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dressing unbalanced approach. they also voted on defense. and passed a huge defense authorization bill, $662 billion. it came short of what president obama wanted, short of what they actually passed for this year. reflecting the fact that the wars in iraq and afghanistan are winding down. president obama has threatened a veto. lynn? >> tracie, thanks so much. elsewhere as herman cain weighs his white house aspirations, the he said/she said continues between the gop presidential candidate ant an atlanta businesswoman, who claims she was his mistress for more than a decade. in a newspaper interview, cain admitted to providing ginger white with financial aid, for monthly bills and expenses after she asked him for help. cain said he never told his wife that he had befriended the georgia woman, recounting what he called a purely platonic relationship. however, in an exclusive interview last night on msnbc's the "last word" white told a
cain but it's not the most devastating of results. if his numbers were falling, herman cain should be very correspond read. at this point he should just be very concerned, i guess. it's still a serious issue, and the growing number of people who believe the allegations are true is a problem for the cain campaign. the fact that only 24% believe his campaign has handled it well is a concern. this is a mixed result over law. two out of three americans say, it's all right, herman cain's ethics are at least as good as most politicians. even among those who believe the allegations are true they say he's asset that cal as his peers. jon: there seems like there is a flavor of the month to the republican campaign. michelle bachmann is up, then she is down. rick perry is up, then he's down. herman cain has been up. you're saying, though, that he's not necessarily dropping. >> reporter: well herman cain is not in as strong a position as
and said none of this is true. absolutely none of this. even though you do have women coming forward claiming in their cases it is true. and you have the national restaurant association acknowledging that in two cases there were settlements, one of which i should add cain was not part of or didn't agree to. you have that credibility issue nagging the campaign and secondly it has moved into with these women coming forward it has moved into a stage this isn't a story you just can put an end to. you talked about this joint press conference coming up. so i think this is, more, as these women come forward, as the story stays alive longer and takes more of a to on the toll on the campaign, all of that said there is a still a chunk of the republican party electorate who believe this is conspiracy, a media conspiracy against cain and are going to stand by him. i think a good chunk still will. jon: this karen kraushaar
something in the mail in next couple months. jenna: rick, thank you. jon: right now at least two women claiming herman cain sexually harassed them will be appearing a the a joint news conference they say. there is no word when it is going to happen. yesterday cain defended himself against allegations that have engulfed his campaign. a new poll shows the scandal seems to be affecting cain's image. according to gallup, his latest positive intensity score dropped to 25. that's lower than his rating before the allegations surfaced. fox news contributor nina easton is a washington columnist for "fortune" magazine. nina, so far the allegations don't seem to have a lot of proof behind them. they are very vocal, very public but not a whole lot of proof. but it is affecting the cain campaign. >> i think the story moved into a danger zone for two reasons for cain. first of all it has gone from allegations to a credibility issue. so cain yesterday came out
he was a week ago. we have some numbers coming out from a florida primary poll later today. he's still doing pretty well there. this is a difficult time. but when you say flavor of the month, what i think it really is, there is a big debate in the republican party between the people who want mitt romney and the people who want somebody else. right now herman cain is the i'm not mitt romney candidate and he's holding there until more information comes out. most americans, two out of three americans when we asked them about the allegations about herman cain, they may have an opinion one way or the other, but they are not too firm on it. they are waiting to hear more, and we don't know how the story will play out. if the women gather together and have a press conference and the information is credible and damaging, herman cain's campaign will be in serious trouble. if he can deal with it and perhaps change his communications team, it may go in a different direction. jon: as it plays out we'll be covering it.
results the man who compiled these results joins us now. it seems like an obvious question, is it all because of the sexual harassment allegations cain has been tpaoeurgt a couple of weeks. >> you can never answer that question with certainly, obviously that's been the storyline. what we do see in the tphuplts is that over thnumbers, herman cain has not dropped. president obama's numbers have risen. what we are seeing is a growing number of people believe the allegations are both serious and true, that's a problem for herman cain. jon: so you say eye not so muc it's not so much a matter of cain's support falling but the president's numbers rising. >> reporter: that's right. given this choice they are saying we are going to lean in the president's direction. that is not good news for herman
who filed, who, yeah, settled a sexual ha -- harrassment complaint against him, it has come out she went on to file a complaint, a labor complaint in her next job a few years later. it makes it sound like she is someone who is sort of a serial lawsuit filer but those charges, i mean those, they, it has the effect of sticking more to cain i guess because of his public position. >> well, this is the problem i think whenever women come forward with sexual harassment charges. we saw this with anita hill. we saw this with the first accuser who came public with cain. it becomes your own background gets scrubbed. it is a very risky thing for these women to come forward. none of them, seem like so far, are perfectly perfect candidates shall we say for
challenges. let me be clear, there is no bail out coming, there is no bail out because flange le frankly there is no money. >> reporter: these conflicting results point out why presidential candidates are going to have to spend a lot of time in ohio over the next 12 months and it makes more truth than ever before than ever before that you can't win the presidency if you don't win ohio. jon: doug mcelway live with interesting results there. thank you, doug. now this fox news alert and brand-new polls just out from rasmussen reports about republican presidential hopeful herman cain. for him the hits just keep oncoming and not necessarily in a good way. the new numbers show cain losing ground to president obama. according to these numbers cain now trails the president by 11 percentage points in a head-to-head match up. just a month ago cain was beating mr. obama by 2. scott mass must and of rasmussen
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