possible category 3 or even 4 hurricane heading toward the eastern seaboard. in libya, major new voemts. moammar gadhafi is speaking out tonight. though he hasn't been seen since this video was taken months ago. they say -- he vowed martyr don

or victory. the words he said were it was a tactical move. he also claims that tribes, loyal to gadhafi are making their way toward tripoli to liberate the city. that claim has been made before. at the gadhafi compound as the sun went down, there was new fighting. loyalists, gunmen trying to take it back from the opposition who captured it today. sara sidner was there when it all happened. >> let's go. come on, sara. come on, sara. >> having to run out of the compound now. we see gunfire coming from outside o the compound. it's getting too close. so we're leaving. we're not going to go into the compound. there's definitely from the outside of the compound firing

towards us. [ gunfire ] >> just got a gunfire incoming over our head. >> it's behind you. >> we're seeing the tracers and hitting the water tank and the area. we got to go. >> sara sidner outside gadhafi's compound this evening. contrast that with scenes from earlier today as fighters poured in firing shots in celebration climbing the statues, carrying out boxes of guns and ammunition. some went room to room searching for gadhafi. of course, they found to trace of him. they managed to shut off a key escape route possibly paving the way for the leaders to fly in from benghazi. military spokesman saying that could take place on thursday. that is assuming that continued progress, they have continued

progress. opposition forces have driven the majority of forces back to his hometown. that remains to be seen. we'll have much more on that and the hunt for gadhafi and who may replace him. also, matthew chance, he, his crew and other reporters right now trapped inside a hotel in tripoli, not far from where sara sidner was earlier at gadhafi's compound. being kept there by gadhafi loyalist, armed in the lobby and patrolling the hotel. the situation is more tense. a quick wrap-up of what was a truly memorable day. in the streets of tripoli today, cries of victory barely audible over the nonstaph rattle of celebratory gunfire. opposition forces fighting ferociously this morning with remnant of the government army. still defending moammar gadhafi's compound. after a siege lasting for hours, the opposition forces

breakthrough. >> this is a historic day. psychologically speaking, this is an important day, especially for the rebels who gadhafi said would never be able to break his spirit, would never be able to take the city. but they have taken gadhafi's compound. and you can see now some of the press coming out. so clearly they had it. clearly, they have taken this over and clearly there is extreme excitement here in tripoli. >> gadhafi's compound is not only his official residence but a symbol of his regime and of his defines to the west. opposition fighters search the compound room by room. knocking down walls x confiscating weapons, ammunition and personal documents and medical records of dpad fi and his family. >> but the one thing they want most is nowhere to be found.

moammar gadhafi has vanished. but with control of the palace, the insurgents say they control 85% of the city. the victory, however, took a turn as residents were looting the compound and celebratory gunfire turned interest chaos. >> this is the first part of the eastern gate. there are large black holes in the gate. the sun is setting in this area just behind us. it's starting to become darker. over here, you're seeing them, these are cars that belong to the gadhafi regime. they're sitting on here and blowing off rounds on the top of them. it's a low security -- i'm going to try not to get hit by any of those rounds. then if you go just over here, you see the people streaming through the main gate [ gunfire ] that's all the way into the compound. [ gunfire ] >> streaming in the main gate of the compound. a lot of smoke coming from the compound. you see these huge walls.

these were supposed to be protective walls. it gives you the sense of the power of the gadhafi regime. this honestly is the nicest part of the city. you're seeing these large, very nicely [ gunfire ] >> i'm going to back up. let's pull back a little bit. let's just pull back, i'm getting hit by some of the shells. >> other parts of tripoli continue to see fighting on the streets. journalists held by government forces at therixas hotel. matthew chance is trapped there. >> we're pretty frightened to be honest michael. we're all kind of like sort of a silence that's gone over us. we're upstairs in the hotel. we've all got our body armor on. we don't know what to expect. there's a sense that we kneel that we've been used. we're stuck here, not able to go

out. we don't want to be here. we want to get out of here. but we're not committed to do that. it's almost a situation where we're kept here against our will. what the governments say is that they're taking care of us. the gadhafi loyalists say they're here to protect us. but it doesn't feel like that sometimes up here. >> it's unclear how many gadhafi loyalists remain in tripoli and despite a swift victories by the opposition, it's unclear if this is the beginning of a prolonged urban battle. >> it could go either way until the gadhafi clan is rounded up, a new government in place and people figure out how to live their lives again. there have been plenty of surprises tonight. tonight's radio message and sudden appearance by say eave gadhafi. as it unfolds, our people are there in the middle. sara sidner, matthew chance, arwa damon is on o the phone from the libyan capital.

sara sidner joins us. sara, your camera are causing people to shoot off the guns in celebration. when your camera isn't on, is that the same scene? >> yes, it actually has been. this evening, it was quiet when the camera wasn't on. quiet as it wasn't as much blasting in the air. people were taking our hand and handing us candy and trying to give us paraphernalia with the rebel flag on it. the minute the lights go on, the blasts started going. people want to show their appreciation in that way, by blasting into the air and show -- throughout the day, that was happening whether or not we were rolling, not rolling, standing there watching. sort of a jubilation and discuss doing whatever they want. they can show the world that gadhafi and the regime has broken.

but what you're seeing in the square earlier has cleared out and -- trying to explain earlier, it's kind of a creepy feeling righting through a city when there are no lights, where it's no one on the road, except for perhaps one or two checkpoints. we can barely see them standing at the checkpoint. odd situation in a city that's a capital of a country. >> obviously, there's still parts of the city, particularly where matthew chance is, which is not far from where sara is. that are still controlled in some manner and we're not sure how many areas there are. but in some manner by gadhafi forces. how far is the airport from you are by the green square, martyr square. how far are you from where sara is? what's the situation like where you are now? >> we're about 15 to 18 miles to the south here at the tripoli

international airport. i have to say the response by the rebel fight rs that is been much more muted than what sara herself was experiencing. that's simply because they're still caught in the midst of a very intense batd will. it lasted for around nine hours, anderson. they have not managed to secure the area the east of the airport. there are two military bases located there. they were telling us, the rebel fighters have been telling us that they believe some sort of vip. someone who gadhafi loyalists want to protect could possibly in the farm lands east of the airport. quite simply because they said that the intensity of the fight, that gadhafi forces are putting up here has been unexpected. >> sara, when you were in the compound, are people there, do they still believe that gadhafi is in tripoli or do they feel he's gone somewhere else? do they have any idea?

>> they only know that he is in -- they believe he's gone underground literally. there were bunkers underground by the regime. we have gotten him to prepare a time like this. and so after hearing from him again, there's a sense that he's around here somewhere. exactly where, nobody knows. he's a person that wouldn't have given all that information out except for his closest allies and friends and family members. there is a general sense they believe he is somewhere in the capital. >> sara, how do you know where you can safely drive? i use the term safely loosely. how do you know where you can drive in tripoli where you won't run into pro gadhafi forces? >> we don't know to be honest with you. we're not seeing large numbers of gadhafi's troops anywhere.

it's not the numbers that anybody is worried about. it's the snipers, it's the people that are sort of behind the building. it's a very sort of difficult and scary part of covering this really is not knowing if you go around a corner whether you're going to be faced with someone who gadhafi loyalists had done or a trained professional holding his own. it's a matter of trying to edge your way to saving the -- at the checkpoints if they're wearing the flags and that sort of thing. as far as everything here in the right place at the right time. >> for the situation, you were witnessing a firefight at the tripoli airport. you were saying the fighters thought it was more opposition than they had expected. are pro-gadhafi forces still in control of areas near where you

are? >> yeah, anderson, they most definitely are. they're in control of the area to the east of milo indication and they're also in control of the highway that goes straight from this airport all the way up to the complex. they've only managed to move awe few miles north of that. that highway is a strategic location for gadhafi forces for a multitude of reasons but it contains two military installations. the one is a major refueling center and the other is where they store their fuel which would provide for the majority of the vehicles they have. this entire location where we are is not one of the gadhafi forces want to give up easily. a short while ago even though the gunfire had tapered off quite a bit, there was a gadhafi forces vehicle that drove up to the collapse, fire a couple

rounds much there was somewhat of a fight that ensued. the rebels parld in which -- wounded two others. so mostly there are chunks of this area that rebels are not yet in control of. >> arwa damon, stay safe tonight. sara sidner as well. as we mentioned, at the top of the program, matthew chance is in a very tough spot tonight. he, his crew and a number of foreign correspondents are trapped inside the hotel not far from where sara sidner just spoke us and it's called martyr square. i spoke to matthew in the 8:00 hour. >> what's the situation where you are inside that hotel? >> well, in terms of we've not got much to report in terms of what's happening outside the perimeter of the hotel and the regs of tripoli. i know you're speaking to sara. i don't have any verification from the limited perspective here. we're still very much in the same kind of grim situation,

which is that we're in a hotel where the top floor of the hotel. we've corralled ourselves. gadhafi loyalists are still very much in control of this hotel and the immediate perimeter around it. beyond that, i can't give you any good indication of what -- to what extent they have control. we are very close. colonel gadhafi's compound. we were very close to the fighting going on as rebels, controlled the compound from the gadhafi forces. the concern now is that we seem to be more of the remaining of tree, which is still controlled by gadhafi's forces. we're very anxious about what might happen at this hotel in the hours a he. >> earlier, you said the mood was grim.

you basically were in this room, in body armor. do you have communication with the libyan forces inside the hotel not allowing you to leave? >> well, i mean, i don't know whether we can describe it as communication. but certainly we have contact with them. they're walking around the hotel, patrolling the lobby floor. they're in the basement as well. within the past few hours, a number of them have come up to the journalist floor as well. gone into some of the rooms. which is something we're a little concerned about. but in general, we don't have much communication with them. having said that, about two hours ago i was leaning on the pal connie overlooking the interior cord yard. one came up to me and said i suppose you're happy now you journalist. i asked him what he meant. the fact that the rebels have taken the fwans and taken control of the compound.

there is still a sort of little bit of hostility towards us. a little bit in which gadhafi loyalists will drag this conflict. regard the international media as being on o the rebels side in this conflict. even though that's not the case. we're trying to report the government's, gadhafi's side of things in this conflict. but obviously we're doing that in very resprikted circumstances. we asked to be -- that's not something that the authorities in control of this hotel are prepared at this point to let us do. we hope that changes soon. >> i heard earlier on the air you saying that you felt you had been used. how so? >> in lots of different ways, i shows. obviously, we're here because the government feels they've locked the ears, the eyes of the international media to put

across their point of view whenever they want. there's a good example of that last night when colonel gadhafi's oldest son was reported to have been captured by the rebels as they vand into a little day earlier. just outside of the rixas hotel. this was outside the front doors of that scene. you may remember that. in that sense, i think we -- that we feel that they feel that we're valuable if you like at the moment. we want to try to continue that. going to try to continue reflecting the government position as much as we can. >> matthew, you have obviously, you have asked to leave and what do they say? what is the reason for not letting you leave?

>> well, what we've had confirmed over the cost of the past several minutes, that's half an hour or so. the bolt from -- that's felt in a port in libya. near tripoli. and the maltese government speaks person who i have been in contact with has told us all here that the space on that boat to take us all out to malta and to haiti obviously. the trouble is we've not managed to negotiate an exit from the hotel. what the people hearsay, the gadhafi loyalists who are controlling the hotel say, is that it's not safe for us to do that. they say they're here for one reason only, to protect us. so at the moment that means that we're not being permitted to move outside the hotel even though we've made the point that we believe it's our right to move outside the hotel if we choose to do that. that's not i've agreed to yet. >> have they indicated any

knowledge that the men who are in the lobby, the loyals, have they indicated knowledge of the fact that it seems like according to sara sidner, the area they control now is relatively small. sara is very close by in green square, the gadhafi compound obviously has fallen. would seem that the areas that a loyalist control have considerably shrunk in the last 24 hours. >> wrae. i mean, we've certainly been hearing that as well. i'm sure that the people downstairs in the hotel have been hearing the same reports. they'll know what the reality is. they're not saying anything like that to us, though. they're essentially in denial or they're just denying it to us, saying that everything is safe outside. the government is in control outside. that there are no more nato warplanes flying in the skies outside. basically, trying to give us this idea that the government is

fully in control still. so even though from other sources and reporting that gadhafi compound has fallen to the rebels and i've not heard anybody sort of talk about that, acknowledge that fact. only that one instance which i mentioned earlier, one of the loyalists came up to me, you know, i suppose you're happy now, aren't you, you journalist? that was an indication that he was aware what was going on outside and it was a little bit angry with us for that having happened. anderson? >> matthew, we wish you and your crew well. please stay as safe as you can. very dicey situation for matthew chance and all those others trapped right now in the rixos hotel. you can follow me on twitter at anderson cooper. i'll be tweeting tonight if i can throughout the live hour. up next, two experts here to talk about how to track down gadhafi and assess the opposition's performance so far.

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we're okay. please don't shoot, sir. we are in between two walls. so we're fine. but you know, as people drive-by in their trucks, they're so excited. this is something that has become a bit of a problem in the city as they blast these guns through the city. we don't know where it's going to land. it is surrounded by a neighborhood. >> remarkable courage. sara sidner and matthew chance and arwa damon showing in tripoli. it is a very fluid situation. later a backlash including our breaking news. moammar gadhafi on the radio vowing victory or death as a martyr. his spokesman promising to turn libya into volcanos, lava and

fire. thoses are his words said on the radio. that's a file tape. tribes loyal to gadhafi are making their way toward tripoli to liberate the city gradually from what he called gangs. separately, french wire services tonight are reporting that loyalists have fired a number of scud missiles from gadhafi's hometown into misurata. that's the city that was besieged for many months. as for the dictator's whereabouts tonight, no one knows. there have been reports that he fled to his hometown, even that he left the country. lot of conflicting information. american officials do believe that he's somewhere in tripoli. last night, during his surprise appearance, his son say saif. joining me is fidel allah min and general mark kim et currently serving a as the

executive vice president of advance technology systems. fidel, you were in libya recently. spent a lot of time with the opposition. you say that people you have spoken with in libya believe that gadhafi hasn't been in tripoli for quite some time. a lot of folks are telling sara sidner on the ground, they still think he's in tripoli. a lot of conflicting reports. where would you he go? is -- >> i don't think it is. it's hard to get there unless he got there quite some time ago before the opposition stormed tripoli. now they controlled most of the roads east or west or even south. my feeling is he's out of tripoli. think about it. where would he be in tripoli? two of the military compounds that they haven't got to yet. but my feeling that he's close

to the borders, either the south or closer to the algerian border. >> general, is there anything -- you served in iraq. is there anything we can learn about how saddam hussein hid from forces, allied forces and apply that to maybe the way gadhafi is acting? >> if you look at what saddam did, he clearly went back to his tribal roots. he clearly went back to his ancestral homeland. that really in the long run is all that moammar gadhafi has left. that's his core support, his core family, his core tribe. just as saddam was found near his hometown, could very well be that after team, when moammar is found, it will have some connection to his most closest relatives and associates. >> as you look, general kimmet at the battle going on in tripoli and there are still battles going on around the

airport, seen that loyalists are in control of that hotel and the immediate area around it. although it doesn't seem like a very large area. what do you make of the next 24 hours, the next 48 hours? how do you see this fight playing out in tripoli? >> again, all we're seeing is what the media is showing us. but if it has a significant amount of correct information, it would look like this is sort of the dying gasps of the gadhafi regime. said earlier, pockets of resistance. it doesn't look like there are any great large numbers of troops that are going to be coming to help him any time soon. this is going to be finished up in the next couple of days. >> fadel do you believe that? >> i do. i think there will be some pockets, maybe close to sert or

some other areas that they will have to. they will fight in order to negotiate and get a good, some kind of a deal. i think that will be there, they will be fighting for negotiation and for better conditions to help surrender, not to overthrow or to push back the rebels. that's done, that's over. i think it's -- my feeling is, i'm very fearful of the -- about the plight of the journalist this is this hotel. those people who are controlling them, i don't think they have any command and control from other parts of gadhafi's or his command structure. i think they're acting on their own. they may use this as shield or they may use them as a negotiating, to negotiate a deal for them. but the sooner we can get them out, the better for everybody i

pray for their safety. the general raises a good point. i was in mogadishu and the forces who were there, kind of at one point had the al shah bab, the terrorist group there cornered but allowed them an escape route to get out. it doesn't seem like the people in an area of the hotel have an escape route. they skrnly seem surrounded. >> it's clear that any troops, i believe they have no other options than to fight or die are going to do just that. it would be well-advised for the rebels to indicate to the remaining gadhafi loyalists that there are other options other than going down in -- from martyr don or to support the dictator gadhafi. there have to have an ability to negotiate and see something other than a firing squad or

death in a battle. >> fadel, allah min, i appreciate you staying with us and general kim et. the people opposed to moammar gadhafi have been afraid to speak out. remember before really the government there responded. we talked to people in tripoli. then for months there was silence. tonight you'll hear from a woman who wants us to share her name. she wants to share what she's seen on the trips of tripoli today and many months. >> an earthquake hitting virginia. tremors felt along the east coast. the latest on both. vrrooom...vrrroooomm vroom vrrooom vrrroooomm vrrroooomm vrroom vrrrooomm

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now we ask our people in tripoli that the main fight have been won, has been won. we have to start another fight to gather the people and build the country. >> libyan opposition leader. we want you to hear from a voice from one of the residents of tripoli. people caught up in the fighting. her tripoli neighborhood was full of pro-gadhafi fighters. but she's no longer afraid she says. she wants us to use her name because she wants the world to know how proud she is to be libyan and on the cusp of a new day. >> what's it like in tripoli

where you are right now? >> well, right now everything is my neighborhood, everything is pretty calm for the time being. the neighborhood is completely secured. we have checkpoints put in place by all the free men of my neighborhood. but from my window i can see where there is still conflicts going on. but nothing compared to what we experienced today. >> you say today was the worst day. why? >> well, it was the worse day because it was the day he bombed us. i mean, it was the first time he bombed us. my house got bombed. thank god nothing happened to us. >> so you're building, your area was hit by rockets today from gadhafi forces? >> yes. heavily hit by rockets. >> you just listened to gadhafi speaking on the radio. what did he say? >> from what i understand, the first point is that he said to

date. the fact that he retreated from the area was a strategy that he put in place. and second of all, he said it's the end of this whole situation will be either my death or victory. >> you've asked us to use your real name. are you not scared anymore? because for months nobody talked to us from tripoli. nobody wanted us to use their real name. has fear gone for you? >> definitely gone. i will explain you why people were not giving their names or even talking. it's because for example, two streets away from my house rs there was a van with the satellite dish on top of it that was just there to spy on conversations. so whenever they detect something that is against them,

he just come. >> you say you've never been prouder than you are today. >> right. >> why is that? >> well, when you see -- first of all, let's not forget if my figures are right, 70 or 75% of the libyan population is a young population. this is the first point. the second point is when i see that all the -- my generation, i'm 26 years old. have been put in place with this movement and at the end being victorious against a man who has been ruling a country for 42 years with this iron fist. how can you not be proud? they are just heroes. >> stay safe. thank you. we'll talk to you again. up next, here in america, aftershocks. tonight aftershocks following

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well, reports of aftershocks in virginia tonight after a 5.8 magnitude quake hit the northern part of the state this afternoon. tremors were from the quake were felt in washington, new york,

north carolina, even all the way in toronto and montreal. there were no ropts of major injuries. there are reports of damage in a few counties in virginia and elsewhere. the east coast is also on alert for hurricane irene. it's on the way. i spoke with meteorologist chad myers about it a short time ago chad isn't normally a place we think of earthquakes. is it active there? >> not at all. the active quake zones are shown on this map. the earthquake was there in the middle of a blue and green spot. literal literally, no threat or risk. there have been a few earthquakes, nothing like 5.8 and nothing with aftershocks for a very long time. the last earthquake that was close to this was over a hundred years ago in virginia. that's not saying there weren't earthquakes that we don't know about. but not app active zone sniefrjt how widely felt was the quake?

>> it was felt from montreal was my farthest tweety got on it today, back into toronto. here and then. back through knoxville into alabama. that is because there's one big plate on the u.s. on the east coast. in california, there are just a bunch of plates. the plates are broken up into a million pieces. when this shook in western virginia, it's like the whole bell rung, the eastern part of the u.s. rung all at one time. when you talk about the west coast, if you break all this, let's take this, i'm going to make a bunch of lines here. if you shake this fault, this part here in california, two miles down the road may not feel it. especially hundred miles an hour down the road. there aren't brakes when you there aren't faultsment you felt it everywhere. >> shortly after we went on the air, richmond hit. >> this was a 4.2.

the biggest aftershock risk was probably 4.8. what you felt could be stronger. these are going to go down. in three month they'll be gone. aftershocks for quite a long time. hurricane irene, do we know where it's going to hit. i thought it was going to hit north carolina northward. >> it could be a blow to the northeast. you're thinking, wait, were you talking about the carolinas? yes this is going to go up the east coast, it will miss florida. there will be huge waves in florida. there may be 20 foot waves. they may come up to a 1 a. it's getting stronger and bigger right now. the storm will probably be a category 2 and tomorrow a 3. driving right over the turks and kay owes. going to go -- caicos. going to go down hundred miles per hour. slams into north carolina or at least the outer banks. look at that.

it could hit d.c. or new york by sunday afternoon with n an 85 miles per hour sustained wind. it could be as far east as boston,but that's a big deal. >> i talked to chad myers earlier tonight. chief dominique strauss-kahn vindicated on charges filed against him. first, isha sesay has more. >> anderson, the conversation of residents and businesses for damages from last year's bp oil spill paid out 5 billion of the 20 set aside. there was a report saying those in florida have been paid the most so far, $2 billion. a florida appeals court ruled that casey anthony must serve a year of probation after being convicted on check fraud charges and sentenced a year and a half ago. we must report to a pro dags officer by this friday.

she's been in seclusion since the a kit al in the death of her two-year-old daughter. no i will lease substances were in the singer's system when she was found dead in her london apartment last month. tests conducted by authorities also found evidence of alcohol. but it isn't yet clear whether that played a role in her death. winehouse was known for battling drug addiction. cnn obtained video of a police officer being shot in the neck in california near san diego. first we want to warn you, the video is graphic. the officer grabs his neck during a gunfight. he runs, then falls to the ground. when one of his colleagues, as you see, one of his colleagues drags him to safety. the officer who had been responding to a domestic dispute sunday is thankfully now recovering in the hospital. he's a very lucky man.

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strauss-kahn after prosecutors cited questions about his accuser's credibility. she was a housekeeper. she lied about the specifics about where she was following the alleged incident back in may. they also say she lied about information on her tax forms and her application for asylum in the u.s. from guinea. joining me jeffrey toobin. how big a black eye is this for the prosecution? >> it's paradoxical. because they never should have indicted the case so quickly. they rushed to judgment here. however, once they did that. >> could they have kept him in the country without indicting him? >> yes. they could have granted him bail. if they kept him in prison, the way they tried to, they could have indicted him. they could have slowed the clock down. they were overconfident of their case, went too quickly and paid a price. in fairness to the prosecutors, they behaved honorably, and instead of like the duke

lacrosse case, where they plowed ahead in the face of bad evidence, they said, hey look, we can't do this. we can't prove this case so we've got to drop it. i mean, that's an honorable way for prosecutors to behave. better to do that before you charge. >> is this done now? >> done. >> she can still sue civilly? >> she has sued. >> do you think that will go forward now? it's harder now? >> he has accepted service. the case has begun. but whether he will actually appear to defend the case, whether she could ever collect a judgment against him. >> he could just not show up but if he's living here, he would have to show up. because he's been living in washington with his wife. >> these civil cases have a way of dragging on forever. >> a guy like he, has unlimited resources to allow it to dragon. >> and get lawyers involved. it is a risk to him.

some financial risk but it's also perhaps something that will turn into a legal ma ras. benjam benjamin -- he was on piers morgan tonight. i want to play some of what he said. >> do i think he is proud of this incident, no. do i think he regrets this incident, i think he does with all of his heart. at the end of the day, is he a perfect individual? no. i don't think i have ever met anybody who is perfect. >> well, not much of an endorsement. i think accurate. you could make the argument that, look, okay o, so this woman lied on tax returns, lied on her immigration forms. people who lie still can be sexually abused. >> absolutely. her lawyers are outraged that they've dropped the case. but yesterday the manhattan

district attorney, cyrus vance filed a 25-page document. it really was an incredible thing. it's up on the web. people can see it. i did a comment on cnn.com. i linked to it. the catalog of lies, not just about her immigration but her financial status, about her -- about the event the night of that event. the catalog of lies was so extensive, i was told by members of the da's office that experienced prosecutors said look, we cannot put this woman on the witness stand. we cannot vouch for her as a government witness. we have to drop the case. i mean, think how lucky dominique strauss-kahn is to behave so horribly, but he picked a woman who was so disabled by her lying that she couldn't bring the case. but let's not pretend this was anything other than a really ugly incident. >> yeah. >> by this powerful man. jeff toobin, appreciate it. thanks very much. more ahead.

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