than one incident. >> she made a complaint in good faith about a series of inappropriate behaviors and unwanted advances from the ceo. she and her husband see no value in revisiting this matter now or discussing it further publicly or privately. in fact it would be painful to do so. >> the fact there are multiple complaints tell me it's more likely than not there was some sexual harassment activity by this man at that time. >> georgia businessman, he's in washington, he said nothing about the allegations that threaten his cam pin but mr. cain was in his trademark playful mood as he spoke earlier to a conversation gathering. >> before i get started, i want to know whose telers are these in i don't need them. >> several other new developments we need to share. the came campaign, threaten sue the website that first published the allegations. launching a new tv ad, blaming liberals and the news media for stirring talk of scandal and suggesting race is a factor. >> they can't argue with herman cain on the merits. they can't argue with herman cain on policy. so what do they do? what do they do? >> now we're getting the high-tech lynching of a beautiful man, herman cain. >> what is known as the mainstream media goes for the ugliest racial stereotypes they can to attack a black conservative. >> also tonight, the first national poll conducted since the allegations first surfaced. if you think the lured headlines and mr. cain's fitful response are causing political damage, well, think again. at least for now. "the washington post"/abc news poll shows cain in a dead heat with mitt romney. among the republican contenders nationally. not that they're there aren't some warning signs for cain. 4 in 10 republican voters say this is a serious matter. and while 7 in 10 say it will not influence they're decision whether to vote for cain, 23% say the allegations make it less likely they would back cain. and in a crowded republican field, any doubts can hurt. here in iowa, you hear some questions, and sense some doubts, in conversations with conservative activists. but near will a week into the drama, evidence of any major negative fallout is hard to come by. cain rival rick santorum could benefit if evangelicals get doubts about cain and look elsewhere. but listen to this conversation i had with the former pennsylvania senator earlier today. >> i got to tell you, it has not come up in any of meetings that i've had. i just did 20 town hall meetings in the last five days and most of those days this was an issue. i didn't get one question on it, didn't get one comment on it. so i think people are sort of keeping their -- keeping their own counsel, just going to work through it themselves, and continue to focus on trying to make sure that we have the best person who can turn this country around and, of course, defeat barack obama. >> i also sat down today with iowa's veteran republican governor, terry brandstead, he had this advice for mr. cain. >> i think it's important for him to directly and forth rightly address the issues that have been raised there, and i think iowans are fair minded people. if he does that he can put that behind him. but i do think it's important, i don't think you can just ignore it. >> more on the political failout in a moment. let's dig deeper on the new information we have. brian todd joins us washington, d.c. tell us what you know joel bennett, attorney for one of the alwa accusers came out today. what do you know about her? >> reporter: what we know, john, about his client, the accuser in question here, that is she is married for 26 years, that this incident happened in 1999 and she and her husband really want to be anonymous from this point on. they don't want to discuss this matter publicly or privately. those are some of the details that he gave about his client. he didn't want to go further than that. significant points of this, as you alluded to earlier, john, one, he came out on behalf of his client, mr. bennett did, said she stands behind the claim she made against herman cain. second point, as you mentioned, there was, at leaf at the point of view of mr. bennett and his client, more than one incident involving herman cain. the wording of the statement, series of inappropriate behaviors, plural, unwanted advances from the ceo. significant that mr. bennett is saying there was more than one incident. but what we don't have, john, specifics. we do not know what happened in these alleged incidents. and we're not hearing that from mr. bennett. his client or any of the other alleged accusers here, of course not hearing that from mr. cain's side. what we did get in a little bit of detail some response to this from the national restaurant association. part of a statement they issued read, in july 1999 mr. ben net's client filed a clants associati the policies. herman cain disputed the complaints. the soev yassociation entered i agreement without admission of liable. mr. cain was not a party to the agreement. herman cain this week strongly disputing these allegations against him, john. >> brian that is the one client, mr. bennett represents. you're learning new information about a second woman who suggests mr. cain behaved inappropriately. what can you tell us. >> reporter: that's right. we spoke to a former employee of the national restaurant association who knows the accuser. the second accuser, not mr. bennett's client, a second accuser, came to the employee's office on the day this accuser left the national restaurant association, the accuser said to this employee, that she was not getting along with her bosses, that she was leaving and receiving a severance, and this employee says that he believe that severance was between $32,000 and $37,000 because it was a year's pay. accuser said, essentially that they are not giving her any work, they were not interacting with her after this alleged incident. and she left the company after that. so just a little bit of color on what one accuser told a fellow employee as she was leaving the national restaurant association, after allegedly filing a complaint. >> brian todd with new details on the breaking news. let's turn to gloria borger and jeffrey toobin. gloria, i want you to listen to more of mr. ben threat, one of biggest headline his put on the table his client says there was not one but more than one incident that made her uncomfortable, made her believe mr. cain was sexually harassing her. let's listen to mr. bennett. >> the fact there are multiple complaints tells me that it's more likely than not that there was some sexual harassment activity by this man at that time. all of that subject to proof. he would be allowed to rebut all of them, and i -- but the fact that there's more than one complainant is meaningful. >> dramatic words from mr. bennett, but hi made clear in the case of his client one of the women, she is not going to speak. if she's not going to speak, does that lead you to believe we're going to turn the page and this story will pass, or is there more to come? >> i think she would like us to turn the page. she clearly wants to reman a private individual, she doesn't want to become aneat ta hill. there are a lot of people who know who she is and at some point, he seemed to allude to it today if it happens kind of so be it. because the story remains unresolved. what the national restaurant association did not tell us is how they resolved their own internal investigation. mr. cain has come out at the national press club earlier this week and he said it was concluded that the charges had no basis. we don't know that from the national restaurant association's statement today. they did not talk about any kind of a settlement. what they did say was the matter was settled without any admission of liability there are lots of questions and charges flying around. i think mr. cain would like this to go away. she would like this to go away but i'm not sure it will. >> this is argued not in a court of law, not in front of a mediator but argued in the court of public opinion. i want to listen to more of mr. bennett. one of the source of contention from mr. cain saying she signed a severance agreement, terminated employment, in his view, that agreement had little or nothing to do with sexual harassment. mr. bennett begs to differ. >> a severance agreement is when someone's leaving employment and there's an agreement to pay the person a certain number of months of salary for whatever reason. it could be just because the person is leaving that's very common in companies that are having economic problems that have severance policies, unrelated to any misconduct or performance issues. this was a settlement of an internal complaint of sexual harassment. it was not a severance agreement. >> a clear difference of opinion, mr. bennett, jeffrey, wanted to make that point. does it matter? >> i don't think any of this matters much at all. i think today was a very good day for herman cain. i think these announcements amount to very little. and in a way are unfair to herman cain. how is he supposed to defend himself? there are still no specifics. still no allegations that he did something specific wrong. and if this is the most that is going to come out, as now is starting to appear likely, i think it's pretty much over. >> you know, john, what's interesting is that it's clear the restaurant association says that it gave this woman the opportunity to waive all confidentiality. and instead, what her attorney said is that they just waived confidential so they could release the statement. but the statement leaves open all of these questions and i agree with jeff in the sense that what's cain supposed to do now? right? unless somebody puts a face on this, and a specific charge, it's very difficult. >> i think cain does what he's doing, which is running for president. he seems to be doing that pretty well. >> he also, his campaign is saying he might sue politico. i'm not sure there are any grounds to sue politico, if you want this to go away, legally it's a question mark whether he has a case. politicly, why do you want to keep talking about this? >> it's part of their theme of blaming the liberal media, the media's out to get me, that's a theme that resonates well in the republican party generally today. and you saw that in the ad that they put out on the web. i don't think they're going to sue politico. politico's story is -- has not been challenges for its accuracy. it doesn't tell the full story. they didn't have the full story, but no one says anything they wrote was inaccurate. i am just, frankly, amazed at how the story is just fading away. if this is as far as it goes. >> jeff toobin, gloria borger, appreciate your insights tonight. mr. cain is not one of the republican conditions for a big dinner tonight. what will be the fallout in iowa? is he as some say on this issue and others this cycle's teflon candidate? ange chick... over p.f. chang's home menu orange chicken women men and uh pandas... elbows mmm [ male announcer ] wanchai ferry, try it yourself. but don't just listen to me. listen to these happy progressive customers. i plugged in snapshot, and 30 days later, i was saving big on car insurance. i was worried it would be hard to install. but it's really easy. the better i drive, the more i save. i wish our company had something this cool. yeah. you're not... filming this, are you? aw! camera shy. snapshot from progressive. plug into the savings you deserve with snapshot from progressive. the sexual harassment allegations are a giant hurdle for the condition. mixed message for abortion, quick sand but cain leads in iowa and south carolina. he's changed his tune on negotiating with terrorists suggesting an electrified fence along the u.s./mexican board somewhere was unaware china has had nuclear weapons to more than four decades. a question asked, his herman cain this cycle's teflon candidate, so likeable and different that traditional political critiques don't stick? here's iowa's governor's take. >> i think that's right. somebody that's been in politics for years and years and years, they expect them to know all of these things. but he's new. he's a novice. and i think a lot of people are looking for something different. they're not happy with obama. they're not happy with the direction this country's going and they're not happy with the congress. they're looking for somebody new. >> let's dig deeper with cnn contribute somewhere veteran strategic, donna brazile, billie tucker, and the republican party chairman, matt strong. i want to ask you first, after a week of this, is mr. cain, who is leading in our latest poll, lead agent top of the des moines register poll, is this hurting him? any worries about the allegations or how he's handled them? the first thing he knees to do, debt here be and in iowa. that's within thing that it gives iowans or americans an opportunity to look a candidate in the eye and ask tough questions and time has shown that that is how you actually win the iowa caucus, whether it's on a personal issue or a political issue, there's an expectation that you're going to give here and give an everyday american voter a chance to ask a question. >> the first national poll out, all of the polling down after the this first surfaced, do the allegations make you less likely to vote for him in among women 25% yes, men, 12% yes. 7 in 10 say it doesn't matter. 25%, women voters do you see potential for a problem in a close republican race or do you think we're turning the page and this is behind us soon? >> right now, john, it's just an -- a misanonymo anonymouanon. it's gossip, that's how we look at it in america. until we have a story and a real person come out, we're going to keep loving on herman cain. >> and so, donna, how -- why don't -- let me ask it, why don't -- i don't mean the sexual harassment allegations why don't traditional rules apply to herman cain? he's at america's prosperity, a conservative group in washington, gets money from the coke brothers they put a lot of money into conservative causes, some conservatives think they're great because of what they support, in politics you don't generally embrace people controversial, listen to herman cain. >> i'm very proud to know the coch brothers. they've made it sound like we've had time to go fishing together, hunting together, skiing together, golfing together. but just so i can clarify this for the media, this may be a breaking news announcement for the media, i am the koch brothers' brother from another mother. yes. i'm their brother from another mother. >> how do you explain that? he's got a sense of humor, give him that. >> john, if this was a primary, herman cain would win hands down but it's a primary for the presidency of the united states and i believe that on a cold wintry night in january, 60 days from tonight, the people of the great state of iowa will go into living rooms, union hall, church basements and decide who is best to be commander in chief of the united states of america. and i don't know if herman cain will come in first place or come in fifth place but i do know this, his brand has been tarnished by these allegations and perhaps the way he's handled the allegations. perhaps conservatives don't treat sexual harassment as discriminatory, unwelcomed advanced in the workplace, but it's wrong. it's morally wrong. it's wrong in the workplace. so herman cain right now, he is doing a great job being herman cain. but the question really, to people like -- to billie, should he become the commander in chief or should he just get a guided tour of the white house? >> well, billie, answer that question. people supporting him because they like him or because he's commander in chief? >> they support him because a a proven leader a great businessman, he's not a politician. people in america are looking for somebody that's lived the american dream and somebody is fresh and new and that's what herman cain brings to the table. >> do you agree with that in the sense if you look at tradition of polling here, a lot of time people are ahead 60 days out do not win caucus night. one of the questions people have for mr. cain, he's not an elects office hold, people are disgusted with politicians now, are people -- there's a holding station because they like him or do they support him firmly? >> there's a group that supports him firmly. this week i talked to a 20-year navy vet, he's supporting herman cain because he's said, quote, he's not like the other guys, he's a leader. there's new people that he's brought in that aren't going anywhere but traditional activists like the thousand we'll have here in des moines, those are the people that want to kick the tires more and an expectation they'll see him and get a chance to ask questions personally. >> you have a commitment for him to come back or waiting to hear? 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