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In the debate on a health care question. but there was one more round where john harwood tried to reignite this question of the cain sexual harassment by putting this question to mitt romney. let s listen to this. would you keep him on if you had bought his company? i i m [ audience booing ] look, look, herman cain is the person to respond though these questions. he just did to the people in this room and across the country, they can make their own assessment. i m not going to governor huntsman, let me switch back to the economy. [ cheers and applause ] the debate audience has spoken, the once in the room. they don t want to hear a word about this. well, look, the idea was this was going to be focused on economic policy, but at the end of the day, this is a huge news story. and i think it was only appropriate they asked herman cain about it. my favorite herman cain line of the night was when he said, for ....
Freddie mac in 2006. what did you do for that money? are you asking me? i have never done any lobbying. every contract that was written during the period when i was out of the office specifically said i would do no lobbying and i offered advice. it s st rert accurately how the economy works. what is the media reporting inaccutely abouthe economy? what? the cnbc republican presidential debate tonight included a meltdown moment, the likes of which we have never seen in a presidential debate. it s three agencies of government when i get there that are gone. commerce, education, and the what s the third one there? let s see. you mean five? oh, five, okay. so commerce, education and the um? ....
Cain sexual harassment by putting this question to mitt romney. let s listen to this. would you keep him on if you had bought his company? i i m [ audience booing ] look, look, herman cain is the person to respond though these questions. he just did to the people in this room and across the country, they can make their own assessment. i m not going to governor huntsman, let me switch back to the economy. [ cheers and applause ] the debate audience has spoken, the once in the room. they don t want to hear a word about this. well, look, the idea was this was going to be focused on economic policy, but at the end of the day, this is a huge news story. and i think it was only ....
White-knuckled moments where you could almost hear him saying, line, line. it was painful to watch. but once you have the pity of the american public, you ve also lost their vote. and steve, this is one of those debates everybody was watching just to see, how is herman cain going to handle it? and also, not just how is he going to handle it, but how is it going to come up? it wasn t clear to me in a cnbc economics debate, how you could bring this up. but let s see exactly how it did come up in the debate. here we re focusing on character and on judgment. you ve been a ceo. yes. you know that shareholders are reluctant to hire a ceo where there are character issues. why should the american people hire a president if they feel there are character issues? the american people deserve better than someone being tried in the court of public opinion based on unfounded accusations. that s what that s about. ....