i amill oreilly, the spin stops right here because we are definitely looking out for you. captioned by closed captioning serves inc. >> rumors are swirling that herman cain may soon end best bid for the white house. >> i will make the decision. >> he is here to tell us what his next step may be. the battle rages on between republican presidential candidate newt gingrich and mitt romney and more class warfare from the anointed one. >> we're not going to win it if the whole philosophy is built on handing out more tax cuts to people who don't need them. >> will obama's divide and conquer strategy win him another

term in office. and exposing the liberal bias in the mainstream media. we are on the road to 2012, and "hannity" starts right here, right now. >> i will be joined by former alaska governor sarah palin. first, a vote today on the campaign trail sounds herman cain and whether or not he intends to continue his bid for the white house. earlier this week a woman surfaced claiming she had a 13-year extramarital fair with cain, which cain flatly denies. however, cain acknowledges this has taken a toll on his family and plans to discuss the status of his campaign with his wife tomorrow. before the decision is made, the man himself joins me, herman cain. welcome back, sir. thanks for being with us. >> thanks, sean.

you've been very fair. >> i want to be fair. i have known you a long time, herman. we have been on stage and radio stations and radio shows going back over a decade now. >> right. >> what started the -- what do you mean by, your campaign is reassessing? >> four things, first, as you know, my family, that's important. with the media frenzy. every day and all the publications, it's not like my family is isolated from that, and it's taken an emotional toll. i have been talking to my wife every day this week, many times during the day, with respect to this, and as you indicated, tomorrow i will be at home so we can sit down and talk "face the nation." -- face-to-face. my wife told me she loves me. it's not she is doubting me. it's all the media frenzy and all the speculation and twisting and turning that never stops, it

takes a toll on the family. so that's my number one priority. many of my supporters, the response has been overwhelmingly positive they are behind me. but i've got to consider family considerations first, and then the third thing i have to consider here is what happens to contributions. so, like a businessman, sean, when you have a bump in the road, you reconsider and re-evaluate, and if some people in the media don't want to give me that opportunity, but i'm going to take that opportunity to re-assess and re-evaluate to decide whether to go from here. >> you am you've known this woman for 13 years. you have been adamant saying there was no sexual relationship whatsoever withthis woman. if all of these texts were released, some 60 we know of, is there any flirting, any inappropriate talk, there is anything that your wife would be

mad at if she read, herman? >> absolutely not. and in fact the atlanta journal constitution published an article today, because her attorney was willing to turn over the records that she had to the newspaper but wouldn't give them to my attorney. so, we didn't have chance to look at them. but the stories that came out today indicated that there were 70 text messages between a certain date -- i don't even remember the dates -- 47 of them -- >> october to november. >> right. 47 of them were initiated by her, and as i have indicated before, 47 by her and they were all asking for financial help. sean, unfortunately, i'm a softy, and i feel sorry for people when they get in deep financial trouble, especially given the economy and people being out of work.

this is the only person i have happened. i have helped friends and family all the time in terms of trying to help them during these tough economic times. >> knowing you, that does not surprise me at all. herman, isn't this something, though, that would be easily confirmed? she is saying you flew her around the country. she is saying you were meeting in hotels. can't we get plane tickets and confirmations? don't these hotels have videotapes that it -- some of them, i assume, hang on to those tapes forever. and -- go ahead. >> sean, do me a favor. let's not play detective. i'm going to prove -- i am going to re-establish my character. we're working on that. my attorney is working on that. we're going to work on that. i don't want to play detective, with all due respect. i want to do the assessment we have to do, and everytime a new bit of information comes up, that stimulates another story in

the media, and that hurts my family and my wife and it hurts me. so i really rather not go there anymore with respect to trying to play detective about how to resolve this. we're working on it, because i'm going to re-establish my reputation. >> and re-establish your character, and this is why i think it is important for you -- i'm not playing detective, herman. i've nope you a long time. you're so adamant in your denial, and this charge is so damming -- not just to your presidential campaign. this goes to the heart of your character and issues involving your family, your children, your grandchildren. this goes very deep here, and i would just assume, if she is making these allegations, considering she is claiming these things happened, this would be easily proven false. it may take time but is that something you think would be worthwhile doing? >> we're going to do that, okay?

for example, relative to the telephone messages, the text messages, we have already gone back and pulled my phone messages to see if they match up. okay? and we're going to do that. pull the analysis from the standpoint of calls and text messages. sean, let me share with you the most hurtful part of this. i thought it was a friend that i was trying to help. and so when you get blindsided like thattor, you can imagine what it felt like when in fact didn't turn out to be a friend at all. so it was hurtful to me and hurtful to my wife. >> we're going to continue with herman cain, and then live from alaska, governor sarah palin will join me to react to the war of words between mitt romney and newt gingrich. that and much more straight ahead. giving an amazing gift,

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story. i guess the issue you're going to work this out with your wife. one of the issues that has come out publicly, you have not discussed this with her. what is going on with her and what is she saying to you? >> , that. she was hurt that she didn't know about this friend i was helping financially. she was aware of many of the other friends that i have helped. there has been a male friend i helped she di't know about because it wasn't a big deal. i wasn't intentionally trying to keep it to her. but i have talked to my wife and been totally honest with her. she has forgiven me and loves me and is ready to move on. it's just the media isn't ready to move on. that's why we have to re-assess this. so the discussion between my wife and i, those are coming long fine. it's a blessing from god i have a wife that loves me they way she does. she loves me deeply, and, yes, i have made mistakes, we all have

made mistakes. the think about it is, if you make a mistake and admit it, then you should be forgiven. >> you're not saying an inappropriate mistake. you're saying your mistake was not telling your wife you knew this woman and helped her out financially. >> correct. that's what i'm saying. >> why do i suspect -- people do this -- the oddest things when they're in financial dire straits. do you think there was any financial motive? was there any text you know of that she sent you that said, i'm going to go public? i'm going to tell a story? can you help me out? any indication that you recall, something like that? >> not at all. that's why it was such a surprise. that had never been any information at all, or suggestion, that she was going to go public or that she was

going to get an attorney and good on a media blitz like she's done for the last several days. up in whatsoever. not one text message, you know, with basically saying that. and your other question there was nothing in there that suggested any sexual senuendos. nothing threatening me financially or she was going to go public. so it was such a surprise. >> along before any allegation of sexual harassment and -- you're right, your campaign got off track defending the allegations. is it possible by this week's end you may be out of this race? and you're telling the american people all of these charges have been against you are false and has taken such a toll on your

wife and family, you would have to leave because of scurrilous false allegations? >> that's obviously one option, sean, and the commitment i have made is before monday dish haven't set the exact date -- before monday we'll make a decision. we'll make a. you're absolutely right. think about this. this -- in the course of now three and a half weeks, i have been hit with three separate charges of this nature, okay? even when the first two we thought were dying down because they didn't get legs because the true so-called accusers didn't bring forthany evidence, and the fact of theatter is this so-called evidence -- what evidence is there? i send checks to a lot of people. i help a lot of people. that in itself is not proof. so the other allegation in terms of it being a 13-year physical relationship, that is her word against my word.

based upon the evidence she has presented. but you're right. think about this. think about it. the reason that i'm doing this reassessment, it's not fair to my family, it's not fair to my supporters, it's not fair to this campaign, it's every week, now three out of four weeks, on a monday of all days, we've been hit with another one of these accusations that we now have to address to basically prove, once again, i didn't do some of the things i've been accused of doing. of course it's distracting, and gets us off message. >> so much has been made about the fact that texts were sent at 4:30 in the morning, and then you have somebody like congressman west and said it's probably best you step aside. i want to get your reaction. >> well, first of all, somebody can send somebody a text at 4:30 in the morning and you might not

read it until you wake up. i wasn't sending any text at 4:30 in the morning. i'm either sleeping or working. congressman west's comment, i respect him and that's absolutely his right to feel that way. in fact, others feel the same way because they believe that it is a distraction to the republican primary process, and i agree with that. obviously that is another consideration. but the primary consideration starts with my family, and the fact that people feel that way, i understand that. i would feel the same way. because this whole series of accusations is one of the -- will put a lot of doubt in a lot of people's mind for a long time. let me have one last point. we don't have the source yet, but i and many of my associates and many of my people are

convinced tha in every case it was financially motivated, that somebody somewhere is paying them off to try ansmear my character in order to slow me down. >> who do you think might be responsible for that? >> season, i have no idea. i'm just saying, if you look at the circumstance, especially of the lady that gloria allred represented, and you look at this situation, both have very similar circumstances that suggest dire financial straits. so we don't have any evidence yet but i assure you we're getting to the bottom of it. i already started that process, and when we come back at it not going to be based upon rumor or he-shade-she-shade, it's going to be based upon factual information that we can present in order to show i have not done many of the things i have

accused of. >> part of this that really struck me is that she is claiming this affair would have gone on during a point where you had stage four cancer, and people argue, stage four, you're at death's door and fighting for every -- fighting for your life. last question, and then i promise this is it. when do you think, in your mind, you're going to make a decision? before monday? >> yes. i'm going to make -- i'm going to make a decision before monday. now, before monday, and we have to work out the logistics yet. the decision could be we're going to continue with this campaign, full speed ahead. the decision could be we're going to suspend the campaign. that's why i'm doing the reassessment. now, i was asked a question today at the union leader newspaper in new hampshire, if my wife says, you know,

terminate the campaign, would i quit? the answer is, yes, but she wouldn't do that. that's not the kind of wife i have. my wife has been supportive of me, she is with me. if we determine -- if, if, if, we decide i should not continue withthis campaign issue will make the decision. she will be there to help me think through what it in the best interests of the family and the best interest of me and the best interests of the campaign. so, you know what, sean? just like when i went through stage four cancer, my supportive, aboving -- loving wife, gloria, was with me every step of the day, and if it wasn't for my faith in god and having her with me, i wouldn't have made it through that year,

and now five years later i'm cancer free. so she has been through me all of this and there's things i am not proud of for not having told her about it but she loves me. so the good news is i have a loving supportive wife that is going to support me as well as my loving kids. >> you're saying -- i'm listening very closely to your, herman, and somebody that has known you for a long time. you've never cheated on your wife. never been inappropriate. these allegations keep coming up, and you're going to fight them whether you stay in or not. last question. i promise. >> yes. sean, i'm going to fight them no matter what. you're absolutely right. okay? >> all right. herman cain. i know your busy. thank you for taming the time to be with us. >> thanks, sean. >> as newt gingrich serges ahead, a war of words has

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in the bat for the republic cage nomination is heating up. in a stunning poll released by was rasmus send reports, governor romney trails at 17%. and joining me is former alaska governor, sarah palin. governor, how are you? getting cold up there. >> beautiful. >> how cold is it? >> it's warm today. it's in the 20s. so there's a lot to do outdoors. it's absolutely gorgeous. >> i hope you were just listening to herman cain. there's a bigger issue in play here because long before the issue of sexual harassment and this most recent charge came up, he was being called all sorts of names and the media seems to be willing to do this and go along

with this. you have experienced this as a conservative woman. why if you're a conservative, woman, an african-american, you can say anything you want and nobody cares? >> we need to not be afraid of being accused of being racist because we call out obama and his socialist policies and his association and past record that proves he would seek to fundamentally transform america. you're spot on when you talk about the hypocrisy and the double standards in the media. with regard to herman cain and what he is going through, in many voters' book, including mine, character counts and if mr. cain did not take part in

this relationship, then the false accuser is despicable and we shouldn't have to put up with that kind of false accusation that results in somebody's character being so ruined. if he did it and engaged in this recent affair and is misleading the public, then, like they say, boys will be boys, but they shouldn't run the country, and it's going to be refreshing when facts come out so people can make up their mind, make their own judgment, and then we can move on and talk about the issues that matter, and that's the reform needed in congress and the white house. >> if the media only gave as much scrutiny to obama in 2008, you wonder if there might have been a different outcome. he is so adamant in his denial and that's why i was surprised he said it was not a time to play detective. it seems to me, this charge, 13 years, flying women around the

countrys' showing up at hotels, this is easily proven or disproven. no? >> maybe i'm at more sympathetic to what herman cain is going through. as you suggest, i've been through it also. i have had people who have sworn on a bible they have had affairs with todd or me or one specific one was a masseuse said she massaged me when i was seven months pregnant and could tell i wasn't pregnant, and trig was not my kid. so there are liars out there trying to rupe my family and reputation and my record. so i know what he is dog through. but if he did engage in these improprieties and is misleading the public, that's a whole nuther story. >> i spend a lot of time, governor, around herman cain and have known him for over a decade. it would be so out of character for the guy i have seen in public, around people, it would be shocking to me, but i've got

to believe there would be airline tickets, purchases, hotel rooms, they'd be in somebody's name and they might even be videotape in this day and age. so perhaps i think about it differently but i personally would go about the business of saying, all right, when, where, show me the tickets, who paid for them? when did we meet? i think this could be easily disproven. maybe i'm -- >> exactly. the reality is, sean, whether he likes it or not, unfortunately, this day page of media bias, he is guilty until proven independents -- proven innocent and he has to prove he did not carry on with if woman for 1 years so he needs to have her fess up and show the proof, show the text messages and the e-mails and receipts of the

having flown her around to boxing maxes and events she claims she had the affairs with him at. prove it. otherwise, unfortunately, this is such a distraction that supporters back off. they back off. the money starts drying up. and herman cain will not have a chance in heck to start progressing anymore than he had already -- >> governor, stay right there we're going to say, is the governor prepared to endorse somebody? we'll fine out about that and what she thinks about the battle between newt gingrich and mitt romney going on. and despite the president's pleading, the senate continues the payroll tax cut. for a hot dog cart. my mother said, "well, maybe we ought to buy this hot dog cart and set it up someplace." so my parents went to bank of america. they met with the branch manager and they said, "look, we've got this little hot dog cart, and it's on a really good corner.

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your reaction. >> it's good they're going back and forth like that and their ideas and their experience and we can make good choices based on what they have to tell us. hopefully they're not going to lose focus, and the focus is we have to make sure that obama is not re-elected and have to, with sudden and relentless reform, clean up the corruption in congress. president obama, when he was in the senate, was a part of. he inherited some problems about has made everything so much worse. so, between romney and gingrich and all the other candidates they have to vet themselves and let the media vet them and duke it out. but don't lose focus. don't make the media and left pivot into this in-fighting that gets you off track, and on track means relentless reform that needs to be promised and shown how they engage in getting our

country on the right track. >> governor, are you planning on making an endorsement? >> i think today, my personal endorsement, probably doesn't amount to a hill of beans at this point in the race. >> i'm not sure about that. >> make as the weeks progress. right now, i don't really cast any vote based on anybody else's endorsement of a candidate. i have great respect for -- great. >> i wouldn't minimize the impact of an endorsement. >> on your show, especially. the wisdom of the people. the american voter, doing their own homework, knowing who these candidates are, what they represent, what their experience provides them. they will be making up their own mind, and i honestly don't think that a pundit at this point, and their personal endorsement, again, really amounts to a hill of beans.

>> but you're a leader in the tea party movement. let me ask the question a different way. i sense you may not want to reveal where you're leaning but is there any one candidate now you're leaning towards? >> i am leaning toward the candidate who can best articulate being the antithesis of barack obama, what it takes s to reform our country and not being transformed from the exceptionalism of america, and cutting taxes and reigning in government and we have to make sure the candidates don't get away with saying they're part of tax cuts or budget cuts when the proof is in the pudding and the bottom line in their state or our country has resulted in actual budgets increasing. the federal budget has increased every year since 1954 so nobody who has served in congress can

be telling the american public they should be the president because they cut budgets. perhaps the reigned in proposed increases but we still spend more today every year than we ever have. >> all right. if you were to assess -- first of all, two questions in one. do you think this has come down to newt versus romney? and because they're leading in the polls, a quick synopsis of the strengths and weaknesses in newt and romney. >> i don't think it has come down solidly to newt vs. rom'm. there's a lot of fluid dynamic going on in this race, and if voters start shifting gears and deciding they want consistency, they're going start paying attention to say, rick sanitorium who has been a hard-liner against iran to protect israel. she has been consistent in wanting to protect the most

vulnerable and the sank sanctity of life and saying we need to slash the federal income tax. i say we need to do away with it. people with start paying attention to messages from other mess sing -- mess send jerries. >> i'm surprised rick hasn't done better in the polls. just the top three strengths and weaknesses of mitt and newt because they're leading significantly in the poll. >> either one of them. all of these folks are going to be infinitely better than president barack obama because they understand the republic cannot survive four more years of the status quo, and the status quo would support more of the crony capitalism and

corruption, and president obama will do not being the corruption and will perpetuate the problem. newt has this strengths and mitt his strangs and ron paul. he is the one who is facing reality when it comes to these unsustainable bloated budgets that are bankrupting our country. his top what ron paul says about the domestic spending issue. all these folks have strengths. rick perry and his second amendment support and the federal government cannot take away the rights that are written in our constitution. they haul eave strengths and would be infinitely better than president obama. >> the last question. is there any part of you that wishes maybe he did get in? >> no. i mean, i have the fire in my belly to see this country put back on the right track.

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>> republicanses in the u.s. senate voted against the payroll tax. the anointed one was traveling the country, resultings to class warfare rhetoric while trying to promote the plan. here is juan williams, and arv parker. here we go again, juan. i talked to senator mcconnell today. here's the president, dishonest with the american people, playing politics, misrepresenting the republican' position. the republicans did support an extension in the payroll tax cut. they did support it. they just were saying, we have to cover spending for the cut. now, that is a very different position than saying the republicans chose to raise taxes

on 160 million hard-working americans. that's dishonest. that's not true. >> when you said, here we go again, though youth were going to say it's time to stop with he politics and time to take country first. >> what become obama? >> what about republicans who refuse to raise tax only millionaires and billionaires and trying to take money airplane from working americans -- >> how about they cut spending? they're borrow 40 cents of every dollar? >> they're talking about republican proposal would require a three year freeze of salary on government workers and the -- >> the president is being dishonest. here's the point. very simple. the republicans are willing to go along with an extension of this. but of course they want dirty air, dirty water, they want grandma to go over the cliff and want nobody with healthcare. they're just evil people.

>> perhaps the republicans should stop appeasing these democrats what president obama and senate democrats wanted was to turn social security into a means tested nanny state welfare program, and republicans need to stop being complicit in this attempt. whether we're talking about them saying the plan has to be paid for, or we're talking about what barack obama wanted, which was to good after the wealthy, to have the discussion that wealthy people should fund the only program that is really pay as you go, social security to turn that into a middle class welfare program. this is a democrat's dream to make it a socialist state. >> that's was an extension of a tax cut for working people. nobody is talk can about welfare

>> the payroll tax used today -- payed for our seniors who are currently retired. if they were genuine people, if they really wanted to help this economy, they would cut the federal income tacoma cut the corporate tax, and they would allow for workers to divert the payroll tox into permanent -- personal retirement can't. they want to take the only program in washington similar to pay as you go and start going after wealthy people. class warfare has to stop. we don't ask -- >> star -- >> we should no ask them to pay for our retirement. >> the whole business about privatizing social security has been rejected as an idea. and as far as means testing, the republican ideas that was being put forward today, should we needs test the entitlements for the superrich. democrats are saying in the midst of a difficult economic situation where we have a very

fragile recovery -- >> what it does it -- >> republicans -- injury thelift knows social security is, as rick perry said, ponzi scheme. that it she the american people that at any time their social security can be at risk because this administration is going to pick winners and losers and the wealthy are what they deem the loser. >> they're just talking bat fair share, and everybody esquire what is fair share? >> economic recovery. >> 80% of the wealthy are first generation wealth. define fair? >> republicans are just the party of the rich. is chat what you're saying? >> poor people are not poor because rich people are ric and attacking the wealthy is not going to stimulate this economy. so to stimulate this economy. >> hang on, star. >> we want dirty air, we want dirty water, the president wants to throw grandma over the cliff.

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>> as we continue on "hannity," time for media mash, and here is the one and only brent bozell. how are you, sir? >> how are you doing? >> there are other people at nbc, our good friend brian williams, getting a little thrill up his leg about the obamas as well. let's roll the tape. >> not only is he committed to being a father and being a leader, every minute of the day, he never -- he doesn't stop thinking about it. >> someone once told me the first family is like a retroalmost 1950s american family, that there's a kind of a wholesomeness about them. they play board games on the

floor of the living room with the dog. the girls aren't allowed a lot of tv and social media. >> of course, the president's -- >> when forgiven get it. go ahead. >> you know, there's something very endearing about the obamas and the way they protect those two little girls from the public eye. >> i agree with that. >> that's all to the good. what about a story about newt gingrich and his grandkids. what about thanksgiving with the romneys. what about a profile on anita perry or a profile on karen sanitorium. there's nothing but negative on the republican side. you'll never see that kind of story flied to -- applied to a republican. when is the last time you saw one? >> so barney frank is leaving congress. what a shame, sad day. i'm kidding. what is missing from these

reports on barney frank. >> one of the most familiar, powerful, and colorful characters on capital hill is calling it quits, barney frank, announced today he will retire tend of his term in 2012, saying, he has had enough. >> barney frank is one of these people who was always the smartest person in the room, and that was his strength on capital hill. >> smartest person. you followed this more closely. did anybody mention a guy named steven gobey? >> no. >> no. that's a chapter they don't want to revisit. they don't want to talk about the house of male prostitution going on in his townhouse. beyond that, what about fannie mae? why aren't any -- why isn't anyone in the media talking about the obvious? this is a man who single-handedly presided over the collapse -- if fannie mae

and freddie mac cost the american taxpayer $151 billion thanks to the policies of barney frank. barney frank fought president bush when he tried to do something about it. >> good point. >> when it collapsed and they came up with his new policy, he omitted any regulation of freddie mac. >> see if you can actual what -- facing the tea party. >> what about the tone in the country right now? it's still very divisive, still very sort of brush, poisonous. you can barely get anything done on capitol hill just behind me there in fact -- the big political entrance, which is the tea party, which quotes left and right the founding fathers. they say compromise is a dirty word and try to point to the founding fathers and the constitutions. >> those evil tea party people. we