cain for leaking the story is speaking out. plus, lawmakers documents of the bankrupt solar energy company that got a half a billion dollar loan from the obama administration. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com while herman cain scrambles to try to get in front of the growing controversy, he s raking in lots of campaign contributions. cain s campaign now tells cnn they ve raised an astonishing $1.2 million since sunday evening when news of the accusations first broke. meantime, cain may face new embarrassment and more pressure if one of his accusers is allowed to come forward with a statement. brian todd has been reporting. what are you learning today? going to get to that in a moment, but what we may hear, there are indications that cain s alleged behavior may have cost the national restaurant association up to $80,000. politico reports one of the woman received a payout of about $45,000 as part of her settlement. earlier this week,
president obama arriving in france for the g-20. the big story is greece, gamble with the global economy, and how could it cost the membership in the eu on this american morning. good morning to you. it is thursday, november 3. welcome to american morning. ali velshi is in stormy france. bad weather there. we will be talking to him in a few minutes about the g-20 minutes. stormy weather and stormy politics. up first, the scandal dogging herman cain s presidential campaign. growing larger this morning. associated press reporting that there is a third woman who accused cain of you wanted sexual advances when she worked for the national restaurant association. reports says she considered filing a complaint bunt didn t. cain for his part trying to stay on message. here he is facing reporters at an event in northern virginia. will he me say one thing. i m here with the doctors and that s what i m going to talk about. don t even bother asking me all the other questions th
focusing their attention on mitt romney. paul is standing by. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com as controversy swirls around him, republican front-runner, herman cain, went behind closed doors with republican lawmakers on capitol hill. just a brief respite from the storm that has blown over previously undisclosed sexual allegations. earlier today, cain suggested some sort of conspiracy is at work, but he insisted he will prevail. there are factions trying to destroy me personally as well as this campaign. but there is a force greater, there s a force at work here that is much greater than those that would try to destroy me and destroy this campaign. and this journey to the white house. and that force is called the voice of the people. cain may face a new round of controversy. one of his accusers apparently wants to go public. brian todd has been investigating this part of the story. what are you learn
feels like february here in new york city. welcome to american morning. i just can t believe it is november 1st. where does time go? good morning to you. up first, herman cain fighting back against allegations of sexual harassment. problem is, his story just keeps changing. the gop frontrunner is defending himself against a politico report against two women that accused him of inappropriate behavior during his tenure at the american restaurant association in the 1990s. we begin with cnn political director paul steinhauser. so i m trying to think how many times herman cain s story shifted in what, a three hour period yesterday. pretty much. you can say the time was unfortunate, the story braging one day before the republican candidate had high profile speeches and television interviews. start with the national press club. he was there around noon. this is what he had to say. i am unaware of any sort of settlement. i hope it wasn t for much because i didn t do anything, b
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first, he had nothing to say. then he couldn t remember. after that he recalled a few details and then more. in a flurry of interviews and public appearances over the past two days the republican front runner herman cain insisted he never sexually harassed anyone when he headed the national restaurant association in the 1990s. each time he seems to say something a bit different n. the latest, an extensive interview with hln, cain said he s being deliberately targeted but that his campaign won t be sidetracked. we have extensive coverage of the important political story beginning with brian todd. wolf, we have spoken to former colleagues of herman cain s at the restaurant association, asked him what he was like when he headed the group. we re taking a look at what cain said after the allegations surfaced and what he s saying now. on monday, herman cain said this about allegations of sexual harassment against him. i am unawa