sergeant sarah herman has come to talk to her about her behavior. >> your history says you can't copepulation because you've had issues with everybody. >> i mean, it's not all my fault but i understand what you're saying. >> let's talk about fault. real quick, if you're not in it, it couldn't happen. so either own it or you don't. >> i take full responsibility. >> then nothing else needs to be said. once you get to that point, miss 20-year-old, happy birthday, okay? that tells me that maybe, just maybe in your future, all of this will change. i'm hoping for you, okay? am i confident? no, you've got a lot to learn at 20 years old. a lot. your habits have not changed. they have not. you are doing in jail, according to this report, what you are accustomed to on the street. the behavior is the same. >> i mean, what the report says is that i was selling pills in the pod. >> close that new york mouth for a minute, seriously. i said it. you are qualifying every freaking thing that comes out of your mouth with an excuse, which means you're not owning it. accept it as what it is. you have to c

. >> sergeant sarah herman takes a personal interest in many of hillsborough county's female inmatesnd wants to discuss her plan to get back on track. >> i'm ready for a change and ready to be with my babies and my family. >> how old are they. >> 3, and 14. >> 3, and 14. >> what is going to keep you from not coming here again is this. >> i'm willing to change. >> what's your plan? >> to complete my ged and finish school to find a job and keep my busy and occupied. >> she didn't start taking drugs until she was 24 and addiction quickly took after her life. >> each day you are to choose and decide what is sonya going to do today? if it doesn't feel right, leave. run. run, run, run. and i'm happy you have your mind set on doing the right thing. >> i thank you and appreciate it. >> no problem. >> thanks. >> she had a five year suspended prison sentence and was in a drug treatment program when she took a meth don't pill and failed a drug test. >> we want to make sure you don't come back here. >> i threw it all the way just to try to get high on my birthday. i'm thinking let me get high. i

sarah palin and herman cain both appeared in lynchburg, virginia today. palin was speaking at a women's conference. >>> more than 175 members of the d.c. air national guard are headed to afghanistan. tonight was their sendoff ceremony at andrews air force base. the 113th wing of the d.c. air national guard will be stationed at bagram airfield. it marks the first time an air national guard unit is sending f-16 fighter jets to afghanistan. we spoke with a couple going through their first deployment. >> it's a time for me to do my job, that they've trained me for years to do. if i don't go, it's like learning something that and never actually doing it. >> i'm just proud of him. i just want to focus on being positive. and taking care of the house and making sure everything is straight when he gets back. >> we'll go over and take the fight to the enemy. and we'll do our duty. and then we'll come home. >> the soldiers are expected to return in late december, while others will be in afghanistan longer. >>> 30,000 runners getting ready to take part in the ten-mil

herman cain is a flavor of the week. i'm one of his biggest fans and would never dismiss him or speak negatively about him. >> where did the fox guys get the idea that sarahherman cain the flavor of the month -- where'd they get that idea? the problem for palin on this one is that fox news actually has a much bigger audience than the fox business network. on fox news two days before, sarah palin said this -- >> take herman cain. look at why he's doing so well right now. i guess you could say with all due respect he's the flavor of the week. >> well, she got his first name wrong and at least she did it with all due respect. but that is not sarah palin's worst problem. at fox news, her worst problem is meagan kelly. >> what happens now? paul ryan said he's out. chris christie has said he's out. sarah palin hasn't officially said one way or another but in the polls she's way down at the bottom including versus the existing candidates. >> okay. fox news and meagan kelly in particular are getting way, way too fair and balanced about sarah palin. roger ailes knows how to protect his valuable talent, he wouldn't be allowi inin ining fox news t getting fair and b

herman cain has leaped forward and today attending a book signing. today, cain was appealing to sarah palin supporters to get on board now that she's out of the race. >> why don't some of the sarah palin take a look at herman cain and his campaign. many will see a lot of similarities. >> he is kind of like her. he says it like it is and means what he says. >> seems like a lot of pretty straight forward stuff. >> northern virginia is a tough crowd but i think once they get to know him, educate themselves, read the book, learn more about him. i think they will then be as thrilled as i am. >> some pundits are discussing cain like rick perry and michele bachman before him, but cain says the difference is he has got a 999 plan to reform the tax system and part of it is a 9% flat tax. >>> today it was just another great day out there and we are thinking there is more where that calm from. meteorologist olga breeze is out on the terrace. >> i'm smiling because the holiday weekend is officially underway and our evening off to a great start. temperatures cooling town right now. slipping out of

an easier easier. >> in the case of sarah palin she was so unique, the million you talk about is 20 million peer year with all of the side lines. my guess is that herman cain is going to do better than sarah palin at the end of this, and he is like "american idol" of politics. >> i find it fascinating because it used to be you got elected president and then you wrote the book and then took the speaking tour and then you made the millions. these people are doing it before and not having to do the work. >> opting for a book event instead of running for president. he's like in tennessee, and georgia. >> that is what makes him attractive politically because he absolutely knows that that his shot at the white house is not through the normal prism of how you get there, but it has to come from some another place. >> how can that university appeal -- >> wedge a second. which one of the gop candidates will be the first to appear on "dancing with the stars"? >> gingrich. i say beginning given. >> herman cain. >> that a hard-hitting question. >> that was just it is about this -- in some ways you think the debates are like that. they're almost game show quality.

. >> why don't some of the sarah palin take a look at herman cain and his campaign many would see a lot of similarities. >> he is kind of like her. he says it like it is and means what he says. >> seems like a lot of straight forward stuff. >> northern virginia is a tough crowd but i think that once people get to know him and educate themselves, read the book, learn more about him i think they will be just as excited as i am. >> even republican pundits are dismissing his stunning rise just as a bump in the polls after republicans quickie affair with rick perry was ruined. bachmann was up for a while and she had a big crash too. so the big hurdle for cain is to maintain this stunning 20- point lead which was documented in the polls this week. now, he says the difference between the rest of them and him is that he has got this specific 9/9/9 plan. flat tax plan. 9% flat tax. he says that's the big difference and he says his supporters don't defect. >> we will see what happens. >> along for the ride he says. >> got to love election season, guys. thank you. another tax increase is in the ma

. >> reporter: after the book signing, herman cain made a public appeal for sarah palin supporters to consider his candidacy now that the former alaska governor removed herself from presidential consideration. >> we share a lot of the same ideas and one of the big of the things i have in common with sarah palin is like sarah, i'm not afraid to challenge the status quo. >> you like to sign and put herman on the ballot? >> reporter: they used the book- signing event fogatherring iss to put their candidate's name on the virginia primary ballot. the book signing was supposed to last an hour and it did. the candidate signed books for everyone who waited in line. laura? >> a lot of people there today. john henrehan, thank you very much. >>> texas governor rick perry touched on controversial topics in washington today. the republican candidate spoke at the values voters summit saying he's more committed to fighting against gay marriage and abortion than the other candidates. the former senator rick santorum spoke at the conditions earlier and mitt romney is headed to washington to speak tomo

but it's always mitt romney against donald trump, mitt romney against sarah palin, against herman cain makes mitt romney look like the seasoned political pro. i actually think under that scenario probably rick perry surviving the early onslaught and coming back from war and being stronger going into say december is probably his biggest threat. where the guy can say i governed a huge state for a decade. we brought more jobs to texas than anywhere. if this guy had not stumbled out of the gate so much, i think he would be giving mitt romney a big, big challenge. >> and this immigration thing has killed his plan. it allows romny to attack him from the right. >> sam stein also, i think, i talk about the current leadership in washington overall. democrats and republicans and what's going on in washington and what is not happening that is leading for people to sort of grasp to something outside the realm of normality. >> by the way -- >> can we iso sam stein in washington. we have a horrible shot. can we freeze that and take a picture? we're going to use this one instead of this one that make

herman cain hoping he doesn't melt away like ice cream. i think he's rocky. you're watching "hardball" on msnbc. >>> back to "hardball." now to the sideshow. first up, when sarahgrabbed some attention for calling gop candidate herman cain the flavor of the week, the initial speculation was that the candidate would take offense to the comment. well, since then cain has turned the tables and dubbed himself the black walnut after what he calls his own haagen-dazs flavor of choice. well, if you haven't seen that option in the grocery aisle lately, there's a reason. according to the haagen-dazs customer service line, "we don't sell black walnut. the sales nationally did not meet our expectations, unfortunately. it did not behoove us to continue with the product." well, there's a bad sign. a bad metaphor, if you want. apparently cain was not aware that his flavor of choice turned out not to be everybody else's. let's hear his thoughts on the matter. >> well, i was very disappointed to find out that it's a limited edition and they don't make haagen-dazs the way they used to, so i'm heartbroken over that. i now have my people calling haagen-dazs and finding out why th

herman cain side. >> one thing we asked is who is the candidate you like the least, and with apologies to sarah lee, nobody doesn't like herman cain, according to what we published sunday. he really did have a very nice lift from our poll the last time, and you do have a sense that there's enthusiasm, and i think although overall enthusiasm is lacking, it's still a fluid race. but gosh, things looked good for him yesterday. >> when you look at the numbers, what is the biggest factor in the internals here? the fact that herman cain has such an advantage 27-10 over romney among those who say they are committed caucus goers? >> well, romney's numbers have many underlying vulnerabilities to them, and i think that says a lot about his failure to commit to the state, at least publicly, and do what's going to happen. he seems to have a floor, he seems to have a ceiling in terms of what he can get here. >> and one final question, what about rick perry and the drop-off there? >> well, this is the first time we've measured rick perry. he got into the race shortly after our last poll. he got in in august, our p

i do think he gets sarah palin's voters. i don't think herman cain is real. i don't think he has legs. i think he's, frankly, a joke. i think that perry still is competitive with romney, and i think if romney were going to get sarah palin's vote, we would have seen movement towards it some time in the past five years. >> that's where i had the question, my same question to you, mark, is why after all these years we've known him, mitt romney's been running around the country, running against ted kennedy, running for governor of massachusetts, running nationally. for 17 years, the country has had a very good look at this guy. he's flipped around on issues back and forth, like a seesaw. no matter what he's done, he's won three debates in a row, still at 25%. three quarters of the party keep saying, tissue rejection. is this going to change? >> yeah, it's going to change. you can look at a lot of past primaries, democratic and republican at this point, and they're generally never happy. that's what primaries are about. you've got broad constituencies. and it's not

. >>> sarah palin calling republican candidate herman cain the flavor of the week.n's comments in on tha show. >> i happen to believe there's ice milk, and hagandaz black walnut it lasts longer than a week, okay? >> all right. >> for the latest political news, good to cnn politics.com. >>> former president bill clinton is celebrating the 20th anniversary of his first bid for the white house this weekend. events are being held in little rock, arkansas. clinton announced his candidacy there october 3, 1991 in the middle of his fifth term as governor. >>> and former president jimmy carter has two reasons to celebrate in atlanta today. that's because it is his 87th birthday and the 25th anniversary of the jimmy carter presidential library and museum. a film about the former president will also be screened and a brand new exhibit on the secret service is opening. >>> and you're about to see the coolest way to fly. i didn't say it was the fastest way, however. to new mexico and the world famous international balloon fiesta next. onpas. this is the relief i've been looking

palin. >> my message to sarah palin supporters is please take a look at herman cain. we have a lot in common. we share a lot of the same ideas. one of the biggest things i have in common with sarah palin is just like sarah, i'm not afraid to challenge the status quo. >> with palin not running, cain says voters can hear more about candidates in the race and determine the difference in messages. >>> tonight, the man who once was president of a louden football league has been charged with stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the organization. his name is raymond j. taylor. he's 44 years old. he was arrested yesterday. he embezzled $50,000 from the upper louden county youth football league. authorities say they learned of the possibility of theft in late september after the board members discovered irregularities. he's been charged with six counts of felony. >>> a deadly hit and run in the district is being investigated as a homicide. police say it started yesterday when two groups of men began fighting on 14th street in northwest d.c. one turned loose a pit b

sarah palin. we take a closer look at the economic plan. this week, herman cain and 999 proposal and all of that and how the f.d.a. could cost you, your life. >> protesters are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works. >> welcome to the journal, editorial report, i'm paul gigot. that was president obama thursday when asked about the growing wall street poe tests. now in their third week, a rally in lower manhattan seems to be gaining size and momentum and dozens of sister demonstrations have sprung up in cities across the country. just one of the things stoking the protesters anger is bank of america's plan to charge its debit card customers a $5 monthly fee. move attacked by the president and dick durbin. >> bank of america customers, vote with your feet. get the heck out of that bank. >> paul: joining the panel this week, wall street journal editor board member mary kissle. james freeman, opinion journal.com. >> james, how serious should we take the moment. >> more serious than i was taking them the beginning of t

. ♪ >>> on the political radar, sarah palin calling republican candidate herman cain the flavor of the. >> the fact that she called me flavor of the week, if you look at what happened, that might be true for some people. but i believe that there's ice milk and haagedaz black walnut. i have some substance here. it lasts longer than a week. okay? >> all right. >> he's a good sport, isn't he? for the latest political news, do you know where to go? cnnpolitics.com. >>> president obama is celebrating the 20th anniversary for his presidential bid. it was announced on october 3rd, 1991 in the middle of his fifth term as governor. >>> former president jimmy carter has reasons to celebrate in atlanta. that's because it's his 87th birthday and the opening of a library and museum is opening as well. >>> it's the first day of october and it feels like it across much of the country. cooler and wetter weather is hitting the east coast. meteorologist jacqui jeras joins us. people are enjoying the seasonal temperatures. we all bring out the turtle necks, right? >> not everybody is loving it, believe i

herman cain on the rise and sarah palin saying trust me.estant. tara do you dell. anne, good morning to you in washington. i'm reaching out to you first because you got the furthest distance. a lot of the news sparked by the texas pastor calling the mormon religion a cult after introducing rick perry at the event. mitt romney has been here before, four years ago. how big of an issue will religion be for him? >> well, it's too soon to really tell. but it doesn't seem -- certainly hasn't derailed him at this point. it's going to be an issue. they always knew it would be for a certain portion of the republican based christian conservatives. in some ways, it could be considered a welcome distraction, if you like. when you're talking about his religion, you're not talking about potentially his flipflopping on issues or not being conservative enough. you're talking about something that americans are willing to forgive, if you will. it's his religion. he's able to turn this to his advantage. he's talking now about civility and discourse. we saw in

whether it was sarah palin, michele bachmann and now herman cain, they seemed to be focused on their job. from the obama campaign in 2008, they had the same disciplined folks and you a message and revered from it. i think he can be beaten as a primary candidate, they are doing a good job. >> two quick points. he has run before. his biggest weakness, he has run before. people want change. >> very well said. >> rick perry came in second on most damage to the economy. right behind michele bachmann. that's all about immigration. that issue is killing rick perry. >> look forward to seeing you all again. >>> out front next, gerry brown signed a bill that allows girls over the age of 12 to get an hpv vaccine without their parents consent. >>> the underwear bomber's trial starts tomorrow and baby lisa disappearing from a week ago. in america, we believe in a future that is better than today. since 1894, ameriprise financial has been working hard for their clients' futures. never taking a bailout. helping generations achieve dreams. buy homes. put their kids through college. retire how they w

whether it was sarah palin, michele bachmann and now herman cain, they seemed to be focused on their job. from the obama campaign in 2008, they had the same disciplined folks and you a message and revered from it. i think he can be beaten as a primary candidate, they are doing a good job. >> two quick points. he has run before. his biggest weakness, he has run before. people want change. >> very well said. >> rick perry came in second on most damage to the economy. right behind michele bachmann. that's all about immigration. that issue is killing rick perry. >> look forward to seeing you all again. >>> out front next, gerry brown signed a bill that allows girls over the age of 12 to get an hpv vaccine without their parents consent. >>> the underwear bomber's trial starts tomorrow and baby lisa disappearing from a week ago. americans are always ready to work hard for a better future. since ameriprise financial was founded back in 1894, they've been committed to putting clients first. helping generations through tough times. good times. never taking a bailout. there when you need them.

. >> when they tell pollsters herman cain, they're saying none of the above. >> sarah palin said you're the flavor of -- flavor of the month. >> by the way, sarah palin made it official. >> the latest to drop out. >> i apologize to those whom are disappointed. >> in a white house press conference today the president said he has been watching the occupy wall street protests on television and believes this is what occupy wall street is trying to tell him. >> i think it expresses the frustrations that the american people feel that we had the biggest financial crisis since the great depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country, all across main street, and yet you're still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly, trying to fight efforts to crack down on abusive practices that got us into this in the first place. >> the newest republican presidential front-runner in the latest economist/ugov poll herman cain said he has taken this message from occupy wall street. >> rather than going to wall street, complaining to people at big banks or big businesses, why not p

herman cain needs sarah palin's support the most. s floating on indecision, attached itself to michele bachmann, attached itself to rick perry. now it's floating over to herman cain. they know they don't want to patch themselves to mitt romney. whoever can be the alternative to mitt romney will be that tea party support. if herman cain gets her endorsement, he can be the option to romney. >> i very much agree with robert on this. this republican race is shaping up to be mitt romney and anybody but mitt romney. sarah palin, if she can throw her support behind mitt romney, he needs to brain this group together. we saw in the 2010 election, sarah palin not popular across the board, but incredibly popular even still with republican voters. if mitt romney can get that support behind him, she could be a bill help. >>> herman cain doesn't sympathize with the unoccupied protesters the. listen to what he told t"the wal street journal". >> don't blame wall street, don't blame the banks. if you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yoursel

sarah palin, donald trump, rick perry and now herman cain. we have seen it play before.ry once in a while, one team doesn't have anyone who can beat the other team. ronald reagan was actually beatable in his re-election campaign but not by walter mondale. george h.w. bush was beatable but not by michael dukakis. president obama is definitely beatable with 9% unemployment. but republicans are on their way to being stuck with a nominee they just don't like. it is simply the dislike and distrust of willard m. romney that is keeping the other republican candidacies alive and every day those candidacies survive, they make republicans and republicanism sound crazier and crazier. john harward last night, he will join us in a moment, he sat down with rick perry. >> mitt romney, after the president released his birth certificate earlier this year, said that issue is done and settled. i accept it. you chose to the keep it alive in your interview with "parade" magazine over the weekend. why did you do that? >> it is a good issue to the keep alive. donald has to have some fun and th

herman cain at the top of the polls and falling out with some other folks hearing from chris christie and sarah palin they won't one. herman cain is not your traditional candidate. how long can he maintain that momentum? >> well, he has to go through what he hasn't gone through so far which is secrete knee. herman cain has not been scrutinized very much and been a very capable debate person and has a simple engaging and interesting tax reform plan and he is a complete outsider and in a presidential campaign, unlike i've ever seen before the fact you're a complete outsider is a qualifier. it used to be something to get you in the conversation and now allows you to dominate the conversation at least on the republican side, he has that advantage but once the scrutiny comes he has to deal with the way that rick perry and michele bachmann and everybody else did and we learn scrutiny sometimes undercuts your poll numbers. >> bob, when it comes to rick perry, he hasn't been the greatest week for him. is this something he came out of the gate so strong. is this something he can recover from and truly r

that's why when you see a sarah palin, a donald trump or a herman cain, whoosh, it's like a roman candle want to rl a hand grenade under washington's door. at some point you stop flirting with the candidate you want and you marry the president you need. but they are white-hot. it's taking on washington. it's taking on the president, that's fueling a lot of these candidates. >> i think a lot of these candidates have heard the siren call. michele bachmann, rick perry. it wouldn't surprisee if you have governor christie say, i can hear the song really loud and clear. the difficulty is, running for president is like committing suicide. there's not a lot of good choices there. and you have to be very prepared for the outcome. and whether it's suicide, or running for president, you better be ready. >> well, the narrative is something th interests me. mike, you can take this on. look, you've got chris christie as the potential, you know, the straight shooter. hier calling kind of leadership message. understanding more of the poetry of campaigning. perry is a populist, an anti-government guy. ro

herman cain, he's different. he'll be down at 3% or 4% in a couple weeks. >>> now, dana, explain that to me. you had donald trump first, a big winner? the polls. then as sarahhele bachmann, then rick perry, now you have herman cain, i mean, what's going on here? have you ever seen this kind of volatility? >> volatility. no, it's been -- dana, you want to take this one? >> sure -- >> it's a volatile thing. i don't know if the tea party can't make up their mind or who they like. you saw perry come in and try to play the birther card. he's backing off of that now, but it's a volatile time. other than the fact that they don't like romney. it's 234ib but romney. that seems to be what they have decided. >> well, dana, on this show you have the last word. >> well, newt gingrich is making a run. i think you're going to see him peak pretty soon. they want anybody who is not obama, anybody who's not mitt romney. the lesson they have taken from herman cain is crazy works, it sells, that's why you have rick perry coming back to the birther movement. i think they're trying to outdo each other the op sid of cool and collected, which is what we're getting right now. ni a

and other characters, i'm looking at you, herman cain, will have an unexpected starring role. they mean the sarah palin story has come to an end, not with a bang but to steal a line from the new republic's walter shapiro with a pimp-out. but this is the truth. those two events this week they don't matter that much not if you're asking the question of which party will ultimately win the presidency in 2012, of who will really control the white house. and that's because these questions rely on a fallacy, a mistake, a big analytical fault line that runs right underneath the way we cover the race for the presidency. we like to focus on characters and campaigns and people. we believe in ads and messaging and we believe in speeches. too often the way we understand presidential elections is really no different than the way we understood our high school elections. they're both just big popularity contests and the winner is whoever is cooler, whoever has a better campaign, whoever will buy us beer. and god bless the american voter for this. he doesn't and she doesn't get the credit they deserve. the americ

sarah cider, cnn, bangkok. >>> it's halloween weekend. richard herman is here with me. story for you, richard, right? >> we're ready, fred. we're ready. >> we're going to talk about batman, the cape crusader and how he got hung up and in legal trouble. we'll have much more from our legal guys straight ahead, richard and avery. [ gong ] strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition new v8 v-fusion smoothie. could've had a v8. >>> we're having conversations here. we're going to talk about lots. lawyers for michael jackson's personal doctor are presenting their case to the jury, and our legal guys are back to talk about that. avery friedman in washington and richard herman right here in the studio just in time for halloween weekend. all right, gentlemen. really a tough testimony this week may have changed things. the dynamics of the sentiment for the jurors, right, richard? >> my, has the worm turned in the conrad murray case. >> how do you see it? >> everybody was ranting and raving how great the prosecutors were like in the ca