his own white house run, and who now plans to host a republican debate, after christmas. then there is ex-candidate herman cain whose endorsement could go to gingrich eventually. though he now says he s going to take his time. stay with us, we ll bring you those comments live at 1:45 eastern time. also, president obama, we are told, is going to have some sort of statement or briefing in the briefing room of the white house. the subject is going to be taxes. a lot of talk of that up on capitol hill. we ll hear what the president has to say this hour. and what does first class mean to you? to the debt-laden u.s. postal service it would mean two to five days instead of one to three days. trying to help trim $20 billion a year from the postal service by 2015. it would mean closing more than half the agencies 463 mail processing facilities across the country. going to mean a lot of layoffs, too. i ll have some questions for the post master general in our face time segment
cain for leaking the story is speaking out. plus, lawmakers documents of the bankrupt solar energy company that got a half a billion dollar loan from the obama administration. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com while herman cain scrambles to try to get in front of the growing controversy, he s raking in lots of campaign contributions. cain s campaign now tells cnn they ve raised an astonishing $1.2 million since sunday evening when news of the accusations first broke. meantime, cain may face new embarrassment and more pressure if one of his accusers is allowed to come forward with a statement. brian todd has been reporting. what are you learning today? going to get to that in a moment, but what we may hear, there are indications that cain s alleged behavior may have cost the national restaurant association up to $80,000. politico reports one of the woman received a payout of about $45,000 as part of her settlement. earlier this week,