block, herman cain s chief of staff. mark, thank you very much for being here, and so now we see herman cain leading the republican field. this poll taken yesterday by rasmussen reports which is three, four days into the controversy over this politico article. what does it tell you? it tells me that if you tell the truth to the american public, and be as kurt anderson said in your earlier piece, that people will listen. if you discuss issues that resonate with the people, you will get their respect. and it s time to move off of this, um, story that we ve been embroiled in this week and get on with the campaign. and we re thrilled by the numbers that came out today and look toward to proceeding ahead with our campaign. megyn: do you think that the american people care about that story and the coverage of it? do you think that it s important to them? i really don t.
sources claiming mr. cain acted inappropriately. so, chuck, i mean, really in the weeds, talking about consultants and how this works. now, for the record, kurt anderson who advising the perry campaign has denied being involved. rick perry said no one in my campaign has any involvement in how this information got out. is this a strategy on herman cain s part to try and turn this story into sniping? it looks like a circular firing squad for republicans which, you know, probably doesn t help any of them. reporter: well, no, it does look like that this is the strategy that they sort of fell upon, but, you know, i had mark block on the show monday. and, you know, he seemed to deny he seemed to make clear that he had gotten all of the story from herman cain. you would assume that on monday had he known about this story, had herman cain done to him what he did to kurt anderson, which according to this, well, then, couldn t mark block have better answered questions on monday? couldn t h
benefits fell below 400,000 last week, for first time in five weeks. also, more than a million people still do not have power across the northeast. in connecticut alone, about 540,000 customers are still in the dark and the governor says the lights won t come back on for everyone until sunday. a new study out of canada shows a link between prolonged periods of sitting and cancer exist. researchers found regular physical activity reduced the risk of breast, colon and in end meet treeal cancer by 33%. herman cain doing his best to keep out of the media spotlight. the scandal continues and now cain is lobbing accusations of a smear campaign against one of his republican rivals. cain reportedly phoned supporters telling him that the perry campaign, quote, stirmed this up. a spokesman called the
restaurant association. let s listen to what he had to say and we ll come and talk about it. i was the pollster for the national restaurant association when herman cain was the head of it, and i was around at the time when it happened. at the time she was a very lo r lower-level staffer and she was maybe two years out of college and it all occurred at a restaurant in crystal city. everybody was very ara raiware . and if she does go and talk about it, i think it will be the end of his campaign. we played the chris wilson sound, he s working for an organization, say, affiliated with rick perry, but it still seems to be me to be relatively damning, because we re talking about a pattern of detail. no, that s what you saw yesterday, more details coming out from the woman who talked to the a.p. and she s remaining anonymous and then this detail, too, suspect because he is from the perry campaign, and it certainly, you know, gives something of an argument to cain saying that this actual
little things that you re setting up this straw dog argument between the campaign and the media, the left in the media who are coming after him. but the herman cain campaign is focused the attack not outward but inward at other republican campaigns. and so, you know, that will also stir the party even further for those who are against the establishment. and that will generate money. i think all of this, quite frankly, has gotten out of control. i think the fact that we are now sitting here in day four talking about this and it s only escalating says that the campaign needs to stop what it s doing, get off the media, get out of the limelight, sit down, figure out the strategy going forward, get the message focused, as the governor said, and then come back out with a clear timeline of what happened, what was said, what was done, what was the result of that and put this behind them and get back on the message of, you know, 9-9-9 or whatever it happens to be. if this is still going when th