we would ask everyone to remain seated for security purposes and at 10:05 we ll begin a round table conversation with lots of geeky nerd types who study taxes. we re going to talk about the details of 9-9-9. welcome. it s very great to have you here. it s my pleasure, happy to be here. boy, this is turn it down pull it down just a smidgeon. you didn t turn it on? because i tend to project. so pull it down just a smidgeon. i ll blow this thing to smitherines. we didn t hit the power when they miked me up. you re loud and clear. i m happy to be here. thank you very much. i want to thank all of you all for being here. thank you very much, mr. cain. to get rolling right away, it s halloween, so if you re going to go as one of your political opponents and you really want to
is we let herman be herman and mr. cain lets block be block. i smoke, it s a fact. now, we never anticipated that this message to our supporters, which is really what it was, that we were excited about the campai campaign, we were excited about the poll numbers. everybody knows that we re running this as a different type of campaign from a bottoms up instead of a top down. never anticipated that it would go viral the way it did. i mean, chuck so you re not longer are you going to make sure you re not filmed smoking a cigarette anymore? if i m standing outside of a hotel having a cup of coffee on my iphone and i have a cigarette and somebody films it, there s nothing i can do about that. i understand. but you re not going to be having your campaign filming you. absolutely not. i want to go back one more time to the politico story. if the facts come out and mr. cain wasn t clear with you, how disturbing is that to you?
tomorrow you re going to be holding mr. cain is holding sort of an open house, if you will, for congressional republicans to come, a meet and greet. yes. do you expect some endorsements tomorrow? don t know if we are going to get endorsements tomorrow. the number one reason we re in washington this week besides the typical doing the tv shows and stuff is for the congressional and senate delegations to get to know mr. cain, to get to know what his platform is, his bold ideas on things like 9-9-9 and some of the other policy things we re going to be rolling out. they really want to understand how this campaign is structured. what are we doing in iowa, what are we doing in new hampshire. are you giving a presentation? i ll be with mr. cain. i ll let him answer the questions. the way that we ve run this thing, and you have to admit that not many people understand why are we first in the polls. right. why are we first in iowa. why are we statistically head-to-head with gov
i have complete confidence that what mr. cain told me is absolute factual and true, chuck. what gives you that confidence? i ve known him. but you re confidence, 100% confident that all parts of this story are inaccurate. yes. 100%? yes, sir. how many times do i have to say it. there may not have been a miscommunication between mr. cain an those staffers. right. and did he leave under normal circumstances? yes, he did. you ve asked him all of these questions? yes, sir. i want to go to the campaign strategy that you ve done. yes. uf spent a lot of time in alabama, a state whose primary is far away. you and mitt romney are leading in iowa and have spent the least amount of time in iowa. what are we missing here? what is the old school political world missing here? couple of things. one is the internet, the new media or digital media, and our ability to communicate with people that way.
let s bring back the panel. it was not a herman cain video. that was not a rick perry video. not a mitt romney video. that was rick perry not a made-up video. that was rick perry on the stump. loosey goosy. were you as taken aback in person? i think everybody in the room was taken aback by it. i know everybody in the back of the room who s followed him even a short amount of time was taken aback by it. i mean, it was just i don t think i ve ever seen rick perry quite like that. what did the staff say? the staff didn t say what time was it? 8:30 on a friday night. 8:30 on a friday night. right. this was the group s cornerstone as a social conservative group in new hampshire. this was their annual banquet. he had been invited months ago before he was a candidate and he was the final speaker. whoa. i had the feeling that he was so comfortable with this crowd? group of people that he just kind of, you know.