is correct, and thats what has kind of shocked everybody, which is that why theyre shocked, im not so sure. Seeing the history of these issues play out in washington as you point out, bob, Livingston Rose was going to be the speaker of the houtsse but he had to resign the day they impeached the president of the United States for having an extramarital affair. You see this in congress. I wonder if the public is more concerned about this case because he was a teacher and a coach, and parents feel very vulnerable about that as opposed to he was somebody in washington. Weve seen this happen, where family values have extramarital affairs. All of the contradictions that kind of play out in washington i think to a certain extent the public is beginning to get unnerved. I know you well you wouldnt consider those two things to be in any way similar the idea that somebody might be gay and somebody might be an abuser of children. I know you did and thats why i said it. Its the legislators who come out strongly for antigay legislation. Or leading a different life. Or thats come out strongly for family values and almost kind of a holier than thou position. It turns out theyre having extramarital affairs. That type of behavior i dont know the public has kind of me tab tabolized them at this point. They got him on rico got him the same way we got the mob mobsteres mobsteresmobster mobsters. Thats exactly what im thinking about this. If you had called me, john as your attorney and said hey, look i need to take out 3 million in cash, is there anything wrong with that . I would say, no youve already paid taxes on that youve already put it in the bank. What i instruct people are when they put 3 million into the bank so they dont have to pay taxes on it themselves and they dont have to disclose where the money came from. Once the money is in the bank why is it the governments business how much money you take out of your already taxed earned money and where it goes . Why is that a crime . What youre suggesting is theyre punishing him for something they cant punish him for because it was so long ago, and theyre going to get him on this bank thing instead . Correct. I spoke to two other feds and asked, have you ever heard on structuring of withdrawal . Its always structuring on deposits. Is this terror money, is this dirty money, or are you trying to avoid taxes . If youre american and you put your money in the bank you know if he had written a check for 3. 5 million, he couldnt charge you . But the person who wrote the check has to pay taxes. Right. The allegation is as follows. One, who was a child at the time went to Denny Hastert at the time when i was a little boy you abused me and now youre going to pay. Denny did pay and he didnt get caught doing anything else. So this agreement is the one go ahead. Well the fbi says he also lied to them when they interviewed him. Thats something you just cant do. I think this is going to come back to his behavior as a teacher, that thats going to loom large. The lie was, according to the allegations, that the fbi said whats up with this money and he said i dont trust the Banking System so im taking the money out and putting it under my mattress or something, and that was a lie and thats how they got him, on the lie. Wait a minute. How did they get the former president of the United States . How did they get him again . They got him on the lie. They got Martha Stewart on the lie. But youre saying they shouldnt get Denny Hastert on light because not on the lie. A lot of people go to jail because of lying to the feds. But the structuring for withdrawal . But what they got him on was a lie, wasnt it . Its two things. Theyre saying the withdrawal of the money is illegal. Its structuring. Youre trying to hide something from us. Which he was, according to the allegations. I would like to say to the government go take a walk. I paid my city taxes, my state taxes, my federal taxes. I can do whatever i want when im withdrawing the money. Dont tell me i have to tell you what im doing with this money. Thats a federal crime . That has nothing to do with me. While its structuring, while its going in they want to make sure youre paying taxes. But going out, i have no idea how 12 jurors on that particular thing convict him. I know youre saying the government cant get Denny Hastert. The government says Denny Hastert did what hes accused of doolg doing, and this is the only way to get him. We just rattled off some examples but structuring on withdrawals, very rare. It doesnt really matter at this point what happens. I mean it does what happens on the law for Denny Hastert. The legacy issue for Denny Hastert is decided. Its a little sad because there hasnt been a trial yet so we havent seen all of the information play out to know whether hes guilty of anything. But the legacy of Denny Hastert is now glommed into that huge pool of legislators who have been hypocrites at one time or another, and at this point havent they already taken his name off of buildings and scholarships . And he just got arraigned moments ago. In fact just moments ago the judge said his passport must be relish kwishd re relinquished relinquished and that he must pay 4500 bond. Thats going to keep him in the country . I dont think Denny Hastert is going anywhere. What a sad state of affairs. Well be right back. Hey, hey, the duke of deals i know a few guys in the rental car biz. Lets go, wheels. Rental car deals up to 40 off. 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The juror then repeated what she read to other jurors which is really a major breach of trial rules which bans jurors from reading trial news and discussing the case and especially not reading it and sharing it with the other jurors. Alicia kunye is live in our newsroom. What happened . Shep this actually has to do with smoke breaks. When the court went on break, there were five female jurors who went to take a smoke break together on the patio. And it was during these breaks that all of this occurred. According to what we heard in court, there was one juror, juror number 872, who is the center of all this who took a phone call from her husband, she says and put him on speaker where he discussed things that he was reading on facebook or somewhere else on line saying that the, quote, idiot d. A. And thats a quote posted something on twitter about the case. That is true that he did post something and he was reprimanded by the judge. She had this on speaker and then turned around to talked to other people about it. Thats one version. The version that came from the juror who actually told on her was that this woman said she had read on facebook that there was a possibility of a mistrial and that somebody one of the attorneys was in trouble for tweeting on twitter about the case with regard to the videotaped interview that we heard from one of the psychiatrists who interviewed james holmes. So then the judge brought in five of the jurors who are on that patio and kicked off three of them mostly because he didnt believe any of them. Thats interesting. Im sure well get more out of there as the james holmes trial moves on. Islamic state militants have released a brand new video in which they claim to be ready for their biggest operation yet, the capture of baghdad, and they say its going to go down soon. Do we know whether to believe any of this . Does the u. S. Have a specific strategy to stop them . 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