also with me today is donna rice, a registered nurse, author of several articles on sexual health, andexpert in the treatment of erectile dysfunction. it's great to have you here, donna, as well. thank you. dr. burns, every time i turn on the television, there's a commercial on for viagra or levitra or cealis. what's going on here? what exactly is e.d., and do we have an epidemic on our hands? e.d., or erectile dysfunction, is simply the inability to obtain or maintain erections that allow for satisfactory sexual intercourse. it's a surprisingly common problem there's probably 20 to 30 million men in the united states that have that problem. not only does it affect them, but it affects their partners as well. you said that erectile dysfunction is a couples issue. i think many would argue that it's just a man's problem. it cleary affects relationships, it affects a man's perspective, his self-image as well as how he interacts with not only his sexual partner but also his relationships at work and friendships and everything else. donna rice, you have 16 years of experience in treating er

i think it was donna rice, and gary hart said -- first denied it and said if you don't believe me, followress did follow him, and it led to him with a woman. these things are -- it's survivable for bill clinton. he was already president at the time, though. he wasn't just running. i think that even -- it's interesting that huckabee would say that the most damaging is the most recent in terms behavior because consenting behavior between adults, i think, is kind of in a different category for many voters than charges of harassment and unwanted sexual advances made in the workplace, which after all are treated as crimes. so it is -- it's a different category, and there's proof and the kind of thing investigative reporters can nail down. i imagine there's more proof that one can find, because the woman says she traveled with herman cain and there ought to be travel records and plane tickets people could find. >> yeah. we're still trying to find out from the national restaurant association whether the restaurant association actually pay for her travel, which raises this situation to an even mo

the front-runner in the democratic race, suddenly dropped out when allegations of his affair with donna riced. michael dukakis, the governor of massachusetts, won that nomination. and now a big shout-out to chris o'sullivan. he is the first one to tweet me the right answer. you are the man, chris. nicely done. >>> newt gingrich is breathing the rarefied air you find at the top of the polls. but success brings scrutiny, of course. can he win the nomination with all his baggage, political and personal? never shy, he's actually on the attack. his target -- the president. >> obama can't possibly win an election that's fair. the only way he's going to win is to so destroy the republican, the people decide reluctantly that he is less disgusting than his opponent. so they will run a campaign of astonishing dishonesty. >> classic gingrich. but can he survive the scrutiny? it is all fair game, with me today, doug hye, republican strategist, roland martin is a cnn political analyst. they both join us from washington. roland comes ready to play. >> of course. >> i'm going to start with doug, here. so,

gary hart had his popularity cut in half, he might have been the next president if not for the donna ricerry having to explain a speech on friday and the problem that herman cain is having that we've been talking about for the last three days, where is mitt romney? or do you think he's doing the right thing by not doing anything? >> oh, he absolutely shouldn't touch this stuff. none of the candidates should touch it. brian, the real question is, had this information -- how did this information get out? was it an operative for one of the campaigns? i hope the media will devote as much attention to that as they have to the charges. i think most people would be interested to know how these dirty tricks happen, how they get placed in the media. find out the culprits and release the information. >> brian: well, that would be interesting and that could mean more damage even than herman cain is experiencing when they find out where it emanating. in closing, in the big picture, we saw the money roll into herman cain's campaign, the biggest single day he's had since. how do you expect him to emerg

rice. it's the second half of her memoirs. she was in conversation recently with donna she lay who is the president of the or university of miami. in three hours we're going to introduce you to author leslie brody who has written a book on jessica mittford, and then we'll be joined by john avlon, newspaper columns and their impact on american politics. and then in about four hours we'll wrap up live coverage from miami with jim rasenberger who's written a new book on the bay bf pigs incident in the early '60s. that's our lineup on c-span2, but you can also watch author events on book the.org. booktv.org. here on the campus of miami-dade college. so if just about two and a half hours or so, toure will be talking about his book, "who's afraid of post-blackness?" and he'll be talking about that book with the audience, you'll be able to watch that on booktv.org. that will be live webcast, and then stanley crouch, mike barnacle and pete hamill will be joining our call-in guest john avlon to talk about newspaper columnist and the art of writing a newspaper column. so you have