suggestion quote reckless and false. joining us today, what s the atmosphere in the campaign like right now? good afternoon, craig, we re seeing a defiance from the cain campaign. late yesterday we heard the accusations leveled by the perry campaign, there s this guy curt anderson who helped advise cain during his run for the senate in georgia in 2004 had been privy to this information about these suits, that these women leveled with the nation restaurant association and now he s a perry supporter and that s where they say that rick perry got this information, somehow leaked to the press. even if the story holds true, it does not answer the questions that everyone is asking, what exactly happened? saying it s rival campaign, putting out this information, this doesn t hold a lot of water with people who want to know exactly what it is that happened with mr. cain and whether or not he s ever sexually harassed thiz
collar. there was one quick question about the actual scandal or the alleged allegations against him. and we heard the same narrative that this is false, it s a smear campaign and this is just the media being biased and other campaigns fearing him now that he s a top tier candidate and trying to bring him down. he has those arrows on his back as he s like to have said on the campaign trail. thank you, andrew. rick perry, meanwhile in iowa trying to get his support back in the double digits among registered voters. carrie, what s been the perry camp s reaction to herman cain s charge that it was perhaps his folks who leaked the allegations? last night we saw a swift response from the perry campaign. they said two responses, the candidate himself was on tv and curt anderson who my colleague
can t leak what it didn t know. that is where we start today. a whole new round of accusations and denials in the hottest story in politics this week anyway. the man now leading the republican race for president says he think he knows who leaked a sexual harassment allegation from the 1990s. herman cain says he confided to an advisor named kurt anderson back when cain was rubbing for a senate seat from georgia in 2004. today anderson works for rick perry who s plummeted in the polls while cain has soared. but that s hardly the final word on all of this. cnn chief political animal gist gloria borger joins me now with many more words, some of this from kurt anson himself. hi, gloria, what s his side of this? i spoke with him this morning on american morning. his side of it is just flatly that the conversation that herman cain said happened never happened. listen to this. well, there s two problems with that. one is i didn t know anything about this and so it s hard to l