bailed out comes to us. >> get arrested in the big apple and you're almost assured of a trip to rikers island. a 400-acre penal colony on the east river, directly under the flight path of the laguardia airport. the island is home to an average of 14,000 inmates in ten different facilities. >> we patrol the meanest precincts in america. when our officers go to work, everyday, they know everyone they run into is going to be a criminal. every criminal who has committed the worst act -- >> bring all your property with you. >> is coming through here if they're coming from new york city. >> they come off of the streets. they're tired, they're dirty, they're hungry. and you saw everything there, whether it was somebody who was from wall street who was charged with fraud or whether it was the lowest of the low of the drug dealers. >> we get between 80 to 90 admissions a day, around the clock, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 356 days a year. >> what size you wear? >> 8 1/2. >> guess what, 10 is your lucky number. these are air giulianis. you can have them, my brother. >> the city never sleeps. >> don y

rikers island has 1400 people -- 14,000 people. i worked at a high-school that had a mural on the wall. there was a figure, a man dressed in green, split in two. the front have has a gun, a rifle in his hand, military fatigues. the back half has the prison inmate uniform. on top it says choose your dream. so those are your options. we have seen it hurts our families apart. women are the fastest growing population to be incarcerated. we see women's prisons, men's prisons, teenagers -- they have a baby prison for the babies. they build a prison every year based on third and fourth great test scores in black and latino communities around the country. that is a fact. i can give me the documentation on that. so when the police are grabbing us up, it is a function of capitalism. white supremacy and capitalism, they have had a very long dance together. the police are filling the prisons because prisons operate like hotels. they do not make as much money, so police are agents of the state. not only where they serving the interests of the w

there was a sense of delight this guy had been if you would super his first-class seat and sent to rikers island in the best american tradition. it all came together to convict the man before anyone -- most of us, including myself, had ask some common-sense questions, not the least of which does this make sense for him to do? and were the details known to us merely from the very beginning of the trial, did they correspond to the idea that a sexual assault had actually taken place? i think it happens more in the case of dsk. i think it's pervasive how we make drp there are aneck dose, and we suggested this led inescapably to a conclusion. we forget that stories in life and in history tend to be crooked. >>> hold that thought, bret. we're going to leave the dsk business, but with one footnote rape charges are still spending. >>> when we come back, we'll talk about much more. >>> we are back, talking about everything other than dominique strauss-kahn, since we did that for the last segment with bernard-henri levy from france, simon schama, bret stephens and chrystia freeland. bernard, what the the

a sense of delight that this guy had been if you would super his first-class seat and sent to rikers island in the best american tradition. it all came together to convict the man before anyone -- most of us, including myself -- had ask some commonsense questions, not the least of which does this make sense for him to do? and were the details known to us merely from the very beginning of the trial, did they correspond to the idea that a sexual assault had actually taken place? i think it happens more in the case of dsk. i think it's pervasive how we make news judgments about different stories. we mistake anecdote for data. that's what we did here. there were anecdotes by dsk, and we suggested this led inescapably to a conclusion. we forget that stories in life and in history tend to be crooked. >>> hold that thought, bret. we're going to leave the dsk business, but with one footnote that we need to remember. rape charges are still pending against domenique strauss can. the panel will stick around. when we come back, greece, libya, and much else. [ male announcer ] megared omega-3 krill oil

as you say, they pulled him off an international flight, threw him into riker's island.ying this is a case of consensual case. not a case of forced sex. there is no case here. now, it appears major problems in the case. here are some of the problems. first, there apparently is a tape recorded call, her talking to a drug dealer, one or two days after she files the charges, talking about how to make money on the case. and there are reports that maybe as much as a hundred thousand dollars put in her bank account not by strauss-kahn but dlrug dealers and also allegedly made a false claim and listed in connection with an application for asylum in the united states. we are seeing a lot of flaws in this case and people are going to wonder was this the case -- kind of case you want to take the potential presidential candidate from france' put him in rikers island? maybe not. >> why would the prosecution be compelled to be calling this imagine hearing today? >> a rule called the brady rule in new york and applies to all cases in the united states. when a prosecutor becomes aware

. >> reporter: he could go to rikers island jail but only after getting out of jail here. a defense request to reduce his $5 million bail was rejected. i'm john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> like sending their kids to their rooms to calm down president obama today told democrats and republicans to go back to congress and think about how to solve the nation's debt ceiling crisis. >> you need over the next 24 to 36 hours to give me some sense of what your plan is to get the debt ceiling raised through whatever mechanisms they can think about. >> the president vented his frustrations during his third press conference in two weeks. after days of talks at the white house about the only thing everyone agrees on is that time is running out. if the debt ceiling is not raised by august 2nd, the u.s. faces a catastrophic downgrading of its credit rating, something the president described as a tax on everyone. >>> the treasurer for the state of california says the notion of no agreement in bash wash is incomprehensible and irration -- in washington is incomprehensible and irration

. >> reporter: he could go to rikers island jail but only after getting out of jail here. a defense request to reduce his $5 million bail was rejected. i'm john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> like sending their kids to their rooms to calm down president obama today told democrats and republicans to go back to congress and think about how to solve the nation's debt ceiling crisis. >> you need over the next 24 to 36 hours to give me some sense of what your plan is to get the debt ceiling raised through whatever mechanisms they can think about. >> the president vented his frustrations during his third press conference in two weeks. after days of talks at the white house about the only thing everyone agrees on is that time is running out. if the debt ceiling is not raised by august 2nd, the u.s. faces a catastrophic downgrading of its credit rating, something the president described as a tax on everyone. >>> the treasurer for the state of california says the notion of no agreement in bash wash is incomprehensible and irration -- in washington is incomprehensible and irration

he was accused of all these crimes, was indicted, went to ri riker's island. then we started believing he did what he was accused of. then the justice system says the whole story is fake, parts of it she lied. they don't understand the system, the american justice system again. >> a lot of americans would argue it is the justice system at work with the prosecutor saying here is stuff we didn't know. both our previous experts said it's quite possible these charges will go away. let's assume for a moment they do go away. what does this mean for strauss-kahn's presidential ambitions in france? >> it changes everything. he comes back to the race. i'm not sure. the timing is complex to him. he is not with the imf any more. co-go back to france and say i am the victim of a system unjust. there are other players in the game in the socialist, the left wing games that have taken his place. he could go back in the game. could he be a contender against a president nicolas sarkozy who is not loved by the french people? maybe. he needs to play delicately. there is a civil

i want to remind everybody that it was just six weeks ago that dominique strauss-kahn was in rikers island and was charged in an indictment that had the full force of the people behind it. and to remind all of you how easy it is for people to be charged with serious crimes and for there to be a rush to judgment. >> all right. jonathan dienst of our new york affiliate wnbc, jonathan, as you watch what was just said by the attorney for the accuser here, what do you make of that walling off there of one of the prosecutors? >> well, one of the lead prosecutors in the office was married to one of the defense attorneys in the case. he did -- she did recuse herself from this case, but there were a lot of other issues that he raised that were of greater concern to him and his client and that is what they were alleging was mistreatment by the prosecutors in the end when they were accusing her or questioning her about her apparent lies, about her past. again, all of this coming to the forefront here because prosecutors found that this woman allegedly lied about being raped, or making a claim she'd b

and all of a sudden now they say, come on, prosecute events, the men who pushed into rikers island prison now comes up and say the house -- the maid at the soffitel hotel is not reliable, she's lying. so the french say, my god, what kind of justice do america have? >> sure, but like you say, it happened here in the united states. have you to respect the u.s. justice system. i want to point out this poll coming out tomorrow, saying 54% of the french do not want strauss-kahn to run for president. back to the socialist party here, why is it that the socialist party seems willing to bend its own rules? maybe change that july 13th deadline to allow a little more time to determine whether this man wants to run for president. >> you are right to pose this question. i think the game should be over very soon, most of the socialists now realize that he's thrust into the political game inside the socialist party might be hurting them, and they definitely want to try to win this election desperately. >> i see. >> they have been waiting for that for a long time. you are totally right, they will not gi

he's already serving two years at rikers island on unrelated charges after police found a loaded gunn in the back seat of his car. >>> and at least five people are injured after a horrifying accident at the ottawa bluesfest. the stage crumbled to the ground in the middle of a violent thunderstorm last night. the band cheap trick was performing, but they managed to run off the stage moments before it went down. one witness says it was like an unvisible hand pushed the entire struck you're over like a house of cards. pretty remarkable pictures there, wolf. >> could have been a lot worse. thanks, lisa. >>> the latest catch phrase. what is cut cap and balance and could it be solution to avoiding a financial disaster? and a 77-year-old man targeted for robbery, but he decides he's not going to be a victim. he also happens to be a united states congressman. work faster and smarter so you can get back to playing "angry birds." it lets you access business forms on the go, fire off e-mails with the qwerty keypad, and work securely around the world so you can get back to playing "angry birds."

from the heights of global finance to the pits of rikers island, to self-confinement in a rented townhouse, dominique strauss-kahn has had his ups and downs and today is definitely an up day. as you know if you've been watching cnn, he was freed on his own recognizance in a very short hearing that followed a bombshell from new york prosecutors. they told the defense and then the court they now have serious questions about the credibility of strauss-kahn's alleged victim. there's dna evidence that sex of some sort took place, but the defense says it was consentual. the maid's lawyer says it was definitely not. >> the victim on day one has described a violent sexual assault that dominique strauss-kahn committed against her. she has described that sexual assault many times to the prosecutors and to me. and she has never once changed a single thing about that account. >> weeks ago when strauss-kahn was first allow ed to leave jai, he was made to put up $1 million cash and post a bond. he had to live under house arrest with armed guards and ankle l bracelets and had to pay for it himself. every