we have allison sargent onset to take a look at the papers. in france the papers are going crazy over this penelope gate scandal surrounding the conservative presidential kit -- candidate. he is it an institutional coup d'etat. he says he will remain the candidate. you can see him on the front page today. his partyembers of have signed an editorial coming to his defense. say if he drops out of the race the country's entire future will be at stake. genie: most of the scandal is surrounding these allegations that he paid his wife for a job she never really did. >> i was never my husband's assistant. those were her words in this video. excerpts from this interview are set to air tonight on french television. genie: this is putting the conservative party incomplete turmoil. >> there is panic on the right. for 15 days to clear his name. many are already looking for plan b. for the newspaper the facts are all there and they say at all. he's not the only french politician with problems these days. expression in french which means to traverse the dese