acquaintance but white said they were much more than that, beginning in the late 1990s when cain headed the national restaurant association. unlike the women who accused cain of sexual harassment, white says her relationship with pretty simple and very inappropriate. cain told cnn s wolf blitzer he had no plans to exit the race but today he said he is quote, reassessing. wolf joins me live just moments from now. and moments ago in los angeles, conrad murray was sentenced to four years behind bars for the death of michael jackson, the maximum term and exactly what prosecutors war asking for. convicted of involuntary manslaughter forgiving jackson a anesthetic to sleep. the judge said murray is dangerous and completely without remorse. vice president biden in baghdad this hour. it s his eighth trip to iraq since taking office and almost certainly his last before u.s. forces pull out at the end of the month. he s due to meet with iraq s prime minister and president and commemo
and david mattingly, we ll begin with you. herman cain says he s reassessing. the word reassessing, what exactly does that mean and how long do they reassess? he s had to pause and reassess in his campaign before during setbacks. but this time it s a huge setback. this woman in georgia coming forward and saying that she and herman cain have had a sexual relationship, an affair for the last 13, almost 14 years. now, that is something that definitely give his campaign pause. so they are stepping back. he s maintaining his appearances for the moment. he might be reconsidering what interviews, grants in the near future. but at the same time, a top ranked official with that campaign tells cnn that they are looking at what s going to happen to the contributions, of course, without money the campaign can t go anywhere. of course. and i remember after the initial sexual assault allegations a couple weeks ago, he said that his campaign funds actually went up. but if you look at th
they re acting as though it s today. is there any news in the last 50 or so minutes since we last spoke? reporter: since we last spoke, that impromptu meeting you and i were talking about between a bipartisan group of members of the super committee, that has broken p up. as members were leaving, senator max baucuss, facing a mass of reporters, the only way to describe it, he actually mentioned that there s possibly a new tax idea being floated possibly by senator john kerry. as you and i talked, this meeting was described by one aide earlier as kind of a hail mary pass to see if they could pull anything off in this 11th hour. unclear what the details are of this tax idea, but i will tell you that it does seem that it possibly could be a long shot as one gop leadership aide has already speaking to my colleague deidre walsh on this tax idea said, at the 11th hour senator kerry offered a new gimmick, in this person s word, to get to the democrats same trillion dollar tax hike