mr. bashir. thank you for the invitation. i made it to the big time. i am msdnc. >> it is not actually that, but mr. cane is behind the emergence and you are from texas. do you agree? >> i have no idea. i am not affiliated with the cain campaign at all and either is raging elephants. . we have not endorsed a candidate for the nomination for president. i have no inside campaigns to any of the campaigns. i could not be of any a civilance on that issue. >> herman cain believes the allegations from three separate women that he reportedly sexually harassed are driven by racism. do you agree with his assessment? >> once again, i don't know. >> i'm asking for your opinion about whether you agree with whether cain who says openly and overtly that the attacks on him about racism are driven by racism. >> no,i don't. my opinion -- i don't know that and i don't think so. i think it's driven by the fact that he is leading in the polls and driven by the fact that he is a threat to the establishment and the republican establishment. i think he has thrown a monkey wren

mr. bashir. >> thank you, dylan. >> all right. our show starts right now. >>> i have horsed around with kids. i have showered after workouts. i have hugged them and i have touched their legs. >> are you sexually attracted to young boys? to underage boys? >> am i sexually attracted to underage boys? >> yes. >> sexually attracted? you know, i enjoy young people. i love -- i love to be around them. >> are you a pedophile? >> no. >> not exactly the bold proclamation we'd expect from a man wrongly accused. good afternoon to you. i am dylan ratigan. disgraced former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky last night with bob costas on this network, in an interview, that begs the question, where's this guy's lawyer? except, he was sitting right there in the room. and developing now, two new reports, one from "the new york times," citing as many as ten additional victims that have come forward. and we're getting confirmation from another nonprofit agency, the fresh air fund, that sandusky housed children on behalf of the fresh

governor bashir has a 28-point lied over mr. williams.his is from last night in kentucky. >> welcome to "kentucky tonight." we'll talk to candidates for governor. they are -- we invite your questions for the candidates tonight, join the conversation on twitter, follow me at bill ket@kitonight. please include town and county in your messages. or use the web format www.k rembings t -- kytonight. welcome, also, to our viewers tonight on c-span3 and listeners on weku public radio and to all of our viewers across the state of kentucky. gentlemen. thanks very much for being here. >> thank you. >> first question to all of you and i'll combrin with you, governor, are kentuckians with better off than they were four years ago? >> we are in the middle of the worst recession in our lifetimes. as a matter of fact, the people say it's the worst recession of the great depression of the 1930's. because of tough decisions are we made, particularly with our budget, keeping a balance, and also passing sol incentive programs -- incentive programs, i think it

mr. cain's definition of harassment might be different. >> so it's super tuesday, so we have a mega mega panel for you. martin bashir is joining us and he joins us in our regular tuesday mega panel of karen, susan, and jimmy. so that means when martin shows up, it's a mega mega. >> that's ridiculous, because you're twice my height! i'm the shortest guy here. >> you're the mega mega. let's go around the table and start talking about this, about exactly what herman cain should be saying, what we're going to hear from him. karen, i want to start with you. what do you think he can do right now to get away from the distraction, which is the sexual harassment claims? can he? >> well, i think what he's going to do, we saw him preview this in his press statement, right? he went after attacking gloria allred as a big democratic party donor and someone who's known to like the cameras. basically saying, these allegations are false. but really making the attack about, oh, they're out to get me. i think we're going to hear more of that. and again, more of the, i didn't do anything. and i think it is going to be a he said/she sai

bashir. we're going to play choice cuts from his band. last night was another republican presidential debate. it was missing somebody, i think, who would added something to it, mr. jerry johnson. for the first time the candidates had to focus on foreign policy. here we are ten years out from the biggest self-inflicted foreign policy disaster in history, and for the candidates, the lessons are completely unlearned. here is mitt romney firing up the outrage. >> one thing you can know, if we re-elect barack obama, iran will have a nuclear weapon, and if you elect me as president, mitt romney, they will not have a nuclear weapon. >> rick santorum managed to up the anti-. >> my final comment is we should be working with israel right now to do what they did in syria and iraq, which is take out the nuclear capability before the next explosion we hear is in iran. >> iran would not nuke itself. small detail. >> we know that he has the infrastructure, nuclear scientists to make a nuclear weapon. the problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly he can acquire nuclear weapons, but we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. >> sinc