if another campaign were to step forward at this point and attack herman cain over this issue, that would instantly reshape the narrative that we re dealing with. now what about if they leaked this story? you can t say, because it s one of your colleagues, you probably don t even know where this story came from. it was broken by j-mar, but jonathan martin, but let me ask you, do you think it s a story as to where this story came from? is that a legitimate political question to ask? who is putting out the dirt on somebody else in the republican party? i think people are welcome into looking into whatever kind of opposition research the campaigns may or may not be doing. but i think it s important, chris, and i want to address one thing that mr. cain said. he said this is a smear campaign orchestrated against him. one of the defining features of a smear campaign is usually the allegations are not true. and mr. cain, in this situation, has confirmed a good deal of the report. i m so
we ll hear more about on fox news tonight. i think you are hearing some pushback from conservatives, saying basically that this is another example of the liberal press trying to bring down a black conservative. they re namedropping clarence thomas and drawing comparisons to that. but it does seem like he has stumbled into a real big mess here, primarily because there s that clear flip-flop, there s that clear reversal from earlier in the day, when he said he had no idea of this settlement, which i think to some people s ears, did strike them as odd. there seemed to be an acknowledgement that the complaints were made. and then to sort of say, he had no idea that a settlement was made when it was made, i think, struck people as odd. so now we have him here, clearly contradicting himself from earlier today. he s definitely developing this story as he goes along. this is called what s it called? rolling disclosure, we call it in our business, right, j., jonathan, j-mar. this is when yo
always speculate in my mind, but i don t want to do it here, as to who would gain from the fall of herman cain? i don t think the liberals would be after him at this point. he doesn t look like the nominee. but who would be after him would be a fellow conservative who s competing with him to go on against mitt romney. that doesn t tell you who did it, it simply gives you a possible motive for someone. and you heard herman cain today call it a witch hunt, and obviously conservatives are blaming it on the liberal media. but i will say, i think there have been rumors about this swirling around his campaign, swirling around press organizations. and you know, kudos to you, j-mar, for breaking this thing you mean rumors of this particular nature, the harassment issue? yes, this particular incident. specifically, that j-mar so masterfully reported on in politico. my ex-colleague, hats off to you. thank you.
you can t say, because it s one of your colleagues, you probably don t even know where this story came from. it was broken by j-mar, but jonathan martin, but let me ask you, do you think it s a story as to where this story came from? is that a legitimate political question to ask? who is putting out the dirt on somebody else in the political party? i think people are willing to look into whatever kind of opposition research the campaigns may or may not be doing. but i want to address one thing that mr. cain said. he said this is a smear campaign orchestrated against him. one of the defining features of a smear campaign is usually the allegations are not true. and mr. çcain, in this situati, has confirmed a good deal of the report. it looks like the post has grabbed this story again. this story just broke on the washington post website. the post is reporting that one of the woman who accused herman cain of sexual harassment in the late 1990s wants to tell her side and has ca
contradicting himself from earlier today. he s definitely developing this story as he goes along. this is called what s it called? rolling disclosure, we call it in our business, right, j., jonathan, j-mar. this is when you put out information like a leaky faucet and it looks worse for you all the time, right? look, chris, he had ten days to respond to this story. his campaign was made aware of our reporting on thursday, october 20th. they did not respond until the following week on monday. we were not satisfied with the nature of their response. we wanted to make sure mr. cain himself, not his staff, mr. cain himself, had a chance to respond to these very serious questions. so i asked him directly, outside of cbs news yesterday morning, have you, sir, ever been accused of sexual harassment in your life? i gave him four chances to answer that very straightforward question. he didn t do it. and not until today did he finally admit that, yes, he was accused of sexual harassment. he