cain for leaking the story is speaking out. plus, lawmakers -- documents of the bankrupt solar energy company that got a half a billion dollar loan from the obama administration. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com while herman cain scrambles to try to get in front of the growing controversy, he's raking in lots of campaign contributions. cain's campaign now tells cnn they've raised an astonishing $1.2 million since sunday evening when news of the accusations first broke. meantime, cain may face new embarrassment and more pressure if one of his accusers is allowed to come forward with a statement. brian todd has been reporting. what are you learning today? >> going to get to that in a moment, but what we may hear, there are indications that cain's alleged behavior may have cost the national restaurant association up to $80,000. politico reports one of the woman received a payout of about $45,000 as part of her settlement. earlier this week, "the new york times" reported that a second woman got $35,000, a year's salary in severance pay after an encounter. we've been in touch with the attorney, joel bennett. it's not clear if his client got the payout reported today. bennett refused to comment on any of that. we also contacted cain's campaign. he said corporate agreements are quite common. now, a key question remain, will the national restaurant association which cain once headed, where this behavior allegedly occurred in the '90s, will that group release one of the accusers from her confidentiality agreement? we're likely to know tomorrow. joel bennett contacted one of their attorneys today, gave them a proposed statement from the woman. the association says it's reviewing the document. it is going to respond tomorrow. bennett wants the association to release the woman from the deal. he says she's upset that cain has said her case has no merit. we talked to deborah kelly, who said she'd be surprised if the restaurant association releases the woman. i asked kelly what are the risk for that group to do that. >> the risks are that everything they wanted not to be discussed, again, settlement is not necessarily i did something wrong. it's i want peace, i don't want to pay the lawyers. they don't get peace. they get this issue from the '90s bubbling up again. >> the accuser who's seeking that release has not been named by any news organization. joel bennett tells us she is a career civil servant who has worked at several federal government agencies as a spokeswoman. if released, she still may not go public beyond giving a statement. she told "the washington post" she has decided not to go public. when asked why, quote, i'm too tired to say why. >> already been 24 hours and campaign fending off another accusation. >> that's right. a former employee at the association told the associated press that she once considered, considered filing a workplace complaint over what she considered aggressive, unwanted behavior by cain when she worked for him. she said that behavior included a private invitation to his corporate apartment, but important to note here, she never filed a formal complaint. cain's campaign responded by saying they expected these quote baseless allegations to come up as part of an ongoing smear campaign. they said he has never acted in the way alleged by the inside the beltway media. >> the next 24 hours could be critical. she gets authority to do that. thanks very much. a man who worked on cain's 2004 campaign is hotly denying he had anything to do with leaking the story that's led to so much controversy since sunday night. cain pointed the finger at his ex aide, kurt anderson, saying he told him about sexual harassment allegations when he worked for his 2004 senate campaign in georgia. gloria borger is here. you had a chance to speak with this republican operative and give our viewers o sense of what he said. >> wolf, very simply, he said the conversation never ever happened. >> conversation that cain is suggesting when he shared with him the allegation in 2004. >> right. he said never happened. didn't know about the allegations. take a list in. >> he's accusing you of leaking. >> he can say what he wants, but i just want to set the record straight that i have tremendous regard for the guy and he's a great leader. he's run a great campaign. i really enjoy him. you don't enjoy everybody you work with, but i really enjoy the guy. there's two problems with that. one is i didn't know anything about this. and so, it's hard to leak something that you don't know anything about of course. the second problem with it is this. if someone tells you something in confidence, a family member, a friend, a candidate, a client and then you go out and blab it to other people, that's just unethical and it's not the way i live my life. but that's sort of immaterial in this instance because i didn't know anything about any of this. >> so, you're saying that conversation never took place. >> that's correct. i don't have any knowledge of any of this and you know, it's just not true. >> so, were you saying herman cain is lying? >> well, i'm not here to add any more name calling. >> is he not telling the truth? >> i'm not going to, you know, attack him in any sort of personal way or anything. i will say this. this has been, you know, he's in a tough spot and it's very rough and candidates, when they get into a fire storm like this, have you know, sometimes come unravelled and you know, it seems to me that they're kind of grasping at straws and fishing around trying to figure out what to do, how to get out of this and it's a lot of stress. these guys are under tremendous stress in these situations and maybe it's a diverse nar tactic. i'm not here to disparage herman. i think he's a tremendous guy and this is an unfortunate mess. >> why do you think he fingered you then taz leaker? >> i'm not sure. i think they probably figured it's a good diversion strategy. i think it's kind of a weak strategy. the best thing to always do in any circumstance, people in politics get all confused and get into tough situations. they need to think back to what my dad used to tell me. when in doubt, tell the truth. come to think of it, tell the truth all the time. >> you obviously worked for mr. perry right now. mr. perry would have a lot to gain if mr. cain drops in the polls, so is this politically motivated to kind of throw it back at the perry camp? >> i'm sure it's politically motivated. that's kind of the sorry thing about the state of politics we're in. people don't do a lot in terms of talking about what they believe. maybe this is convenient for them. but you know, let me say this. a lot of candidates, herman included, talk about their faith in these issues and i endorse that. i think that's great. well, one of the important things there is the old saying thou shall not bear false witness. you have a situation here where mr. cain is saying that people are falsely accusing him and so, the last thing that he ought to do is falsely accuse somebody else. >> how's the cain campaign reacting to your interview? >> well, we're now in a he said he said situation and the campaign is saying i just spoke with them. thaifr saying we stand by ou comments, which means they're not retracting the charge. >> they still believe he leaked the information to politico? >> absolutely. >> and till insist that in 2004 when he worked for cain, shared with him this information about the sexual harassment allegations. >> did not back off at all, but said we would like to return to talking about the economy, so it's clear the cain campaign wants to sort o pivot and get back to its campaign. >> vo you spoken to the herman campaign, or herman cain, when the allegation first came up, he couldn't remember anything about it. but said in 2004, he did brief this aide about it. >> he still sticks with his story. there's nothing more the campaign can say. you raise a good question. if he remembers telling a campaign aide about this, why wouldn't he have remembered it when politico first asked him? >> a lot more over the next 24 to 4 hours. thank you. day in and day out, investors have been keeping a nervous eye on europe. under the risky rescue package for greece finally will go through. today, stocks were up big. and the nasdaq up more than 2%. that despite the political wrangling in greece which still threatens to unravel the european bailout plan and europe's economy as well with enormous potential fallout on the u.s. economy. it's the focus of president obama and a counterpart at the g-20 economic summit in france. let's bring in erin burnett in new york for more op what's going on. when i say the stakes are enormous in cannes right now and what's going on at this summit, i think it's fair to say the whole world is watching for very good reason. >> they are and not watching the movie stars you usually get in cannes, right? this is different, but more important when it comes to our economy. the market up in the u.s. because of hopes that while greece milgt not have a general referendum or election as to whether they would go ahead with these austerity measures required to get the latest bailout, wolf, it's pretty interesting though because what is at stake at this point is a decision and really, nobody knows whether what the answer to this is. but can greece come out of the 17-member euro and go back and not inflict any further damage to europe? that's really the question. a lot of people are starting to say even if this bailout goes through, greece isn't going to be able to survive it and greece doesn't have enough money to bail out the countries sure to follow greece. italy has problems. portugal has problems. ireland has problems. they call him the pigs. those countries have problems and europe has a very real question as to whether it can continue to exist and whether it really matters to the rest of the world if we go back to all these individual currencies and economies. it's a big question that matters for everybody. >> are they going to say, uncle sam, we need your help? there's no great desire here given the u.s. economy to boil au bail out the europe ps, but what's going to happen if that should develop? >> right now, we're already helping europe significantly. just in the form of some of the swaps or federal reserve can do. not the same as direct lendinging. we are doing all kinds of things helping facilitate the flow of money and trans anchors and trade in europe. there is no political will for that. certainly, you're not going to get that. but american banks do have a lot at stake. our banking system cares and everyone in america cares because europe is our biggest trading partner. one thing that surprised me today when i was looking at this was that when the european central bank said, did this whole european union, they don't have, they never set up a way for a country to leave the euro legally. so they set up this whole alliance of 17 countries and never put in the legal infrastructure for one country to leave. but more and more people are saying that might be the right thing to do. but it would be better than if italy or spain would follow. >> there's no political desire for a t.a.r.p.-free europe. thanks very much. important programming note. erin burnett's show, 7:00 p.m. eastern later tonight, she's going to have a lot more on this and all the other important news of the day. 7:00 p.m. eastern. campaign blame game. who's behind the sexual allegations behind herman cain? 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