this is "first look" on msnbc. >>> we begin this morning with speaking out. days after angrily declaring he was done answering questions about sexual harassment, republican president fl l hopeful herman cain says he's ready 20 talk cain. cain has calls a news conference for this afternoon. steve handelsman reports. >> reporter: it's the first time a woman has publicly come forward to accuse mr. cain. >> mr. cain had been very sexually inappropriate for me. >> her name is shart buy let. she says in july of 1997 after she was fired from a restaurant association job in chicago, she came to washington to get advice from national ceo. after dinner cain physically assaulted her. >> he suddenly reached over and he put his hand on my leg under my skirt. i was slr, very surprised and very shocked. i said, what are you doing? you know i have a boyfriend. this isn't what i came here for. mr. cain said, you want a job right. >> reporter: she did not file charges. nbc news can't confirm her allegations. gloria allred showed sta

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this is "first look" on msnbc. >>> we begin this morning with a numbers game. another debate over the week. just as new polls numbers revealed what a difference a week can make in a ris that's still very much up for grabs. nbc's brian mooar has details. >> reporter: at this weekend's gop presidential debate on cbs, rick perry made light of his unforgettable memory lapse. >> if you eliminate the department of energy -- >> glad you remembered it. >> i've had some time to think about it, sir. >> me, too. >> so have voters. after a week of wild developments, nbc news resurveyed some participants in this latest poll and found perry is freefalling while newt gingrich is on the rise. herman cain's sexual allegations haven't heard but certainly have not helped. mitt romney has seen a five-point bump, but not a breakout. >> what you're seeing pretty consistently is that romney is having a lot of trouble getting much beyond a quarter of the republican vote. you still feel there's an opening for another republican candidate. >> that looefts a ray of hope for michele bachm

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i'm back with msnbc political analyst richard wolf and msnbc analyst michael steele.ver the weekend, now with a live body and graphic details, i don't know that he can now just say, i'm not answering that, we're going to move on, look at the journalistic code of ethics. how does he deal with the press now if he was already edgy and as michael says, he has two debates to deal with this week? >> i'm sure he'll get testier. there's not actually a lot of downside in a republican primary running against the media. the problem is, it's not just the media that's pursuing him now. and that's the damaging nature of having not just a credible accuser of someone who's a registered republican. i'm sure there will be lots of digging around about this accuser. but going against the media has worked so far. it's allowed him to tough it out. a lot of people have said, he's unflappable and he's sticking to his message. but, again, over time, whether it's in a month or by the time we get to super tuesday, this is going to run out of steam. >> michael, in the midst of all of this contro

this is msnbc. >>> welcome to "hardball."newspaper in harrisburg said there -- their are two new potential victims in the case under investigation. by the pennsylvania children and yoourt youth services. these new allegations reinforced the lingering sense that more should have been done to prevent the attacks and should have been done sooner. michael isikoff is nbc's national investigative correspondent, former democratic pennsylvania governor ed rendell is now an msnbc political analyst. michael isikoff, what's the latest from happy valley? >> well, the latest in the wake of that report yesterday from "the patriot news" is that the lawyer for jerry sandusky confirms that at least one of those alleged new cases, one of those new cases involving alleged child abuse involves a family member of sandusky and a minor child. we cannot -- we're constrained by nbc news policy about saying too much more about that because we can't say anything that identifies a minor child, but this is coming from sandusky's own lawyer saying that hi

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this is "first look" on msnbc."republican presidential field assembles in washington to debate foreign policy with romney and huntsman mixing it up on leaving afghanistan and newt gingrich showing that bleed bleeding heart of his on immigration. will last night change the way you feel about any of these kand d candidates? meanwhile president obama was in new hampshire calling out the failures of congress and challenging republicans to say yes to something. the question is, what reason does he have to believe that they ever will. >>> and it's a television news clichÉ as old as the hills. talking about how bad the travel will be in the day before thanksgiving. but today, it might actually be. the question is, what kind of airport delays are we looking at right now? we'll havethe forecast at

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msnbc contributor and managing editor of post politics.com, chris cillizza joins us. the bailout could collapse if greece does go ahead with the referendum. >> it shows you how fast thing are changing. after last week, we thought great news. euro's own bail youflt greece announce that had they will do a referendum which has made people very, very nervous and really affected the market. the president is going -- he's leaving a country in which the economy is not in great shape. he's going to france, to europe where what happens there in greece and more broadly really impacts what will happen here. a shaky greece economy, really very tough in terms of the world markets. especially in the united states. this is not a trip. it's a foreign trip, yes, but it is not immune from des domestic policy concerns. >> i think she have this avoided the hoopla. they're going to the french riviera. they're going to france. i think there are some optics that might not be the best politically for the president at a time of high unemployment and occupy wall street and all the rest back ho

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