reporter for the washington post. robert, did this come as out of left field to gop politicos as it seemed to come out of left field to all of us today, when this crossed the wires? i ve spoken to several top republicans and close friends of former speaker hastert and they re stunned. they never expected this. and he s someone who s always kept close counsel. someone who was a candid figure a colorful figure even when he was inside of the house. but most interesting about this chris, these references in the indictment, perhaps his time as a teacher at yorkville high school. so let s be clear on the dennis hastert buy bio here. this is a man who was famously high school football and wrestling coach. and every profile you ever read about denny hastert, the guy was every man, high school football and wrestling coach and teacher. it says that individual a is
this is exactly what the founding fathers feared. who is this man? and why is he running for president? all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. dennis hastert, speaker of the house for eight years, from the end of bill clinton s president through most of george bush s presidency has today been indicted, quoting the chicago tribune on federal charges alleging he agreed to pay $3.5 million in apparent hush money, to a longtime acquaintance blackmailing him then lied to the fbi when asked about suspicious cash withdrawals from several banks. the indictment from the northern district of illinois court reading, during the 2010 meetings and subsequent discussions, defendant john dennis hastert agreed to provide individual a, unnamed in the indictment $3.5 million in order to compensate for and conceal his priority misconduct against individual a. to help us make sense of all of this robert costner, political
this is exactly what the founding fathers feared. who is this man? and why is he running for president? all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. dennis hastert, speaker of the house for eight years, from the end of bill clinton s president through most of george bush s presidency has today been indicted, quoting the chicago tribune on federal charges alleging he agreed to pay $3.5 million in apparent hush money, to a longtime acquaintance blackmailing him then lied to the fbi when asked about suspicious cash withdrawals from several banks. the indictment from the northern district of illinois court reading, during the 2010 meetings and subsequent discussions, defendant john dennis hastert agreed to provide individual a, unnamed in the indictment $3.5 million in order to compensate for and conceal his priority misconduct against individual a. to help us make sense of all of this robert costner, political reporter for the washington p
0 democrats. but they can lose their seats to fellow republicans in primaries. so it could be that even if americans do blame a shutdown on the gop, house republicans will still decide that it is in their own personal political self-interest to resist giving in. and, again this is just the shutdown we re talking about here. even if this gets resolved soon, we re still weeks away from facing the exact same impasse over something even more ominous, the debt ceiling. i have to admit, i struggle to see how this can all be resolved. maybe our panel can help me. let s bring them in. for that, we have beth ryanert, ken salazar, josh green, the senior national correspondent at bloomberg business week, written this week s very timely cover story, john boehner doesn t run congress, meet the man who does, he s talking about jim demint. we ll ask him about that. and we have lynn sweet, the washington bureau chief for the chicago sun times. thank you for joining us. i guess i ll just start with
to ne dpoegotiate with harry re. and then it also gets house democrat support. all the while, he s got an eye when he s up for reelection. house speaker boehner has shown that he s looargely, not entire, but larngly. remember, his deputies were both there with him when plan b was introduced. the logical successes aren t actually there. paul ryan is not the guy to watch, right? so paul ryan is the guy who has the real support of the house con sefbtives. a lot of people don t like boehner, they love paul ryan. now ryan, at the final minute, remember, he was with you for plan b. paul ryan, probably the most high profile guy, he s not running against boehner. he s not even interested. but robert, if the president gets this through, and i know that s a big if, doesn t this