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Members to be cautious about defending cain. it seems more allegations are expected. allegations that cain adamantly denies, bret. >> bret: carl, thank you. lets get more on the story now. breaking story. joining me now is mark block, chief of staff for the herman cain campaign. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> bret: first, youre charging the perry campaign with stirring this up. >> absolutely. quite frankly, this is one of the actions in america that is the reason people...

Critics suggested that statement indicates ignorance that china is a nuclear power. >> yes, theyre a military threat. they indicated they are trying to develop nuclear capability. they want to develop aircraft carriers like we have. we have to consider them a military threat. >> cain insists he knows that china has nuclear weapon and referred to the quest for nuclear powered submarines. should cains candidacy take a hit. polls suggest many supporters favor newt gingrich as the second choice. on ...

People telling pollsters theyre for herman cain because they plan to vote for him or because right now this is where they want to be? i think in the end when they make a serious decision about who is the nominee to go up against barack obama they might have a different evaluation of the candidate. >> bret: charles? >> this is a great big mess. self-inflicted, gratuitous. i dont want to be lawyerly about this, but remember that cain said happening on fox on monday if the restaurant association di...

Ive seen in a long time and will probably benefit from this. but remember with cain two things are missing in the charges against him. one, what are they? what did he do? we dont know. there is no woman on tv on fox saying here is what he did to me and here is why i think it was sexual harassment. short of that, i think that this whole scandal will blow away if its a scandal, fade away. cain being badly hurt. >> bret: gingrich supporters, that was a joke. >> sometimes you have to explain a joke,...

However, the question is are people telling pollsters theyre for herman cain because they plan to vote for him or because right now this is where they want to be? i think in the end when they make a serious decision about who is the nominee to go up against barack obama they might have a different evaluation of the candidate. >> bret: charles? >> this is a great big mess. self-inflicted, gratuitous. i dont want to be lawyerly about this, but remember that cain said happening on fox on monday if ...

Kurt anderson worked for cains failed 2004 u.s. senate bid and debriefed back then on the harassment allegation by herman cain himself. anderson now works for perry. second, a former pollster for the national restaurant association named chris wilson today said he witnessed some of canes allegedly inappropriate behavior. hes now involved with a pro-perry super pac. both men deny putting it in play. perry campaign says the first they learn of this was in the press this week. cain is not buying th...

>> absolutely. the buck stops here. >> bret: it was in your opinion not handled well? >> i think we could have handled it better. we could have got out in front of the story a little bit faster. and we could have had a better explanation. but again, you cant spend a of your time just like from this point forward, what do we do? somebody comes up with anonymous unnamed accusation. and we spend all day long doing that. we have cant do that. >> bret: do you call on the restaurant association to wai...

Members to be cautious about defending cain. it seems more allegations are expected. allegations that cain adamantly denies, bret. >> bret: carl, thank you. lets get more on the story now. breaking story. joining me now is mark block, chief of staff for the herman cain campaign. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> bret: first, youre charging the perry campaign with stirring this up. >> absolutely. quite frankly, this is one of the actions in america that is the reason people...

Exist. >> what did i say? >> excuse me. excuse me! >> appearing in a separate high-tech conference, the front-running g.o.p. presidential hopeful himself brought up the issue. >> there are factions that are trying to destroy me personally as well as this campaign. cain is denying any other allegations. >> if something comes up, they will. they will make it up. they believe racism is behind the years old incident. one alleged victim is reluctant to speak about it but the lawyer today contacted th...

Message. to have the block come here to make the accusation against the perry campaign. who cares? i dont know if its leaked by perry but who cares? if its true is it going to help cain? it wont hurt perry campaign much. most people realize there is rough and tumble. even dirty stuff. the worst thing is for canes himself to make accusations. look, a cardinal rule i think of presidential politics is that the candidate doesnt get involved in the tactics, doesnt talk about them. he has the big mess...