cain says it s time to set the record straight. i will talk about all future firestorms. here s one thing people don t know about herman cain. i m in it to win it. i m not going to be discouraged. well, mary snow has the latest developments and mark preston is looking at the political fallout. mary, let s go ahead and begin with you. what caused cain to reverse course all of a sudden and decide to hold this news conference? you know, kyra, last week when herman cain railed against the press for bringing up these allegations of sexual harassment he was highly critical of anonymous users, but that all changed yesterday with a person who came forward who now brings a name, a face and specific allegations. and, you know, yesterday when sharon bialek had this news conference, herman cain s campaign came out with a general, broad statement saying that all allegations of sexual harassment against him were false. by last night, the campaign had started raising questions about s
harassment claims from his past. we were the first to bring you this on our show, last night. a fed up, angry herman cain struggling to change the conversation with a room full of reporters. i was going to do something that my staff told me not to do and try to respond. what i m saying is this, we are getting back on message. end of story. back on message. read all the other accounts. read all the other accounts, where everything has been answered. end of story. we are getting back on message. okay. of course the story is taylor made for these two guys, will cain, a cnn contributor, lz granderson a senior contributor to cnn.com and contributor to the new york times. i got your tweets. lz said we are going to need 30 minutes on cnn to talk about everything that is going on. you may be right. we will have you on twice. will, you are all excited. dising me because i m in the in new york. how does cain think he is going to get away by telling reporters to essentially shut u
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