Prosecutors now question her credibility. my ovovall impression is when she talks about the alleged incident, she s very convincing. when she s talking about some aspects of her past, it seems a little vague. reporter: strauss-kahn s attorneys accuse diallo of being out for money and say she s worried she won t get any money if criminal charges are dropped. her lawyer says he plans to file a civil lawsuit as well. rob and tanya? now, we turn to a bizarre scene in stockton, california. it looked like a hollywood stuntman in action. but this was all too real. news cameras captured a man clinging to a speeding car, his fefe dragging along the street there. after the car went out of view, the man actually climbed through the window. he apparently thought his friend s stolen purse was in that car. turns out it was all a big misunderstanding. no one was arrested. what a great friend, though. he thought he was getting his friend s purse out of the car? wow, going the extra mile. tha
In exclusive interviews with abc news and newsweek magazine, the hotel maid who accused dominique strauss-kahn of sexually assaulting her is speaking publicly. i said, i am so sorry. he turned to me and cupped my breasts. no, you don t have to be sorry. i said, stop. i don t want to lose my job. reporter: 32-year-old naffissatou diallo said she didn t expect to see strauss-kahn when she went to clean his room at the sofitel hotel in new york city. his lawyers say what happened there was consensual. but the immigrant from guinea and single mother says the former leader of the international monetary fund, who also was considered the favorite to be the next president of france, forced her to perform oral sex. i want justice. i want him to go to jail. i want him to know you cannot use your power when you do something like this. reporter: strauss-kahn s attorneys called diallo s interviews an unseemly circus, an effort to resurrect a case that s teetering because
She was a hotel housekeeper. then their worlds collided. now the woman in the center of the dominique strauss-kahn sexual assault case is speaking out. and she s telling her story in an exclusive interview with abc s robin roberts. he come to me and cupped my breasts. no, you don t have to be sorry. i said i said, stop. i don t want to lose my job. reporter: nafi diallo, a hotel maid, stands by her story that on a saturday in may she had just entered what she thought was an empty room in the four-star hotel, when a naked dominique strauss-kahn emerged from the bedroom and brutally assaulted her. he pushed me like this to the floor. i cannot move. i cannot move, i try. when did you realize that he was one of the most powerful men in the world? i was watching. and the news. and then they say he s going to be the next president of france. then i say, oh my god. and i was crying.
I said, they re going to kill me. they re going to kill me. i m going to die. reporter: investigators believed diallo s story and took strauss-kahn into custody. but as the investigation grew a series of discrepancies emerged that prosecutors say weakened the case, leading them to release strauss-kahn from house arrest. diallo initially said she cowered in the hall as strauss-kahn left. hotel records show she briefly went into another back and into to his suite, something she does not dispute now. prosecutors say she lied about the details of a rape in guinea that helped her to get asylum. i have made a mistake.. but that doesn t mean this man he tried to rape me. reporter: diallo is adamant she was telling the truth about what really happened in that room and she will seek justice. i want justice. i want him to go to jail.
he has another solution and it s simply says, spend less. i m ali velshi. congressional websites crash. what president obama said that had a number of websites going off-line. details coming up on this american morning. thanks for being with us. tuesday, july 26th. welcome to american morning. we all stayed up later than usual last night to get a chance to hear from the president about this debt ceiling showdown as well as from the house speaker. and still divided this morning. they are still divided with different plans, different ideas how to get us out of the mess. didn t you both think maybe they got something, something happened. i didn t think there was a deal. i m always the optimist. lots of ideas, plans, but no agreement. start there with the debt crisis looming, president obama, house speaker john boehner took their cases for getting a deal done directly to the nation. last night s prime time speeches come as the nation is now one week, seven days,