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That broke the cain story. thank you for joining us. >> sure thing, john. >> how long has politico been working on the story? >> about three weeks. it seems to me this first came to our attention. we did some reporting. then we brought what we with had learned, our early findings to the cain campaign. didnt get a response for several days and then did get a response. we did a lot more reporting after this and this went through a careful editing process. so all told we have been at this two, almo...

Alleged and precisely what happened, what the series of events was with. what the chronology was that led to these settlements. settlements that you note in our intro mr. cain has now acknowledged. so theres always more questions. as an editor im always pushing reporters to get more answers and that usually means hard work. going back to sources, finding new sources and reporting and putting the reporting through an editing process. >> i want you to listen to what herman cain said to judy woodru...

It is really, really stupid. it is not just a simple editing process. huck goes through this transformation and he realizes that jim is not the n-word he always perceived him to be. he is an actual person. and just taking out and replacing it with the word slave doesnt quite convey that. slave was one thing, but there was a whole lot of other things attributed to that word that black people in america had to deal with for hundreds of years. reading you kind of understand some of that in that -- ...