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focusing their attention on mitt romney. paul is standing by. im wolf blitzer. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com as controversy swirls around him, republican front-runner, herman cain, went behind closed doors with republican lawmakers on capitol hill. just a brief respite from the storm that has blown over previously undisclosed sexual allegations. earlier today, cain suggested some sort of conspiracy is at work, but he insisted he...

into another conference room and there was a bit of pushing and shoving that was going on. cains security staff was trying to get the press out of the candidates way so he could give a statement to a group of conservative doctors. basically the questions that were being asked were fairly simple -- reporters were trying to ask cain whether or not he would call on the national restaurant association to release two women who have accused herman cain of sexual harass. of the nondisclosure ...

It might have been two months, i dont remember the number, but i do remember my general counsel saying the good news is we didnt pay all this money that was being demanded. it really worked out to what we probably would have been able to give her if she had resigned for cause. >> why didnt she get that anyway? why didnt she get the settlement and the resignation or severance? >> she would have got the severance based upon what i recall the conditions under which she left. so we -- she ended up g...

Thats alleged to be the other one. she had been a longer-term employee. but i have no knowledge that she made a formal complaint or acquisition or anything like that. >> so she never got any settlement or any severance, as far as you know? >> as far as i know --. >> would you know? >> i would know. i would know if there had been some formal complaint because my general counsel would have advised me to settle if it was serious for whatever reason. but im not even aware that a complaint was made. ...

I dont remember the exact number, but do i remember my general counsel saying the good news is, we didnt pay all of this money that was being demanded. it really worked out to what we would have been able to give her if she had resigned for cause. >> why didnt she get that anyway? why didnt she get the settlement and the resignation or severance? she would have gotten the severance based upon what i recall, the conditions under which she left. so we -- she ended up getting what she would have go...

That is alleged to be the other one. she had been a longer-term employee. but i have no knowledge that she made a formal complaint, accusation or anything like that. >> so she never got any settlement or severance, as far as you know? >> as far as i know i. would you know? >> i would know. i would know if there had been some formal complaint because my general counsel would have advised me to settle, if it was serious, for whatever reason. but i am not even aware that a complaint was made. >> di...

Talk about his jobs plan and his economic ideas, and he wound up talking about sex, and that has taken the spotlight now, and the problem is hes handling this as though he were still a corporate ceo, business executive trying to keep things very tight, close to the chest, but hesç in the world of politics now. the public will want to know some answers, and his fellow republicans want to know how stable of a candidate is he, how stable is his future, or are they going to have more secrets blow ...

Including the one that you just aired. >> yeah. >> that he believes that cain has waived that confidentiality. they believe they are getting whacked, and they cant respond. >> gotcha. >> but i asked the lawyer. cain is saying its just a severance which says there were no facts to substantiate the allegation of sexual harassment. the lawyer said, look, there were claims. there were claims of sexual harassment and there was a settlement, and thats as far as he would go, but the implication is ther...

So cains out there saying it was just a severance which says theres no facts to substantiate the allegation of sexual harassment. the lawyer said, well, look, there were claims, there were claims of sexual harassle and a settlement. and thats as far as he would go. but i implication is theres more to it than weve heard so far. >> let me think, i guess im going to stretch you now for your reporting. do you know if her accusations reached a level of what most people would say was really bad behavi...

Discovery ended a last-minute deal to sell part of mf global to a rival company. a deal the company needed to stay afloat. instead of making that deal the firm headed by former new jersey governor and goldman sachs chief jon corzine filed for chapter 11 protection yesterday. now the investigation centers on whether mf global diverted customer funds to support its own trades. the "new york times" notes that neither mf global nor mr. corzine have been accused of any wrongdoing. but that is not hol...