actions. so i would continue to watch the white house for more of these going forward. they re trying to find as many of them as they can do. and it s not just clinton strategy here. you write that some of clinton s people are also helping the obama white house with this strategy as well. well, it s interesting. it didn t take much of a search to go back and find quotes from bruce reid, who was at the domestic policy council under clinton, who now is vice president biden s chief of staff, saying after 94, yes, we went and figured out how to use the executive branch without the legislature, and similar quotes from gene sperling, one of his economic advisers. so, they did it then, they know how to do it now, so again, i d be looking out for more. it s going to be interesting to see politically what type of effect, if any, this has on the obama presidency. absolutely. anne kornblut, washington post. anne, thank you. thank you. a financial firm run by former new jersey gov
about an incident from 12 years ago? apparently, cain did. once i referenced this lady s height and i was standing near her and i did this, saying, you re the same height as my wife, obviously, she thought that that was too close for comfort. politico s chief investigative reporter ken vogel co-authored the story with jonathan martin and two other reporters. ken, let s just start with your reaction to herman cain s day yesterday. what s your take on it? well, i ve got to agree with some of the other pundits whose comments you excerpted there in the lead, he s botched the response. he had ten days. we contacted him ten days before we published this story with specific allegations that had been relayed by multiple sources. they refused to comment. initially, they denied all knowledge of this. then they said that herman cain had some vague recollection of it. but as you saw right before we published this story, he refused to say whether he had ever even been accused of
any specifics about the allegations can you remember everything about an incident from 12 years ago? apparently, cain did. once i referenced this lady s height and i was standing near her and i did this, saying, you re the same height as my wife, obviously, she thought that that was too close for comfort. politico s chief investigative reporter ken vogel co-authored the story with jonathan martin and two other reporters. ken, let s just start with your reaction to herman cain s day yesterday. what s your take on it? well, i ve got to agree with some of the other pundits whose comments you excerpted there in the lead, he s botched the response. he had ten days. we contacted him ten days before we published this story with specific allegations that had been relayed by multiple sources. they refused to comment. initially, they denied all knowledge of this. then they said that herman cain had some vague recollection of it. but as you saw right before we published th
that they hope can demonstrate that obama is not going to wait, as david plouffe said in that interview you just showed. they don t want to be see as inactive, the way congress is, and they want to draw a pretty sharp contrast between themselves and congress heading into the re-election. you are among those who are now drawing parallels to bill clinton s presidency and the run-up to his re-election in 1996, with what the obama is doing now. is the obama white house making a conscious effort to replicate the clinton model? well, they are not ones to ever say that they are consciously replicating the clintons, but there was really no other choice for them. they do have some people on staff who back in the 90s after the 1994 midterms when congre president clinton didn t have a congress he could work, he started rolling out initiatives, school uniforms, cell phones for community groups, the v-chip, everyone will remember. so there is a model there. and bruce reid and gene sperling,
born this week. what s the earth s tipping point? we ll talk about that as well. i m craig melvin. alex is off this sunday. first up, a rare and now deadly october snowstorm in the northeast is breaking records and causing chaos across the region now. right now, a frantic effort is underway to restore power to about 2.9 million people without it this morning. states of emergency are in effect from massachusetts, connecticut, and new york, and new jersey. some areas are seeing nearly 2 feet of snow, shattering records dating all the way back to 1869. and at least three deaths are being blamed on the storm so far. one each in massachusetts, connecticut, and pennsylvania, and at least 1,000 flights were canceled across the country as well. airports in philadelphia and new york, airports in those areas, have been hit the hardest. here in new york this morning, cleanup from that snowfall, only the fourth in october since they started keeping records, about 135 years ago. nbc s r