i m erin burnett. out front tonight, herman cain. the gop frontrunner fighting back against allegations of sexual harassment. i absolutely reject, they simply didn t happen. they simply did not happen. four women have now accused of gop candidate of inappropriate behavior and we now know the identity of two. just hours ago, we learned more about another accuser, her name is karen, director of communications at the treasury department and according to a friend, she called cain a quote/unquote monster. this is the woman whose lawyer told the nation on friday that his client did not want to identify herself and did not want to divulge any details about the alleged encounter. but obviously she is saying now that she would do so perhaps with other people in a press conference. unofficial adviser to herman cain s campaign, appreciate you taking the time to come out and talk about this tonight. i just want to ask you this, have you at the campaign had the conversation middle of
i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, herman cain, the gop frontrunner fighting back against allegations of sexual harassment. i absolutely reject. they simply didn t happen. they simply did not happen. four women have now accused the gop candidate of inappropriate behavior and we now know the identity of two. just hours ago, we learned more about another accuser, her name is karen kraushaar, director of communications at the treasury department and according to a friend, she called cain a quote/unquote monster. this is the woman whose lawyer told the nation on friday that his client did not want to identify herself and did not want to divulge any details about the alleged encounter. but obviously, she is saying now that she would do so, perhaps with other people in a press conference. niger ennis is an unofficial adviser to herman cain s campaign. appreciate you taking the time to come out and talk about this tonight. i just want to ask you this, have you at the campaign
they do want that. remember during the bush administration, president bush intentionally had no look berry and no e-mail account. this present day conflict sheds light why they may have chosen to do that in the bush administration. according to bush administration officials i have spoken with, they believe if the president never e-mails outside the white house, those e-mails would be considered privileged. and that may be the same argument that the obama administration will try to make as this thing progresses, jon. jon: it is going to be a long fight i have a feeling. doug mckelway. thanks. jenna: with the deadline fast approaching the 12 member bismart unsuper-committee has to come up with a plan to save this country from our crushing debt. yesterday if you were watching our program we talked with former senator alan simpson, co-chair of the debt commission. here is what he had to say. you should interview this woman. she is very bright. state officeholder. cynthia loomis.
meetings, meeting with their leadership. this puts them front and center and on camera. and part of what they ll be hearing is sort of an admonition from two people who have been through this process themselves, erskine bowles and allan simpson, bipartisan work they had done to try to come one some answers on what to do to save the country from a crushing debt. they ll get a bit of an earful today because those two, republican and democrat, big voices on this issue, are going to encourage the committee to be mindful that if this committee fails, that it could result in another downgrade of the u.s. credit rating. that could spiral into other problems. also cautioning them to say they ve got to do something with revenues, that buzz word of the day, tax increases, or an expansion of the tax base which would bring in more money but not necessarily raise rates. and they re talking about social security, too, that people who earn more may need to pay more or have some of their benefits scal
we re against greed and we re against the fact that the 1% could get nine slices of the pie and the other 99% are supposed to fight over the last slice. that is un-american, that is not democracy. the self-proclaimed champion of the 99%. he s made a career and a fortune fighting for the little guy. now michael moore is here with me to take your questions about the economy i ve always considered myself a member of the middle class. now i consider myself a member of the lower class. the election. we still have the republican party that s taking care of the rich. we have the democratic party that s taking care of the poor. people in the middle are being totally forgotten here. and yes, those protesters. a happy day for me is when i ll be unemployed, when i don t have to make another one of these god damn movies or write another one of these books, when the real people of this country are in charge. that s my nirvana. a town hall event. who is to blame and who i