is, she s lying? let s see what the story s going to be. i don t want to get into being pinned down on things until we see what the story s going to be. this is moving very rapidly. chris, msnbc contributor and managing editor of postpolitics.com and joins us with the daily fix. your assessment from what you ve heard? we heard from national review, from others who have stran scripts of national review has put out a transcript of this conference call. he made it very clear, this is sort of touch and go for the cain campaign. yeah. you know, it feels a little bit like depends on what you think the meaning of reassess is, andrea, but reassessing a presidential campaign, herman cain on that call said he reassessed over the summer, reassessed after the iowa straw poll, after a florida straw poll he won in august and reassessing now, but this reassessment comes after multiple women have come forward in the last month with allegations of sexual harassment against mr. cain. as you me
at $100 billion, according to the wall street journal. got to ask you, too, geoff, about fitch, the credit rating agency, giving the united states a negative outlook, keeping the aaa rating, but a negative outlook for our economy. yeah, this is interesting, isn t it? fitch is basically saying get your budget in order and we re going to give you until 2013. what they re saying here is that super committee failure now puts pressure on the government, really, to come up with some ways of cutting the deficit here, and if fitch doesn t see anything happen before 2013, that s when they would possibly move officially on the aaa rating. so, at this stage, just a bit of a shot across the bows. one other story to tell you about quickly. this is fascinating. a federal judge stepping in between the s.e.c. and citigroup over a settingment on alleged wrongdoing. citigroup not admitting any wrongdoing took place but agreeing to hand over $280 million. the judge saying, hang on a second, we re n
candidate called her as recently as september. the station says they sent a text message to the number she identified as belonging to mr. cain. believe it or not, the candidate then called back from that number, acknowledging he knew ms. white but said he was only trying to help her financially. earlier in the day, mr. cain tried to get out in front of ms. white s accusations. he was on the air with wolf blitzer on cnn just minutes before the atlanta station played the interview with his accuser. tell us about the nature of your relationship with this woman. friend and trying to help a friend because not having a job, 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. there was someone who was supposed to be a friend, but obviously, they didn t see it as a friendship. when you say friend i mean, i m asking awkward questions, but i ll ask you the questions you re going to be asked. was this an affair
there was no sex? no. none? no. and if this woman says so, she s lying? let s see what the story s going to be. i don t want to get into being pinned down on some things until we see what the story s going to be. mr. cain has recently fallen in the polls. this is the latest in a series of accusations against him, including claims by three women who say he allegedly sexually harassed or groped them. cain s campaign is downplaying the latest charge of an affair, saying it s not an accusation of harassment but of alleged consensual conduct between adults. in a statement, cain s attorney said in part, he has no obligation to discuss these types of accusations publicly with the media and he will not do so, even if his principled position is viewed unfavorably by members of the media. that from mr. cain s attorney, less of a denial than mr. cain himself. meanwhile, barney frank, one of the leading voices of the democratic party, says he will not seek re-election in 2012. th
associated with her in any forum would be damaging to you? no. i thought at the time look, i was a private citizen. i wasn t contemplating public life. meanwhile, the guy that is tied with mr. gingrich at the top of the poll, mitt romney, his campaign is fighting back by an ad we showed you yesterday, the one released by the democratic national committee called mitt versus mitt that portrays romney as a flip-flopper. from the creator of i m running for office for pete s sake comes the story of two men trapped in one body, mitt vs mitt. i will preserve and protect a woman s right to choose. the right next step is to see roe v. wade overturned. two mitts willing to say anything. we ve put together an exchange and the president s copying that idea. i m glad to hear that. obama care is bad news. see it all at mittvmitt.com. so, that s the ad that came out yesterday and the obama campaign went as far as sending out a message from the president s own twitter account,