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After the pizza man appeared on "face the nation," politicos jonathan martin questioned him outside the studio. heres the exchange. >> im not going to comment about two people who you wont tell me who they are, okay? thats like negotiating -- im not going to comment on that because, you know, i think that that is one of those kinds of things that -- >> that was the last question. thanks. last question. >> have you ever been accused of sexual harassment? >> politico posted this blockbuster story ...

Sentinel." daniel, whats this all about? >> mark block, whos the campaign chief of staff for herman cain, set up a non-profit last year. and someone gave me the internal records and we were able to see that the campaign was paying for ipads, chartered flights, trips to iowa and las vegas for the cain campaign. and in the records, they said they were owed by the cain campaign about $40,000. no one knew about this and the only way we were able to discover this is through the internal records for t...

Yesterday. we are doing a full investigation of it. and if there were any improprieties, we will go back and amend the fec report. sass whats what, laura, we will not only issue a press çreless but i will make sure that we let you know exactly what we found out and if there are any improprieties, we will correct them. >> mark block said the two scandals have been great for business. that joyride just released a statement. it boasts that in the last 24 hours the cain campaign has had the single...

Funds illegally to pay for cains presidential campaign expenses including charter flights around the country and paying for ipads. what happened is, these are based on documents that were first put on the web by the "milwaukee sentinel journal" from a group called prosperity usa, a non-profit founded by mark block, the cain campaign manager. they do show payments of $40,000 to the cain presidential campaign. you cant do that under federal election law. it bars non-profits or charities from payin...

Past members of the press and past past sexual harassment charges which consumed media coverage all week. >> the story which broke late last night has shaken up the g.o.p. campaign. cain is now in full damage control mode and calling this a witch hunt. >> herman cain is on top of the poll but facing the first crisis of his campaign. >> yesterday, campaigns manager mark block says hes done with the issue. >> this is the last time that ill be addressing the issue that has swirled washington ap the...

Mark block, now famous or infamous for the famous smoking ad where he smokes at the end. he is the chief operating officer, basically campaign manager. he was talking about the blame game. lets listen. >> in 2003 herman cain ran for the senate. he hired a general consultant, curt anderson, mr. cain divulged the nra claims at that time to his general consultant. >> national restaurant association. >> exactly so the campaign athat point would be prepared if the issue surfaced. it did not. approxim...

Gesture with the height thing and a couple of other things in there that i found absolutely ridiculous. >> what were those? >> i cant remember. they were so ridiculous, i dont remember what they are. >> you remember they were ridiculous butd dont remember what those other things were? >> the reason i forgot them, robyn, is because they were ridiculous. i dismissed them out of my mind. >> the cain sexual harassment has die verlted attention from a possibly more important scandal facing the cain c...

We accept what mr. anderson had said, and we want to move on with the campaign. lets get over these things that dont mean anything to the american public, megyn. megyn: yeah. well leave it at that. mark block, thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you. megyn: all the best, sir. well, i also had a chance to ask mr. block about an ap report yesterday suggesting that a third woman has come forward accusing mr. cain of sexually harassing her years ago, this is a woman that was contacted by the a...

Smoking campaign adviser mark block read a carefully worded response on this network. >> herman cain has never sexually harassed anybody, period, end of story. every negative word and accusation in the article is sourced to a series of unnamed or anonymous sources, and this is questionable at best. >> so the fun starts. moments later, herman cain showed up on fox and gave a more forceful denial. >> ive never sexually harassed anyone, and, yes, i was falsely accused while i was at the national re...

There that i found absolutely ridiculous. >> what were those? >> i cant remember. they were so ridiculous, i dont remember what they are. >> you remember they were ridiculous butd dont remember what those other things were? >> the reason i forgot them, robyn, is because they were ridiculous. i dismissed them out of my mind. >> the cain sexual harassment has die verlted attention from a possibly more important scandal facing the cain campaign. cain told laura ingram today he authorized a full inv...