to basically try and slander my integrity and my character, i can t tell you what their motivation other than to stop herman cain. i believe the american people are saying they are not going to let that happen. steve craft, fox10 news in phoenix. mitt romney has been quoted as saying he finds the accusations to be disturbing. can you react to that observation by mr. romney and tell us what you think is behind it? sure. sexual harassment is a very serious matter, as i ve said. i find the accusations distur disturbing. but false. i don t believe governor romney was saying he thought i was guilty of any of the accusations. but yes, they re disturbing. because they distract me and my team from taking our message to the american people. talking about solutions. they distract from the whole
forward. that smacks of somebody encouraging them to do it after all these years. it is having run a presidential campaign and been the recipient of all kind of nasty stuff on my opponents i can tell you that it very rarely bears itself out. in this case, just so i can clarify this one more time there is no doubt in my mind that politico and others got this from other republicans. not from democrats. eric: you said the exact same thing i said on the other side. greg: here we go again. eric: how about this. how about this. let me be conspiratorial now. greg: for a change. eric: politico gets it from the democratic party or someone on the left. and they say don t name your source. make it look like it came from a campaign. and all of a sudden we get dig down to the minutia of this instead of concentrating on what really matters, jobs, economy, unemployment, people aren t working. things aren t working. we waste all of this time worrying whether herman cain went like this to a
he said rebuilding trust with voters will be a challenge but he will keep trying. we will have more on this story and all of the top stories of the day at the top of the hour on special report. we ll also have breaking news and election update throughout the night tonight. it is election day 2011. we ll have a complete election special tonight at 11:00 p.m. eastern time. join us then. at the top of the hour. right now we return to new york and my colleagues with the five. kimberly: thank you. i m kimberly guilfoyle with andrea tantaros, bob beckel, eric bolling, greg gutfeld. this is the five. you just saw herman cain addressing the sexual abuse allegations. so does it end the controversy or just raise more questions? andrea, flat out accusations against him. he said he denies all of them. they re false. he hired famed attorney lynnwood, which tells you something. he is taking this very seriously. he seemed to be very strong across the board in terms of presentation and reb
ourselves to continuously be distracted by these sort of incidents. i will respond to them. but we cannot slow this campaign down. when we need to be dealing with our economic crisis. our spending crisis. our energy crisis. our foreign policy crisis. illegal immigration crisis. and a crisis of leadership in the white house in washington, d.c. that is what i am going to continue to focus on. on behalf of the american people. not for me, but for the grand kids. thank you all very much for your attendance. [ applause ] bret: herman cain speaking to reporters in scottsdale, arizona, spoke for more than 30 minutes. he said he chose to address the allegations directly. repeating three times the line, i have never acted inappropriately with anyone period. now cain claimed he did not especially recognize sharon
was it tough last week? yes. has it been tough the last couple of days? yes. that s one thing about herman cain a lot of the american people know. gist because it s tough is no reason for me not to do what i feel like i have to do. because of what the american people have said to me during these turbulent times, we will get through this. we will get through this. the fact is these anonymous allegations are false and now the democrat machine in america has brought forth a troubled woman to make false accusations. statements. many of which exceed common sense. they certainly exceed the standards of decency in america. i have been married for 43 years. to my wife gloria.