What Jackson and Extremist are trying to say is that Hastert is going to the wall in defense of a dead-to-rights felon by attempting to get the search of his office declared unconstitutional (which would seriously jeopardize the Justice Department case), and has uttered not a single word in defense of Tom DeLay since his indictment last September.
I'm not defending Hastert (which, oops, I misspelled earlier) but expecting him to try to influence state counts is wrong.