curious things, places where a guy named jimmy who began his journey to become president carter. places where inevitable winners like hillary clinton and howard dean lost. places where somebody could rewrite the story that this republican race has come down to mitt versus newt. somebody like ron paul. newt gingrich has been on both sides of a long list of issues. sometimes in the same week. it s wrong to go around and adopt radically different positions. because then people have to ask themselves what will you tell me next time? ron paul hit newt gingrich pretty hard this week and he s got the money to keep at it. $3.6 million in cash. even better, he s got the army, time magazine reports paul insiders claim to have hard pledges from 20,000 caucusgoers, a record 120,000 iowans showed up in the 2008 republican caucuses. and one more number. 30. congressman paul joins me now from his home state of texas. congressman, you were greeted this morning by a new des moines
if this is involving people that don t want to be involved and i don t have the fact i wouldn t go with it. eric: he doesn t have great abs. greg: yes. that s the breaking news with bob. kimberly: never realized herman cain didn t turn over cash to the person. he s trying to piece it together. this happens every day across the country, they do a termination agreement with an employee and they don t have to litigate if it s true, voracity of it. cheaper to pay that. bob: perry camp dana: go ahead. bob: another story about herman cain on the radio. in the break we tried to get the producer to get the story. but they wouldn t do it, so we ll try to get it together. dana: it broke. bob: they re working on it. they re good people. now, the thing about the herman cain campaign, accusing perry directly is a strong dana: right. better be accurate. bob: the details in the story the way it reads to me, it s got too many details. one of the things you probably wrote this t
politico reporting one of cain s accusers received $45,000 as par parts of the cash settlement from the national restaurant association. that s more than one or two month s pay mr. cain recalled. we ll have to wait to hear from one of cain s accusers. her lawyer is negotiating with the restaurant association. those talks expected to continue tomorrow. an hour ago, herman cain told sean hannity on his program he never thought he would be attacked on a planned story coming from one another campaign. about you connect the dots, they lead to the perry campaign. let s just say, there aren t enough bread crumbs that we can lay down and connect that leads us anywhere else at this particular point in time. we are moving on. and, here s mr. cain s message to a tea party town hall. we have been able to trace it back to the perry campaign, that stirred this up in order to discredit me, my campaign, and slow us down. the fingerprints are all over the rick perry campaign, based upon
who are following him, just getting a schedule is getting difficult. compared to the herman cain campaign, the rick perry campaign seems like a veteran group of folks, even though they were in ramp-up stage when you first started on this back in august. what have you seen that has evolved that shows the professionalization of this campaign? you ve seen the way that they communicate with reporters evolve over time. similarly, we had similar issues with getting scheduling information, knowing where the candidate was going to be what kind of media interviews he was going to be doing. we re getting more information about those kinds of things. we re getting more advanced notice about where he s going to be, and i think more of a sense of what their strategy is really starting to look like in terms of in individual states, in iowa, for example. originally, we were told rick perry was going to have two events in iowa this week. they ve ramped that up to many more, an additional day in io
filed complaints against him in the 1990s. and last night, the campaign issued a denial, but only after this awkward exchange with the reporter who broke the story. last question, last question. sir, have you? yes or no? have you ever been accused, sir, of sexual harassment? have you, sir? that was the last question. yes or no. have you? have you ever been accused of sexual harassment? joe johns has the details now, and paul steinhauser has the rest of the campaign paulout. do you expect cain to address this issue? he is the center of attention right now. a lot of people are going to be watching him. he is appearing at the american enterprise institute giving a speech. so questions are going to follow herman cain about this for quite a while. and at some point he ll probably have to say more. we need to be as transparent as we can about this story. we don t know a lot about the allegations right now. in fact, all we do know is that herman cain is the center of a