problems at all. ken block, mark block, should i say, is calling for the perry campaign and politico to apologize. here it is. the perry campaign needs to apologize to herman cain and his family and america for this despicable actions. and quite frankly, politico, too. politico won t release documentation or will they even admit they spoke to these two women? why? because they have nothing and cited unnamed sources. ken, politico s reporting this. herman cain told a meeting of georgia house republicans a report was coming out and he would be vindicated. so we ve got a new line from herman cain saying that there s a story going to be coming out, going to vindicate him. what about that? well, we re not aware of what this story is that he s referring to there. i would say this sort of parlor game of trying to guess who the source was really misses what we think is the crux of the story which are these allegations, these settlements which he initially denied and is now
we have at least three and will have to see where it goes from here. one other question for you. herman cain says curt anderson, he s the guy that leaked the story to. you what s your response there? we don t have to respond. curt anderson came out and said he was not our source. we think that the information stands on its own. if the information is false, they can come out and say it s false. thus far, it s proven accurate. wayne slater, herman cain says it s the perry camp behind all this. what do you make of it? apparently, based on what we know in the last 24 hours, everybody knew about this, everybody in washington and texas and boston but nobody did it. nobody gave politico the information. look, there are a lot of arrows pointed right to the perry campaign. chris wilson, the one guy you mentioned, working now with a super pac, run by perry s former chief of staff, which will spend, it thinks, a budget of $55 million, has gone up on the air in iowa and south carolina
what s the right strategy politically here you think? it s not really the number of women, obviously if there are more allegations, then that s worse and worse for cain. it is the quality of that. everything that ken said was right. it really doesn t make any difference where the story came from, it s that the story, so far as written by politico turns out to be absolutely true or not significantly rebutted by anyone else. if one woman emerges and she is credible and the details of whatever allegedly happened are known, then herman cain is toast. you don t need four, five, six women. this is a real, real problem. of course, the political implications of this is, who wins? romney doesn t win if this happens. perry wins. the person who s going to be the anti-romney in the race. it s too soon to say that s going to happen, that herman cain won t be vindicated. at the moment based on reporting from politico and other sources, herman cain has failed from the begin to get ahead of this
remember, herman cain said he knows of no other accusers, but now this third one surfaced. his campaign is fighting back on the first two accusations and now it s pointing the finger at the perry camp. herman cain says this man, kurt anderson, is responsible for leaking the story to politico. mr. anderson was a consultant to herman cain when he was running for the senate back in 2003 and he knew vital information about herman cain which he could have given to the perry camp. well, herman cain s campaign manager, mark block, said this. the actions of the perry campaign are despicable. rick perry and his campaign owe herman cain and his family an apology. in 2003, herman cain ran for the senate. he hired a general consultant, curt anderson. mr. cain divulged the nra claims to national restaurant association. exactly. mr. anderson.
so the campaign at that point would be prepared if the issue surfaced. it did not. approximately two weeks ago, as you know, mr. anderson went to work for the rick perry campaign. what else happened about two weeks ago? politico began this smear campaign citing anonymous sources claiming mr. cain acted inappropriately. mr. anderson told forbes he was not the source of the leak. a perry spokesman told nbc news tonight, no one in our campaign was involved in the story at any way. perry s camp pointed the finger at mitt romney, saying, i wouldn t have put it past them. a perry spokesman said this there are blog postings around as well discussing that cain s successor at the restaurant association is a big romney donor and some of the board members. there are much closer connections between the restaurant association, cain and the romney camp than there are with us. but there is another republican consultant tonight giving herman cain another headache. his name is chris wilson, and h