and john edwards, the whole john edwards issue had to be broken not by the establishment mainstream media, but by the "national enquirer." so there certainly is a double standard and there is a scrutiny that i would argue that black conservatives like justice thomas, like herman cain, are under that others are not under. there's no question that the type of rallying that the black liberal establishment, the race mongers that tend to defense all types of individuals including criminals, that they did not rally to herman cain's defense. there's hypocrisy there. there is a willingness for certain liberals on another network to cast dispersions at herman cain at his intelligence. this idiot bashir saying he doesn't know how to spell iraq. these kinds of things are hypocritical. >> and i don't know what you're referring to there at all. but i do want to say there was >> your viewers do though. >> the john edwards point is interesting and you have a point about how that happened. but you've known herman cain for just a few years. how do you know that this didn't happen? how can you come on so d

edwards, the whole john edwards issue had to be broken not by the establishment mainstream media, but by the "national enquirer." so there certainly is a double standard and there is a scrutiny that i would argue that black conservatives like justice thomas, like herman cain, are under that others are not under. there's no question that the type of rallying that the black liberal establishment, the race mongers that tend to defense all types of individuals including criminals, that they did not rally to herman cain's defense. there's hypocrisy there. there is a willingness for certain liberals on another network to cast dispersions at herman cain at his intelligence. this idiot bashir saying he doesn't know how to spell iraq. these kinds of things are hypocritical. >> and i don't know what you're referring to there at all. but i do want to say there was one thing you said there that -- the john edwards point is interesting and you have a point about how that happened. but you've known herman cain for just a few years. how do you know that this didn't happen, how can you come on so dra

and john edwards, the whole john edwards issue had to be broken not by the establishment mainstream media, but by the "national enquirer." so there certainly is a double standard and there is a scrutiny that i would argue that black conservatives like justice thomas, like herman cain, are under that others are not under. there's no question that the type of rallying that the black liberal establishment, the race mongers that tend to defense all types of individuals including criminals, that they did not rally to herman cain's defense. there's hypocrisy there. there is a willingness for certain liberals on another network to cast dispersions at herman cain at his intelligence. this idiot bashir saying he doesn't know how to spell iraq. these kinds of things are hypocritical. >> and i don't know what you're referring to there at all. but i do want to say there was >> your viewers do though. >> the john edwards point is interesting and you have a point about how that happened. but you've known herman cain for just a few years. how do you know that this didn't happen? how can you come on so d

we didn't know what was going on with john edwards, so the american public, i think, is going to take all of this with a grain of salt. gloria cain is not of the public stage. she's not a rehearsed media-trained woman. >> she's always wanted to stay private and protect her family as well. >> that's right. this is an instance where she and her family now -- it may be her worst nightmare. they have to come forward in the public spotlight to defend herman cain. they wanted to roll her out what kind of first lady will you be? now it's i don't believe these allegations against my husband. it's on at 10:00 tonight. it's a fascinating interview sxi look forward to seeing the whole piece. >> we'll recap then. thanks so much, patricia. >>> mark your calendars now for next tuesday as well. not just tonight's interview with gloria cain, but on november 22nd we'll have a debate next tuesday, 8:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn. as we just mentioned gloria cain defending her husband against sexual harassment allegations. will it even put the matter to rest? we'll talk about it again, but this time with

whether senator kerry and swift boat, whether it was john edwards, whether it was president obama, and the reality is stories come up, issues come up that get investigated and so this is a long line. but it is nonsense for -- >> what is the story. >> -- to make it a race issue. >> you've got him on trial and you won't tell me what the charge is. what's the charge? >> he's not on trial. >> i don't think we have anybody on trial. we have a man of the major association. >> you're tell me herman cain is not on trial. you're better than that. of course he's on trial. >> i think there are questions -- he's running for president of the was the story was published by a represent putsable news organization that accounts cash payments from an organization he headed to two women he says those accusations and baseless. i take him at his word until i know otherwise that payments were made. he did complicate thing business having contradictory statements. >> yes, he did. >> i can see -- i concede it was 12 years ago and it took some time but he did xli indicacompl things by having inconsistencies. >

edwards or barack obama can do anything. that's why we don't count votes before they're made. >> fair point. want to turn to the president. he's in asia now. a hot topic for republican candidates this week has been the president's remarks in hawaii during a business summit. here's what he said. >> we've been a little bit lazy i think over the last couple of decades. >> okay. so now some republicans wasted no time pouncing on that. they put some ads together calling the president's words an insult. take a look at perry. we'll show you the perry ad. >> that's what our president thinks wrong with america, that americans are lazy? that's pathetic. >> okay, now let me just -- let's get some facts in here. the president wasn't really talking about american workers. he was talking about, well, that we haven't worked hard enough to sell america as a great place to invest. here's the full soundbite of what the president said. >> a lot of things that make foreign investors see the u.s. as a great opportunity are stability, our opennes

edwards or barack obama can do anything. that's why we don't count votes before they're made. >> fair point. want to turn to the president. he's in asia now. a hot topic for republican candidates this week has been the president's remarks in hawaii during a business summit. here's what he said. >> we've been a little bit lazy i think over the last couple of decades. >> okay. so now some republicans waste nod time pouncing on that. they put some ads together calling the president's words an insult. take a look at perry. we'll show you the perry ad. >> that's what our president thinks wrong with america that americans are lazy? that's pathetic. >> okay, now let me just -- let's get some facts in here. the president wasn't really talking about american workers. he was talking about, well that we haven't worked hard enough to sell america as a great place to invest. here's the full sound bite of what the president said. >> a lot of things that make foreign investors see the u.s. as a great opportunity are stability, our openness

john edwards. former new york governor, eliot spitzer and that creep from south carolina, the former governor, mark sanford, who told the world he was hiking naked on the appalachain trail when in fact he was in argentina with his lover. there are many more. some are still crawling around the halls of congress. the key in cain's case, we still don't know if he's guilty. although his clumsy handling of this hasn't helped him so r far. cain changed his story multiple times since the news broke sunday, that two women accused him of sexual harassment in the 1990s. it is unclear how much this is going to damage his campaign if at all. there are no polls that have been taken entirely after the news broke, but polls taken before show cain at the top of the republican field. the story seems to be rallying his base. cain's campaign raised more than $400,000 online on monday alone and several high pro file conservatives are sticking by cain. they're blaming the media and racism, which of course is always con

edwards and so many tom delays that we can take before we say, you know, i can't follow you anymore, and for me, the situation with coach paterno and jerry sandusky, who were absolutely the most revered leaders of my community growing up was just kind of the final straw, and i apologize to the people of my parents' generation that came across as being emotional, but that was kind of my visceral response. >> thanks for joining us. member of sandusky's second mile foundation and the writer of this op-ed in the "washington post." thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >>> we want to tell you now about a new program here on cnn called "the next list" it focuses on america's innovator, the people creating cutting edge technology that will one day change our lives when it comes to technology, education and entertainment. check it out. >>> i can remember very, very accurately, which i'm told from even really excellent researchers at the center in philadelphia that people can do this. i can't imagine how they can but i'm told they can. i catalog smells in my head. i remember them

however, i would point out that the media did not put the same scrutiny on john edwards when he was running for president, and it was revealed by the national enquirer in the midst of his campaign that he was carrying on an affair with a campaign staffer, who we all know now, and he had even impregnated this woman, and bob schieffer of cbs said we're going to ignore this story, the washington press corps. this is the kind of thing that we should really give a miss because this doesn't look like there's anything to it to me, and, in fact, you saw that the washington press corps did not dig further. this was an affair that was ongoing during the campaign, so i think that with herman cain and with his political future, again, it really depends on what other allegations come forward and how he handles it. >> but i think there's an enormous difference -- yeah, i think there's an enormous difference, no matter how despicable you might think edwards was it was entirely voluntarily. there were no unwelcome advances. here you have three alleged victims, and i think it's impossible to ignore allegati

however, i would point out that the media did not put the same scrutiny on john edwards when he was running for president, and it was revealed by the "national enquirer" in the midst of his campaign that he was carrying on an affair with a campaign staffer, who we all know now is rielle hunter, and that he had even impregnated this woman. and bob schieffer of cbs was on done imus and said we're going to ignore this story, the washington press corps, this is the kind of thing that we should really give a miss because this doesn't look like there's anything to it to me. and in fact we saw that the washington press corps did not dig further and this was an affair that was ongoing during the campaign. so i think that with herman cain and with his political future, again, it really depends on what other allegations come forward and how he handles it. >> but i think there's an enormous difference -- >> alan, you want to jump in? >> yeah. i think there's an enormous difference, no matter how despicable you might think edwards was, that it was entirely voluntary. there were no unwelcome advances. h

edwards or barack obama can do anything. it's always up in the air in politics. that's why we don't count votes before they're made. >> fair point. want to turn to the president. he's in asia now. a hot topic for republican candidates this week has been the president's remarks in hawaii during a business summit. here's what he said. >> we've been a little bit lazy i think over the last couple of decades. >> okay. so now some republicans wasted no time pouncing on that. they put some ads together calling the president's words an insult. take a look at perry. we'll show you the perry ad. >> that's what our president thinks wrong with america, that americans are lazy? that's pathetic. >> okay, now let me just -- let's get some facts in here. the president wasn't really talking about american workers. he was talking about, well, that we haven't worked hard enough to sell america as a great place to invest. here's the full sound bite of what the president said. >> a lot of things that make foreign investors see the u.s. as a grea

the only thing i have to say is that john edwards should be watching closely. maybe he can learn tricks for 2016. >> goodness. cynical doesn't even get close to describing that. my goodness. all right. let me move on. only 30 seconds on the clock. michele bachmann, last night, she hasn't had the greatest debate performances over the past several. had a hard time actually getting in there, being noticed. last night she didn't hold back. back and forth with jon huntsman a bit. huntsman was another one. mixed it up with romney. so was this a good night for underdogs? >> listen, a great night for underdogs except for herman cain. if you think he was an underdog. he basically got out of the race last night. he just did not have any kind of a moment where he articulated his own foreign policy. people who had grit nigheat nig michele bachmann, very strong. and ron paul. if you like ron paul you loved last night's debate. he is going to, i think, get more and more followers from the libertarian wing of the conservative party, of the republican party, based on his perfo

edwards, who was also very popular and the bottom line is this. now you have frontrunners who have a tight core of support, but, you know, not everybody is always excited about it. herman cain may be the exception here. he continues to have a very exciting following. >> when you look at the polling, really two republican races that are unfolding. if you look at the more moderate, more business oriented and more secular part of the party, it is consolidating around mitt romney. tea party oriented and evangelical christian and they basically do not want romney, but they have not been able to settle on one candidate and really the volatility of the race is that part of the party. now herman cain, none of them have been able to consolidate outside of the party against romney. you get the growing sense that as he brings his side together, maybe no one ever really rises to challenge him. >> none of these debates are dwelling on the social conservative issues. they're dwelling on economics, which is the smart thing because that's what concerns everybody

and john mccain and mitt romney. on the democratic side, hillary clinton was plus 21 over edwards and -- barack obama. but the important thing is that this is exactly the time from this point forward to your question, is when the polls solidify. when mike huckabee began making his move. this is when barack obama fan making his move. i think we'll be able to answer that question over the next two, 2 1/2 weeks. we'll see whether or not this begins to solidify. >> virtual campaigning at this point is a big part of whether or not you'll be successful. >> okay. we'll watch it unfold. thank you very much. >> absolutely. >> and be freezing on grand avenue on new year's eve. >> that's right. rich and bob, thank you very much. >>> up next, top stories, and on "fareed zakaria gps," the israeli defense minister on the threat of war with iran. we're america's natural gas and here's what we did today: supported nearly 3 million steady jobs across our country... ... scientists, technicians, engineers, machinists... ... adding near

percentage point lead over fred thompson, who i was working for, you see how well i did there, and john mccain and mitt romney, on the democratic side, hillary clinton was plus 21 over edwards and -- edwards and -- who came in -- oh, barack obama. how could i forget. but the important thing is that this is exactly the time, from this point forward, to your question, is when the polls begin to solidify. this is when mike huckabee began making his move. this is when barack obama began making his move. i think we're going to be able to answer that question over the next 2, 2 1/2 weeks, candy. we'll see whether or not this begins to solidify. >> and i don't think you should ignore the fact that a virtual network has been created. virtual campaigning at this point is a big part of whether or not you're going to be successful. >> okay. so we'll wait like we did and watch it unfold. >> absolutely. >> thank you so much. >> and be freezing on grant avenue on new year's eve. >> that's right. >> rich galen, bob walker, thank you so much. >> sure. >> nice to be with you. >> up next, top story, and