affair. it was pretty simple. it wasn t complicated. i was aware that he was married, and i was also aware that i was involved in a very inappropriate situation, relationship. ginger white on the affair she claims she had with herman cain. she also showed waga cell phone records showing 61 calls for tex messages she claimed were from cain s private cell phone. we ve never worked together, and i can t imagine anyone phoning or texting me for the last 2 1/2 years just because. cain upstaged his accuser s announcement when he appeared on the cnn situation room before she spoke out. he said the accuser was just a friend whom he helped financially. tell bus the nature of your relationship with this woman. friend and trying to help a friend because not having a job, et cetera, and this sort of thing. that s all there is to the relationship. and here again, i don t know what s going to be claimed in the story. it was someone who was supposed to be a friend, but obvious
basketball coach bernie fine last night. a third man now says that fine molested him when he was a boy. also in a phone recording from nine years ago aired on espn fine s wife, laurie, says she knew, quote, everything that went on. we re expecting to hear from a family of a florida a&m student who died in a suspected hazing incident. they plan to announce a lawsuit against the school. robert champion was a drum major with the university s award winning marching band. 30 band members were suspended this semester because of possible involvement in hazing. big day for democracy in egypt. polling centers were overflowing today. the country s first election since the arab spring revolution. the vote comes after a bloody week of protest in the streets of cairo. defying expectations of more violence, egyptians peacefully waited in line for hours for their chance to cast a ballot. for many it was a very emotional moment. i feel good. i feel my vote will change egypt. to a bette
our political ticker at the bottom of the hour about the retirement of barney frank. they had a revolution. they ve ousted a ruler and now they are about to do something that is probably the most important thing that they have done and that is get out and vote. egyptians are hitting the polls today. they are out voting. it is the first in a series of elections for parliament and president. they are all under way. even in the midst of egypt s second major uprising of the year. the goal of both is the same an end to military rule which replaced the regime of long-time president hosni mubarak in february. turnout is surprisingly strong. voting for parliament will take stages. the presidential elections are set for june. pakistan says no more business as usual with the u.s. after a weekend air strike that nato calls tragic and unintended. nato helicopters from afghanistan opened fire on pakistani forces at the border killing 24 and wounding several others. afghan officials
know who is an acquaintance that i thought was friend of. television station ag.a identifies the accuser as ginger white. she claim her affair with cain lasted 13 years. it was complicated. i was aware that he was married and i was aware that i was involved in a very inappropriate situation, a relationship. again, cain denies having an affair. in an exclusive interview with wolf blitzer, cain says the latest accusation won t force him out of the race. you re staying in the race. you re not dropping out. i m not dropping out, no. as long as my wife is behind me and as long as my wife believes that i should stay in this race, i m staying in this race. because i am sick and tired of the hurt and harm that somebody out there is doing to my family, more so to me work these baseless charges. what this says is that somebody is awfully afraid that i m doing too well in this republican nomination to continue to dig up these stories to try and put a cloud and a damper on my c
hoping to take on the candidate who may pose the greatest challenge to president obama. we are talking about mitt romney. herman cain is live with us here in the situation room this hour. we will talk about what is behind declined in the recent polls. criticism of his 9-9-9 tax plan and much more. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. he s the only candidate whose been consistently at the top of the polls in the volatile republican race for the white house. that has mitt romney increasingly targeted by president obama s supporters. now in an unusual move, the democratic national committee is targeting romney in an effort to sway the gop nominated contest pmt cnn s joe john says working the scene for us. joe, what is going on here. it raises the question, whose primary is this anyway. it was much easier to keep track of this when it was just republicans fighting among themselves. the latest in the republican battle comes from the democratic national committee,