election before the scandal broke out well for analysis of the situation and i'm joined by christopher dickey he's the paris bureau chief for newsweek magazine and they used to news website thanks so much for joining us there in paris let's talk about the timing of this why do you think these latest claims from the french right have only really just emerged as the first case seems to about to collapse. well what she said is that she just was sickened by the spectacle of strauss kahn starting to go free again and having. dinner in luxury of restaurants in new york and sort of the smile on his face. he was there in new york started to be discredited but the truth is that this woman this young woman tristan and i know has been trying to get this story out for a very long time and she didn't think anybody would take her seriously she even did it on television at one point about four or five years ago still nothing happened so i think she thinks this is her last chance to get justice if indeed she's right in making in the accusation she's making what we've heard both the terms political assassinat

interesting to hear what you have to say thanks so much for joining us live there in paris christopher dickey the paris bureau chief for newsweek magazine and also the daily beast news website thanks for your thoughts. thank you bill. the mobile phone has become an integral part of everyday modern life but what's seen as a fun gadget in some countries has proven enough to revolutionize the lives and livelihoods of many people elsewhere are reports now on the indian fishermen who are costing the next generation network for their catch. mulhern kumar wraps up his engine for a day of fishing off the coast of carolina the southernmost state in india with a little bit of i studied in school until the seventh grade but then i had to leave school because we were not economically well off so i had to help my dad with fishing kumar is one of thousands of fishermen in the state who wake up at one o'clock in the morning to earn a living for decades fishermen like kumar relied on luck and prayers to find a good catch but all that has changed since the introduction of the mobile phone in the state more th

but in her interview with abc and with christopher dickey of "newsweek," who got the exclusive printhe stuck by her story. >> when she talked about the attack, she wasn't weeping. and it was -- i would say there was about as much ananr as there was sadness. >> reporter: he describes her not only as the proud mother of a 15-year-old girl, but as someone who took great pride in her job. >> if you know people who are challenged in different ways, who are living on the edge of society, they cling to something that gives them dignity and honor. and -- i -- i don't know why it makes mememomoonal, but it's so sad. she clung to that. her whole life. it was built around being a maid at the sofitel. and that, then, makes her account, where she says, "i thought i'm going to lose my job," credible. >> reporter: strauss-kahn's attorney says she has an ulterior motive in coming forward, saying in a statement, "her lawyers know that her claim for money suffers a fatal blow when the criminal charges are dismissed, as they must be." she says she did not know who strauss-kahn was or that he was a top

we talk to christopher dickey, the paris bureau chief for "newsweek" magazine.ench press reacting to the sudden turn in the case against dominique strauss-kahn? >> well, it is almost as cataclysmic as when he was arrested. everybody has turned upside down. the french election campaign already under way for next year's presidency, presidential election has been turned topsy-turvy. already 49% of the french are saying they want strauss-kahn to re-enter politics. there's the basic idea that he's completely innocent, that this is all over, that the woman was lying, it was all somehow a setup. which actually isn't the case. so i think there may somebody more turns in this plot in the near future. >> on that point, chris dickey, you have the "new york post" yesterday and today running big headlines saying this accuser, the maid at the hotel in manhattan is actually a part-time hooker. i hesitate to say, i don't know whether that's true. the only news the u.s. provides is a source close to the investigation. i wonder if you think the media is going a little too aggress

. >> christopher dickey, thank you. you have a beautiful ceiling, the shot, looking right up at the tile there's. thank you very much. appreciate it. >>> we are now less than 48 hours from the 135th and final mission of nasa's 30-year space shuttle program. atlantis is scheduled to blast off on friday during this hour for a 12-day mission to the international space station. but the weather could throw a big wrench into the works. there is a 70% chance that the flight could be scrubbed due to thunderstorms in the area. about one million on lookers are expectsed to be on hand to witness history. i'm joined by cheryl mcnair. she lost her husband ronald mcnair. he was a nasa mission specialist killed during the 1986 challenger shuttle explosion. cheryl, thanks for your time this morning. >> thank you. >> i think one of the big water shed moment that's we all think about when we think of the space shuttle program is the challenger disaster engrained in all of our memories. given the sacrifice that you have made, that your hu

christopher dickey from the daily beast joins me now to talk about this amazing story.s an extraordinary story. what's even more extraordinary is this interview because we rarely see someone, a victim, come forward like this to give such an emotional and raw interview, but also saying that she wants to see this man go to jail. from the reporting that "newsbeak" and the daily beast is doing, do you find her totally to be believable? do you think she is credible? >> i think she's very credible when she's talking about the incident at the hotel. the criminal sexual assault, the daemtd rape. that story is ?újju)áuq't. it's been consistent all along since the day the incident happened. when she talks about the rest of her life, you know, she's a woman living on the margins of american society. she's an immigrant from one of the roughest countries in africa. there's a lot of gray areas there, but when she's talking about her job at the hotel and about the encounter with dominique strauss-kahn and about her fears that she would lose her job because of his craziness, then it's

. >> in the 8:00 hour, christopher dickey will join us, the paris bureau chief, he interviewed diallonewsweek" cover story and we'll get his impressi impressions. >>> we would like to get your imprexs of this. you do not see this every day. a man hanging out of a car speeding along. a local tv cameraman in stockton, california, preparing for a live report on friday morning, when this car drove by him with a man being dragged from the passenger window about 35 miles an hour. police say the man mistakenly thought a friend's purse was inside the car and he was determined to get it back. i'm assuming the car was being stolen? >> i don't know. >> nobody was hurt. >> a long way to go for a purse. >> that is a long way for a purse. you can call and cancel the credit cards. no charges were filed. nobody hurt. that's the fascinating part. >> yeah. >> never found out whether he believes that car has been stolen. >> or why he thought a purse was in there. >>> chicago's wettest day ever. all of my friends and sister-in-law were checking their basements. firefighters pulling people from stranded c

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. >>> for more now, we bring in christopher dickey. he is the paris bureau chief for "newsweek" and "the daily beast." his print interview, exclusive print interview, with nafissatou diallo is running today. and also joining us, "gma" legal analyst dan abrams. christopher, you had quite a bit of time that you spent with nafi. just your overall impressions? >> my overerl impression is that when she talks about the alleged incident, she's very convincing. when she's talking about some aspect of her past, it seems a little vague. she seems to be fishing around for what to say. but on balance, i found her a convincing witness. >> did she also with you continue to say that i didn't want to lose my job? >> absolutely. i think you have to sort of see what she's saying in the context of her fear about losing her job. she comes from a poor village in a very poor country. she got to the united states through whatever means. she managed to get this job. she's making upwards of $45,000 a year. she's trying to raise her child, her 15-year-old daught