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
times since monday about this situation. i have not talked to her face to face. i am not going to make a decision until after we talk face to face. a reporter asked cain about his relationship with ginger white. last one. yeah. we have all had long-term relationships, long-term friends. what do you want people to understand about ginger? who is the ginger that you know? all right. let me answer it this way. 9-9-9 is going to turn this economy around. peace through strength and clarity is what we need. this morning, ginger white offered more details of the alleged affair. it was a very casual affair that herman flew me to on several trips. i went on several trips with herman. we one particular trip was the mike tyson/holyfield fight in las vegas.
the mike tyson/holyfield fight in las vegas. republican media support for cain has now completely collapsed. looks like it s all over for herman cain. the bad publicity has wrecked his presidential chances. now clear herman cain will not secure the republican nomination for president. i agree you looks like herman cain is through. the media believe that they have accomplished their mission to kill the cain campaign. and i don t know, they may be right. all they have to do is create enough doubt about the candidate in the minds of his donors and then the money stops and that s it. that s all they have to do. campaign will die. joining me now, washington correspondent for time magazine, jay newton small, who was in new hampshire where cain gave the speech tonight. also, washington post editorial writer and msnbc contribute per, jonathan
this has been a very difficult situation for myself, for my family and it s nothing that i am proud of. it was a very casual affair that herman flew me to on several trips. i went on several trips with herman. we, one particular trip, was the mike tyson holyfield fight in las vegas. you know, i can t make this stuff up. but back to herman cain who was asked if this was the end of the accusations against him. and if he was confident nothing else would come up. i was in business for over 40 years. i have worked with and helped a lot of people, male and female. there is no way for me to say unequivocally that somebody else may not come up. but herman cain did concede he is reassessing whether to stay in the race. he claimed he s getting plenty of positive feedback from
reporter: mr. cain, mr. cain, jim acosta with cnn. are you vowing to stay in the race? we are reassessing and re-evaluating. reporter: are you staying in the race. we re re-evaluating and reassessing. reporter: how soon will you have a in the next several days. cain appeared on fox news. we should point out he routinely refuses to come on this program. somehow de he did find time to down with fox s neil cavuto. on ginger white, why would she say she s known you 13 years, and you say nonam more russ relationship, why would she say, out of the blue, he s not fit to be president? neil, i have no idea unless the people who i believe are putting her up to this maybe that was one of the lines that she was supposed to use. i have no idea. herman cain saying he believes ginger white was put up to it. when asked who put her up to it, take a look. we have no idea who it is, but i just happen to know that the reason that i was trying to help her as a friend fin