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Some operatives have questioned whether cain has the staffing or organization to deal with this type of a story and that's why herman cain is going to go on fox and handle this himself and i think he's going to see a very aggressive candidate going at it and herman cain supporters, a lot them are fervent and think he's also going to attack the media and attack the washington beltway, attack washington, and that goes over well. jon: and in suggest thank if there's bad news to be gotten out, you want to do it now, i'm not even giving credence to the story, i mean, these accusations are somewhat ...

That very direct and full-throated denial. let's play again the interview he did with jenna: >> i've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, i was falsely accused while i was at the national restaurant association, and i say falsely, because it turned out, after the investigation, to be baseless. jon: well, again, pretty direct. i guess most p.r. experts would say if you're going to deal with these kinds of accusations, that's the way to deal with them. >> sure. and it's important, also, to know that the campaign knew about this for, according to politico, ten days, to respond to this story. ...

Feed to people's pre-existing biases about government and washington, that they can at least fight to a draw, if not win, so this is -- you know, it doesn't matter where the truth is here. it matters whether they have the ability to prey on these biases. >> how do the democrats defeat it? how do they protect themselves against these distortions and spin that has worked in the past? >> the way you do this, and the congressman can tell you, is you just have to be forceful again and again, and you have to be direct. remember when the clinton administration started the war room, so as soon as they...

John brennan and the white house briefing room, when he did the brief, he actually said he was not going to give out a lot more of the details. having been there, john, there is a need to give some information out. i mean, what happens after that is this deluge. of course, every bureaucrat in washington who has any access thinks this is the opportunity to show they're in the know. >> and put people's lives at risk in doing that? >> i think there's too much information out there. the stealth helicopter, that wasn't the white house, that was left behind. you couldn't have helped that. the observ...

That condemns the u.s. raid and calls on a reassessment of u.s./pakistan relationships. is this a political statement, sort of a pushback, or is there a chance that this would actually go further to a break in relations? >> yeah, i think it's definitely a political statement. these are some tough words in this resolution, and i think the obama administration was eager for this pakistani government to take this bin laden episode, the fact that he was hiding here for all these years and acknowledge that they have a problem and perhaps go in a new direction, perhaps draft a new policy on extremis...