can t leak what it didn t know. that is where we start today. a whole new round of accusations and denials in the hottest story in politics this week anyway. the man now leading the republican race for president says he think he knows who leaked a sexual harassment allegation from the 1990s. herman cain says he confided to an advisor named kurt anderson back when cain was rubbing for a senate seat from georgia in 2004. today anderson works for rick perry who s plummeted in the polls while cain has soared. but that s hardly the final word on all of this. cnn chief political animal gist gloria borger joins me now with many more words, some of this from kurt anson himself. hi, gloria, what s his side of this? i spoke with him this morning on american morning. his side of it is just flatly that the conversation that herman cain said happened never happened. listen to this. well, there s two problems with that. one is i didn t know anything about this and so it s hard to l
restaurant association. we re also learning details of the one of the first two incidents that ended in financial settlements. they come from chris wilson, a former colleague who witnessed he says one of the incidents and spoke about it today to gloria borger and ktok. i ll tell you at the time she was a very lower level staffer. i think she was maybe two years out of college and this all occurreded at a restaurant in crystal city and everybody was very aware of it and so it was only a matter of time because so many people were aware of what took place and her situation and the fact she left after this. it was a everybody knew what the campaign that this would eventually come up. chris wilson is a rick perry supporter. gloria borger joins us shortly. that s not all, though. on top of all of that according to forbes.com cain is blaming another campaign operative. a 2004 campaign adviser now working for rick perry for sparking this whole mess but keep in mind cain s acc
former restaurant association colleague who witnessed he says one of the incidents and spoke about it today to gloria borger and cnn affiliate ktok. at the time she was a very low-level staffer. i think she was maybe two years out of college. and this all occurred at a restaurant in crystal city. and everybody was very aware of it. and so it is it was only a matter of time because so many people were aware of what took place. so many people were aware of her situation, the fact that she left after this. that it was it was a everybody knew with the campaign that it would eventually come up. chris wilson, we should point out, is a rick perry supporter. gloriaworther asked him about that. she joins us shortly. we ll talk to her for details. again. that s not all, though. on top of all that, though, according to forbes.com, cain is now blaming another campaign operative, a 2004 campaign adviser who s now working for rick perry, for sparking this whole mess. but keeping