we ll bring you the results later on in the show. one thing we should ask tonight. what s the limit here? how many women have to come out and talk about herman cain before the republican party or somebody shows some leadership saying, you know, guy, maybe you better step out of this whole thing. let s bring in ken vogel, chief investigative reporter for politico, who helped break this story earlier this week. and wayne slater, co-author of bush s brain. ken, good to have you with us tonight. i want to start with you. the ap is reporting a third accuser. what do you make of it? it sounds kind of consistent with some of the things that we ve heard, that this is an association, the national restaurant association, that by definition is centered around the hospitality industry. we ve heard a lot about some of these afterwork gatherings. some of the gatherings at the national restaurant association
hispanic chamber of commerce. i m sure it s a worthy goal. arlen specter there. $30 million for the university of alabama at tuscaloosa for interdisciplinary we could go on and on. where do you think the research grants come from? it s all federal money. then why isn t the new republican leadership saying, american people, earmarks are good? otherwise, the president gets all the authority. so we re going to keep loading these bills up with earmarks. i don t think they said either one of those things. they made a pledge, the republican, not to do it. and you talked about senators as we talked about last night, senator mitch mcconnell, who did it it was not easy for him to do because he was a well-known earmarker, liked to send money back to kentucky. he has over $100 million worth of earmarks going back to kentucky. the question we were trying to ask today and we really got no answer is okay, they say that these earmarks were in this bill it was old, before they made