i just spoke with the attorney for karen kraushaar. they have reached out to two of the other three women. either way they say expect a press conference soon. expect details. >> my client expects to get into the specifics of the written complaint she filed in 1999. so that it is clear that this complaint was not a frivolous or baseless. >> in the wake of another herman cain denial, it appears the accusers maybe banding together. karen kraushaar and sharon bialek have come forward. they would like to join the other two accusers in a stand against the presidential hopeful. >> hopefully, it here in washington. >> joel bennett has been in touch with gloria allred. the push is based on herman cain's comment that he does not even recall this latest accuser. >> i do not know who this woman is. >> this man has completed and the ship. pathological liars usually do this kind of thing. >> party leaders know his issues may be front and st. -- and center. >> i would suspect that he will keep dealing with them. >> it is unlikely that we'll you will

as for karen kraushaar, the woman that settled the harassment claim against him, he said her allegation was baseless. >> i am herman cain and i'm running for president of the united states of america. >> four different women now accusing him. two have come forward, sharon bialek and karen kraushaar. >> as far as the accusations cause me to back off and maybe withdraw from this presidential primary race, ain't going to happen. >> sharon bialek was clinical in her allegation. >> and he put his hand on my leg under my skirt and reached for my genitals. he also grabbed my head and brought it towards his crotch. >> my first response in my mind and reaction was, i don't even know who this woman is. these unanimous allegations are false and now the democrat machine in america has brought forth a troubled woman to make false accusations. >> he also rejected the settled allegation of karen kraushaar. >> that is the one that i recall that file add complaint, but it was found to be baseless. >> he was accusing rick perry now, he's accusing the democrat machine. he was willing to take a lie detecto

karen kraushaar. one of two women who filed complaints and received monetary settlements from the national restaurant association. she worked at the treasury department, a career civil servant and registered republican, though she did give $250 to the democratic national commit in 2009. today, cain said he did remember her and identified her as the only woman he remembers any kind of encounter with, one he calls totally innocent. >> i can only recall one thing that i was aware of that was called sexual harassment. the one thing that i remember that i remembered during the day when all of this broke loose is that one day in my office at the national restaurant association, i was standing next to ms. kraushaar and i gestured, standing near her like this, "you're the same height as my wife because my wife comes up to my chin." that was the one gesture that i remember. >> herman cain painting a very g-rated encounter with kraushaar and adding her allegations were found baseless and the money paid her was

sharon bialek and karen kraushaar and two anonymous women. another woman from arlington said some of cain's behavior made her feel uncomfortable but never crossed the line. line. >>> to a developing story, the campus of penn state. a storied football career is ending in scandal. head coach joe paterno announced he will retire at the end of the season. where's been under fire for the way he handled allegations of sex abuse by a former coach and the fate of the university president hangs in the balance. david lee miller has more. david? >> reporter: it was a very emotional meeting when joe paternoel to members of the football team he was going to resign. he received a standing ovation and, according to those there, he broke down in tears. according to one player, it's criminal the way paterno went out. where's respected and admired on this -- where's respected and mered on this -- he said, quote, this is a tragedy, one of the greatest sorrows of my life with the benefit of hand sight, i wish i would have done more, adding, quote, my goals are t

is this something that karen kraushaar wanted to stay anonymous? >> i think that's one reason, anderson. but i think that anybody who understands these things, not wanting to come out publicly, first of all, you don't want to relive a nightmare situation that happened a long time ago. secondly, she is concerned about her personal safety, and that of her family. but thirdly, she doesn't want to go through this because she is a classy, professional individual. she doesn't want to be, if she can avoid it, she doesn't want to be at a microphone talking about lurid gestures that she says happened when she worked for mr. cain at the national restaurant association. i think all of those things put together, any woman can understand why she wouldn't want to come out publicly to talk about this. >> has she told you what she's lurid gestures were? >> she was not -- she did not go into detail with me, anderson, again because -- and i didn't want to make her relive this because she has to now repoeat repeatedly. >> herman cain said today that accusations were

karen kraushaar says she is ready to speak out.ain denies the allegations. >> this spend -- the penn state sex abuse scandal could mean the end of the line for joe paterno. he is losing reported support reported late from the board of trustees and could step down in a matter of days. a former assistant is accused of of the origin of molesting several boys. >>> a last look of traffic and weather every 10 minutes. >> plenty of traffic northbound on the springfield side. the 14th street bridge, are rick in the district on 295 years south capitol street but it is now gone. now all around -- marilyn, you're delays are normal. >>> still dense fog and lower in southern maryland. a lot of sunshine throughout the day today. especially -- i can say that today -- when we turn off the fog. comfortable and the upper 50's. cooling down by friday. really back to reality here. shocking as back into reality like doug said. but a pleasant weekend. >>> enjoy today while at last. that is set for "good morning washington." >> tune in at bank of america

she is 55-year-old karen kraushaar, she told us that she wants to hold a news conference with all of cain's accusers and she told us: . karen said today all he remembered about karen kraushaar's accusations is that he once compared her height to his wife's height. cain and the rest of the republican presidential candidates will debate national security and foreign policy issues saturday evening at 8:00 eastern time here on cbs. we got word today that there are serious questions about how the remains of fallen american troops have been handled once they were returned home. david martin at the pentagon is looking into this. >> reporter: there was gross mismanagement in the solemn gut-wrenching return of the fallen from iraq and afghanistan. that according to this letter to president obama from the office of special counsel which investigates whistle-blower complaints. carolyn lerner heads the office. >> we found a pattern of misconduct. they knew about these problems about two and a half years ago and only recently took action to correct them. >> reporter: the grisly fact is that many r

she is karen kraushaar, currently a spokeswoman at the treasury department.she left the national restaurant association. earlier in the show, i asked her lawyer, joel bennett, why she decided to come forward publicly. >> she had hoped to remain private and not become a public figure, but her name has come out today, she feels she has to get the facts out there to justify her position and justify the complaint she made in 199 9. >> bennett says she plans to reach out to other women in the controversy for a joint press conference. >> my client is planning to come forward. we plan to contact the other women and try to have a joint press conference where the women will air their specific complaints. >> gloria allred, the attorney for the woman who came forward publicly, tells nbc news she would be willing to discuss the idea of a joint press conference. this afternoon, herman cain denied all accusations against him and claimed he would be willing to take a lie detector test to prove his innocence. we will continue watching this, because charges against one charac

. >> as for karen kraushaar, cain settled her accusation, but cain calls it a nuisance complaint. >> that is the one that i recall that filed a complaint, but it was found to be baseless. >> karen kraushaar says she would like to appear in a joint news conference with all the other women accusing cain so that the public can judge the quote, collective body of evidence against him. bruce leshan, 9news now. >> so the question now, what is next for herman cain? can his campaign weather all these accusations? did he put the ship right with that conversation with the press today? steven farnsworth is here to talk about that. he is a professor of communications. compared to what cain had been doing, this had to be a step forward, right? >> absolutely. this is a very difficult environment for herman cain and there has been a whole series of problematic releases, stories, counterstories that he has had. he had a will the of time to get his story straight and it looks like you are finally hearing a consistent message from herman cain. >> a lot of people declaring him dead man walking, does th

leaving that topic open. >> any reason why karen kraushaar is coming forward now? >> she is telling reporters she preferred to remain anonymous, but that her name and her identity was thursday into the public forum when news was released about her settlement which was for $45,000. she is now among this group that wants this press conference with the allegations to be reviewed as a collective body of evidence. >> susan mcginnis in washington for us this morning, thank you. >>> now to election day 2011. we begin in ohio in a major victory for union workers. voters handily repealed a law that restricted collective bargaining rights to public employees. the vote was a blow to republican governor john kasich who progressively supported the initiative. >> you pay attention to what they have to say and you think about it, and so people ask what will you do if this doesn't fail? i can tell you. now it's a chance for me to catch my breath and try to gather my thoughts together as to what we do next. >> the law permitted workers to negotiate wages, but not pensions or health

that client is karen karen kraushaar. this woman along with sharon bialek, so far the only two women make thaeurg identitie their identities known. we will investigate this at the pwofplt hour. we are tracking a big story involving a new report involving iran's nuclear program. inspectors found evidence that the islamic republican is on the brink of building a nuclear war head. russia now criticizing that report saying it provides, quote no fundamentally new information on iranian nukes. amy kellogg live with the latest here. >> reporter: there are even some people in the west that are saying there is nothing new in this report and it doesn't amount to a smoking gun. but the top experts are saying that the facts laid out, taken collectively give a very compelling picture. now you have to bear in mind that russia and china have business interests in iran which may be motivating some of their statements. even before this report came out, megyn, they were saying that they were against the release of so much information, they

meanwhile, cain's campaign manager made a bewildering accusation against karen kraushaar on fox news that the campaign was forced to retract today because it was totally, utterly false. let's watch. >> you start connecting the dots and trying to figure out whether it's coming from opponents on the left or the right. just at the press conference, it was brought up that the -- karen kraushaar was one of the ones and come to find out her son works at politico -- the organization -- >> have you confirmed that? i've been hearing that all day, rumors about that. you've confirmed that now, right? >> uh -- we confirmed it with that he does indeed work at politico, and that's his mother, yes. >> it's called politico, by the way. but there is a reporter there with the same last name but he has since left the paper and said he's not related in any way to the accuser. there's a blank in the gun right there, maggie. maggie haberman. it seems when you're caught that wrong footed on something with a wild charge that turns out to be 100% wrong that there's a family connection between the awould you

she's karen kraushaar. i'll talk to her lawyer in a moment. you heard what sharon bialek told me about cain last night. >> i believe that he first needs to apologize and he needs to admit it. then it's up to him to decide what to do next. >> a little while ago herman cain held a news conference. listen to what he had to say. >> these accusations that were revealed yesterday are simply did not happen. >> joel bennett representing karen kraushaar, the first woman to come forward and accuse cain of sexual harassment. he joins me from his home in maryland. mr. bennett, let's get to the bottom of this because your client has now come out in public. why? >> she's come out in public because her name was revealed by the media, and she's decided, since her name is in the media now, that she wants to get the details of her complaint out since mr. cain is still denying any sexual harassment or impropriety. >> herman cain says about your client that the only thing he can recall in terms of any complaint made was telling her that he was the same -- that sh

karen kraushaar and sharon bialek are hoping to hold a news conference with two other women.hat she's not been able to get all four together. >>> presidential candidate rick perry is getting in on the jokes over his debate blunder. he struggled to remember what the streets of apartments that he wants to abolish. the appeared with david letterman last night with the top 10 rick perry excuses. >> you try concentrating with mitt romney smiling at you. >> i know. >> he is asking supporters to pitch in a few campaign dollars for every government agency they would abolish. >> i wonder if he wrote the top- 10 list. >> he definitely deliver the jokes. >>> apple is updating its global software. facebook is updating its privacy practices. >> >> facebook is close to selling charges that it misled users about its use of their personal information. the deal awaits final approval from the federal trade commission and is likely to affect many other on-line web sites. apple's says that it has fixed the recent data problems that have been plaguing its mobile customers. yesterday the company r

>> he has no connection to karen kraushaar. he is not related to her. he said she was his mother. he did work at politico. he covered house races. he went on to the national journal where he is an editor for the hotline covering house races and congressional races. he tweeted that he was not reached out to by the cain campaign. he subsequently said that he asked for an apology from mark block and apparently they guy one to the cain campaign. sort of issued a generic apology saying then acting on bad information. and dgsly fox news has been asked to and greed direct record tonight on sean hannity's show. so i kind of agree with karen. this is yet another in a series of missteps that taken together really present a textbook case of how not to handle crisis communications in a presidential campaign. >>> can your team of journalists have been blamed for stirring up trouble? how do you respond to mr. cain when he says reporters were, in his words, breaching their code of ethics and fabric it aing stories? that's what mark block was doing. >> there is some irony there. >> we take this v

. >> reporter: now another accuser named, karen kraushaar, currently a federal government employee whoa cash settlement after she accused cain when they worked together at national restaurant association. >> the accusations were made of sexual harassment. they were found baseless. >> reporter: cane defiantly said he is not dropping out of the presidential race. >> auin't going to happen. because i am doing this for the american people. >> reporter: mitt romney running neck in neck with cain in the polls issued harsh criticism. he said the charges are disturbing and serious. >> thank you. newt gingrich and mitt romney releasing their harshest statements yet, pressuring herman cain to say more here the you wonder if, in their mind he is becoming such a threat now, they're enjoying the scandal, the chance to put pressure on him. such a huge distraction the last few weeks. >> it has been. i think he still has to address it. i think this was a missed opportunity. he didn't really address it head on. he said they're all liars. is anyone really going to believe that? one woman, perhaps. two w

karen kraushaar just spoke to our newspaper in the last hour. can you tell us what she accused you of specifically and what your intersections with her were? you came close to answering that but stopped. this is your press conference where you are going to level with us and tell us what happened. so tell us what she accused you of and tell us what really happened. this is your chance. thank you. >> well, i can only recall one thing that i was aware of that was called sexual harassment. the one thing that i remember that i remembered during the day when all of this broke loose, is that one day in my office at the national restaurant association, i was standing next to miss kraushaar and i gestureed standing near her like this. you are the same height as my wife, because my wife comes up to my chin. that was the one gesture that i remember. the door was open. my secretary was sitting there. it wasn't anything behind closed doors. i gestureed because of her height, comparing it to my wife's height. end of story. other things that might have been in

karen kraushaar tells politico she would like to band together with the other women at accusing herman cain and hold a joint press conference. her identity was revealed on the same day cain denied wrongdoing. speaking to abc news, he suggested he is the victim of conspiracy. >> there's an element in this country in our politics that does not want to see a businessman succeeds at getting the nomination for the republican party. >> now, cain says he is willing to take a lie-detector test. he says what he is not willing to do is to back down from his campaign. that he is moving forward. now his republican rivals are speaking out on the issue as well. mitt romney says, "these are serious allegations and will have to be addressed seriously." this is not the last that we will hear in this back-and-forth saga. >>> we are getting a look at the results from last night's election, and a republican takeover of the virginia senate hangs on less than 100 votes. ben, good morning. >> democratic hopes of maintaining the virginia state senate are in doubt. it all comes down to one single race in a sin

karen kraushaar worked at the national restaurant association in the late 1990s.as ccme out but phe realizes that in today's days of instant communication, it's very difficult to stay private.cain said he reealled reporters tuesday the told -33 accusattons were found to be fourth woman to accuse cain of sexual harassment - but the first to gg publiccwith her story. her attorney, gloria allred said tuesdaa morning the accuuations are to be taken seriously. women have a riiht to be free of sexual harassment and thht's why ssaron is ssanding up to ight back.and so, analysts said cain'ssnews conference tuesday was key -- a seriouu test for a campaign that's mmde a strriing asceet to the top tiee of the g-o-p field.he's supposed to be different than washington, where they think the rules don't apply to them.. mean anotter. this goes at his very cooe of his candidacy.in washington, i'm karin caifa. straight ahead... cript----- good news on the job front. employyrs advertising morr job ooenings in septembbr...the &precord it's setting... and th setbacks one employer says

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--this is karen kraushaar. she received a settlement from the national restaurant association. she says now that she would like to band together with the other three accusers and have a joint press conference to set the record straight. it could be a very active day -- a very active in few days in this saga. >> right now on wjla.com we have a poll asking he believes herman cain or his accusers. the majority of people believe his accusers. you can leave your feedback on our facebook page. >> also tonight, new developments in the penn state sex scandal. there are mixed reports about joe paterno's feature with the nittany lions. some say his days are numbered because of what is new during the scandal with little boys. >> the new york times is reporting an exit strategy for joe paterno is already in the works. two newspapers are calling on him and the school president to resign while their former assistant coach is accused of abusing over eight boys over 15 years. >> you guys have a lot of great questions and i would like to answer, but i cannot do it now. >> will you be coaching o

karen kraushaar, who served as the spokesperson for the ins during the yeeel yan gonzalez controversye was one of those who received a catch payment from the restaurant association to settle her charges against cain. you know the expression, where there's smoke there's fire. what are the motivations here? why would they be doing this? >> well, jonathan, i honestly believe that there's an element in this country, in our politics, that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the republican party and does not want me to succeed at becoming president of the united states of america. we can't keep responding to those questions and now this one is not anonymous but i have absolutely not acted inappropriate with this lady or anybody else in my entire career. >> reporter: cain is a man who seems to have unlimited confidence. but he told us the controversy has been painful to his family, especially to his wife, gloria. >> now, with these recent accusations, obviously that has an emotional impact on her because you're talking about her husband of 43 years. and e

karen kraushaar.ments before the show started released a statement saying, "the reason sexual harassment is so difficult to prove is that workplace sexual predators try to make sure the victim is alone when the harassment takes place. the incident in question occurred many years ago. corroboration may still be possible with some of the incidents and in some cases it may be possible to find witnesses. for 12 years i honored the confidentiality agreement by required by law. only after media pursued a tip confronted me with it. reliving it is painful it's no longer private matter but matter of public interest. if my employer will allow it will appear with a press conference and our attorneys to present what happened and the court of public opinion can consider allegations as ad be of evidence. she does work for the government, the u.s. treasury department, i believe. back with the panel. steve, put it in perspective and herman cain's news conference today. >> nobody other than herman cain and his accuser

who knows what he will say about the details of the karen kraushaar events. stand with all of this, steve? >> this is the fundamental problem for herman cain. the fact we're talking about it. the fact that there is another news conference. the fact there is another name put to some of these allegations or a face put to some of these allegations. the fact that when voters think about herman cain, if you asked voters two weeks ago, when you think of herman cain what do you think? everybody would have said 9-9-9. this is the guy, anti-politician speaking directly to republican primary voters and known for bringing tax reform into this debate, an important issue at an important time. now you ask people what they think about when they think about herman cain, overwhelmingly they will talk about this swirl of allegations that have been brought against him. martha: steve, give me a second. is that joel bennett that stepped in front of the camera. hang on for us. >> do a joint press conference with her client. my client has agreed to do a press conference. we're goin

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. >> and once this woman karen kraushaar talks tomorrow to the press, her evidence will be particular and we go down to cynthia tucker, her evidence will be obviously it was a big part of her life if it occurred, and she will say something quite definitive about the series of events and if they match up in terms of the charges made by sharon bialek, the public, including the conservative public, may see a pattern of misbehavior here, perhaps. your thoughts. >> absolutely. i don't think for one moment the restaurant association paid either a settlement or a monetary agreement because herman cain once said to a woman you come up to here, just like my wife does. i suspect that we will hear accusations where he was clearly inappropriate behavior that clearly crossed the line in a way that led the national restaurant association to pay her money. and let's bear in mind, there were at least two women that the national restaurant association reportedly paid money to. you don't do that just because the chairman or ceo has made some perhaps offensive comments in passing. you do that because th

does karen kraushaar kind of add more details to her story.y, we know this and this is not that new to us and voters will then make their decisions. we don't know. >> jim, as always, thank you. >> thank you. >>> herman cain and the rest of candidates are doing either victory laps or damage control while everyone is talking about the perry gaffe. there's actually a lot more from last night's debates that could influence primary and caucus season, which is a very short eight weeks away. joining us, julian epstein, david winston. good day to both of you. we'll get to that gaffe and cain in just a second. let's talk mitt romney first here. he has a message and that is that he is anything but a flip-flopper. take a listen. >> i think people know me pretty well. i think people understand that i'm a man of steadyness and constancy. i don't think you're going to find somebody who has more of those at beauts than i do. i've been married to the same woman for 25 -- excuse me, i get in trouble. 42 years. i've been in the same church by entire life. if i'