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and dominique strauss-khan is free. the men who defended him sit down with me. >> this cass ways treated as a crime when it was not. >> and more of my exclusive interview with jon huntsman, the only presidential candidate that can do this. [ speaking foreign language ] >> this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. an extraordinary day of news around the world. in this country, an earthquake stuns millions up and down the east coast. and new york cell service, airports, and train travel disrupted. on the other side of the world, libya, rebels stormed gadhafi's compound. the question remains, who will rule the new libya? and my exclusive interview with the attorneys of dominique strauss-khan. they talk about my client and his family. and how he felt about what they call a nightmare. i want to start with wolf blitzer in washington following the earthquake which i suffered it from and the breaking news in libya for us. wolff? >> today's magnitude 5.8 quake hit about 88 miles southwest of washington, near the town of mine

and in this case was treated as a crime when it was not. >> that was dominique strauss-khan's attorney new york judge sensationally dropped the case against the imf chief. strauss-khan said these past two and a half months have been a nightmare for me and my family. i want to thank all of the family and friends in france and the in the united states who have believed in my innocence. i want to welcome benjamin brafman, and cocounsel, william w. taylor. mr. brafman, i'll start with you. a great day for and you your team and mr. strauss-khan. were you confident this day would come? >> yes. i didn't think would come so quickly. i think both mr. taylor and i believed from the very beginning that dominique strauss-khan was innocent and if pushed to a trial he would be acquitted, but to have the case dismissed after indictment on motion of the district attorney's office, i don't think we expected that. but we certainly appreciate that decision and believe it was the right thing to do. >> obviously, the sexual assault charges were dropped. does your client, for example, concede that he behave

the case against dominique strauss-kahn has been dismissed. the pre-revolutionary flag of the libyan rebels are flying over gaddafi's compound. there is no sign of gaddafi or his sons. they launched a massive attack on friday afternoon, bringing it under their control. it was the last stronghold of the leader. the speedy fall suggested that gaddafi's regime is coming to an end. >> the rebels turned to celebrating their victory and destroying the symbols of the tyrant's power. the giant fist crushing an american jet, a monument to adopt the's the finance when u.s. jets bombed the city in 1986. it was here when he tried to rally the city when there were nato air strikes. gaddafi is now on the run or in hiding. a few hours ago, the word was that he was heading to neighboring algeria. something that he may still be in tripoli. it will take rebels days to search the compound where they made their final stand. it covers several square kilometers and is believed to have an extensive underground system of bunkers and tunnels. after fighting their way

media jumped on dominique strauss kahn as if public enemy number one had been flying really captured this was through the ringer basically all the headlines of all the major newspapers essentially hired him guilty and mocking him skits were made about him like the shows here in the u.s. we did see that in just a matter of a week dominick strauss kahn lost his job as head of the he was his reputation was was completely dissolved. and then you know he was just basically a running joke but at this point we should also mention there is a civil suit that has been filed. against dominique strauss kahn and many are imagining he will settle out of order if he wants this problem to just go away and that would require probably a good sum of money but at this point he's been out. pretty much of a decade now and all these sexual assault charges. well for more on the case and its outcome i'm joined by robert gates he's a history professor at the university of houston joining us on the video link thanks so much for being with us well now the charges against dominique strauss kahn are being dropped

in fact she made the accuser of dominique strauss kahn sexual assault has sued strauss kahn in a civil case. that is in new york state court in the bronx. >> if the judge accepts the prosecution's recommendations to drop all the charges against strauss kahn, what happens to the civil suit? >> they're unrelated so the civil suit continues. you know, we've been thinking with a lot of experts over at bloomberg. it's been referenced that you can look back at the o.j. simpson case of another high- profile case where a criminal jury acquitted him of the charges but in fact a civil jury found him guilty. that still is a possibility. now the complainant has sued dominique strauss kahn for unspecified monetary damages so clearly here this is a financial lawsuit more so than his freedom which he should get if these criminal cases, criminal charges do in fact go away asphe u aypear to be. >> thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> suarez: violence has never been a stranger to the people of karachi, pakistan's commercial center. but as it has intensified in recent months, some citizens are

appealing that decision now in his first public statement since being arrested on may fourteenth dominique strauss kahn says that the past months have been a nightmare for him and his family and they are looking forward to returning home to france but in the meantime mr strauss kahn's attorneys and the attorney for misty alo of both left the courthouse on tuesday and addressed the media were regarding the verdict that was delivered here's a little bit of what was said today is an extraordinary day and it's an extraordinary event to have a district attorney stand up in a public courtroom and dismiss an indictment concluding that the complaining witness is not worthy of belief we are disappointed. that district attorney grants . apparently does not believe. in justice under the law. and has. an innocent woman by day in court dominic strauss kahn was arrested on may fourteenth shortly after paraded in front of news cameras by the new york city police department at that point he was essentially vilified by most mainstream media outlets and found guilty in the court of public opinion now the new york m

a section of assault charges are dropped against dominique strauss-kahn. welcome to aaa. welcome to what has been an extraordinary day in the libyan capital. what has been a long and brutal six months of the battle for libya. that battle has moved here to the capital, tripoli. the rebels overran the symbol of colonel gaddafi's power in the capital. the battle of the splendid gate. it was a victory for the rebels in the heart of tripoli. green square is where most of the celebrations have been taking place, now renamed martyr's square. there were scenes of support for the revolutionary leader. the big question is where is colonel gaddafi after his fortress in the capitol is now under the control of the rebels? the war is not over yet. there are reports of fighting in some parts of tripoli and in other parts of the country. today was a turning point. my colleague now reports. >> once again it was nato that led today's assault on colonel gaddafi's compound. by midafternoon the rebels are pouring in side. their jubilation mixed with anger as they tore a part of the hated symb

. >>> new video gist just in of former imf chief dominique strauss-kahn that could be a free man at the end of this hour. a judge moving closer to dismissing the rape charges against him in new york city. >>> and the battle for the white house. if the election were held today, mitt romney would beat president obama and tie rick perry. we break down the numbers. hi, everybody. i'm thomas roberts. we want to get right to it because right now in trip lee it could be the end of the road for moammar gadhafi. take a look. rebel forces reportedly breached the libyan leader's compound that he has in tripoli. thick black smoke is seen billowing above the building and celebratory gunfire is going off a short distance from where richard engel is on location. he is joining me now. he is the nbc chief foreign correspondent in libya today for us. as we watch this unfold in the center of tripoli, richard, bring us up to speed with the latest. you have been watching this unfold all morning long. just to alleviate the viewers' fears, you are in a safe location from everybody. >> reporter: we are fine. w

medical, and other physical evidence in this case. >> reporter: women's groups are outraged. >> dominique strauss-kahn got lucky. he attacked a woman with a shady past, and all too often in rape cases, that's exactly what we see. >> reporter: strauss-kahn has always maintained his innocence. before he was hauled off a plane and arrested in may, he was considered a leading contender in france's presidential race. he still faces a civil suit in the diallo case, and an investigation in france for a separate accusation of attempted rape. strauss-kahn is expected in court later this morning, and, terrell, it's not clear what a possible dismissal of the criminal case, what impact that will have on the civil suit that's already been filed for unspecified monetary damages. in new york, cbs news. >> all right, appreciate it. thank you so much. coming up on the morning news, putting on the pounds. why marriage affects men different than women. >>> plus, a famous actor plays a real-life hero on the streets of new york city. this is the "cbs morning news." me from leading the way. so, i get claritin clear. n

media jumped on dominique strauss kahn as if public enemy number one had been finally captured this was was was brought through the wringer basically all the headlines of all the major newspapers essentially hype him guilty and mocking him skits were made about him that shows here in the us he was not given an opportunity to actually prove his innocence in the court of public opinion we did see that in just a matter of a week dominick strauss lost his job as head of the i am now he was his reputation was was completely dissolved. and then you know he was just basically a running joke and this is a lot for for the media in the u.s. that is always absorbed with salacious sexual scandals particularly when it comes to wealthy people or high profile politicians and at this point we do see some reports coming out from journalists themselves saying that they owe dominic strauss kahn an apology because this is a man that was not given the opportunity to even state his claim before a as you mentioned he was found guilty in a court of public opinion but at this point we should also mention there

dominique strauss kahn the former head of the i.m.f. has been cleared of criminal sexual assault charges by new york court correspondent rena portnoy has the details. dominic strauss kahn has been cleared of all sexual assault charges that were filed more than two months ago and in a nutshell the prosecutors say that the accuser in this case thirty three year old nafissatou diallo is not a credible witness according to prosecutors they say that the accuser former cleaning lady at the self itself hotel here in new york was untruthful with investigators in virtually every interview prosecutors say she lied in matters great and small and that the problem in this circumstance is her credibility all these charges against him have been dropped however this order is on hold because the defendant. has appealed for a special special prosecutor in this case now the judge already denied that request for a special special prosecutor but we do have to wait and see what the appeals court says but as we know now the judge has dropped all this case of

. >> prosecutors in new york asking a judge to drop charges against dominique strauss-kahn.t is 11:00 a.m. in singapore. >> it is 4:00 a.m. here in london. welcome. >> a day after rebel forces in libya said they had captured the second son of colonel gaddafi, he has spoken to the bbc and says government forces are winning the battle for tripoli. saif al-islam was seen at his father's compound and the city. he spoke to our correspondent. >> in the dark of the tripoli night, saif al-islam emerged from the shadows, clearly not under rubble rest. -- rebel arrest. >> i want to refute all rumors. nato and the west, they have launched electronic warfare. they have managed to smuggle into the country gangs and saboteurs. the libyan people, men and women, have stood firm against them. they managed to break the hold of the rebels. >> he took a foreign cameraman on a toro part of the city. they drove past checkpoints controlled by gaddafi loyalists, past groups of people lining up to be given weapons. it was a short drive that covered a sizable area around colonel gaddafi's compound on

lied to them with regard to dominique strauss-kahn.claim that she lied about a prior false allegation of rape that she had claimed she was raped in her native country. and more so these prosecutors said she lied to them convincingly, persuasively, that she was emotional. they told a story that prosecutors initially believed. once she came forward or her lawyer did and said that was actually a false claim of rape, prosecutors were not in a position necessarily to belief her when she made those claims against dominique strauss-kahn. so you really just -- it was really a story of how her credibility fell apart in the eyes of the prosecutors. she also had other issues in her past such as allegedly lying on her asylum application. she's an immigrant to this country. lying on other kind of federal forms. there was an issue of a conversation she had had with an association who's coronetly in jail in arizona and whether or not she had said that she knew that dominique strauss-kahn was a machine of means and had money. there were just problems

dominique strauss kahn. renewed tension on the korean peninsula is a project aimed at bringing north and south together comes to a bitter end. it is 9:00 a.m. here in singapore. >> it's 2:00 a.m. here in london, broadcasting to viewers on pbs in america and around the world. welcome to "newsnight." -- "newsday." >> one of colonel gaddafi's sons, has been arrested, and has appeared in the center of the libyan capital in a government military vehicle. he told the bbc that a trap had been laid for opposition forces and that soldiers loyal to his father are winning the battle for tripoli. dominic cain has the latest developments on this breaking story. >> the son of colonel gaddafi wanted for war crimes, and apparently in rebel captivity. now a free man celebrating with supporters of his father in tripoli. 24 hours ago, the international criminal court confirmed he'd been taken. but this was his message for the world. >> i want know to refute all rumors and lies. nato and the west has high-technology. they stop

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even after she went public, telling abc's robin roberts dominique strauss-kahn was brutal. >> i wantedto throw up. i was so sad. i was so i don't know what to do. i was so scared. >> reporter: at first, prosecutors had no doubt. strauss-kahn was aested before taking off for paris. weeks later, what prosecutors called substantial credibility issues undermined the maid's story. >> i had made a mistake. but this man tried to rape me. he tried to rape me. >> there's no requirement that you have to be mother teresa to be a rape victim. >> reporter: the maid's attorney, kenneth thompson, launched a public campaign to persuade the district attorney to go forward with the criminal case. >> i am confident in nafi diallo. i'm also confident in the evidence. >> reporter: he is less confident in prosecutors. telling abc news, while he hopes the d.a. will keep the case alive, we are not confident t will do so. the d.a.'s office will not comment if the charges are dismissed as strauss-kahn's attorneys have said they should be. a dramatic prosecution would end with no answer to the question of what r

mr gallo the accuser now in his first public statement since being arrested on may fourteenth dominique strausskahn says that if the past months have been a nightmare for him and his family and they are looking forward to returning to france dominic strauss kahn was arrested on may fourteenth shortly after paraded in front of news cameras by the new york city police department at that point he was essentially vilified by mon most mainstream media outlets and found guilty in the court of public opinion now the new york media turned this criminal investigation into somewhat of a circus because many of the new york new york city newspaper headlines refer to dominique strauss kahn as a frog one to refer to him as pepe le pew and they also refer to him as a womanizer now this of course ruin the reputation for this french politician he was considered a contender for the next presidential race in france but his basically his reputation was ruined before he was convicted at all he lost his job as head of the international monetary fund and there was a lot of of a lot of the comments and negative press

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after months of scandalous headlines and slanderous whispers of criminal charges against dominique strauss kahn enjoyed the former head of the i.m.f. was accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid in new york she was going to court ny and now has the latest a manhattan supreme court judge deliver that ruling on tuesday after prosecutors in the case say that the accuser not façade to diyala has not been truthful on all matters a great and small now however this healing delivered by the judge is on hold pending an appeal by mr gallo the accuser now in his first public statement since being arrested on may fourteenth company charles bronson of the past months have been a nightmare for him and his family and they are looking forward to returning to france dominique strauss kahn was arrested on may fourteenth shortly after paraded in front of news cameras by the new york city police department at that point he was essentially vilified by moon most mainstream media outlets and found guilty in the court of public opinion now the new york media turned this criminal investigation into somewhat of

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and all charges are dropped against a former international monetary fund chief dominique strauss kahn who had been accused of.

there were giant headlines when the french banker dominique strauss-kahn was arrested back in may and charged in the horrific sexual assault on a hotel maid. well, today, prosecutors officially retreated. saying the case cannot go forward because of the credibility of the accuser. abc's jim avila has the latest developments today. >> reporter: the immigrant hotel maid whose accusations brought down perhaps the next president of france, dominique strauss-kahn, today heard the district attorney tell her face-to-face he does not believe her story. >> manhattan district attorney has denied the right of a woman to get justice -- >> dominique strauss-kahn -- >> reporter: this case, once hailed as a shining example that the american legal system means justice for all, today ended with embarrassing questions about the role of money in that system. >> the defense would have suggested, would have argued, that she's lying, and she's lying so she can make money. >> reporter: in court papers, prosecutors said, "if we do not believe her beyond a reasonable doubt, we cannot ask a jury to pointing to

media jumped on dominique strauss kahn as if. public enemy number one had been finally captured this man was run through the ringer basically all the headlines of all the major newspapers essentially had him guilty and mocking him skits were made about him that shows here in the us we did see that in just a matter of a week dominic strauss kahn lost his job as head of the i am mouth he was his reputation was was completely dissolved. and then you know he was just basically a running joke but at this point we should also mention there is a civil suit that has been filed. against dominique strauss kahn and many are imagining he will settle out of order if he wants this problem to just go away and that would require probably a good sum of money but at this point he's been pretty much vindicated on all these sexual assault charges. well we'll keep you updated on all the latest developments in libya in less than hoffa from now. with a recap of the top stories in just a few minutes so do stay with us live here in moscow. wealthy britis

or greater by wednesday. >>> prosecutors have asked a judge to drop the criminal case against dominique strauss-kahn. strauss-kahn was accused of sexually assaulting a had he toel made in new york. the woman and her lawyer met with prosecutors this morning learning that prosecutors were filing paperwork recommending the charges be dropped. investigators say they discovered serious credibility issues with the accuser. >>> earlier this year, the oakland police department admitted that its radio system had some serious problems and they were working to improve it. two months ago, they he unveiled a supposedly state of the art system. guess what? officers say the system still has bugs to be worked out. >> reporter: that's exactly what they told me, the dysfunctional radios are often times leaving them completely in the dark and even after an upgrade that cost between seven and ten million dollars, they say little has changed. months after the city of oakland upgraded its glitchy police radio system, problems persist. >> officers have had to rely on hand signals and their cell phones in order to cha

his lawyers may say that dominique strauss-kahn is vindicated. this does not vindicate him? >> to a certain extent. it doesn't show that he's innocent. the prosecutors did not say he was innocent. the defense attorneys said that he was innocent. >> they also say that one of the responsibilities of the d.a. is to determine if the case is credible. in this case now they have gone forward and said, in this case the d.a. has decided it's not credible. there's no need for a special prosecutor. the accuser in this case, her lawyers had asked for a special prosecutor. what's the impact of this? ? >> it's within the discretion of the prosecutors to determine if their star witness is a credible witness. unfortunately, the cumulative effect of all the lies, the misrepresentations that they were able to discover as the prosecutors investigated the case, led to the conclusion that they couldn't put this woman before a jury and say to the jury you need to believe what she says when they didn't necessarily believe what she said. >> how important is her credibility when it comes to a civil

so in the meantime, dominique strauss-kahn off on his black suv back downtown to his townhouse.appellate court makes that decision, he'll be heading to jfk on the first plane out back to france. back to you. jon: one of the most powerful man in the world now free of all criminal charges. julie, it is a stunning development. thank you. >> reporter: yeah. jenna: this fox news alert. hurricane irene another big story for us, reports it could be a category three or four by the time it makes landfall along the east coast somewhere. we do have new reports that authorities in north carolina are already ordering mandatory evacuations that begin tomorrow morning. all visitor on one of the barrier islands must leave by 5 a.m. on wednesday. we have a view for you of the storm from outer space, it gives us some perspective to just how big it is. meteorologist janice dean was the first one to warn us about this storm traveling up the east coast, potentially up into the massachusetts area, j.d., and it seems like that's certainly creating a lot of buzz right now about where this storm is head

they can no longer accused dominique strauss-kahn of attacking her and he says he plans on heading back home. >> it is the end of an unjust time. i am relieved for my wife and friends and all those who supported us through this period. >> now the accusations forced dominique strauss-kahn to resign as head of the ems and derailed his plans to run as president of the france. >>> and in the decades old cold case, jeanine disappeared in 2001 and her body has never been found. she was killed by harm's brother who then killed himself. further discussion of this case will be today during the announcement. >>> his car plunged over a cliff and spent two days waiting to be rescued. -- rescued. it went off a cliff and a hiker spotted the man's car yesterday afternoon. the east bay park ranger believes the man fell asleep and went over the edge. he is expected to survive. >>> the body of a man who fell from the yes cement half dome, about 6:30 last night and rangers are not saying what caused the fall. this is the third debtly accident in a month. earlier this month a 17-year- old boy died after fa

battle or where he is now. >>> a new york judge has dismissed the sexual assault charges against dominique strauss-kahn. the former director of the international monetary fund. prosecutors say they no longer believe the hotel maid who believes strauss-kahn sexually assaulted her when she cleaned his room in may. there's dna that she had sexual contact with him but there's no he evidence of a sexual assault. so the charges are officially dismissed. >>> a football legend is offering some help for the hungry today. tara moriarty joins us live to explain how former 49er joe montana is joining a new campaign to fight hunger. tara? >> reporter: well, in san francisco nearly 200,000 people strug toll feed themselves and their family each year. so -- struggle to feed themselves and their family each year. so that's where the food bank comes in. joe montana arrived about an hour and a half ago and he helped deliver and unload 5,000 pounds of kraft food in a program that's designed to helping feed america. >> got a little tour. i was shocked. they do 45 million pounds of food a year and half of that is fres

news that the sex assault charges against former imf chief dominique strauss-kahn may soon be dropped. >>> and kansas city crash. spectators watch in horror as an air show comes to a tragic and spectators watch in horror as an air show comes to a tragic and fiery end. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. welcome to our viewers across the nation including the pacific time zone. i'm lynn berry. and today we begin with a fight for freedom. there has been heavy fighting this morning near the compound of libyan leader moammar gadhafi as government forces wage a counterattack against rebel fighters who advanced into the capital last night. meanwhile, gadhafi's whereabouts are still unknown. nbc's jim maceda is live for us following all the latest developments. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, lynn. well, rebels swept into the capital and quickly controlled about 80, even 90% of the city. but as you say, the fighting isn't over yet. the gadhafi tanks are firing, according to some rebels, indiscriminately outside his tripoli port. one rebel fightin

it has been less than a week since all charges were dismissed against the former imf chief dominique strauss-kahn. he met with his former colleagues at the fund. it could not of been a particularly comfortable meeting because he was forced to resign. this was a bit of an odd thing, was it? >> i think what was interesting -- the fact that there were 15 or more reporters the bank finding a lot of interest still in this case of dominique strauss-kahn. and it was a private meeting with former colleagues, people who've had worked with him for the best part of four years. he clearly felt the need to go back and talk to those people, many of whom are thought to the been quite upset actually about the whole controversy and the way it tainted the institution itself. @ think the point it to make about all this is -- i think the point to make about all this is it he clearly intended to return to france quickly. possibly on thursday. it returns to is, in washington on friday. here he says goodbye to his former colleagues. we could see him going back fairly san. interest in the story continues. >> ok. is