cain says it s time to set the record straight. i will talk about all future firestorms. here s one thing people don t know about herman cain. i m in it to win it. i m not going to be discouraged. well, mary snow has the latest developments and mark preston is looking at the political fallout. mary, let s go ahead and begin with you. what caused cain to reverse course all of a sudden and decide to hold this news conference? you know, kyra, last week when herman cain railed against the press for bringing up these allegations of sexual harassment he was highly critical of anonymous users, but that all changed yesterday with a person who came forward who now brings a name, a face and specific allegations. and, you know, yesterday when sharon bialek had this news conference, herman cain s campaign came out with a general, broad statement saying that all allegations of sexual harassment against him were false. by last night, the campaign had started raising questions about s
sharon bialek here this morning with her skoir. guilty of the charge of involuntary manslaughter. a jury decides the fate of invi conrad murray. what s next. it s a roar. oh, my god. and way too close for comfort. storm chasers catching amazing video of a tornado on the ground in oklahoma on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. it is tuesday, november 8. welcome to american morning. first, shocking accusations against herman cain. this morning the washington examiner is raising stories. a fifth woman said he asked to be set up on a dinner date with another woman after a speech he gave. this after accuser number four came forward and didn t hold back. her name is sharon bialek. she s a single mother from chicago who worked for the national res straugs association back in the 1990s. she was laid off and met with herman cain to ask for help finding another position. with glory yad aia allred by he giving a detailed account of
we have the reporter for the washington post, kevin madden, campaign spokesman, remains a spokesman and cynthia tucker. welcome all. bill daley, just serving it up. there s actually a little reporting. you cover the white house as well. we know it s trickling out that pete rouse is taking more of a coo role of sorts as the daily plouffe. clearly relations with capitol hill are soured. they need to bring back the guy with experience. everybody loved pete rouse. the women wanted him to be chief of staff. this white house is in a game of lowering expectations about the economy, sort of admitting some of the things that have gone wrong. they re making course directions in the wake of this book that came out about all the trouble
happening. i think you re seeing course correction. the hero of the book was pete rouse. it is one of those things in washington. be careful the book that praises you the most. kevin, i want to play for you this daily sound bite from this interview, more serious about the process of washington. gets to what christine whitman was talking about earlier too. here s what he said. i would take some responsibility for the relationship that s part of my job. i think everybody in this room, everybody in media, everybody in this town. everybody active in politics has to take responsibility for some of the way our political system has gone. there s no doubt it has hit a low point and the assumption was the affable daley and boehner would be able to pull this off. it doesn t matter how affable you are, it s harder. this is a critical juncture for the president to be on the
same page with his party on capitol hill. there s a big canyon between them. the bigger worry is what bill daley didn t say but what a lot of us could read into those remarks is there is a bit of daylight between the chief of staff and the president. again, this is a critical juncture going into a brutal, by all analysis, a brutal re-election campaign. there are people within the senior staff and white house that are not on the same page with the president. i see it as welcome news as a republican, but it has to be troubling for democrats. did you read into that what kevin read into that there? obviously we have this report that have gone public, we ve been hearing this about pete rouse, there s course correction, the phrase they want to use. if there is daylight between the president and daley, it has become more pronounced since the president has taken on a more feisty and combative tone on the campaign trail. that is unlikely to be something