the fbi, if they believe that this person was a victim of sexual abuse didn t want to prosecute him. victims of sexual abuse are not very appealing defendants. but, certainly, if denny hastert takes this case to trial, extortion will be his defense. his lawyers will say, look. he is a law-abiding, honorable citizen who was confronted with this horrible accusation and to spare his family embarrassment, he paid this person off. but that is not, he would certainly not admit that he engaged in this in the terrible under lying act. $10,000 withdrawals. that s what triggers the reportage to the feds. in this case he allegedly made $50,000 withdrawals. had he written a check instead of going back and forth to the bank, would you and i be having this conversation? absolutely thought. if he had written a check for
convicted after trial, might well having him sent to prison i think this case will end in a plea bargain that does not send him to prison. thank you, jeffrey. all right. coming up the republican presidential field continues to grow week to week. they all want a place on that debate stage. to get there, we ll have to change their campaign strategy. is that a good or bad thing? the five taliban prisoners released for bowe bergdahl will be exchanged. evidence released in the colorado theater shooting. details behind james holmes deadly rampage. and once you find it you can switch it right on again. you re back! freeze it, only from discover. get it at discover.com. when you re not confident you have complete visibility into your business, it can quickly become the only thing you think about.
united states and carry out ongoing attacks against our allies it is rather foolish to take a personnel, let s take four of the five when you know they ve had those ties and to release them especially given the background. here you have individual ss, deputy minister of defense for taliban. another is deputy intelligence chief for the taliban and between them have killed thousands of human beings and you release them. i think we know what s going to happen. it s going to cost american lives and the lives of our allies. but the alternative then i guess i m saying look this conflict is not ending. i hope you live to be 150 and that i m there to see it but i don t think this conflict is ending in either of our are we saying? we are going to keep you where people like you in gitmo and you re never even going to get a trial. this is a difficult situation. but in the past when we were
cases of them in proximity now to our embassy down there. in the case of these five that we talk about here in qatar, we ve got ample evidence that they at least part of that element intend to return to the fight. and, so given the reality we re dealing with here and the fact that they ve killed between them thousands and thousands of human beings. i don t think it s wise to release them. mr. chairman in the aftermath of september 11th i was of the throw away the key mindset. as the years have passed the attorney in me has become increasingly troubled by the fact that we re holding individuals there who have not been given the benefit of a trial. are you similarly concerned? well i think in these cases where you have individuals with ties to al qaeda, in an abundance of caution while this struggle is going on with al qaeda and they can continue to try to bomb us here in the
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