trying to remember do i know her? i didn t recognize the face. i didn t recognize the name. nor the voice. so is that a possibility? yes. a remote possibility. here is why. one of the things that people who work with me for years tell you i m good at remembering people. especially people that have had a positive impact in my life or a positive impact on my business. i m pretty good to remember people i have met. who have made some sort of impression on me. in this case, i doubt i ll have an ah-ha moment later and say oh, yeah, i remember that. i just don t think it will happen. mark placesy with the new york times. karen kraushaar just spoke to our newspaper in the last hour. can you tell us what she accused you of specifically and what your intersections with her were?
you came close to answering that but stopped. this is your press conference where you are going to level with us and tell us what happened. so tell us what she accused you of and tell us what really happened. this is your chance. thank you. well, i can only recall one thing that i was aware of that was called sexual harassment. the one thing that i remember that i remembered during the day when all of this broke loose, is that one day in my office at the national restaurant association, i was standing next to miss kraushaar and i gestureed standing near her like this. you are the same height as my wife, because my wife comes up to my chin. that was the one gesture that i remember. the door was open. my secretary was sitting there. it wasn t anything behind closed doors.
it s not just men sexually harass women. i have seen situations where women have attempted to sexually harass men. it s very serious. i made sure it wasn t tolerated in my organization i was responsible for. jonathan carl with abc news. mr. cain, now another woman, one of the formerly anonymous woman has come forward working with you at the sought association, karen kraushaar, now with the treasury department come forward. what do you say of her accusations, someone who is still working in the u.s. government. are her allegations not true? is she lying about them? well to the best of that recollection, since you remember that particular name, that is the one that i recall filed a complaint but it was
bialek at her press conference monday. he said she did not recognize her name either. there are people who talked today on the record about seeing cain and bialek talking at a tea party event a month ago. cain insists that the charges and accusations simply didn t happen. cain said he won t drop out of the race. he will continue to run and run hard. he was introduced by lynnwood, well-known attorney from georgia who actually represented richard jewel, the security guard falsely accused of the olympic park bombing and also represented john and patsy ramsey, parent of the murdered child. asked about karen kraushaar one of women who settled a sexual harassment claim. she is speaking publicly tonight. cain said her case was found to be baseless. he said he would like to take a lie detector test. he said there will probably be others, meaning allegations, but there is nothing to them.