job defending bill clinton in very difficult times. you wrote a book after that. tell it all, tell the truth, tell it early, tell it yourself. you wrote a pretty good column today. i know i i can t believe those words came out of my mouth. but you offered advice to herman. and i thought you were sincere. i feel sympathy for mr. cain. i believe that piling on with the presumption of guilt from anonymous sources is fundamentally unfair. the way to handle that, though, is not to accuse or duck or weave. but if mr. cain genuinelies that he didn t do anything wrong and he holds a press conference and says to everyone, this is what i think i did. i didn t mean to be offensive. i think it was a severance. i didn t admit to anything and answers the who, what, where, when and why and apologizes for offending somebody that he didn t mean to offend, this story would have been over in 24 hours. sean: i had herman on for a