Not according to Brian Ross who was just on with O'Reilly. According to Ross, nobody had the IMs until the Pages (yes he said PAGES) came forward to ABC. Therefore, he said, he was quite confident Hastert never saw them (or anyone else for that matter). The email, which was ambiguous, was from a shared years ago. Not the explicit IMs according to Ross.
(LOL, let's see if it was Ross who set up the bogus blog!)
So I don't know what to believe with this story?
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