>> and plus, child sex and a college football coach, a well known one, accused. >> they all but come out to say that this charity was a point for him to get access to kids. >> and it is not just jerry sandusky, two college big wigs have explaining to do. and super nanny is fired up. >> he didn't apologize, he justified what he did. >> jill frost goes off on the judge caught on tape beating his daughter. it is all right here, right now, on cnn. good evening, everybody. i'm don lemon, thank you for joining us in the "cnn newsroom." one year from now, it is election night, and the voting results will be pouring in from delegate-rich states in the wrest but -- west, but right now the focus is focused on the candidates. major gop candidate herman cain is losing patience fast with the media's accounts of sexual allegations from his past. and we caught with him tonight struggling to change the subject in a room full of reporters. >> i was going to do something that my staff told me not to do and to try the respond. okay? what i'm saying is this. we are getting back on message, end of story. back on message. read all of the other accounts. read all of the other accounts where everything has been answered, end of story. we're getting back on message, okay? >> earlier here on cnn i spoke with a contributor to cnn and a senior writer and i asked them to respond to his anger. >> the fact that herman cain is trying to turn this around and make it about journalism and the lame stream media to borrow a line from our girl sarah palin, it is just showing you how irresponsibility he is, and how ill prepared he is for the stage and the moment. the real problem with this is that he had an opportunity to get in front of the story, and now he is wagged by the story. he is upset about it. if i were a voter and i would say if this is the man who responds to something that is not really a critical issue in his face, how does he handle the real issues? to me, that is a real moment of concern if i were a voter. >> yes, we will talk about other issues as well later on, but will, there is a reuters poll out there indicating that cain has lost some favorability but he is holding at the top of the rest of the polls. does he have anything to lose by attacking the media? i would say it is probably win-win for him, because there are many conservatives who would say it is a liberal media going after him, even though they go after every single candidate who rises to the occasion whether it is a woman or man, black or white, and everyone gets this level of scrutiny? >> well, you have seen the conservative base circle the wagons around him for three reasons. one, because the man is likable and very charming, you want to root for this guy. two, the herman cain the symbol and not because he is a black conservative, but a businessman and represents an outsider, an nontraditional politician. and three, because the allegations are vague and anonymous, a lot of people say, well, it does not sound like it should amount to a character assassination just yet. so that's why you'll see him continue to do well in the polls, and if he plays the media as the bad guy, it is a pretty good strategy. >> and herman cain and his associates call this a high-tech lynching, and we will address that later in a segment this hour. we'll address that in a no talking points segment later. and to college sports which is reeling from child sexual abuse charges from the team's athletic coordinator at penn state. sandusky has been arrested for advances on eight boys from 1994 to 2009. investigators say he met all of them through second mile, a charitable organization he founded for at-risk children back in 1977. he is out of jail tonight on $100,000 bail. his lawyer says he maintains his innocence. also involved in 24 case, penn state's athletic director, timothy kerley and gary shultz. they are accused of perjury and failing to report the incident. and the head coach joe paterno is not accused of any wrongdoing. earlier tonight, he made a statement to the "patriot" news in pennsylvania. he said, if true, the nature and the amount of charges are shocking to me and all penn staters. while i did what i was supposed to do with the one charge brought the my attention, and like everybody else involved i cannot help but be deeply saddened that the matters are alleged to be occurred. i asked jon wertheim from "sports illustrated" about why this is so much bigger than other sports scandals and this is what he said. >> this is a level of just sort of disturbing, shocking scandal that i don't think that college sports has seen in a long time. so a, the nature of the allegations. and also, this is penn state football and one of the iconic college sports programs and they win a lot of games, but it is also a program predicated on the rectitude and integrity and joe -- and to have a scandal like this, joe paterno's name is figured into the complaint, and he is not charged, but a player in this and you put together, and this is really, i don't exaggerate, this is one of the great awful college sports scandals in the last few decades. >> why do you say that? >> well, again, given the nature of these allegations, and given the reports of a cover-up, and implicates joe paterno, and this is not a rogue booster giving a couple of hundred bucks to a football player, this is a completely different level of allegation. >> a preliminary hearing for sandusky is scheduled for wednesday, but his attorney says he expects it to be postponed. >> extremely controversial execution is expected to take place in texas on wednesday. hank skinner is on death row for the 1993 murder of his live-in girlfriend and two adult sons. he says he is innocent, and for the last ten years he has been seeking dna analysis of untested crime scene evidence. his attorney is appealing the case in federal and state courts. >> if you look at this case, it is just common sense that you want to do the dna testing. this is a case where there are serious reasons to question whether mr. skinner had the physical capacity to commit a triple murder. as your listeners may know, he had consumed tremendous quantities of alcohol and codeine on the night of the crime. a witness who saw him about 90 minutes before the murders took place said he was essentially comatose, and dead to the world. they could not rouse him from the sofa. so on top of that, mr. skinner had a hand injury at the time that would have made it impossible for him to inflict the strangulation injuries that twila busby suffered. >> 120,000 people have signed a petition calling for rick perry to put the execution on hold for the dna testing. the victim's family believes skinner is guilty, but want the testing done to end the legal challenges. now deciding the fate of conrad murray. >> a verdict could be reached at any moment. >> verdict watch. this is it. >> i think they are serious at what they are doing. >> they must be unanimous. all 12 people must agree on if verdict. >> they have to understand causation, and criminal negligence is conceded by the defense and the defense is causation, so they will focus on that. >> i think this was a jury that took a lot of notes and paid a lot of attention. >> it is too close to call. >> it is a ticking top that makes everybody nervous, and the longer it goes on the more nervous people get. >> in los angeles, jurors will begin a second day of deliberations in the trial of michael jackson's doctor. conrad murray is charged with involuntary manslaughter for an overdose of propofol. the jurors are on a tight clock, and a verdict could come at any time. for that, we go to cnn's ted rowlands. >> well, 7 1/2 hours, and no verdict on friday. they will turn around 8:30 monday morning and be back at it this jury of seven men and five women. at one point friday they asked for evidence which clearly means they are taking it seriously in going through some pieces of evidence. what is unclear is what is going on in that room. are they united? are they piecing through all of this evidence? or is there a divide starting? a disagreement as to what they ultimately will come up with in this verdict? the judge will not allow them to deliberate over the weekend or after court hours. so they will be back at 8:30 in the morning on monday. they can go for the whole day. they can shorten the lunch, and in fact, they did shorten the lunch friday, but they have to be done by 4:15 because of budget restraint problems here in los angeles county. so we will see what happens monday outside of the courthouse where people were out here all day and we expect they, too, will be back along with the jury on monday. don? >> cnn's ted rowlands in los angeles. thank you, ted. one person who was not called to testify in murray's trial is jackson's dermatologist. >> dr. klein recently spoke to jean casarez on trutv and what he had to say was shocking. >> do you believe he was addicted psychologically to prop -- to propofol? >> no, he was addicted to propofol, because he could not fall asleep with it. you have to read wikipedia about me, because i once chartered a plane to los angeles because i went to hear that a doctor was giving him propofol, and i knew he had a dependency about it, and the reason why i, myself, and my nurse slept on the floor to the room to prevent the plastic surgeon there to giving him propofol. i knew that the problem happened and i did my best to prevent it. i'm only one man. i did my best, but i'm only one man and i have to take care of my own life. i knew that the problem existed and we had long discussions about it. trust me on this. he did it in new york once, and he had a very big problem with it. i went there to save him, because a drug made him go running down the street. >> to see the entire interview tune into "in session" at 9:00 a.m. eastern. he is best known as the man who beat muhammad ali, and now smokin' joe frazier is battling the toughest opponent yet. he is battling cancer. and is history in the making with mississippi with trouble with race hours away from electing the first african-american governor. sh. as much as you like any way you like, all for $15.99. offer ends soon. my name is angela trapp, and i sea food differently. my name is angela trapp, [ male announcer ] executor of efficiency. you can spot an amateur from a mile away... while going shoeless and metal-free in seconds. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle...and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. now this...will work. 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i traveled to hattiesburg to find out. ♪ if you thought that the johnny dupree for governor would be celebrating except for johnny dupree. >> i have all of the naysayers who say you can't do it because -- >> reporter: he is running for governor in a state stigmatized by racism because he didn't have enough money to spend as his white republican opponent lieutenant bill o'brien. >> you can fill in the blanks. >> reporter: but primary voters made history by making dupree the first african-american to become governor of mississippi. >> it is awesome, isn't it? isn't it awesome that we live in america that allows things like that to happen that have never happened before. isn't that awesome. >> reporter: but is it realistic in race where not much distinguishes one from another about how to fund universities and how voters can use the polls, and those ideas are not enough to motivate the voters according to retired political professor, joseph parker. >> most white voters vote for the white candidate and most black voters vote for the black candidate. >> reporter: parker says to win as governor, johnny dupree would have to get all of the black voters and one-third of the white. he did it in 2001 when he became the first black mayor of hattiesburg, but he can do it statewide? >> if he does, it is like moses rolling back the red sea. >> i am here to talk to you about the color, green. >> reporter: the only color he wants to address is money. something that his state the nation east poor -- the nationest poorest needs. that his opponent has a lot of outspending dupree 7 to 1, but he is confident. >> i have 100% chance of not winning if i was innocent the race. but i have a 50% chance of winning because i'm in the race. >> reporter: dupree has proven the polls and the pundits and the nay-sayers wrong before, but with this much at stake, can he do it again? election day is this coming day tuesday, november 8, and we will be watching. tune into cnn. programming note, next sunday soledad o'brien will look at how some black entrepreneurs are risking everything to become the next big thing. watch the new promised land, silicon valley, a cnn special next weekend at 8:00 eastern right here on cnn. the star of the hit show "super nanny" is fired up tonight. she is upset over this texas judge who was caught on tape beating his daughter with a leather belt. >> we are in the 21st century, don, and this is not the 16th century. we are fully aware of what the damages are and how it breaks down relationships. >> that is still ahead this hour, but first, this is normally a day for religious celebration in syria, but there was nothing happy about what happened there this weekend. state farm. this is jessica. hey, jessica, jerry neumann with a policy question. jerry, how are you doing? 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