the israelis and the palestinians to make peace. a new lead on a famous cold case, the deadly tainting of tylenol capsules back in 1982. the fbi wants dna samples from one of the nation s most notorious killers. i m wolf blitzer, your senate situation room. breaking news this hour, a new york supreme court judge s decision to grant bail to dominique strauss-kahn. the former head of the international monetary fund has to pay $1 million in cash and post as 5 million bond to get out of rikers island jail where he has been held since his arrest over the weekend. defense lawyers disputed prosecutors claims that strauss-kahn is a flight risk. a great relief for the family to be able to have him [ inaudible ] the complainant in this case has offered a compelling and unwavering story about what occurred in the defendant s room.she made immediate outcries to multiple witnesses, both to hotel staff and police. the quick response to the hotel staff and law enforcement did help
bush administration, person everyone is pining for, he is not exactly mr. excitement. all of these guys you have to want to run. keep trying to draft people into this race. one thing i know has to be true for someone to win the white house, they have to want to be in the white house more than then want anything else. we have to leave it there. mitch dan gels a very smart guy. thanks, mary, jammal. let s get more on the breaking news. you saw at the top of the hour. imf chief, dominique strass-kahn, possibly could be out on bail as early as tomorrow. we are getting new information. stand by. somewhere in america, a city comes to life. it moves effortlessly, breathes easily. it flows with clean water. it makes its skyline greener and its population healthier. all to become the kind of city people want to live and work in. somewhere in america, we ve already answered some of the nation s toughest questions. and the over sixty thousand people of siemens
that would deeply concern me. explain what i will let you go in a second. explain that. if he is out in new york, let s say he has an ankle bracelet, and he is in new york, she would feel threatened by that is that what you are saying? look. this is a woman that comes from a world in which safety is not is very difficult. it is not guaranteed. there are no police are not necessarily your friend. this is the background she comes from. the idea that this perpetrator person who attacked her is preand can do what he wants to do, whether he flee it is country doesn t mean that he can t do something in her mind at least and based upon her experience in the world that could cause her harm. dominique strass-kahn was a possible challenger to the french president sarkozy in next year s election, at least he was until his arrest. strass-kahn downplayed his political prospects with an interview with fareed zakaria last year. i m heading international instay tugsz and happy with w
global banks for 40-plus years about strass-kahn s take home. you don t have a problem with the salary? i don t have a problem with the salary. this is one of the world s most important jobs. it is reflected by the fact that strass-kahn played an absolutely essential role in dealing with the global financial crisis that we hopefully are moving out of. john sewell also credits strass-kahn with drastically reforming the imf and making it relevant again after a period when few countries wanted to borrow money from it. suel and other analysts point out strass-kahn s salary is nothing compared to major wall street bankers. but is a lot more than those of u.s. cabinet secretaries who also have wide ranging responsibilities. and they have to pay tax. that s like a million dollars when you take federal and state income tax off the top. lot of people always lump together the the international monetary fund, head of the world bank. across the street from each other here in washington. is
of parties of the debate agreed on that. i think it is this is a different state. it is a different sort of thing. kind of thing that s normally kept under cover here. is there consensus emerging in france now, jim, political career no matter what happens in the courtroom in new york is over? i think so. the only people seem to be still holding out hope is a thing called the club dominique strass-kahn, a club of his supporters urging him to run for president. they would like to see the socialist party primary move from june 28 to later on in the summer i guess hoping his legal problems would be over. two letters, k.o., knocked out. i think that s what they really sort of feel about his political career now. you had a chance to meet with him, including relatively what s he like? i have run into him and done interviews with him probably