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Kurt anderson worked for cain's 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. he's 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 that and is demanding an apology. this morning, cain found reporters interested in little else. >>...

>> 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 can't 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 can't do that. >> bret: do you call on the restaurant association to waive the waiver or whatever the deal is with the settlement so the women who apparently want to talk...

Members to be cautious about defending cain. it seems more allegations are expected. allegations that cain adamantly denies, bret. >> bret: carl, thank you. let's 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, you're charging the perry campaign with stirring this up. >> absolutely. quite frankly, this is one of the actions in america that is the reason people don't get involved in politics. the actions of the perry campaign are despicable. rick perry and ...

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 year's old incident. one alleged victim is reluctant to speak about it but the lawyer today contacted the national restaurant association and indicated he may formally ask trade group to waive the confid...

Message. to have the block come here to make the accusation against the perry campaign. who cares? i don't know if it's leaked by perry but who cares? if it's true is it going to help cain? it won't 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 doesn't get involved in the tactics, doesn't talk about them. he has the big message. cain got a great deal off the message. stay on message. let block do what he has to do, ...