so-called personhood antiabortion amendment went down to a crushing defeat. none of this, of course, guarantees success next year. but they re probably smiling in the white house tonight. also, the herman cain camp seems to have settled on a strategy, accuse the accusers. they re going after the women who have made charges against him. how big of a deal will this be in tonight s republican debate? and how long can this go on? plus, here s a good lesson from republican john walsh on how not to treat a constituent. hang on. quiet for a minute. quiet for a minute! so i can ask you to leave. you need to listen. i m going to ask you to leave. well, we ve seen that before. what has joe walsh so upset? we ll find out in the side show. and recognize this guy? i m chris matthews of msnbc s hardball, with me is senator barack obama. thanks for spending a few moments with us. you sir are great. i don t think that s me, but it s the best he can do, that s daryl hammond do
they simply did not happen. the fact is, these anonymous allegations are false, and now the democrat machine in america has brought forth a troubled woman to make false accusations. was it tough last week? yes. is it s that been tough the last couple of days? yes. but you see, that s one thing about herman cain that i think a lot of the american people know and that is, just because it s tough is no reason for me not to do what i feel like i have to do. because of what the american people have said to me, during these turbulent times, we will get through this. we will get through this. sometimes feisty news conference that ended moments ago, mr. cain said he cannot recall ever meeting the chicago whom who says cain upgraded his room to a suite, made an aggressive and unwanted sexual advance. with respect to the most recent accusation, i have never acted inappropriately with anyone. period. i saw ms. allred and her client yesterday in that news conference for the very fir
huge transformation, of course. i think what people realize is you go here and it almost changes every single day. the first couple of weeks it was maybe 100 people. you know, sleeping on the ground with a tarp pulled over them and a backpack or in a sleeping bag and now we ve started to see tents pop up and as really as the city has started to give us more space to do what we want to do which is express our first amendment rights. i think it s allowed us to try to get more organized. that s why this movement has come so far. talk to me about the tents. i ve seen a number of what appear to be sort of military-style tents. it is. one of the things we ve realized in terms of space in the park that if we move to a larger style tent have more communal living spaces that it will not only be safer but also that will allow us to have more people in here. you say safer. there has been something made of some safety issues here in the park. drug use, sexual assaults as well. spea
changes every single day. the first couple of weeks it was maybe 100 people. you know, sleeping on the ground with a tarp pulled over them and a backpack or in a sleeping bag and now we ve started to see tents pop up and as really as the city has started to give us more space to do what we want to do which is express our first amendment rights. i think it s allowed us to try to get more organized. that s why this movement has come so far. talk to me about the tents. i ve seen a number of what appear to be sort of military-style tents. it is. one of the things we ve realized in terms of space in the park that if we move to a larger style tent have more communal living spaces that it will not only be safer but also that will allow us to have more people in here. you say safer. there has been something made of some safety issues here in the park. drug use, sexual assaults as well. speak to that. i mean, have there been problems here in the park over the past 53 days? the
herman cain. a woman has now made a hard, descriptive claim of misconduct by herman cain, sexual misconduct. for the first time, we have a name and a face of an accuser and a clear on-camera narration of what she alleges he did. and in this case, the claim could be sexual assault. cain s campaign called the claim completely false. in fact, nothing in the past week has dented cain s appeal to republican voters in our polling, but nothing before comes close to matching today s on-camera accusation. plus, we have new nbc news/ wall street journal poll numbers that show how tight the race is right now. the key could be who can take advantage of the growing anger at wall street we know about that and of nieconomic inequality overall. and imagine settling into your seat on an airplane, fasten in your seat belt, and make sure your tray is in the upright position, turn to your side, and who s sitting next to you? mitt romney. we ll talk to a woman who shared a trip with mitt