public policy, david drucker a reporter for roll call and anita dunn a former white house communications director. welcome all of you. you heard haley barbour said to herman cain just release this woman from her disclosure and get it all out. don t let this drag on. i completely agree with governor barbour, but, you know, there s a legal question which is was herman cain a party to the suit or was it the associate? right. i would assume the lawyer in me would assume it s really up to the association to to release this and to say that we re going to drop the confidentiality clause. i i find it very difficult to believe that herman cain himself could actually say i can open up the confidentiality agreement but anita dunn, when you see, and i interviewed the lawyer for one of the women who basically is mad at how herman cain is upset at how she believes she is being characterized by herman cain meaning she wants to speak out, i mean, if you re herman cain how do you prep
one of the sexual harassment allegations. here s how cain in a conversation with a reporter for forbes magazine recounted a 2003 conversation with anderson as they discussed potential obstacles to that senate candidacy. those charges were baseless, but i thought he needed to know about them. i don t recall anyone else being in the room when i told him. but anderson tonight emphatically tells cnn it never happened, denying he ever discussed those allegations with cain. also tonight, an oklahoma republican political consultant who did work for the national restaurant association tells cnn he personally witnessed cain behaving inappropriately around a female employee. chris wilson said the incident took place when cain was the head of the restaurant group and at a restaurant just outside of washington. and just prior to speaking to cnn, wilson told oklahoma radio station ktok, he witnessed more than one red flag encounter. i was actually around a couple times when this hap
press room podium and listen to a tiny bit of what he had to say. it is hard to understand why speaker boehner would walk away from this kind of deal and, frankly, if you look at the commentary out there, there are a lot of republicans that are puzzled as to why it couldn t get done. in the interest of being serious about deficit reduction, i was willing to take a lot of heat from my party up until sometime early today when i couldn t get a phone call returned. my expectation was that speaker boehner was going to be willing to go to his caucus and ask them to do the tough thing but the right thing. i told speaker boehner, i ve told democratic leader nancy pelosi, i ve told harry reid and i ve told mitch mcconnell i want them here at 11:00 tomorrow. these are body blows in d.c. terms and speaker boehner struck back himself about 45 minutes ago. listen to what he said. think refuse to get serious and making the tough choices. it s time to get serious. and i m confident th
is your explanation, i put it to you an inference could be drawn if the larger settlements contained confidentiality and the smaller did not, despite what you say it being a pragmatic condition based on the cost of the company an inference could be bought that silence was being bought by the confidentiality clause in the larger settlements. that inference would be false. a lot of people find it quite hard to believe that two executives who nobody would regard as passive had such little knowledge of widespread illegality at one of your flagship papers. can i ask you very specifically, mr. james murdoch first, when did you become aware that the victims of crime had been hacked, when did you become aware that the phone of the murder victim dowler had been
and to allow my colleague louise to finish her questions. thank you very much mr. chairman. when discussing your initial appearance, i must say i think it she s men s guts on behalf of you to continuancing questions under the circumstances, in such a lengthy session, and i thank you for it. thank you. my questions will be just as tough as they would have been had that inch fortunate incident not have occurred. mr. james murdoch if i could take you back briefly before we were rudely interrupted. could you please tell me whether or not the taylor settlement involved a confidentiality clause that was not present for the other amounts of money. i can tell you the taylor settlement was a confidential