former imf cheap dominique strauss-kahn says something inappropriate and of moral weakness happened in that new york hotel suite in may. but he says it was not violent or aggressive. he gave his first post sex scandal today in paris and i spoke with jim bittermann about that a short time ago. reporter: we were expecting a very short interview, but it went on for about 20 minutes, covered a lot of topics including what happened in new york, also what he s facing here, what his political future is, and all that sort of thing. but on the specific case in new york, he gave some details, but not a lot. here is the way he looked and sounded tonight as he was talking about the case in new york. translator: what happened? what happened was was neither violent nor constraint included in this, nor aggression, nor any act or any illicit act. that s what the prosecutor has said. what happened was not only an inappropriate relationship, but more than that, an error, a mistake. rep
work on that, hock? thank you. good to see you. now look what happens when gasoline is given away. motorists in knoxville, tennessee, waited for more than three hours to give a free fill-up, all courtesy of a local church which gave away $10,000 worth of gasoline and washed the car windows. the second straight year that that church has given away gasoline. england is certainly the place to be this week if you ve got royal wedding fever. millions are expected to tune in friday to see prince william tie the knot at westminster abbey. in a ceremony some experts say may rival that of his own parents, prince charles and the late princess diana. kier simmons is live in london with more on the wedding preps and with a very good morning to you, england is all abuzz with the excitement, right? reporter: right, and we ve been talking for books now about what a wonderful celebration it s going to be, but what we re learning this morning is also about how poignant some moments of the servi
pretty good, 8 to 11, that she will follow in the footsteps of william s mother, diana and leave it out. it s all abuzz. in london and beyond, only six days away. this is what people are thinking the world definitely needs it and it s exciting to be here. everybody s very excited. people are happy. it s a great atmosphere. yes, i m excited for them. but i m here as a tourist. so i m trying to avoid the royal wedding so that the people from england can have their time with the royals. and we americans will come in and see the beautiful sights and then boogie out of town. i m pretty excited. i didn t want to be here on the day, though, because it would be way too busy. i m going to have my mom tape it for me. that s kind of confusing, you re there but you re not really there. don t want to be there. zain verjee is there at westminster abbie.
we ll talk to steven hadley. plus, illinois governor pat quinn tackles his state s enormous budget deficit including a money saving plan to cut school drrt districts in half and can henry waxman stop the republicans from violatinging regulations? all that and more on andrea mitchell reports. well, the royal rumor mill is all abuzz with the latest report on the wing dress e. the time of london says alexander mcqueen s fashion house will design it. michelle kosinski is in london. what have you learned? hi, contessa. as you know, for weeks, the question has been who is designing kate middleton s gown. the ropt times of london says the fashion question of the year has answered and it is sarah burton, a young and very cutting edge british designer who took
i hope it s the latter because it s not enough for what s happening now which is profits have been strong but there s not been hiring, and that s a big problem for the obama administration that s going to have many hours of debate about what the policy is in relation to that. the unemployment rate is huge. steve leaseman, thank you. capitol hill, all abuzz as lawmakers gear up for one of the biggest political events of the year. luke russert joins us now. what is the republican leadership want to hear from the president this evening? reporter: well, thomas, there is a lot of buzz up here on capitol hill because there have been some parts of the state of the union speech leaks out over the last few days from the white house, and they specifically had to do with what president obama wants to have, more investments within the american economy. listen to house speaker boehner precede that word investment on capitol hill. the american people know that we can t continue to borrow and