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People usually in their teens,. hastert condemned that behavior. here he is. as a parent and speaker of the house, i am disgusted that congressman foley broke that trust. anyone who had knowledge of these instant messages should have turned them over to authorities immediately. so that kids could be protected. neera, does this political indictment have any fallout for republicans or is this basically hastert s problem? i think it s a tragic thing. i agree with george with what happened in the last couple of years may be scandalous as well. but really, if there s abuse of a young person, that s a terrible tragedy itself and i hope he s held accountable for it. i don t to want generalize on the parties. no one takes pleasure in this. i think some people are concerned about the demoralizing that takes place in politics that makes people seem hypocritical. it s a tragedy. we should get to the bottom of it. this is a peculiar ....
Yorkville? go ahead. according to the indictment hastert and individual a met after hastert left office. he agreed to pay hush money and paid in $50,000 increments. then after questions were made he started paying in $10,000. when questioned by the fbi, hastert said he was keeping the cash because he didn t trust the banks. yeah i kept the cash. that s what i m doing, the indictment quotes him. in 2006 hastert and his aides were accused of dragging their feet even covering up after being made aware that florida congressman mark foley was accused of sending explicit messages to young male aides. hastert said then as a parent and speaker of the house, i am disgusted that congressman foley broke that trust. anyone who had knowledge of these instant messages should have turned them over to authority immediately so that ....
Quickly enough. do you see that all in a different light now? that is a good question. the issue was that he had been told that there was a congressman approaching pages inappropriately and basically sat on it. he said he didn t remember the conversations when he was told but there was no question that the house republican leadership moved very slowly on top on foley and i was among those who was critical. i thought it was inept. it is also true that dennis hastert decided not to run again after that. we don t know if they re connected. paul was right. he is still presumed innocent. secondly i think you asked earlier to tom davis, what about this comment from the friend saying he perceives that he is the victim in all of this. i think we need torng more about that before we reach a final conclusion. there is a lot out there that is ....
do you remember me from yorkville? go ahead. according to the indictment hastert and individual a met after hastert left office. he agreed to pay hush money and paid in $50,000 increments. then after questions were made he started paying in $10,000. when questioned by the fbi, hastert said he was keeping the cash because he didn t trust the banks. yeah i kept the cash. that s what i m doing, the indictment quotes him. in 2006 hastert and his aides were accused of dragging their feet even covering up after being made aware that florida congressman mark foley was accused of sending explicit messages to young male aides. hastert said then as a parent and speaker of the house, i am disgusted that congressman foley broke that trust. anyone who had knowledge of these instant messages should have turned them over to ....
He then lied to the fbi. he said he wasn t doing it. is it possible that he was paying all this money because the allegations were false? he felt he was being black mailed, as his friends say because he perceives himself being wrong now? is that a possibility? let s start out by saying he is presumed innocent under our system. and we see no proof. is it a possibility? absolutely a possibility. paying out $1.7 million is a huge amount of money for a false allegation. wouldn t you go to the feds yourself and say this person is black mailing me. of course. you re speaker of the house. you know law enforcement will cooperate with you. this is a false allegation. so certainly this looks very, very bad for denny hastert. and david gergen there was a time when congressman foley was being investigated for inappropriate advances to male pages. dennis hastert was involved in that allegation. maybe said he didn t work ....