But he didn't press home the point, or expand upon it.

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Indeed, his own angry rhetoric seemed to quickly divide the people on either side of the political spectrum, but he didn't back down at a press conference the following day where he again took center stage.

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But he said during an appearance at the National Press Club in April that he didn't know yet how many.

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Dutschke told The Associated Press last week that he didn't send the letters.

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He claims the FBI bugged his home and his wife's car and threatened to press criminal charges if he didn't settle.

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Press secretary George Little said he didn't know whether the U.S. would have access to the pilot to question him, but he said there have been "countless incidents" of members of the Syrian regime seeking to defect, and predicted more such moves to come.

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Today, his key economic advisers had a press conference and issued a press release, saying, well, he didn't completely mean we have to remove regulation from Wall Street.

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At the time, Rodriguez was a freelancer working for the Italian house Cerruti: "I didn't have an office or press people, " he says.

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Delivering the Orwell Lecture last week, he said most journalists didn't want the courts, the state, Europe or MPs to regulate the press.

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"He asked me for money and I said I didn't have it, " she told The Associated Press Friday from her apartment, which was scattered with her son's toys and movies.

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