misconduct and juror high school kcon high school conduct, so it is likely that there will be an appeal fending on what the depending on what the sentence is. s sara sidner, cnn, minneapolis. house democrats say that they will try to get to the bottom of the capitol insurrection. nancy pelosi says that she will create a select committee on what led to the riots and the panel could also look into the possible role of donald trump and some dgop lawmakers, but la enforcement is already investigating the insurrection and a former deputy director was asked what the new committee could find that others already haven t. it is not what we wanted. it is not ideal. but it is something, right? and knowing that the house democrats will retaken unilateral authority to issue subpoenas is a good sign because without subpoena authority, this goes absolutely no where.
donald trump, is not in the in-tein intelligence community. but the independent inspector general, a nonpartisan neutral observer, he is saying that this should be turned over to congress. and whether it fits under this narrow whistle blower law or not, the point is there has been an allegation of misconduct made involving the president. there has to be a way that congress gets to know the details of that. it is classified if it involves a phone call with a foreign leader because foreign relations of the united states that the president conducted generally are classified. but that doesn t be tray a source or method or specific secret that will cost people s lives. and the american public should have a right to know if there is an allegation of high school conduct of a smarmy deal or inappropriate offer by the president to a foreign leader. except of course we re not talking about costing people their live wills, we are talkin about information that could
not been adequately replaced by electronic sites. a 2018 study found that 36% of the daily newspapers that they studied had gone through major layoffs and that newsroom staffs dropped by 15% between the years 2014 and 2017. and a 2018 unc study show that had between 2004 and 2018, the number of local newspapers decreased by nearly 1800. in addition, 200 counties in the united states are currently operating without any newspaper at all. every time newspapers layoff reporters or shutter, the public loses the opportunity to shine a light on high school conduct in the public sphere. one recent closing, the youngstowndicator that wi cease for financial reasons. the first american city without a newspaper. the director of communication
they have had a couple two very bad incidents. we re not talking about john kerry. no, he hit a occur. but it is dangerous. dennis hastert s name is no longer on the public policy center of his alma mater after he was in-tightsed of charges of lying to the fbi about alleged payments to cover up past high school conduct. a law enforcement official confirms to nbc news that hastert appaefrptly paid nearly $2 million to conceal sexual abuse with a man who was a student where hastert once taught. as nbc s pete williams reports he s now facing charges for instructing more than $900,000 in bank withdrawals to avoid reporting requirements but not for the alleged high schoolmisconduct. the government doesn t claim that mr. hastert s payment of this money was illegal. and he s not charged with this whatever happened 30 years ago. that is one, not anything the federal government could bring a charge on, and, two, well blond the statute of limitations in the state. the other thing is th
to security banking rules or that the cash was being used as hush money or to commit a crime. the fbi says hastert claimed he was keeping the money because he did not trust the banking system. yeah. willie, the indictment obviously because it mentions his years as a wrestling coach and a teacher, certainly suggests in a the high school conduct that he considered worth paying somebody $3.5 million to keep quiet obviously goes back to that time in his life. and you look how long these payments go. over years and years. two questions i have, what good he do obviously. if there is something criminal we ought to know that. and the second side of it is there extortion on the other side. did the person say i want $3.5 million or else. or did denny hastert volunteer this payment. but as you said a lot of people