bill clinton, john edwards, anthony weiner. there's been plenty of sex scandals all of different types and not necessarily involve sexual harassment. these all involved white men. there's been -- just recently we had two congressmen from new york state, one a democrat, one republican, forced out of office because of sexual improprieties. i think there is some selective accusations. gwen: just a little bit of cynicism. thank you all. we're going to whoof on, because while we remain consumed with the twists and turns of the cain controversy, the president is abroad on a much larger stage, coping with a much more consequential problem. speaking at the g-20 meeting in cannes today, president obama linked the global crisis that threatens to topple the greek government to the one he is grappling with here at home. >> i know it isn't easy, but what is absolutely critical and what the world looks for in moments such as this is action. that's how we confronted our financial crisis in the united states. we did what was necessary to addre

john edwards and herman cain. if you think that john edwards got the same scrutiny that herman cain got, then you live in the line -- >> when the story came out -- >> bill: no, no. they didn't even want to put it out, so the "national enquirer" had to do it. >> client: that's the point, because the left wing media protects democrats. look, you can go back to jack kennedy or bill clinton or john edwards. the same narrative prevails. once the story breaks, they have to cover it, but they protect them. >> i don't care about herman cain's personal life. i care about the fact that he doesn't know anything about the issues. >> bill: that's your opinion and you're entitled to it. but the media coverage of cain versus edward -- >> herman cain is not running for president. he's on a book tour. >> bill: okay. barney frank. i think -- there are two reasons why he's not running. number one, he almost lost last time. he got 54% of the vote, extremely liberal district. now they redrew his district in massachusetts and he would

chris: then there was john edwards primping for a live shot. this went viral after put to appropriate music. ♪ i feel pretty ♪ ♪ i pity any girl who isn't me tonight ♪ chris: and another time when behind-the-scenes stuff became an issue hurt rick perry down in texas. a few years ago, a local tv interviewer did this report about what perry said after he thought their interview was over. >> i told the governor try as i may, governor, i guess i can't win this one. 11 seconds after he said goodbye. he said this. >> try as i may governor, i'm not going to wait that long. adios, mo-fo. chris: check out urban dictionary if you want to know what that meant. and when we come back, barack obama has been taunted as un-american. does he want four more years of this stuff. are there signs that he might not care about a second term? and "scoops and predictions," be right back. >> and the majority of americans, 55% think he'll be a one-term president, are you the underdog now? >> absolutely. chris: welcome back. that was president obama being candid a

john edwards came in second and dean slipped to third. then he delivered his disastrous "i have a scream" speech. >> and oregon and washington and michigan! and then we are going to washington, d.c. to take back the white house [yelling]. >> iowa is completely full of stories like that. every cycle i have ever been nsomething unexpected happens. >> kerry cruise to the nomination and picked edwards as his runningmate and lost. but if any year confirmed the impact that iowa has on the presidential nomination process, it was 2008. on the democratic side, john edwards campaigned almost exclusively in iowa. hoping a win would propel him past the hillary clinton juggernaut. enter the junior senator from illinois, barack obama. a community organizer, with a great ground game and growing celebrity support. >> thank you, iowa. >> obama won the caucuses with almost 38% of the vote, while clinton finished third, edged out by edwards. suddenly, the entire race was changed. >> it isn't too much to say that vaulted him into the office? >> certainly the

john edwards came in second and dean slipped to third. then he delivered his disastrous "i have a scream" speech. >> and oregon and washington and michigan! and then we are going to washington, d.c. to take back the white house [yelling]. >> iowa is completely full of stories like that. every cycle i have ever been nsomething unexpected happens. >> kerry cruise to the nomination and picked edwards as his runningmate and lost. but if any year confirmed the impact that iowa has on the presidential nomination process, it was 2008. on the democratic side, john edwards campaigned almost exclusively in iowa. hoping a win would propel him past the hillary clinton juggernaut. enter the junior senator from illinois, barack obama. a community organizer, with a great ground game and growing celebrity support. >> thank you, iowa. >> obama won the caucuses with almost 38% of the vote, while clinton finished third, edged out by edwards. suddenly, the entire race was changed. >> it isn't too much to say that vaulted him into the office? >> certainly the

john edwards came in second and dean slipped to third. then he delivered his disastrous "i have a scream" speech. >> and oregon and washington and michigan! and then we are going to washington, d.c. to take back the white house [yelling]. >> iowa is completely full of stories like that. every cycle i have ever been nsomething unexpected happens. >> kerry cruise to the nomination and picked edwards as his runningmate and lost. but if any year confirmed the impact that iowa has on the presidential nomination process, it was 2008. on the democratic side, john edwards campaigned almost exclusively in iowa. hoping a win would propel him past the hillary clinton juggernaut. enter the junior senator from illinois, barack obama. a community organizer, with a great ground game and growing celebrity support. >> thank you, iowa. >> obama won the caucuses with almost 38% of the vote, while clinton finished third, edged out by edwards. suddenly, the entire race was changed. >> it isn't too much to say that vaulted him into the office? >> certainly the

john edwards came in second and dean slipped to third. then he delivered his disastrous "i have a scream" speech. >> and oregon and washington and michigan! and then we are going to washington, d.c. to take back the white house [yelling]. >> iowa is completely full of stories like that. every cycle i have ever been nsomething unexpected happens. >> kerry cruise to the nomination and picked edwards as his runningmate and lost. but if any year confirmed the impact that iowa has on the presidential nomination process, it was 2008. on the democratic side, john edwards campaigned almost exclusively in iowa. hoping a win would propel him past the hillary clinton juggernaut. enter the junior senator from illinois, barack obama. a community organizer, with a great ground game and growing celebrity support. >> thank you, iowa. >> obama won the caucuses with almost 38% of the vote, while clinton finished third, edged out by edwards. suddenly, the entire race was changed. >> it isn't too much to say that vaulted him into the office? >> certainly the

john edwards came inecond and dean slipped to third. then he delivered his disastrous "i have a scream" speech. >> and oregon and washington and michigan! and then we are going to washington, d.c. to take back the white house [yelling]. >> iowa is completely full of stories like that. every cycle i have ever been nsomething unexpected happens. >> kerry cruise to the nomination and picked edwards as his runningmate and lost. but if any year confirmed the impact that iowa has on the presidential nomination process, it was 2008. on the democratic side, john edwards campaigned almost exclusively in iowa. hoping a win would propel him past the hillary clinton juggernaut. enter the junior senator from illinois, barack obama. a community organizer, with a great ground game and growing celebrity support. >> thank you, iowa. >> obama won the caucuses with almost 38% of the vote, while clinton finished third, edged out by edwards. suddenly, the entire race was changed. >> it isn't too much to say that vaulted him into the office? >> certainly the

john edwards came in second and dean slipped to third. then he delivered his disastrous "i have a scream" speech. >> and oregon and washington and michigan! and then we are going to washington, d.c. to take back the white house [yelling]. >> iowa is completely full of stories like that. every cycle i have ever been nsomething unexpected happens. >> kerry cruise to the nomination and picked edwards as his runningmate and lost. but if any year confirmed the impact that iowa has on the presidential nomination process, it was 2008. on the democratic side, john edwards campaigned almost exclusively in iowa. hoping a win would propel him past the hillary clinton juggernaut. enter the junior senator from illinois, barack obama. a community organizer, with a great ground game and growing celebrity support. >> thank you, iowa. >> obama won the caucuses with almost 38% of the vote, while clinton finished third, edged out by edwards. suddenly, the entire race was changed. >> it isn't too much to say that vaulted him into the office? >> certainly the

this is a doing in the armor, and john edwards had the same thing and he is gone. but like bill clinton, he is teflon. he had tons of women. >>neil: what does that say about herman cain? >>guest: he is still in the running. he took a hit and he keeps on going. what i have noticed the big money types, a lot of people i handle, big bundlers and have pac's they are not on board the cain train. >>neil: are they on board the mitt train? >>guest: more and more. >>neil: as more come forward and in support financially of romney since this exploded? >>guest: no, this has not caused anyone to leap off whether they were weighing, should i support herman cain or maybe go to mitt romney. these people are already coming forth can they wanted to support romney. i don't think someone was thinking about supporting cain and they heard the allegations -- i had dinner with a donor last evening and we were talking and he is like, well, the herman cain thing, i was thinking about writing him a check and this is not that big of a deal, i like the 9-9-9 policy as a business person. so, i

john edward came in second. dean slipped to third. then he delivered his disastrous i have a scream speech. >> we are going to south dakota and other gone and washington and michigan and then we are going to washington, d.c. to take back the white house. yeah! >> iowa is full of stories like that. every cycle i have been in something unexpected happens. >> kerry cruised to the nomination picked edwards as his running mate and lost. but if any year confirmed the impact iowa has on the presidential nomination process it was 2008 on the democratic side john edward campaigned almost exclusively in iowa hoping a win would propel him past the hillary clinton newingjulier naught. enter -- juggernaut. entered barack obama a community organizer with a great ground game and growing celebrity support. >> obama won the caucuses with almost 38 percent of the vote while clinton finished third. edged out by edwards. suddenly the entire race was changed. >> is it too much to say that's what vaulted him into the office? >> senlly the iowa caucus is wh

so there's no john edwards, there's no hillary clinton, there's no barack obama. i mean they appear. joe bbden appears in like news footage and, and stuff. but in terms of the actual, the, the action is really. >> smith: and, and the storylinee ú&'s really fooused on that. >> heilemann: the storyline is a very tight narrative and it's really about palin and mccain and steve schmidt the chief sttategist who. >> smith: right. >> heilemann: .was more responsible for ringing her onto the campaign than anyone and uutimately felt the most guilt and responsibility for having done that in the end. >> smith: what happened. >> heilemann: yeah. >> smith: when does she -tart attacking julianne ú&ore on facebook? >> heilemann: oh, i think probably before this show airs. >> smith: you think so? >> heilemann: yeah. >> smith: excellent. >> heilemann: but i got to tell you, i've seen the film and the -- the actors are as good as you an imagine. people will be astonished. >> smith: yeah. >> heilemann: .by julianne moore's sarah paain. they'll be astonished by how great she is in

we scratch our head every single time, like thinking about the john edwards episode, like what in the hell are they thinking, that they think they can get away from this stuff. it involves a huge amount of hubris. to run to the president of the united states, you think you're bigger and better than others. and it creates blinders. he was told the stuff was going to come out. he knew the sexual harassment charges were out there swirling about from the past and they would become an issue. and he reassured everyone saying, it's not a big thing. >> jim, you tweak something with me with this fox thing. usually you're a conservative, you go over there for a somewhat softer landing on a tricky day. but tomorrow, i would expect that he's going to get tough handling over there, because he's now a problem for conservatives. he's not their champion anymore. he's getting in the way of finding a champion. i wouldn't expect he'll get any nicer treatment over there in this environment than he'd get anywhere else, right? he's going to get pounded tomorrow afternoon. >> he's going to get pounded no ma

john edwards came in second and dean slipped to third. then he delivered the disastrous "i had a scream" speech. >> going to south dakota, and oregon and washington and michigan. and then we're going to washington, d.c. to take back the white house. yeah! >> iowa is just completely full of stories like that. every cycle i have ever been in, something unexpected happens. >> kerry cruised to the nomination. picked edwards as the running mate and lost. but if any year confirmed the impact iowa has on the presidential nomination process, it was 2008. on the democratic side, john edwards campaigned almost exclusively in iowa. hoping a win will propel him past the hillary clinton jau juggernaut. enter the junior senator from illinois, barack obama. community organizer with a great ground game and growing celebrity support. >> thank you, iowa. >> obama won the caucuses with almost 38% of the vote. while clinton finished third. edged out by edwards. suddenly, the entire race was changed. >> too much to say. that's what vault him in the office? >>

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

look at john edwards. what does the future hold for herman cain? larry sabato looks into his crystal ball when we come back. what's better than gold ? free gold ! we call that hertz gold plus rewards. you earn free days, free weeks and more fast. that's a plus. upgrade your ride. that's a plus. rewards with no blackout dates so you can redeem anytime. and it's easy to redeem your points online. already a gold member ? just select gold plus rewards in your profile and start rewarding yourself now. just go to hertzgoldplusrewards.com to join. hertz gold plus rewards. journey on. >> brian: it's magical. herman cain is the latest politician in scandal. do the gameses have any staying power and how will the voters react? dr. larry sabato takes a look at this. so herman cain came out again yesterday. did two major shows, "the o'reilly factor," as well as the center seat on "special report." is he putting this to bed or lengthing the pain? >> well, brian, here we are back to sex again in politics. i guess it may be the best way to listen politics up or ma

we scratch our head every single time, like thinking about the john edwards episode, like what in the hell are they thinking, that they think they can get away with this kind of stuff, and part of it it's just hubris. to run requires an enormous ego to think that we can be the president of the united states, that you think you're bigger and better than others. and it creates blinders. he was told the stuff was going to come out. he knew the sexual harassment charges were out there swirling about from the past and they would become an issue. and he reassured everyone saying, listen, it's not a big issue. it's not a big thing. >> jim, you tweak something with me with this fox thing. usually you're a conservative, i'm not fox -- i'm not knocking fox right now. you go over there for a somewhat softer landing on a tricky day. but tomorrow, i would expect that he's going to get tough handling over there, because he's now a problem for conservatives. he's not their champion anymore. he's getting in the way of finding a champion. i wouldn't expect he'll get any nicer treatment over there in t

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

if you are teddy kennedy or bill clin top or john edward, if you're the wall street protesters who are covering up sexual assault. the media will keep their hand off of it. if you don't wear costume as progressive, as a black conservative, beware. >> kimberly: speaking of costumes, did anyone pick up on this? >> bob: i don't know how eric handles his watch. it must weigh 15 pounds. i appreciate the money. >> greg: make sure you tell everyone you -- >> eric: really? >> greg: my costume, i'm my twin browner, gunner. >> kimberly: gunner gutfeld. i'm andrea. >> eric: let me do this costume. put a flag on. let's talk about the des moines register poll. >> kimberly: it's clear that herman cain has the attention of everyone. they didn't expect him to resonate in the past. long-standing run in the polls. see if he is chipped away on the new allegation, unnamed sources. whether he is able to weather the storm. next 48 hours are critical. we have a polling out that makes the point. he is in it to win it. let's see. "des moines register" poll, cain leads romney. who would you vote for in the 2012

about john edwards. let's go back to the caller. i think he hung up. caller: good morning. i think the republicans are going for the house and senate more than they are the presidency. they do not have a super strong presidential candidate and had been bouncing all over the place. after barack obama got elected, they were floating out there in space and they got locked up with the tea party -- latched up with the tea party and then they started the filibusters and blocking everything that was trying to be done. i think they are the ones that of the real partisans in this race. i would like to say that. i do not know if you guys believe that or not. host: thank you for the call. guest: i think the republicans are the partisan standing in the way. going back to the earlier caller. fox news is such a big presence, the largest cable channel on cable television. they did not break the john edwards story. the notion that everybody is in the same boat together, i do not know if it flies. these are the stories t

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