Whither the Rumored Hastert AM Presser?

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We reported last night we heard rumors of a press conference by House speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) this morning. It’s 11 a.m. Eastern time, and no presser. What gives?

My Hill sources are saying it’s going to be at 11 a.m. Central. But Hastert’s district office in Batavia, Ill. says there’s nothing scheduled. “At the moment, there’s no publicly available-type press conference,” an assistant told me when I called a few minutes ago. When I asked what that meant, he said that Hastert may be giving individual interviews, but there was no press event scheduled.

Overnight, Denny appears to have dug in his heels. So who knows what he’s going to do. I don’t know if he himself knows, at this point.

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