but the way cain handled a basic question on libya during a meeting with editors at the milwaukee journal sentinel. >> so you agreed with president obama on libya or not? >> okay. libya. president obama supported the uprising, correct? >> reporter: cain had just taken part in a debate on foreign policy saturday night but today gave a halting, uneasy response. >> i do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reason. um. no, that's a different one. >> reporter: the newspaper says it was cain who offered to drop by for 30 minutes this morning between fundraisers. the editorial board released a five-minute clip. >> got to go back. see. got all this stuff twirling around in my head. >> reporter: later, cain appeared to regain his footing and explained he would have handled the crisis in libya differently than president obama. >> i would have done a better job of determining who the opposition is. and i'm sure that our intelligence people had some of that information. >> reporter: today the campaign had expected a different interview to get all the attention. cain's wife gloria spoke out f

the story as reported by the "milwaukee journal sentinel's" dan bise is this.e start of herman cain's campaign, a private non-profit incorporated in wisconsin financially supported cain's campaign. they paid for things for the campaign, things like air travel and ipads. in other words, they made donations to herman cain for president. the group also paid for herman cain's campaign manager to travel to d.c. to meet billionaire conservative activist david koch. they also paid $3,000 to the singer who recorded the campaign's theme song. this concerns up in the n non-prof non-profit's financial records but none turns up in herman cain's financial records. they say he's going to pay back the money to the non-profit, but herman cain doesn't list any of this as a debt he needs to pay, doesn't list it as anything else either. first things first, non-profits can't just pay for a campaign. you not only violate serious tax laws by doing that, you also make the candidate you are illegally funding potentially a felon for breaking campaign finance laws. but beyond that pote

good well today the milwaukee journal sentinel released a number of clip from that same interview with cain asking him who he'd like to be part of his presidential administration and as a response kind of blew me away. we just talked for a few minutes about some of the people that you admire that we made she came to this tradition. not because of your training or for that the secretary of state. he said he's perfectly happy to go what he's doing. you're right he wanted henry kissinger to be his secretary of state but kissinger turned him down maybe that's because he can't travel much because he's wanted for work rhymes all over the world just a thought but let me back up and take a minute to explain why are these scary as hell to have henry kissinger back in the white house for anybody who isn't familiar with him he was a national security advisor under nixon secretary of state under president ford and during vietnam under his direction kissed kissinger propped up an unpopular war and dropped more bombs that were dropped during all over world war two he is responsible for the deaths of

during an interview with "the milwaukee journal sentinel," he was asked if he supported the president's policy on libya, a policy he appeared to know nothing about. >> i do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reason --, that is a different one. i've got to go back and see -- all this stuff twirling around in my head. >> after a long pause, he even seemed to turn to the reporter for confirmation. >> president obama supported the uprising, correct? >> cain says he paused to gather his thoughts and had only if you or hours of sleep before the interview. -- only 4 hours of sleep before the interview. still the com, carrie engel is here to answer your plan and putting questions. -- your plant and gardening questions. and a funeral home that does not take it lying down. the new method at the staff is using to try to customers. >> we will time out this cold front when we come back with the insta-weather-plus forecast. >> in the "consumer alert," an important to recall for women. kimberly-clark is recalling kotex unscented tampons. bank can cause urinary tract infections or o

>> that was from herman cain's appearance at the "milwaukee journal sentinel" editorial board where he was tripped up by, quote, all this stuff twirling around in my head. we'll have much more on that coming up later in the show. herman cain, a satirical performance arts project. about how that you can be while still doing quite well in the race for the republican nomination for president. the herman cain tape, i have to tell you, is amazing. we'll have more on that coming up. one of the ways we first knew herman cain was a satire, herman cain was an art project and not a real candidacy is when all of the different republican candidates kept trading the lead in the polls and herman cain was asked about being the latest flavor of the month. rather than criticizing the question, rather than criticizing the rather disparaging idea of being a flavor of the month, herman cain owned it, right? herman cain not only owned it, he named what flavor he was. >> if you're haagen-dazs black walnut, you don't go away, all right? some of these other flavors of the month have no substance. black walnut

he was asked about libya by the milwaukee -- al-awlaki dirty -- "milwaukee journal sentinel." >> libya -- no, that is a different one. >> his campaign says he was tired running on four hours of sleep. meanwhile, a man has come forward robert in the claims of one of the women who says she was harassed by herman cain. and the polls show that herman cain is slipping among the voters. a new candidate is on the rise. 22% of voters now say that newt gingrich is the likely choice of the nomination. that is within the margin of error. major cuts appear to be on the way at the university of maryland. last night a school commission recommended eliminating eight sports teams. here are the teams on the chopping block. men's cross-country, indoor and outdoor track, swimming and diving men's tennis, women's acrobatics and tumbling, and women's water polo. the cuts would have to save the school millions of dollars. some students, though, are disappointed. >> i have some friends on those teams. that takes a hit on the school pride. >> i know because the economy is heading us hard to have to cut things

the milwaukee journal sentinel reports the cain campaign may have accepted goods and services from a-exempt group founded by cain's chief of staff. no public comment from the cain camp but cain is defending himself from another report that he was accused of sexual harassmen in the '90s as head of the american restaurant association. i was standing next to a woman. i brought my hand and saying, you're the same height as my we have. that made her uncomfortable. >> he said he was unaware of a financial settlement between an organization and the two plaintiffs. later in the day he confirmed a minimal agreement was reached. >>> time now 5:13. solyndra cleaning house. how you can own a piece of that troubled solar company. >> and it could be the most interesting day yet in the michael jackson death trial. the big deadline for dr. conrad murray. ♪ born to be wild [ female announcer ] is your medicare plan keeping up with you? ♪ since you've never been one to slow down, now through december 7th, you won't have to. it's faster and easier than ever to switch your medicare coverage to anthem bl

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herman cain had a similar brain freeze during an interview with the editorial board of the milwaukee journal sentinel newspaper. former godfather's pizza ceo got hung up when talking about libya. >> so you agree with president obama on libya or not? >> libya? president obama supported the uprising, correct? president obama called for the removal of gadhafi. make sure we're talking about the same thing before i say yes i agree or no i didn't agree. i do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reason. no, that's a different one. i got to go back. got all this stuff twirling around in my head. i would have done a better job of determining who the opposition is, and i'm sure that our intelligence people had some of that information. based upon who made up that opposition, okay, based upon who made up that opposition might have caused me to make some different decisions about how you anticipate. >> he got there. just took the long road. cain's campaign says the video is being taken out of context, noting that their candidate was operating on just a few hour's sleep. cain tried to down play

cain offered his explanation about just what happened in that conversation with the milwaukee journal sentinel. >> being in a room where you're being asked question after question on different topic after different topic, i paused. i don't understand why that pause created so much "controversy." i paused to gather my thoughts. i have never not taken responsibility for what some people perceive as mishaps, missteps, whatever the case may be in that particular case, i paused to gather my thoughts. in any other instance where i may have said something that may have been misinterpreted, i have always corrected myself. >> the same interview cain said that former secretary of state henry kissinger turned down cain's offer to be his secretary of state. yesterday he backtracked a bit saying he was just joking and only looking for advice on foreign policy. >> dr. kissinger has retired, i respect that. i just appreciate the fact he was kind enough to spend some time and give me his perspective on the middle east, all of these other countries around the world. so he was like a wise sage, you know, giving

but cain pulled his own brain fade at the milwaukee journal sentinel newspaper when he was asked about libya. >> so you agreed with president obama on libya or not? >> president obama supported the uprising, correct? >> the cain aides said he was tired, had four hours' sleep. >> i do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reason. no, that's a different one. >> the former boyfriend of sexual harassment accuser bialek that her account, pediatrician sent bialek to get career advice. >> she said that something had happened and that mr. cain had touched her in an inappropriate manner. >> cain, slumping in the polls, perry in a nosedive, as a familiar face surges to the top tier of gop candidate. i'm steve handelsman, nbc news washington. >>> the supreme court announced it will hear arguments on challenges to the healthcare law in march, in the thick of the election campaigns. in a departure from the one hour allotment. the high court set aside five hours for the arguments in the case. brian mooar has details >> the supreme court agreed to hear a challenge of president obama'

the republican presidential candidate earlier sat down with the editorial board of the milwaukee journal sentinelhen we will discuss what has happened and what it potentially could mean for herman cain's campaign. listen 20 this. >> you agreed with president obama on libya or not? >> libya -- president obama supported the uprising, correct? president obama called for the removal of gadhafi. just want to make sure we are talking about the same thing before i say yes, i agre or no, i can't agree. i don agree with the way he handled it for the following reasons. that's a different line. let's see. i got to go back and see. i got all this stuff swirling around in my head. specifically, what are you asking me, did i agree or not disagree? >> i was asking if you agree -- asking you about the bush foreign policy, so i was taking a specific example from the obama administration that was controversial within his own administration on what he should have done or not done. i was wondering if you agree with him or if you would have responded differently? you know, it's an issue that's come up since you've be

to have trouble today on foreign policy when he sat down with the editorial board of the milwaukee journal sentinel. the question was on libya. >> do you agree with president obama on libya or not? >> okay, libya. president obama supported the uprising, correct? president obama called for the removal of qaddafi? just want to make sure we're talking about the same thing before i make sure yes i agree or no i didn't agree. i do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reasons. um... no, that's a different one. i've got to go back. um... i got a lot of stuff twirl around in my head. >> pelley: when he got his thoughts together, cain said the obama administration had not done enough to assess the libyan rebels, their strength and their plan to govern. cain was much quickener that interview on those economic questions we talked about. john dickerson in washington is our cbs news political director and, john, what's the cain campaign saying on this? >> reporter: well, i talked to them and they recognize this is a viral video nightmare. mr. cain has been making the case if he comes into offi

times now, but this is the entire exchange between the candidate and the editors of "the milwaukee journal sentinel" newspaper. >> you agree with president obama on libya or not? >> okay, libya. president obama supported the uprising, correct? president obama called for the removal of gadhafi. just want to make sure we're talking about the same thing before i say yes i agree or no i didn't agree. i do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reason. no, that's a different one. i got to go back and see. i got all this stuff twirling around in my head. specifically what are you asking me did i agree or not agree with president obama? >> if you agree with the bush foreign policy, i was taking a specific example from the obama administration that was controversial within his own administration on what he should have cdone or not done. i was wondering if you agreed with what he did or would you have responded differently. it is an issue that has come up stins si since you started running for office. >> i would have done a better job of determining who the opposition is. and i'm sure that o

. >> i got to go back to see -- >> an awkward moment in an interview with "the milwaukee journal sentinel." >> got all the stuff twirling around in my head. >> this comes as cain continues to be plagued by allegations of sexual harassment. the ex-boyfriend of accuser sharon bialek came forward monday to corroborate her story. >> the public has a right to know this information to help them make an informed decision. >> herman cain says it's just not true, and his campaign brought out a character witness of its own. the candidate's wife sat down on fox news channel last night. >> i seriously in my soul don't think he's that type person. >> all this comes as a new cnn poll shows herman cain support has slipped 11%. he has dropped to third place behind mitt romney and a surging newt gingrich. kate amara, wbal-tv 11 news. >> that is quite a drop in the polls. how is he doing with female voters? >> in a new poll, women have started turning away from herman cain ever since these harassment allegations began. >> kate amara, thank you. >> a political consultant set to go on trial today. kim dacey

why we're going to make fun of him we're going to play you this clip again they came from milwaukee journal sentinel where they were interviewing him asking about what he thought on obama's strategy or policy towards libya and where he just had this really really embarrassing moment take a look. president obama supported the ogress program. i do not agree with the poll. so there's a lot of. people are going to go read see. god it's just so awkward jim you have you have been on you know since we've been playing with you think about this great. hurts a little i like herman cain just because he's a straight talker but he couldn't even talk straight and that's a softball it's livio you know gadhafi is a jackass and obama should have just taken the lead instead of leading from behind it's not a telephone. those seriousness i pick we'll have to agree to disagree on that will and. kate definitely came out looking bad so this is the best part is that now they're walking journal sentinel has released another little tidbit another little gem from one of the other things that he said during his trip in wiscons

marty kaiser, editor of "the milwaukee journal sentinel." thank you so much. >> wow.lot of those. i've sat in on those before. this is the season of these. the candidates come in, they talk for a very long time, they really are kind of -- i would say off guard in a way. talking to local news reporters and writers and columnists, but usually they are very polished. >> or casual and fun. it's sort of one the more fun interviews you do as a candidate, because it is informal and you're not like -- >> but polished i mean on their points and on their answers. >> true. you want to be president, i guess you got to be. >>> coming up, she is a fighter and survivor. now for the first time hear arizona's congresswoman gabby giffords tell her inspirational story in her own words. >>> hi, everybody. i've been on the road 11 months. i don't leave without my toothbrush. 13 hour on the track. brush your teeth, especially if you're talking to a lot of people. my mother always said to keep your lipstick on so i have it in my sleeve. summer months in a fire suit for hours and hours. you

the cassette in milwaukee journal sentinel -- "milwaukee journal sentinel" saying rick perry paid fors worth of ipods and champagne. does the campaign reimbursed the charity for that? >> i can tell you we have retained independent outside counsel to take a look at the story and report back to us. >> this is your candidate. do you know what happened? >> we have retained outside independent counsel -- [laughter] to look at the cassette in milwaukee journal sentinel" story and report back to us -- to look at the "milwaukee journal sentinel" story and report back to us. why don't we talk about the campaign and going forward? >> that is a good point. you have been very on message on this panel. your boss is going on -- which is not as fun for us, but your boss is about to go through a slew of media appearances. will he be giving these same exchanges? is he closing the door today? we saw him talk a lot about -- he could certainly give more detail than you have todaybo

it's foreign policy and an epic performance in front of journalists at the milwaukee journal sentinel. >> so you agree with president obama on libya or not? >> libya? president obama supported the uprising, correct? i do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reason. nope, that's a different one. i have to go back. got all this stuff swirling around in my head. >> remind you of someone else in the gop? it was just last week when rick perry suffered his nightmare and work up on stage at the republican debate. so much from learning from others's mistakes. what's more amazing is that even after cain recovered from his fumble, he didn't have an answer on libya. he gave the same response that he offered on afghanistan, but the very first republican debate in may. . >> how would you define winning in afghanistan right now as you are looking at it as a candidate? >> my point is the experts and their advice and input would be the basis for me making that decision. i'm not privy to a lot of confidential information since i'm not in government. >> when he said he has a lot swirl

in a meeting with the milwaukee journal sentinel, cain was asked whether he agreed with president obama's actions in libya. after an awkward eight-second pause, here's how he struggled to answer the question. >> i do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reason. no, that's a different one. i got to go back and see. got all this stuff twirling around in my head. >> cain eventually went on to say he would have gotten more information on who the enemy was in libya. >>> the nba season now in serious jeopardy. team reps unanimously voted yesterday to reject the latest offer from the owners and instead take their fight over splitting the revenue to federal court. the court process, that could take between 60 and 120 days, which could wipe out the season. >>> a lot of facebook users are now venting on twitter over the fact that images of hard-core porn and extreme violence are now taking over their newsfeeds began just a couple days ago, but it seems to have spiralled out of control. users are checking on popular links that are actually viruses. facebook says it is looking into

the milwaukee journal sentinel said it gave governor walker a week and a half head start on campaign fund-raising to fend off the recall effort, which is nice. also >>> newt gingrich was the forgotten candidate until rick perry and herman cain had trouble remembering. >> can you believe we have a guy running for president talking about sissy pizzas. >> i forgot and then i was reminded and then i remembered and then i forgot having remembered. >> gloria allred is here to help him remember. >> i'm gloria allred. one of our witnesses agreed to come forward. >> the boyfriend backs her story. >> this is the man we met so many years earlier. >> she told him that cain grabbed her. >> herman cain held his own news conference and stated about sharns quote, i don't know who this woman is. >> i don't even know who this woman is. >> we look forward to mr. cain's response. >> there are other things that herman cain can't remember. >> do you agrow with president obama on libya or not? okay. libya -- >> this goes on for five minutes like this. >> got all of this stuff twirling around in my head. >>

and these new documents that were put on the web by the milwaukee journal sentinel showed an apparent cain presidential campaign, about $40,000 to pay for ipads and charter flights for herman cain. and the problem here is that nonprofits are barred by law from expending money for presidential campaigns. you can dona't do that. so what happened today, a public watchdog group called crew in washington filed a complaint with the fec charging that the cain presidential campaign as well as mark block himself had violated campaign law by expending money from these nonprofits to the cain presidential campaign. >> so just to give you some context, this is the same mark block who was found guilty of a campaign of voter suppression in wisconsin, for which he was fined $15,000 and banned from activism for three years? is that the same mark block? >> yeah. although, the violation there, and he was fined in wisconsin for $15,000 related to election law violations, relating to a state supreme court justice race. he was found to have been illegally coordinating campaign expenditures. what was remark

the interview was taken out of context and he answered 30 minutes of questions from the milwaukee journal sentinelsleep when he lost his train of thought. the newspaper said cain offered to drop by for the interview between fund-raisers. do you believe herman cain's staff when they say he was suffering for a lack of sleep? go to "news nation" to cast your vote and we will have the results to take a look at what the "news nation" is saying about yesterday's gut check. should the judge who granted jerry san desky have recused herself because she was part of the charity he started. 99% said yes and 2% no. that does it for this edition of "news nation." i'm tamron hall. martin is up next. i've seen this before -- the old "impromptu in-law visit." dad's a real cleaning machine. and look at mom whipping up some kraft homestyle mac & cheese. sure it's easy to make, but it looks like she's been busting her hump in the kitchen. [ doorbell rings ] ♪ let the fireworks begin. hi, it's so nice to see you. something smells good. [ male announcer ] kraft homestyle macaroni & cheese. cheesy noodles topped with go

filed with the federal election commission is some documents that were obtained by the milwaukee journal sentinelshow that a nonprofit group that was founded by mark block and headed by them -- him had expended funds about $40,000 for the payment of ipads and campaign travel by herman cain. the problem is that nonprofit groups are barred by law from participating in -- from funding presidential campaigns. you can't do that. and if you look at the documents, there are multiple references to americans for prosperity and the coke brothers themselves in the documents indicating that at least appear to suggest that americans for prosperity money may have gone to the nonprofit that then helped pay for the initial expenses of the cain presidential campaign. >> what would be the political motive of the koch brothers? are they supporting cain for president, are they using his campaign to push their ideology? what do you think would be their motive? >> well, clearly, look, clearly mark block was their guy in wisconsin. there was no secret about that. and herman cain oig as we've se today has that closer re

during an interview with the editorial board at the "milwaukee journal sentinel," he struggled to answerion about president obama's response in libya. >> okay. libya. i do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reason. no, that's a different one. i got to go back and see. i've got all this stuff twirling around in my head. >> the newspaper posted the video on its website. overnight, cain said he just paused to collect his thoughts. a spokesperson for his campaign releaseded a statement saying, "the video is being taken out of context. he was taking questions for about 30 to 40 minutes on four hours of sleep. he didn't say anything wrong or inaccurate. it just took him a while to recall the specifics of libya." >>> rick perry is promising to uproot the federal government as he struggles to se vrevive his struggling presidential campaign. he presents a proposal today that would dra massically remake all three branches of government. among targets for change, lifetime federal judges, who he claims arrogantly rewrite our laws from the bench, and the irs, which he vows to end

the "milwaukee journal sentinel" reporting, the way the herman cain campaign was funded is some anonymousor or donors just gave money to herman cain's campaign manager and they used that money to run the campaign. not as a pac or super pac or a campaign committee or any other legal way by which you can fund a campaign. it was, it appears, just anonymous money directly setting up and running cain for president. you can do almost anything with money and politics right now, but you really can't do that. everybody's asking herman cain about the sexual harassment allegations today and the campaign has had as many different responses as there have been questions. we came across one reporter this afternoon who asked mr. cain about the whole other scandal. the your whole campaign might be illegal scandal. it was a daytime anchor at the fox news channel named jenna lee. kudos to her asking the question. that said, there wasn't much of a follow-up since herman cain's response after she described the allegations in detail was, i'm not aware of this report he said that's the first time he heard of it

milwaukee journal sentinel says cain allowed tax exempt charity to illegally provide money to help cainin the men time the candidate also dealing with sexual harassment allegations from the 1990's. more on that from jonathan kar karl. >> he's the center of attention now. herman cain on top of the poll but he's also facing first crisis of his campaign. >> as a result of today's big news story really know what it feels like to be no. 1. >>reporter: alleges first published by political is that he sexually harassed 2 women back in the 1990's when he was head the national restaurant association t.specific include conversation filled within yo youen do. he asked quest of sexually suggestive nature and that he invited one of the women to his hotel suite. speaking at the national press club cain called it all a witch hunt. >> i have never tl sexually harassed anyone. >>reporter: he said he had been falsely accused and an internal investigation cleared him of wrongdoing. >> i am unaware of any sort of settlement. i hope it went for much because i didn't do anything. >>reporter: but in an intervi