a sudden turn around from months of grim unemployment news, the jobless rate in november dropped to its lowest level in almost three years. 8.6%. u.s. businesses added 140,000 jobs. government jobs were lost. it s a net gain bigger than a lot of experts were predicting and welcome news for a president trying to get re-elected. is doing everything i can every single day to get this economy growing faster and create more jobs. this morning, we learned that our economy added another 140,000 private sector jobs in november. the unemployment rate went down. and despite some strong head winds this year, the american economy has now created in the private sector, jobs for the past 21 months in a row. that s nearly 3 million new jobs in all. and more than half a million over the last four months. celebrations may be a premature. what do we see? first, the positive news. the unemployment, down from 9% to 8.6%. that s very good news. the numbers by the payrolls. these are the num
was running for president. but the communication did not. when we asked for corroborating evidence, she pointed us to her cell phone. one name, herman cain. she showed us some of her cell phone bills that included 61 phone calls or text messages to or from this number starting with 678. she says it is herman cain s private cell phone. the calls were made during four different months. calls or texts made as early as 4:26 in the morning and as late as 7:52 at night. the latest were in september of this year. we ve never worked together, and i can t imagine anyone phoning or texting me for the last 2 1/2 years just because. reporter: we texted the number and herman cain called us back. he told us he knew ginger white but said these are more false allegations. he said she had his number because he was trying to help her financially. late this afternoon mr.
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
situation, relationship. ginger white on the affair she claims she had with herman cain. she also showed waga cell phone records showing 61 calls for tex or text messages she claimed were from cain s private cell phone. we ve never worked together, and i can t imagine anyone phoning or texting me for the last 2 1/2 years just because. cain upstaged his accuser s announcement when he appeared on the cnn situation room before she spoke out. cain said his accuser was just a friend whom he helped financially. tell us about the nature of your relationship with this woman. friend and trying to help a friend because not having a job, et cetera, and this sort of thing. that s all there is to the relationship. and here again, i don t know what s going to be claimed in the story. it was someone who was supposed to be a friend, but obviously, they didn t see it as a friendship. when you say friend, i m asking these are awkward questions, but i ll ask you the questions yo
conversation she reportedly had with one of her husband s sex abuse victim. and pakistan s prime minister re-evaluating his country s relationship with the u.s. after a nato air strike killed two dozen pakistani soldiers. the state department ramping up the damage control, on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com and good morning to you. itis tuesday, november 29th. ali is still working off the turkey. i m carol costello along with christine romans on this american morning. good morning. and the new bombshell rocking herman cain s presidential campaign. the woman claiming a 13-year affair that ended just eight months, just as cain launched his presidential bid. the accuser, an atlanta businesswoman, told waga about the alleged affair. it was pretty simple. it was uncomplicated, and i was aware that he was married, and i was also aware that i was involved in a very inappropriate situation, relationship. i m not proud. i didn t want to come ou