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For $15,000 related to election law violations, relating to a state supreme court justice race. he was found to have been illegally coordinating campaign expenditures. what was remarkable about that one is that it went beyond just the fine, which was the largest in wisconsin history at the time. he was barred from participating in wisconsin politics for three years. that was a pretty extraordinary fine that was imposed on mark block. he then went on to become the grassroots organizer for the koc...

Complaint was filed in, is notoriously slow in investigating charges of this kind. so it could take years in some instances. and then the question is, is it just mark block, is it the cain presidential campaign? or are others like americans for prosperity implicated in this? just yesterday, the spokesman for americans for prosperity said it was reviewing what it called financial dealings between that group and the mark block group. so it suggested that they were concerned about this as well. and...

Think you pointed out in the introduction the executive director for americans for prosperity in wisconsin. its the koch brothers founded and funded organization that has helped spur the emergence of the tea party other conservative causes its promoted. but what specifically got -- led to the complaint today that was filed with the federal election commission is some documents that were obtained by the milwaukee journal sentinel that show that a nonprofit group that was founded by mark block and...

Debates with prayer and fasting? >> prayer and fasting and probably a book signing would be a good way. not of a book you can learn something about the country or history or choina. >> how do you think he is preparing? >> right now he is in damage control. if he makes it to the debate and not forced on the sidelines, he will have to be prepared to take a lot of tough questions that will be thrown to him by his character and campaigns and field tough questions and respond to crisis. if this is hi...

To the cain presidential campaign, about $40,000 to pay for ipads and charter flights for herman cain. and the problem here is that nonprofits are barred by law from expending money for presidential campaigns. you can donat do that. so what happened today, a public watchdog group called crew in washington filed a complaint with the fec charging that the cain presidential campaign as well as mark block himself had violated campaign law by expending money from these nonprofits to the cain presiden...

they call it something only a billionaire could love. and the latest jobs numbers. the unemployment rate dropping a bit. were going to show you some americans are now looking for and finding jobs in asia. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." we may be hearing any moment now from one of the women who reportedly accused herman cain of sexual harassment. her lawyer is waiting for approval from the national restaurant association, which was once led by herman cain, to issue th...

Depickable. rick perry and -- owe herman cain and his family an apology. >> now he says that rick perry and the campaign owed cains campaign and his family an apology, because a man, kurt anderson, who used to work for cain, was the pun that put this out. curt anderson sid he was not the leak. watch this. >> i really like herman cain. i have a tremendous amount of respect for him. i didnt know anything about this. its hard to leak something you dont know anything about. its just not true. >> now...

Virginia. but wilson is a pollster for a super pac that supports governor rick perry. but wilson denies originally leaking to the media. and mark block, special campaign manager was on with bret baier and said that former cain staffer curt anderson is behind the originally leak. anderson works for governor perrys campaign. >> the actions of the perry campaign are despicable. rick perry and his campaign owe herman cain and his family an apology. both the rick perry campaign and politico -- did th...

Thing by reporting something that wasnt true from anonymous sources, like i said, herman cain owe herman cain and his family an apology. bill: perrys team responded this way. we found out about these allegations at the same time as i suppose everybody else did. read about them online and our campaign had absolutely nothing to do with it. now cains chief of staff, mark block, who you just heard from with bret, he is a guest later today at 1:00 on "america live" with megyn. you can hear that inter...

The actions of the perry campaign are despicable. rick perry and his campaign owe herman cain and his family an apology. both rick perry campaign and politico did the wrong thing by reporting something that wasnt true to anonymous sources. >> bret: mark block, the herman cain campaign staff, chief of staff for the campaign says that rick perrys campaign is behind stirring up all the sexual harassment allegations that have been getting so much attention. point specifically to a former aide of cai...