arnold schwarzenegger and the scandal. you re in the situation room. he s a billionaire and head of a powerful world agency. the international monetary fund dominique strauss-kahn now sits in the new york city jail cell facing sex crime charges for assaulting and he does not qualify for diplomatic immunity. what s going on? wolf, it s 24 hours now for dominique strauss-kahn. he has had one unidentified visitor so far. prosecutors are analyzing forensic evidence strauss-kahn cannot do much for his isolation cell and they are consideringing the options and he sits in jail. sl it an impossible mission for his lawyers? and it will be fight the alleged victim is now worried. i am totally confident in this woman. whal so ever. the woman is lying and there s reason to believe she might be lying. this is a high-stakes case. two, the second defense in a case like that is consent. something might have happened but it s not what she says and she consented to it. strauss-kahn s
failure, high. would rather die than be captured. at the end of the day it was a leap of faith. reporter: friday, april 29th, just after 8:20 a.m., the mission begins. the president gives the go. the president, after a long night s sleep, he basically came in and immediately told his staff you have the green light. let s go. reporter: as president obama departs for the tornado-ravaged south, the u.s. military s best-kept secret is underway. the troops were ready and in place. the equipment was ready to go. the plan had been practiced again and again and again. reporter: america s most-wanted man may finally be in reach, osama bin laden. the architect of 9/11 had eluded the world s most powerful nation for more than a decade. the trail was quite cold. reporter: former cia director michael hayden recalls the early misfires. most of what we had looked many more like elvis sightings rather than substantive intelligence. u.s. intelligence zeroed in on this co
s.e.a.l.s would rather die than be captured. at the end of the day it was a leap of faith. vi . reporter: friday, april 29, just after 8:20 a.m., the mission begins. the president gives the go. the president, after a long night s sleep, basically came in and immediately told the staff, you ve got the green light. let s go. reporter: as president obama departs for the tornado-ravaged south, the u.s. military s best-kept secret is under way. the troops were ready and in place. the equipment was ready to go. the plan had been practiced again and again and again. reporter: america s most wanted man may finally be in reach. osama bin laden. the architect of 9/11 had eluded the world s most powerful nation for more than a decade. the trail was quite cold. reporter: former cy director michael hayden recalls the early misfires. most of what he had looked more likele elvis sightings than intelligence. reporter: the trail caught fire last august when u.s. intell
problems. these should be actual cuts. real reforms to these programs, not broad deficit or deficit targets that punt the questions to the future. and with the exception of tax hikes which, in my opinion, will destroy america s jobs, everything is on the table. what serious conversation about debt reduction begins by absolutely taking the possibility or discussion of tax hikes off the table? not very many serious discussions. i remember when i was little, my dad took me to a car dealership, ali, and he said, this is how you buy a car. i remember they wrote numbers on a piece of paper and passed them across the table. my dad s number, i m sure, was absurdly low. that s the only explanation i can give with boehner, is saying a very low bid to hike tup later. that s why i look to guys like tom coburn who is a party of six. you can t question his opposition, he s conservative, but he understands reality. i hope you re right, and that s what some people around me at that s
freeman and ernie banks all in the same room and i try to get them to stop selling themselves short. plus this morning we re talking about politics. presidential politics in france. why? because one of the people, the man you are looking at there, who is believed to be the front-runner to be the next president of france is now sitting in a jail cell in new york. scathing details of how all of this played out. we ll have that for you. but welcome to this cnn sunday morning. i m t.j. holmes. thank you for spending part of your weekend here with us. let s start now with the case of saving new orleans at the cost of others. the latest on the historic flooding along the lower mississippi valley. now take a look at this. you see that picture? this happened yesterday. the army corp of engineers opened just one of the 125 gates at that huge morganza spillway north of baton rouge. this is something that has not been done since 1973. they could open two more of those gates toda