why he hold hundreds of his father s prized possessions. this is piers morgan tonight. welcome back, dr. rice. we last spoke in january when i first launched the show. it s been pretty quiet since then. what s really happened? the arab spring up risings, bin laden s been killed, gadhafi s been killed, mubarak overthrown. we ve got a guy who used to sell pizzas running your party s charge to take on the president. pretty quiet. it s been a busy several months. that s absolutely right. what do you make of the whole herman cain phenomenon? because it is a phenomenon. he s come pretty much from nowhere to storm the gop ratings. he s engulfed in maybe scandal. we don t really know the full extent of it yet. but what do you think of him personally? i don t actually know him. but this is what our primary season is all about. he s an interesting person. he has an interesting background. obviously, a lot of business experience. and he s sort of shaking up the race. i don t t
in connecticut some 215,000 people remain without power, more than a week after that freak october snowstorm. connecticut light and power is promising 99% of their customers will have electricity by tomorrow night. this morning the governor said that a 99% threshold must be reached. anything less than 99% restored number is unacceptable. we ll get a live update on the swan the situation in connecticut later. five of the republican candidates spoke at the annual ronald reagan dinner end des moines. mitt romney and herman cain were no shows. rick perry drew applause with his plan that would freeze the pay of a lot of federal workers. until the budget gets balanced i m going to impose an across the board pay freeze for congress and all federal employees pay outside of the military and the public safety areas. iowa s first in the nation presidential caucus is on january 3rd. across america now growing anger at big banks and their rising fees and some of those banks co
he plays a modern-day robin hood. let s storm the castle together. like when they went after frankenstein. no. the peasants take everything back from the lords. i m in. matthew broderick and two of the most powerful men in hollywood. this is piers morgan tonight. we begin with breaking news a. jury in the manslaughter trial of michael jackson s doctor will get the case. ted rowlands joins me now. ted, another dramatic day and now we will get to i guess the final answer. describe what happened today. well, piers, two very passionate arguments by both sides. david walgren started off telling the your this wasn t a case about a doctor/patient relationship. this is a case about a guy willing to do something very dangerous for $150,000 a month. he also reminded the jury about michael jackson s three children that will be growing up fatherless. the jackson family was in the courtroom as they usually are and there were a few moments where it was very emotional. one of
obviously someone is encouraging them to bring it up now because i m doing so well in this republican nomination. that s all i would say. why are you bringing it up now? secondly, are you being used to try and help paint a cloud and help sabotage my candidacy? that s all i would say. i would simply ask a question as to why they would do that now. that has apparently angered one of the women. here s what her attorney, joel bennett told the washington post, it s frustrating herman cain is bad mouthing two complainants and my client is blocked bay confidentiality agreement. joining us on the telephone, chief legal analyst, jeffrey toobin. if she signed a confidentiality agreement a dozen years ago and the restaurant association signed that agreement, frum proo presumably mr. cain signed that as welsh. you re making assumptions i m not sure are valid. we don t flow what s in the contract. nigh guess is herman cain did not sign that confidentiality agreement, it was probably
word agreement you know, i m not sure what they called it. and yes, that was some sort of settlement or termination and i don t even know what the contents of that was. well, he came out this morning that cain had a pretty good recognition of the settlement from the outset. she was making huge claims about sexual harassment. i do recall she was asking for a lrnlg sum of money. i don t remember what the sum of money was. as the review of this moved forward, that sum of money negotiated my attorney and negotiated with her attorney got less and less and less because her attorney started to figure out, she didn t have a valid claim. she couldn t find people to corroborate these things she was making and so as it got smaller and smaller and smaller it turned out to be from my perspective, which is why i didn t go back and ask to see it, more of a separation agreement rather than some sort of legal settlement. so is this a political pothole, a brick wall or wind fall? we ll l