October 5
NBC Nightly News interview
Tom Brokaw: You’re not going to be any more specific about these charges, in terms of your denials?
Arnold Schwarzenegger: As soon as the campaign is over I will.
October 9
U.S. News
“[A] reporter asked Schwarzenegger when he would make good on his promise to provide more specifics about the groping charges.
“‘Old news,’ Schwarzenegger said tersely.”
November 7
CNN
“Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger will hire an investigative firm to look into allegations by several women that he groped them but may refuse to allow California’s attorney general to review it, a spokesman said Thursday.”
December 9
CNN
“California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday that an independent investigation of pre-election allegations that he groped and sexually harassed women isn’t necessary because ‘the people have spoken.’
“‘Their voices have been heard. They elected me to be governor, and they sent me up here to do the job,’ Schwarzenegger said in an interview with CNN’s Judy Woodruff’s Inside Politics. ‘That’s what I’m here to do, and so that’s why I’m concentrating on this right now.'”