candidate for the republican nomination for the president, has been kind enough to join us in our studios in washington, d.c., and he s joining us live this morning after what was surely a very stressful and busy day yesterday. i do hope you got some sleep, and thank you for being with us. our viewers do thank you, too. thank you, robin, and it was a busy day but i survived. this is why it was a busy day, and we re going to talk about many issues, but let s start with what s at the top of the news. many people are asking, did you say something early yesterday about sexual allegations against you but something completely different hours later? let s watch as things happened yesterday. if the restaurant association did a settlement, i am i wasn t even aware of it and i hope it wasn t for much because nothing happened. so if there was a settlement, it was handled by some of the other officers that worked for me at the association, so the answer is absolutely not. i am un
word agreement you know, i m not sure what they called it. and yes, that was some sort of settlement or termination and i don t even know what the contents of that was. well, he came out this morning that cain had a pretty good recognition of the settlement from the outset. she was making huge claims about sexual harassment. i do recall she was asking for a lrnlg sum of money. i don t remember what the sum of money was. as the review of this moved forward, that sum of money negotiated my attorney and negotiated with her attorney got less and less and less because her attorney started to figure out, she didn t have a valid claim. she couldn t find people to corroborate these things she was making and so as it got smaller and smaller and smaller it turned out to be from my perspective, which is why i didn t go back and ask to see it, more of a separation agreement rather than some sort of legal settlement. so is this a political pothole, a brick wall or wind fall? we ll l
welcome back. top of the hour, i m brooke baldwin. a couple stories that we have percolating, revival of fear in europe as stock markets are stumbling today. both sides rested in the conrad murray trial. and time to play reporter roulette. alison kosik, i want to begin with you live at the new york stock exchange. we have 60 minutes away from the opening bell. we have to talk about greece. the prime minister of greece pulling a fast one and we see that reflected in the numbers of wall street. president. excuse me. the prime minister. yes. this came out of left field. investors were wondering what happened here. it seemed like it was a done deal and now not everybody is so sure. he wants a public vote on this. volt t voters, this is the reality. it has unpopular austerity measures, pension cuts, higher taxes, raising the retirement age. analysts say that greece does not have an alternative at this point. if greece does not pass these cuts, it play have to default and may