i am america, one voice megyn: joining me now the man behind that ad in that add mark block, herman cain s chief of staff. mark, thank you so much for being here. looking at the response to this ad online people are calling it brilliant, they are calling it strange. there is a piece in the atlantic it says it s a mading given the momentum cain has had that he seems so unserious of getting the nomination. people don t know what to make of your contribution. what was the message behind this? thank you for having me on, megyn. the message behind the ad was to our supporters that we re on a roll, we are excited about what is happening. there was so subliminal message. i personally would encourage people not to smoke, it s just that i m a smoker, a lot of the
went to our website herman cain.com to see where we re located. it s very easy to get involved with our campaign. either call our national office in atlanta are or go to our website. megyn: i know you describe herman cain as a candidate america has never seen. what does that mean? it means that he is not a typical politician. he tells you the way he sees it. he has answers, not just complaining about the problems, solutions, and has bold plans like you saw on 9-9-9 and the opportunity zones rolled out in detroit. you ll see a lot more of this. of herman cain in the next two months. megyn: how do you feel that you re shooting to superstar come yourself. there you were just chief of staff and now you re an international celebrity. it s interesting. it goes to show that four years ago before the citizens movement or the tea party movement or the power of the internet that a
evidence, and things like that, then there is not a good excuse for that. reporter: not a good excuse. police by the way won t comment on what they got, or why they are not looking further into the evidence they did gather, megyn but it brings up a very good question as to if in fact they believe that dog hit was legit, why they didn t pull all of that stuff all of there and keep it as evidence. megyn: one does wonder when you look at the search warrant they said an f.b.i. cadaver dog was brought into the residence and got a positive hit on the scent of a diseased human on the floor of the bedroom of badly s bedroom. that s the mother, deborah badly. they said on the area of the floor near the bed. it looks like there was wall to wall carpeting, i m in the sure of that. there could be exposed floor where the dog got the hit. right now we don t know. reporter: no, we don t. that is the whole question here thank you. megyn: thank you so much, sir. reporter: yep. megyn: herman cain
cain train is on a rofplt an roll. and we encourage people to go to herman cain.com, get involved. help us take this country back. i think the cain message is resonating with main street america and it s obvious by the poll results. megyn: it is resonating, i think you re right and the poll results speak to that. but the question we keep bumping into is where is his organization? they are saying that in key early states there goes my mike pack. like new hampshire, florida and south carolina that the folks on the ground don t even know who is responsible for his campaign efforts. the gop operatives don t even know who to contact if they want to help the cain train. what do you make of that? first of all it s a people s campaign. this is grown organically from the ground up. we have operations in iowa, we have offices and staff in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina. we just opened up florida. we are going to be opening up michigan, arizona and the other key states. so obviously peop
people on the staff said, just let block be black. that s what it was all about. to tell people that the cain message is resonating across america, whether it s 9-9-9 or the new opportunity zones rolled out in detroit last week, the campaign is on a roll and the momentum is with us and we want people to get involved. megyn: were you trying to appeal to, you know, folks who are out there living real lives, working the farm, working in detroit, that kind of thing as opposed to the east and west coast elite, people in media circles, who shun smoking, and, you know, sort of real american things? i tell you, you walk into a veteran s bar in iowa, and they are sitting around smoking, and, you know, yeah, we are resonating with them. i m not the only one that smokes in america, for god s sake, it s a choice that i ve made, and it was at the end ever the ad. but the real message that we re trying to get through was the