we didn t hear from herman cain s accuser herself, but her lawyer says she still believes she was the victim of sexual harassment by the republican presidential candidate back in the 1990s, when he was the head of the national restaurant association. the lawyer, joel bennett, responding skeptically to herman cain s denials. there s an expression, where there s smoke, there s fire. the fact that there are multiple complaints tells me that it s more likely than not that there was some sexual harassment activity by this man at that time. all of that is subject to proof. he would be allowed to rebut all of them be and i but the fact that there s more than one complainant is meaningful. let s assess what s going on right now with our chief analyst gloria borger. if no other woman were to publicly announce what happens right now, is it possible that this whole issue could go away for herman cain? sure, it is. so far, in fact, wolf, this hasn t affected him much in the polls
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we didn t hear from herman cain s accuser herself, but her lawyer says she still believes she was the victim of sexual harassment by the republican presidential candidate back in the 1990s, when he was the head of the national restaurant association. the lawyer, joel bennett, responding skeptically to herman cain s denials. there s an expression, where there s smoke, there s fire. the fact that there are multiple complaints tells me that it s more likely than not that there was some sexual harassment activity by this man at that time. all of that is subject to proof. he would be allowed to rebut all of them be and i but the fact that there s more than one complainant is meaningful. let s assess what s going on right now with our chief analyst gloria borger. if no other woman were to publicly announce what happens right now, is it possible that this whole issue could go away for herman cain? sure, it is. so far, in fact
millions in profits and not paying taxes. sometimes the government is paying them. that s triggering outrage on this american morning . good morning, everyone. it is friday, my very favorite day of the week besides saturday and sunday. happy friday. it s november 4th. welcome to american morning . i m christine romans. ali is on assignment. he s still in caane. herman cain still defiant this morning. the republican front-runner pushing back against the sexual harassment swirling around him. cain says that he will not let it derail his campaign for president. also developing this morning we may hear from one of cain s accusers today, her attorney hopes to release a statement which can rebut cain s contention that any allegations made against him were groundless. joe johns. following all the twists and turns of this case that continues to twist and turn, joe. reporter: that s for sure. if it happens, best case scenario the moment where we start to learn something abou
less than a third of them actually live in oakland. police showed reporters some of the weapons they faced during the disturbance in oakland over night. and they are hoping to make additional arrests as they learn more about the vandals. and the preliminary estimate to replace the 18 broken windows is between 20 and $25,000. of course, this does not include the expense to small businesses affected over night. and tonight, tense moments at a special city council meeting. residents and protestors alike living in the encampments outside city hall were all in the chambers tonight. reggie, the counsel trying to decide whether to pass a resolution in support of the movement. reporter: reporter: yeah, pam. that meeting just wrapped up. and we have a learned that council member nadel has withdrawn her support of the movement because she says she does not have enough votes. they had agreed to mat make any formal willingive action tonight. here s what the meeting was like earli
talking when they refuse, harry reid asked the oakland police officers to escort them away from the podium. occupation will distract us, we are focused, we were focused before this and we will be focused after. do not stop me, mayor jean quan your two minutes are up. officer, would you escort her away from the mike? i can assure you out of the 10,000 people there almost 99.9 percent of them were peaceful. reporter: in from police councilman jordan also spoke with those at the meeting. people yelled and screamed and call the chief a liar. he put on display paint sprayers, rocks, bottles and shields he says these items were used by the protesters to enter the police officers and to tag buildings. they say some people refuse to come to oakland now because of the protest. james: we will have more on the impact of those small businesses and potential businesses that may have canceled the deal. justine: in the meantime mayor jean quan spoke about the violence that broke ou