. >>> wouldn't you get cozy with sarkozy? we can't resist finding out. >>> and the bottom line on herman cain. the lawyer for one of the accusers finally spoke out. let's go "outfront." >>> i'm erin burnett. out front on this friday, the lawyer for herman cain's accuser speaks. >> she made a complaint in good faith about a series of inappropriate behaviors and unwanted advances from the ceo. she and her husband see no value in revisiting this matter now, nor in discussing the matter any further, publicly or privately. >> joel bennett, that's who it was, said his client stands by her comments while the cain campaign continues to call the claims baseless. jeffrey toobin is our senior legal analyst. gloria borger is our chief political analyst. great to have both of you with us. let me start with you, gloria. you spoke to the national restaurant association today, and now that the lawyer said all right, the woman, multiple events but she doesn't want to give details, doesn't want to give her name. but now that the national resta

and wouldn't you get cozy with sarkozy? we can't resist finding out. >>> and the bottom line on herman cain. the lawyer for one of the accusers finally spoke out. let's go "outfront." >>> i'm erin burnett. out front on this friday, the lawyer for herman cain's accuser speaks. >> she made a complaint in good faith about a series of inappropriate behaviors and unwanted advances from the ceo. she and her husband see no value in revisiting this matter now, nor in discussing the matter any further, publicly or privately. >> joel bennett, that's who it was, sawed his client stands by her comments while the cain campaign continues to call the claims baseless. jeffrey toobin is our senior legal analyst. gloria borger is our chief political analyst. great to have both of you with us. let me start with you, gloria. you spoke to the national restaurant association today, and now that the lawyer said all right, the woman, multiple events but she doesn't want to give details, doesn't want to give her name. but now that the national rest

but last night, president sarkozy said the greek decision to hold a referendum surprise all of europe. it all adds up to renewed uncertainty. that is something the market to dread. bbc news. >> we have approved yesterday, watching the market plummet down. let's get more on the story. tonya is an cannes for the g-20 summit. if you thought it would be a pleasant gathering of 20 of the world's most powerful but it will be pretty messy, isn't it? >> it is. behind me, you can see a rather opulent scene, the yachts. angela merkel of germany and her counterpart, sarkozy of france, will meet in just a few hours time. then there is a meeting with the premier of china, followed swiftly by a meeting with the greek prime minister, at which he will no doubt be explaining why it appears, at least, he has precipitated or taken the lid off of a political crisis in the country which has effectively from the greek bailout deal in question. one of the key planks designed to get the eurozone out of the crisis. >> what do you think the likes of sarkozy or angela merkel are going to do with this new bit of

on december fourth on the eve of this summit pressure coming from angela merkel and host nicolas sarkozy that he can go ahead and hold that referendum but if costs are not made and the greek public does vote no then they would not receive well this morning he went back to athens emergency meeting was held and it became very clear that between the prime minister and the finance minister there was an agreement really the finance minister saying he doesn't think the referendum should affect the actual how it affects the actual whether or not greece should stay in the euro zone and then this announcement that we're hearing that if they can come up with some kind of coalition parliament that satisfies everyone that the referendum won't be held to answer a question about what that means for people going out on the streets in greece for over a year now protesting cuts so why don't we. instability at least in greece perhaps further violence and then in terms of the euro if you ask your across of course they'll say that this is necessary they should stay in. the euro zone euro skeptics of course

here by what nicolas sarkozy calls the backbone of the eurozone that of course france and germany also sat down with members of the i.m.f. and the european central bank and it's pretty much a good guess just said that there were some very serious talks behind closed doors openly we know that they told him that his decision to hold that referendum which of course now we know has been taken back was unilateral that the country is independent it can do what it likes but won't get money if that referendum basically doesn't go the way they would have wanted it to now we know it's not going to be how what that means for the euro is still a very big debate skeptics will say that it's just moving the problem down the line euro cross will say that this is what needs to be done to save the euro euro and europe as a whole nicolas sarkozy in his press conference on this first day of the summit congratulated the greek government for making this decision. the leader of the opposition party he made a statement today that indicated that he was supporting the twenty seventh of october plan that was to

markets were relieved at the thought that the people wouldn't interfere with the dealings of merkel sarkozy and up on their own and right now there's a lot of pressure on george haven't tried to step down not only from the opposition but from his own cabinet but he says he's not resigning how do you think this will play out. i think what i mean it's a speculation entirely i think it's perfectly possible you could lose the vote of confidence tomorrow but i think that in such an event it doesn't necessarily mean that the government has dissolved the venezuela's could step in and take over the role here there's clearly a divide that's grown between those two men since two thousand and seven when venezuela's tried to take over leadership of the parties and back on that or made him recently that the prime minister which was an interesting move that happened over the summer so he could take over and they could you know they could create a unity government and the point is that you what you saw today what i saw and i got a few chances to look at speeches in the parliament what i saw were members o

nicolas sarkozy and angela merkel met for another emergency conference on thursday. this time, together with the new italian prime minister. there was no breakthrough on major issues. for many people in europe, the thought of giving more power to brussels is deeply unpopular and raises new questions about the eu and its institutions. could the debt crisis turn into a crisis of democracy? >> behind-the-scenes, he is a german member of that european parliament. he is a major player in its conservative block and has the ear of the german chancellor. he gets with colleagues from across the continent. >> is this european democracy at work? >> this is democracy at work full stop. democracy means finding compromises. >> the compromise is that current account are those struck by nicolas sarkozy and angela merkel. >> the chancellor and i are both absolutely determined to find ambitious and unsustainable answers to all the issues that confront us. >> the duo is dominant right now as europe struggles to get on top of the debt crisis. some complain that they have emerged as an u

in libya and sought to sell some reports thanks a libyan intervention of french president nicolas sarkozy bad destroying a first for his country first a call for nato to impose a no fly zone over libya. first to officially recognize the opposition as libya's only region it government first strike with libya now in the rearview mirror syria appears to be the next stop france is once again the first western nation suggests an international ground intervention in syria calling for a quote secured zone to protect civilians and first doors the exiled opposition syrian national council and his account human thing brings in this very very popular agreement between most of the left and most of the right about that and sarkozy has to say intervention so it seems to me that he's more even more aggressive than obama would be even though he doesn't have the military strength of the loons and sweeping popularity at home is what sarkozy needs if he intends to let the french decide his fate as president of the two thousand and twelve elections it's time president nicolas sarkozy talks about the syrian c

president sarkozy has shown extraordinary leadership on this issue.ith him that the eu has made some important steps towards a comprehensive solution, and that would not have happened without nicholas's leadership. here at the g-20 we'll have to flesh out more of the details about how the plan will be fully and decisivery implemented. and we also discussed the situation in greece and how we can work to help resolve that situation as well. the united states will continue to be a partner with the europeans to resolve these challenges. we had the opportunity, also, to talk about a range of security issues. one in particular that i want to mention is the continuing threat posed by iran's nuclear program. the iea is scheduled to release a report on iran's nuclear program next week. president sarkozy and i agree on the need to maintain the unprecedented international pressure on iran to meet its obligations. and finally, i'm looking forward to joining nicholas and service members from both of our countries tomorrow to celebrate the alliance between our two

into the regime and against foreign intervention and fraud against france and sarkozy may get out of intervention in syria even critics wonder if it's really worth it at least no one can argue about who said it first. r.t. brussels. well some western nations to toasting the results of intervention in libya well for getting there in syria may be much higher that's according to professor lawrence davidson middle east expert at west chester university in the u.s. . well if they're serious about this it's true tat is catastrophic. to essentially invade syria which is what they would have to do. by the from the air. they're going to bring in potentially syrian allies and syrian allies are iran and hezbollah and i don't think this is a very good idea they haven't thought through at least at the political level they haven't thought through who they might get the assad regime falls. now the intelligence people probably have thought this through. and here in the united states for instance politically this is done without any forethought as to what the consequences of all this is and the world

pressure at that meeting that took place on the eve of this summit between angela merkel nicolas sarkozy the i.m.f. and the european central bank telling him his decision to hold a referendum on whether or not to make cons to receive another bailout would it was a unilateral they pretty much reprimanded him he defended the right of his country to decide the fate of their economic situation whether or not they would default stay in the euro zone and now this morning the finance minister of the country already hence maybe things weren't born as clear in his government as it seemed when he came and presented the situation to. leaders in the g. twenty leaders saying that the referendum sent in fact have a direct effect on the euro and the greek decision so a lot of different kinds of information coming out not just gives you more proof as to how unstable the situation is in terms of the euro crisis and the currency it's been a real mess with greece this week a lot of different reports the prime minister sacking most of his high ranking military staff rumors of a coup none of that of course h

twenty with host nicolas sarkozy wrapping up the summit by saying once again that he is determined to protect the single currency to the end france and germany believed to have put a lot of pressure on the greek prime minister and to cancel a referendum that essentially would have left the greek people decide what track to take in terms of prices to discuss that further we can now cross live to washington d.c. where i'm joined by financial blogger coffin this thank you for being with us how much pressure do you think was put on the greek pm by anglo merkel and nicolas sarkozy on that those talks the emergency talks they held on the very eve of this summit in which he laughed and then of course that referendum was cancelled. right well they were certainly dissatisfied about it i think that the prime minister has received pressure pretty much from all sides he received pressure from merkel from sarkozy from the leaders in europe but also from members of his own party as well as the coalition of course he was reprimanded across the board so i think that the referendum that he proposed wa

the main session is just about to wrap up and we're going to hear from nicolas sarkozy and merkel and all of the leaders will be giving a press conference and we'll be hearing more details about any perhaps concrete plans on how to save the euro it is expected that nicolas sarkozy will be praising the greek prime minister's decision to scrap that referendum obviously there was a lot of pressure put on him on the eve of this summit critics saying they don't think any concrete results will actually come out of this day and a half or so summit on the euro specifically but one of the questions that still is very heavily debated here and it was brought up in a meeting of the brics the emerging economies the reason the g twenty was created to kind of spread out the balance have more countries involved in that economies are perhaps not as affected by the euro but still very important in terms of the global economy and its stability there are voices being heard we heard from president said that on the bailout russia does support any kind of money coming from the i.m.f. but that also what need

i speaking about about everyone playing by the rules sarkozy also talked about those who don't follow the rules he was speaking of course about plots and deficit should have to pay sanctions but how would france feel about paying sanctions aren't they themselves running a budget deficit. right they're running a budget deficit beyond. what the rules of mass rich provide for so if they were to pay sanctions append on how they prefer they present it to their to their people but the real irony with that is that the french banks are are so desperate for some sort of a bailout and if they didn't get one for greece for example they could potentially go under and france would be on the hook for a much larger amount of money so in france is a pain and it's and it's in their interest to do whatever they can to prevent any sort of right that's for sovereign presumably greek that sovereign debt across the board because ultimately the bailout but the french government would have to provide to its own banks would be such that they would blow out their deficits above and beyond what they are right n

twenty summit in cannes observers have only been able to guess just what it was that nicolas sarkozy said to george pop and are you that quality is backtrack on the referendum plans or he's a nice in our way has more. the final day of the g twenty here in cannes will have three working sessions and will and with the past conference given by host nicolas sarkozy the greek tragedy has taken over this entire summit other issues pushed aside i believe this news of course of the greek prime minister backtracking and saying the referendum won't be held it won't be hard to sided by the people making european leaders here especially the backbone of the euro zone of france and germany very satisfied with the way things are going. to be the leader of the opposition made a statement indicating that he supported the twenty seventh of october plan that is a very important and courageous step is to put on drew statements also indicated the referendum is not an end in itself it was a tool that was going to be considered but since the opposition supporters of the plan then it became less useful. cri

has drifted more through nicolas sarkozy angela merkel and barack obama of organized an alternative summit media conference and here's what they had to say something he told a movement. called the party was the week before but i want you because you not only good brain and heart we want to make sure that the fake angela merkel added we support the greek referendum on the euro bailout but only if they vote yes so considering the role of official statements that coming out of the can summit some here say that this is the perhaps a more interesting of the two summits it follows the huge and t.-bone corelli's earlier in the week which had thousands of french police violence which in fact never came demonstrators have changed it but changed the strategy of going from the grisham that we saw the previous g twenty summit to approach of mocking world leaders who seem so out of touch with the problems of ordinary people today stay with us here on r.g.p. coming up later in the program we report from the front line as well. the biggest occupy wall street protests. they were shooting. there shooting t

and is very very popular agreement because most of the left and most of the right about that and sarkozy has the intervention so it seems to me that these are more even more aggressive than obama would be even though he doesn't have the military strength. and sweeping popularity at home is what succors he needs if he intends to let the french decide his fate as president in the two thousand and twelve elections it's time president nicolas sarkozy talks about the syrian crazies and. keepers that you know he's really really. bad situation when when it comes to the polls he's using certain phrases as a way to. prove to be seen as provocative the way he was with libya but where the french government deems a success doesn't seem to be too promising for those living in the post gadhafi era violent clashes between rival militia groups have continued added to the death toll a new u.n. report says that some seven thousand people are being held in libya detention centers controlled by militias with no access to courts or a functioning judiciary and many are still armed scenario some warn it could

papandreou will be holding talks with president sarkozy of france and the german chancellor, angela merkel, when they all meet later in the day ahead of a g-20 meeting. mr. papandreou also shocked some of his own party, although his cabinet has come out in support. this from keith doyle. >> athnents early hours of this morning, and after a seven-hour meeting, the greek cabinet unanimously backed its prime minister, who yesterday shocked an infuriated european leaders. george papandreou announced a delicate deal that was put together just last week by the rest of the eurozone to save greece and the euro from crisis will now be voted on by the greek people in a referendum. the rescue package would halve greece's debt to banks, but it owes so much that its people would still face years of economic hardship. in holding a referendum, the greek prime minister is effectively asking his people to vote for tough times within the euro or possibly even tougher times outside it. in a statement, the prime minister said the referendum will be a clear mandate and a clear message in and outside greece on

merkel and sarkozy talked yesterday about partnership within the eurozone. they were conciliatory but at the same time saying if someone or a member country is going to threaten the stability of the currency and the economic union, that maybe it is best for them to leave. the language was certainly along the lines of greece is prepared to tackle this and do the difficult things necessary, the rest of europe will work together to keep greece within the your zone but the greeks themselves have to understand the consequences of voting against this october 27th pact to save euope. if they decide not to do so, they are going down a road that suggests they best not be part of the eurozone. quite separately the implications for greece of doing that, giving up the euro, perhaps going back to the drachma and dealing with the fact that nobody will lend greece money for years to go is quite dire. i think pap dre' oh is banking on the fact that these messages are being heard bithe greek people and they'll understand there are consequences to voting against this deal. >>

you are called back by the rest of the eu prime ministers and by nicolas sarkozy and barack obama and being told, listen, this is what you will do. you see so much of your sovereignty in being part of this experiment. greece is a democracy. you cannot tell your people to keep taking these lumps if there is no i -- light at the end of the tunnel. >> the greek people on the verge of deciding to leave the restrictions of the eurozone. that is better than what they might face which is a decade of recession, job cuts, unemployment, tough times. >> this is like choosing between toxic waste and medical waste. neither one is ideal in both situations will be terrible. in the past, there was a silver lining to defaults. your currency would be much cheaper. suddenly, you could export your way out. countries like argentina and russia have come back and thrived. will this cause a run off on the banks? will this cause huge system the consequences for france and germany? >> anyone who is watching this thinking that athens is a long way from america should be thinking because there are a lot of thing

odin to the regime and against foreign intervention and fraud against france and sarkozy may get out of the prevention in syria even critics wonder if it's really worth it but at least no one could argue about who said it first does or sell your r.t. brussels. now it's thought the u.s. is redeployed its newest aircraft carrier from the persian gulf to the syrian coast washington is also urging american citizens to leave syria immediately and some experts believe the move scruby seen as a further step towards a military intervention or the grounds being prepared for that for some time. the u.s. cannot go in unilaterally in a military fashion and because the other coalition of countries or what i call the axis powers countries which are the us britain france and israel are acting in concert and supplying the rebels in syria who are all from syria the free syrian army is just over the syrian border in turkey recent reports that major newspapers have cited this force that fifteen thousand strong this is in direct violation of international law the western powers cannot back a rebel milit

again i want to thank president sarkozy and our french hosts for a productive summit.s for their partnership. with that, let me take a few questions. i'll start with jim kuhnen of a.p. >> reporter: new jobless numbers today back in the states. you're on a pace to face the voters with the highest unemployment rate of any post-war president. does that make -- on a message of change -- and if i may add, given that you have just witnessed the difficulties of averting economic problems beyond your control, what state do you think the economy will be in when you face reelection next year. >> jim, i have to tell you, the least of my concerns at the moment is the politics of a year from now i'm worried about putting people back to work right now, because those folks are hurting and the u.s. economy is underperforming. so everything we're doing here in -- here at the g20 mirrors our efforts back home. that is, how do we boost growth. how do we make sure that our workers are getting the skills and the training they need to compete in a global economy not only does the jobs act a

the president and french president nicholas sarkozy were caught on an open mic!ing israel's prime minister. several journalists picked up a private conversation between the two during the g-20 summit last week. sarkozy is heard saying he can't stand prime minister netanyahu. then calling him a liar. the report says president obama responded, you are sick of him but i have to work with him everyday. the reporters held only fragments of the leaders' conversation. neither white house nor president sarkozy has commented on the report. >> always watch that open mic. >> that's right. >>> we may as well talk to mike. >> this thing working? can you hear me now? let's show what is going on here's a look at some of the haze handling around leftover moisture from the fog yesterday. cooler weather and rain slated for the weekend. >> i have to work with him everyday. >> earth is about to have a close encounter. @ (speaking in international language) and he said unto them go ye into all of the world and preach the gospel preach the gospel  ♪very creature

the summit that sarkozy has chaired has not done what he wanted or what they wanted. the prime minister said there were six weeks to save the euro, the six weeks are up and the euro is certainly not saved. the british mutter about the germans not putting up the cash and the chinese who could don't see why they should. but french president is not one to give up easily. he insists that the struggle goes on. >> we will fight to defend europe and the euro. this is not any amount of speculation or anyone you like that has the last word on this issue. europe is the best construction for the service and peace in the world. >> they have been forced to wait, watch, and worry. greece has been told that there is to be no new deal. there is no point in a referendum. no wonder they are calling this the greek tragedy. italy's silvio berlusconi could be waving goodbye to power and his country's finances have also been problematic. what this summit did not agree is who would pay what into europe's bailout fund. or who would pay how much for the imf, the international monetary fund to

there is a certain amount of sincerity from what sarkozy said. that channel the u.s.ul to the europeans, they can't stand one another but they talk to us and send messages through us to one another. and furthermore, next to europe our economy doesn't look that bad actually. i think this situation illustrates the residuals with the u.s.. >> you agree? >> no, i don't. i think they are leaning on the chinese for help and we won't and there is no political will to help them and we are broke ourselves. and without sounding too full of groom gloom. we are headed on that path. and no one will talk about just what austerity measures do to growth and we all have to face. italy and greece and the u.s.. and it is not going to be talked about whether greece accepts the bailout or not. but we are on the path to deep, deep cuts and no one wants to do it. there is not the political will in italy or portugal or greece or here. >> colorado voters reject tax increases. is there any circumstance in which you would vote to raise your taxes. vote in our on line question of the day. and fo

well that's the thing i mean if you look at it blatantly merkel and sarkozy very clearly on the eve of the summit said it's up to you you make your decision but really is that what they said i mean if you look at it a little more deeper in their words between the lines really what they said was either you play by our rules or you don't get the money and this morning there was a little bit of it seems conflict within the greek government because the greek prime minister basically defended his country's right to have their say in the future of their client their currency and certainly a lot of people feel that if that referendum went ahead it would have been a no vote that greece would have defaulted and would have laughed so euro zone so this kind of talk receive thing that greece is an independent country that it can do what it wants but at the same time pursuing very toughly on them in order to have them sway in the way that europe wants to have wants to have this go to save of course the girl and not have it like you said this contagion throughout the zone all right and then he said

if you can see in there closer for most of the sarkozy. told our proceedings that exactly what is going to be your greatest influence for who it exactly be for of this number so this is not good anymore our parliament who would think that this is a political who this isn't going to be in guns but certainly are certainly does seem it seems to many that at this point the e.u. heavyweights are doing some bullying tactics here but a georgia country girl is i'm afraid that's all the time we have for today a professor of constitutional law many thanks very much thank you. well in that great turmoil has taken over the g twenty summit in cannes observers have only been able to guess just what it was that angle of merkel and nicolas sarkozy said to the great the greek prime minister and that caused him to backtrack on his whole referendum plans i think it's a now it brings us more. the final day of the g twenty here in cannes will have three working sessions and will enter the press conference given by host nicolas sarkozy the greek tragedy has tak