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Yesterday. once he agreed to post $1 million cash bond on top of that, $5 million insurance bond, and also submit to house arrest as well as electronic monitoring. our legal analyst jeffrey toobin joins us this morning. jeff, let s just answer this, is this unusual that he would get bail on these terms or is this entirely usual that somebody charged with a sex crime who can put up the bond can be freed? this was a really close call. i mean i think first of all, nothing is usual about this case. you rarely have a white collar-style defendant accused in a violent crime of this kind. that s just a fact. you don t see many cases like that. but, there are competing considerations in this case. you had a judge earlier in the week essentially turn down the same deal, later in the week a judge agreed to it. i think the decision is very much defenseble. look he s not going anywhere. he s going to be under 24-hour guard, wearing an ankle bracelet. taking away his passport, imf ....
seeing the release of dominique strauss-kahn. that s right. in fact, we re waiting for the former imf chief to walk out of jail. a judge agreed to free him on bail yesterday. that s the same day a grand jury indicted him. in order to get out of jail strauss-kahn will post bail of $1 million and a $5 million insurance bond and forced to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet and guarded around the clock. strauss-kahn had been under suicide watch or has been and could be walking out of there any moment. susan candiotti is here now. this is a big victory for his legal team. it wanted this to happen before it was denied and now he got it. it s a matter of making it all come together. we don t know exactly when he ll be getting out of rikers. we do know that the judge is going to have to finally sign off everything is in place. we know that as you ve been reporting, that a security team has been hired by the defense team and he has to pay for this himself, dominique st ....