with things like his 999 tax plan, he brought valuable issues to the debated. he is going to endorse a candidate some time in the coming days. heather: we ll see if the endorsement makes any difference at this point. thank you very much. gregg: it has been a strange day and a long strange trip for herman cain, so-called cain train coming to a crashing halt. legislates get political analysis from role call staff writer. shura, good see you. cain quit his campaign for president, but he says i m going to still be out here campaigning on the issues. which invites the question, was this truly an attempt to become president or simply a campaign that was all about herman cain? well, i think the only person that is ever going to know that answer for sure is herman cain himself. but it raises eyebrows. i looked at his website and saw
newt gingrich? and florida momma shell parker missing for a month now. her former fiancee named the prime suspect. why does he have custody of the children? that is what parker s father wants to know and now he is speaking to fox news. but first, the cain train grinding to a halt today. republican presidential candidate herman cain suspending his white house bid just hours ago in atlanta. the announcement coming amid allegations of sexual misconduct and claims of a 13 year extramarital affair. senior national correspondent john roberts was there live in atlanta. he is still there. hi, john. tell us what happened? what a day it was today, greg. it looked as though herman cain was potentially going to survive the allegations of sexual harassment but when this woman ginger white came out at
to continue his work. john roberts is live in atlanta with the very latest. hi, john. reporter: good afternoon. to the very end herman cain denied the allegations against him blaming the media for all the troubles and brought untold hurt. all the reports of sexual impropriety. he made the decision to quit the campaign after a lengthy series of telephone conversation with financial supporters and face-to-face meeting with his wife. first time that the accusations were leveled that there was a 13 year long affair. he insisted that all is right with the family. i am at peace with my god. i am at peace with my wife. and she is in peace with me. i am peace with my family. i am at peace with myself.
the beginning of the week and said she carried on a 13 year long affair with herman cain that pretty much cooked the presidential candidate. herman cain today to the end denied all of the allegations against him but said after a lot of soul searching, deliberation and a lot of prayer he decided that the best, really the only thing he could do was to suspend his campaign. the final decision came after he met with his wife gloria face to face. he said all was right with the family and as gloria cain joined him on stage he had a word about the media and the state of politics in america. here is what he said. america has learned something about this process of running for president. it is a dirty game. it is a dirty, dirty game. but i happen to believe that the american people are sick of
reporter: mitt romney coming down hard on feorng eric holder calling him to resign in the wake of fast and furious scandal in washington. if he won t resign president obama to essentially fire him. those are big developments from the romney camp today. heather: given the events of today and race focused on romney and gingrich as they battle for the lead? yeah, the development west side herman cain in atlanta, a lot of people are looking at this with the way the polls are, gingrich and romney facing off against one another. newt gingrich sai are saying other contenders, bachmann or ron paul can make the race more fascinating. here is newt gingrich. i can tell you in my case, i m going to be campaigning very hard. i m going to be asking every citizen for their vote. we re going to take iowa, new