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as part of the settlement with the national restaurant association, where herman cain was her boss in the late '90s. "the new york post" spoke to her lawyer, joel bennet. he says, quote, it is just frustrating that herman cain is going around bad-mouthing the two complainants and my client is blocked by a confidentiality agreement." although bennet told "the post" he couldn't remember the accused was herman cain and said it was settled quickly by fax and phone and herman cain recounted what starts like a drawn-out process. >> it started out making some huge claims for sexual harassme...

"the new york post" spoke to her lawyer joel bennet. he says, quote, it is just frustrating that herman cain is going around bad-mouthing the two complainants and my client is blocked by an agreement. although bennet told "the post" he couldn't remember the accused was herman cain and said it was settled quickly by fax and phone and herman cain recounted what startss like a drawn-out claim. >> i do recall that she was asking for a large sum of money. i don't remember what that sum of money was but as the review of this moved forward, that sum of money negotiate my attorney negotiatin...

In my mind. there's questions about more detail about precisely what was alleged and precisely what happened, what the series of events was with. what the chronology was that led to these settlements. settlements that you note in our intro mr. cain has now acknowledged. so there's always more questions. as an editor i'm always pushing reporters to get more answers and that usually means hard work. going back to sources, finding new sources and reporting and putting the reporting through an editing process. >> i want you to listen to what herman cain said to to judy woodruff on her program toni...

With of. >> joining me now john harris, the editor in chief of politico that broke the cain story. thank you for joining us. >> sure thing, john. >> how long has politico been working on the story? >> about three weeks. it seems to me this first came to our attention. we did some reporting. then we brought what we with had learned, our early findings to the cain campaign. didn't get a response for several days and then did get a response. we did a lot more reporting after this and this went through a careful editing process. so all told we have been at this two, almost three weeks. >> john did...

>> reporter: he shared with you a number of conspiracy theories. what did he tell you? >> he believed that the world trade center bombings were a conspiracy, that there was no way the holocaust could have happened the way they said it did, there were more jews living in europe after the holocaust than before. i never, for once, thought that hutton's views were automatically and naturally shared by mel. >> reporter: hutton did not respond to our request for an interview. what is clear, however, is mel and his father share a deep conviction in their traditionalist catholic faith. >> incredibly p...