i don't think gloria allred is going to stake her reputation on someone gloria doesn't believe.t's get to the facts. meg whitman -- i think both parties agreet woman filled out a w4, filled out the paperwork. but she filled it out falsely. she used her sister's social security number and her name. she claims meg whitman got notified by the department of social security over the course of the employment that they didn't may have and there was a problem and meg whitman knew and ignored. >> i have her w4 in front of me. maybe it was fraud cents but how would you know. i have got a social security card. i have got her california driver's license. i have her u.s. department of justice eligibility ever if i case form in front of me. and it wasn't just diaz giving this directly it was through an employment agency. really everything was done correctly here. megyn: what are you supposed to doos an employer? i have a nanny. i hired her. i'm certain she is legal. she provide all the paperwork. we have the taxes taken outs. but do you hire anna private investigator? >> the other layer of th

>> well, gloria allred's been associated with jerry brown since the early '80s. she's contributed to his campaign. she's a well-known democrat. and gloria does this just about every election cycle. i wouldn't be surprised if there was coordination here. last night, we had a great debate. i think i did very well. articulating a plan to get californians back to work. fixing our education system. and this morning, this is what the other side launches. >> so, you think jerry brown and gloria allred coordinated this work together to get the story out? >> you know, i don't know. but clearly, she's a democrat. she's contributed to his campaign. they've been, you know, working together for many years. but you know who i feel really badly for is nicky diaz. nicky was part of our extended family for nine years. we exchanged christmas presents. she was a part of our extended family. and it breaks my heart. i feel she is being manipulated. and i feel terribly for her. >> you say she was a friend of the family. her account of when she came to you in june of 2009, is pretty chi

eastern time gloria allred, that powerful celebrity attorney, as you just showed, is going to hold aay that they're going to produce a letter that shows hypocrisy on whitman's part. whitman has denied any knowledge that this woman was an undocumented worker. they say that they had asked for documentation that she provided, she had provided fraudulent documentation. so, the facts that we know is that this woman worked for her for nine years and one of the big problems, potentially for whitman is that this also just reinforces the fact that she is super wealthy, she's poured in $119 million of her own money into this race and democrats are now trying to take this and in a state where a significant chunk of the population is latino that they can make some end roads here with a new poll out yesterday showing jerry brown in the lead and they're hoping with about a little more than a month to go that they can use this to put brown over the top. >> you mentioned gloria allred may produce some type of document some time today but meg whitman's campaign said she hired this worker through an u

gloria allred says the woman knew she was undocumented. >> this is a typical political stunt led by gloria allred. >> as soon as somebody starts name calling me, i know essentially i've won the argument. >> reporter: leveraging voter anger may help some outsider candidates win. but can it do the job? >> it's going to be a challenge for many of these outsider candidates to transition to washington and be effective. some of them will, and some of them won't. >> reporter: we're seeing when some of the candidates who show less than civil behavior get called out, they don't give the usual clarification or apology. paladino, for example, he defended himself, said he was passionate and he didn't back down at all. we're finding anger itself is enough justification. >> and we've got kell over a month to go. kelly, thanks. >>> former president jimmy carter has arrived here in washington tonight after spending the past two nights in an ohio hospital being treated for a bad viral infection. upon his release today, he thanked the staff of cleveland's metrohealth medical center. he was returned there by

a senior adviser also notes that gloria allred is apersonal friend of her democratic opponent jerry brown and once donated to his campaign. the latest times/cnn report has brown leading whitman 52 to 43. yet another backyard visit yesterday president obama defended his policies to a small group of iowa neighbors concerned about the economy. the event echoed the president's cnbc town hall last week in which one of the residents said she was exhausted from having to defend him. one man who described him as a small business owner criticized obama's plans to let bush-era tax cuts expire on a certain percentage of the country. here's the president's response. >> your taxes haven't gone up in this administration. your taxes have gone down in this administration. i just think the notion that, well, these are democrats so your taxes must have gone up. that's just not true. taxes have gone councdown for ye small business person and 95% of working families. >> he also took a question from a woman who described at length her fears the united states health care system will soon resemble that of great

just a short time ago, attorney gloria allred had a press conference today and she produced a letterhat she had been discussing for the last two days that she says is from the social security administration to make wittman telling her that it appears her housekeeper was not working in the country legally. meg wittman was planning for this press conference and already earlier today responded. >> allred had refused to produce the evidence earlier, but had made not -- announcements that she would. negrin and denied she ever received it, even before -- meg wittman denied she ever received it, even before it was produced. >> wittman insists he hireddiaz through a service -- hired to diaz through a service and that she had the correct documentation. >> this is truly a political smear on me, on my family, and based on lies and is designed to divert attention from the issues that really matter to california voters. >> at the debate, wittman said laws should be tougher against employers who knowingly hire illegal workers. >> folks, when you watch the eagles and redskins this weekend, rembert

how about gloria allred?nce with an hispanic woman who had been on the household staff of meg whitman. gloria allred, seen in so many tabloid storying saying she will reveal explosive allegations about meg whitman. already telling jessica yellin, part of the sleaze machine. politics of personal destruction, going to backfire. we'll wait to see exactly what gloria allred has to say about the california governor's race. >> if gloria allred's name is involved, boy, boy, boy, just 408d on. ed henry, good to see you. talk to you soon. >>> your next political update in one hour. for the latest political news you know where to find cnnpolitics.com. >>> a date with oprah. what's hot on the internet with josh levs. and sign all of the paper work i needed to take care of. and it didn't have to be between 9 and 5 -- which doesn't always work for me. the people at quicken loans really care. it was nice to being able to call them whenever i needed to answer questions. they were on it. they were on top of everything. quick

gloria allred didn't introduce much.promises and said she could produce evidence and never did it. nicky diaz, the poor woman in question who was here illegally left the press conference for a little while because she was uncomfortable and came back and broke down crying, but didn't seem like she was on the same pages gloria allred. we will find out in the coming days when we see the document or paperwork but it smells like a political stunt. >> it's hard to see how this shakes things up. close race, two point on dividing these folks. you look at the press conference and you wonder why the woman was crying. it looked theatrical and staged. i think the democrats are obviously worried about this state. blue state. obviously schwarzenegger is the governor now. but i mean this is something they want to win. the white house looks at this race and thinks about 2012 and all the congressional redistricting that is going on. so i mean this is something they want to pick up certainly. >> bret: charles? >> it tells you that the des

celebrity lawyer de jure, gloria allred, who's representing whitman's former made, nicki diaz, claimsew about diaz's legal status as far back as 2003. well, whitman pushed back on those charges this morning in an interview. watch. >> so you think jerry brown and gloria allred coordinated this work together to get this story out? >> you know, i don't know, but, you know, clearly she's a democrat, she's contributed to his campaign, they've been, you know, working together for many years. >> well, look, the big danger here for meg whitman is not necessarily, frankly, with hispanic voters. the real worry is that it just is a way to reinforce this idea that she's a mega-rich billionaire out of touch, and that's why you see such an aggressive pushback from her campaign. they have even put up highway billboards in spanish. when you have billions of dollars, you can do all of those things on a campaign. >>> now with 33 days to go until decision 2010. you know what that means, there's just 34 days to go before the 2012 campaign begins. and the one big change that everyone is bracing for is the

during a news conference with high profile lawyer gloria allred yesterday her former housekeeper claims the candidate was alerted about her immigration status in 23 but did not fire her until last year. in a statement, whitman, who has specifically campaigned to hold those employing illegal immigrants responsible dismissed the claims as politically motivated and insisted she only found out about the status last year at which point she said she immediately fired the maid. >>> across europe yesterday, tens of thousands protested massive government spending cuts aimed at trying to dig the european union out of the economic slump. in poland, portugal, greece, ireland and elsewhere. in spain where the unemployment rate is almost 20% parts of the transportation system was brought to a stand still. this came as the european commission ix poses new fines on those who fail to improve finances. >>> police in europe had to deal with concerns about what's being described as a mumbai style terror plot aimed at england, france and germany. although they say there is no imminent threats security was b

she produced a w-4 form with status of permanent resident but today gloria allred insisted she can prove whitman knew for at least six years those documents were false. >> engaging in her own form of don't ask, don't tell. >> reporter: in an interview with george stephanopoulos airing tomorrow on "good morning america" whitman called this politics as usual. >> i felt terribly for nikki. she's in some real trouble here. i'm very sorry for her. >> reporter: but it could still hurt hur chances to be governor. david wright, abc new, los angeles. >>> after going through emotional wrangling, the house passed a bill that would provide more than $7 billion to worker whose got sick cleaning up ground zero after 9/11. you might remember the electrifying moment when the bill was up for debate last summer and new york congressman anthony wiener went into a furious rant aimed for opponents for holding up the bill. >> it's republicans wrapping their arms around republicans rather than doink the right thing on behalf of heroes. it is a shame. a shame. >> and he got action. the senate is expected to tak

gloria allred is representing mcgrath. why this lawsuit? >> it is a form of sex discrimination to deny a student an educational opportunity based on her gender, a victim who reports a sexual assault to a college that was receiving federal funds has a right to expect under the law that that college will conduct a fair, a thorough, an independent investigation and we take very seriously a college's duty and we want it enforced and when they violate it, there are real consequences. >> reporter: the lawsuit also alleges that dominican violated the law by not accurately disclosing the number of sexual assaults reported on its campus. misled into thinking it was a safe campus and sending her beloved daughter there. so they failed miserably. >> reporter: no one from dominican college would agree to an interview given the ongoing litigation, but the college did provide this statement to "nightline" through its attorney saying "they did immediately commence their own investigation and that they also provided megan with contacts to counseling service

the maid appearing with gloria allred, said that whitman knew about her legal status. but allred is backing jerry brown in the govern ears race. we'll hear both sides coming up on "good morning america." >>> also, the president's outgoing chief of staff will begin campaigning next week to be mayor of chicago. rahm emanuel is expected to announce tomorrow, that he is officially leaving the white house. a chicago newspaper is reporting that emanuel will move back to the windy city this weekend. >>> defense secretary robert gates is questioning if americans have become apathetic towards the nation's wars. in a speech at duke university, gates claimed the nation is now too detached from the fighting in both iraq and afghanistan. and with fewer americans seeing service as their duty, more money has the to be spent to keep active-duty soldiers from quitting. >>> aside from the storm drenching the east coast, here's the rest of the morning's weather. no rain. but flooding in the upper midwest, as rivers continue to rise after torrential downpours earlier this week. showers so

we also heard from gloria allred. they say they have a smoking gun. our national political correspondent jessica yellin is here working the story for us. what exactly is meg whitman saying today to try to strengthen her case? >> well, first, wolf, she emphatically denies all of the charges. whitman denies she mistreated her and knew she was illegal until last year and also has been answering the question well, why didn't she turn her in when she found out she was illegal? she answered that question repeatedly in a 45-minute press conference today. >> very fond of nikki. i didn't want to make an example of her. it is not -- an obligation of the employer to turn in illegal employees. and i -- you know, just thought i'm knowing go to make an of nikki. >> clearly she is trying to show a compassionate side while maintaining her tough on illegal immigration policy position. but bottom line, this was crisis pr 101. she took every question and has been doing a series of interviews to try to put this behind her. >> gloria allred the lawyer for the housekeeper

whitman says attorney gloria allred is a long-time supporter of democrat jerry brown, having donated to his campaign. she believes this is nothing more than dirty politics. it remains to be seen whether this will adversely affect her campaign. vinita and rob? >> certainly not the first time we've seen this kind of issue creep up on a candidate before. >> it's interesting, two very different sides to this story. meg whitman saying i had no idea, the woman saying you used your sister's documents to file the paperwork necessary, whitman saying we had no idea, as soon as we found out we immediately suspended her. if you want to hear more from meg whitman, she'll be interviewed on "good morning america." should be an interesting one to say the least. >> we'll be right back. [croaking] let's turn over this log. yeah! both: whoa! i like the big black ones. i like the brown wiggly ones. mmm. i like the green crunchy ones myself. whoa. get out and explore nature. there are surpris everywhere. go to discovertheforest.org. [burps] anyone up for dessert? >>> welcome back, everybody. the worlds o

joining me gloria allred and her client. thank you both for being here this will evening. a, i will begin with you. how do you think this will affect your lawsuit against citibank? >> if there is true and they haven't said that they didn't have any one from hr distribute it, they just said it is not part of a formal communication i would argue it is evidence of sex discrimination. all women are not alike. secondly, it encourages negative stereo types and generalizations about women and criticizes women for playing fair and says that men stretch the rules and are not punished. is citibank stretching the rules where it comes to discrimination? it is just wrong to disseminate this at all and particularly if it was disseminated in the workplace by one from hr. >> kimberly: i'm sure when this came out they said oh, boy, wait 'til gloria gets a load of this memo. really, could anything worse happen to them? and if this is true and it appears that it is, like you said, they didn't deny that it exists, et cetera, i think this is admissible as evidence. i think that it is probative

this is a political gimmick, led by gloria allred, politics as usual, and poor nicky, i feel terrible for her. it is in the true. but politics as usual. >>neil: now, the stories take on a life of their own and she claims you knew from the outset she was an illegal alien, the housekeeper, or nanny, whatever, for the better part of nine years. is it true during any of that time you suspected she was not a legal citizen? >>guest: absolutely not. we used an employment agency to find her. she filled out a 1099, and showed a california driver's license, and everything was in order. we specified with the employment agent we wanted to make sure we had someone who was here legally to work in the country and no one was more surprised when slow came to me in june of 2009 and admitted she was here illegally and forged the documents. >>neil: at that point you said, i'm sorry i have to let you go. >>guest: we said, gosh, i am terribly sorry, but we would be breaking the law if we kept you in our employment. so we have to let you go. so that saturday she came to the house to tell us she was not here

. >> the celebrity attorney gloria allred is filing a complaint alleging that whitman took advantage but important to note there are no allegations of any kind of physical abuse. she just says she was somewhat mistreated. meg whitman, she says she was just misled. she said santianne gave her falsified documents saying she was legal. the whitman campaign released those documents to the media. we have reviewed them. the campaign said she confessed last year and was fired. in a statement whitman said, quote, i believe niki is being manipulated by gloria allred for political and financial purposes in the last few weeks of a hotly contested election. bottom line, we see these things being dropped at the end of an election. the main thing is immigration is a major issue in a california race. >> how is this going to affect the campaign? >> two things, the new cnn-"time" magazine poll being released today shows that jerry bro brown, the democratic candidate there is nine points ahead of whitman in the latest polling. he's polling 52% to meg whitman's 43%. keep in mind, she's been on air more

nicky diaz held a news conference with the high- profile lawyer, gloria allred.y claim whitman knew she was an undocumented worker and she was abusive during the nine years she worked for her. the whitman camp called allred a shameful manipulator who is part of a democratic party sleaze machine. >> she is machine inlating nicky diaz and this is a political stunt. i don't think it is an accident that showed up the day after i had a very good debate against jerry brown. >> we hired her through an employment agency who had documented, assigned 1099, awe california drive's license. she represented herself as legal to work in this country. >> the camp for whit machine's candidate, jerry brown, has denied being in cahoots with all it is red. >>> some big changes for american idol. we'll talk with one local girl who made it through the first round. >>> the big story remains the weather. tony has an update for you after the break. 70degrees on this thursday morning. in 2008 i quit venture capital to follow my passion for food. i saw a gap in the market for a fresh culina

she and her attorney, gloria allred say they're going to show proof that meg whitman knew this womanocumented worker. >> right. yesterday the whitman campaign put out all these documents showing the documents that whitman has received that this woman said she was a legal immigrant in the country. now all the sudden we're going to see alred and the former housekeeper combat that charge. this is now a two-day story. the whitman campaign doesn't want this to be a three or four-day story. there's another debate the candidates will have over the weekend. this is a big distraction for the campaign. >> thanks, mark. >>> nato has just announced three coalition service members have been killed in an explosion. that has raised the number of coalition troops killed in afghanistan today to five. we'll have more on that story. >>> and pakistan is continuing to block nato supply trucks from crossing into afghanistan today. the blockade is apparent retaliation after two nato-led helicopters were involved in a cross border attack that killed pakistani insurgents on saturday. a spokesman for coalitio

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. >> i think this is a typical political stunt led by gloria allred who does this just about every electionn's camp showed documentation showing a license, social security card and a job application where she claims she had legal status. >>> that will do it for me, tomorrow at 10:00. tamarron hall picks up things next. >> coming up, a rutgers university student kills himself after what police call a tragic invasion of his privacy by other students. >>> plus, tropical storm nicole has already dumped two feet of rain on north carolina and is created travel gridlock up and down the east coast. what a mess. >>> singer seal and his super model wife were in love. this is their new music video to share it with the world. we're talking about it. >>> i'm tamron hall, right now on msnbc, soaked. the remnants of tropical storm nicole drenching the northeast from the carolinas to new york and causing problems for travelers across the nation. >>> driven to suicide. a student that killed himself. >>> what could have been done, a disturbing fbi simulation of the impact of the times square bomb if it would

diaz hired attorney gloria allred to represent her in a lawsuit. >>> hollywood is mourning the loss of long-time talent today. actor tony curtis has died. the oscar-nominated actor died of cardiac arrest. one of the most memorable roles was in "some like it hot." he had six children including jamie lee curtis. he was 85 years old. >>> another down day on wall street. the markets were down for the second straight day. let's go to new york where alexis christoforous has tonight's cbs money watch. >> reporter: the economic recovery remains sluggish. the government says the economy grew at a weak 1.7% rate from april to june. that's significantly slower than the 3.7% growth rate seen in the first quarter. there is slightly encouraging news on the job front. weekly jobless claims fell by 16,000 next week. employers may not be ramping up hiring but the pace of layoffs is slowing down. >>> manufacturing in the chicago area unexpectedly rose last month. all those reports eased concerns that the economy will not fold back into a recession. >>> a.i.g. has a deal to repay billions of government d

and what the meg whitman campaign is pointing to is that gloria allred has given jerry brown $150 campaignwas running for attorney general of the state. trying to make the charge that this is a politically motivated lawsuit that's coming right after the election. of course, it will be interesting to see the allegations -- more allegations from alred and this house keeper. but certainly this isn't the type of terrain that meg whitman wants to be talking about 34 days before the election, especially after a debate last night that both candidates, brown and whitman, thought that they did well in. >> mark murray, thank you very much, mark. >>> right now, the house of representatives is making a new attempt to pass a health care bill for 9/11 first responders. the clerk is reading the bill following debate that's been going on all day. the $7.4 billion measure would guarantee medical treatment and economic compensation for those injured and sickened at ground zero. nbc's luke russert joins us live from capitol hill. luke, the republicans want to bring in the issue of people who were undocumente

she's now represented by celebrity attorney gloria allred. >> it was a nightmare and the way that nicky was treated by her employer, miss whitman, cause heard to feel exploited, disrespected, humiliated and emotionally and financially abused. >> whitman's campaign says the former housekeeper lied about her legal status and labels the allegations as the politics of personal destruction. the house keeper trap. how many times has that happened in american politics? >> let's talk about that. jessica yellin, dana bash. whitman is running this campaign, in a tough race, in a state that has traditionally been democratic. the last thing she wants to talk about in the final weeks of the campaign is this but -- >> all the documentation that we had said that she was legal. she had a 1099 on file with the employment agency, driver's license, social security card, we had no reason to believe that she was not legal. no one could have been more stunned than i was when she came to us on that saturday in june and said i'm not here legally. >> at the moment, jess, she said/she said. we'll probably have m

she held a news conference with gloria allred today.whitman for help with her immigration status in 2009 but whitman refused. whitman says in a statement that diaz confessed she was an illegal worker only after nine years with her and that's when whitman says she had to fire her. whitman accuses her former maid of falsifying documents when she hired her. >>> the recession has changed life as we know it. while the feds tell us technically the recession is over with, the question remains when will families all across the country stop feeling the crunch? richard louie is here with a look at the new normal and what's ahead. the question is is this the new normal, right? >> as we hear that phrase so much recently, chris, we might be surprised by one thing. folks evidently might not be getting married as often because of this new normal. marriages have fallen to a record low in 2009. look at the statistics here. with over half of adults 18 and older not getting hitched according to the associated press. the reason? some are thinking about the

whitman says the employee was being manipulated energy this case, by attorney gloria allred. more about this in days ahead. next, louisiana senator david vitter finally facing the political music for hiring of prostitutes in washington, d.c. and back home in louisiana. his opponent raised the issue in the following ad. >> today, we explore the case of the senator and the madam in lawmaker, law breaker. david vitter won election to the united states senate as a proud, family values politician, but under the surface, vitter was battling his own demons. things turned public for vitter when his number appeared on the d.c. madam's phone list. >> but it didn't end there the scene shifts to new orleans, where a former french quarter prostitute gave an interview exposing interviews about her sexual details with vitter. >> he went in, took a shower. spoke very little to me at first. did the same. he wasn't there 15, 120 minutes at that i was $300. >> that began airing state wide louisiana today. >>> up next, i spent date with former president bill clinton. can the most popular politic

that she knew her housekeeper was in the country illegally, yesterday the woman and her attorney, gloria allrednews conference and today she says she'll release evidence showing whitman was fully aware of the maid's illegal status, as far back as 2007 3, the allegation an whitman calls the allegation a political stunt saying the maid volunteered the information in 2009, and, then she was promptly fired. >> the charges are not true. they are absolutely not true. she was a great employee, we had a great relationship, it is absolutely a lie. bill: what it man in a tight race now with the -- whitman in a tight race with jerry brown and supporters questioning allred's motives, and said she is tied to the democratic party and once gave money to her opponent, jerry brown in california. martha: you remember this, the captain said shg, brace for imp everybody and the flight attendant kept saying, heads down! our favorite video of the week and one person kept his camera up there with one hand and today, the pilot who put the plane down safely is telling his story, and, looks like another sully. bill: fir

called for tougher sanctions against employers who hire illegals, the attorney for the former maid gloria allred whitman knew the woman was here illegally. brian, it's time for some sports and dancing maybe? >> perhaps. that's when i'm most at home. we know what mike tyson is up to these days now that he retired from boxing. check out the former baddest man in the planet doing a remake of bobby brown's "every little step you take" with wayne brady. >> ♪ call my own and as a matter of fact ♪ >> every little step hit number 3 on the pop charts way back in 1989. he was too busy fighting people. and who has the better moves? the former heavyweight champ. i think it's a dead heat. i don't really -- >> are you kidding me? >> i'm not sure. >> going to friends at foxnews.com and don't worry, mike tyson we can't find you. you can vote and be honest. you know what the thing that sells me is his face tattoo. it just works. all right. >> he's mainstream now. can you believe it? >> so are you dancing wise we just saw it on tv. >> meanwhile, let's take a look. it's a big weather day. flood watches are in effe