although his lawyer william taylor did say that he does intend to plead not guilty.has denied all wrongdoing. and in his resignations as the chief of the imf last night around midnight, very strong denial of the charges against him. he vowed to spend all of his time and energy going forward to fighting, to prove that he is innocent. in court today, his defense lawyer william taylor did say strauss-kahn has one goal from now on, and that is to clear his name. >> lehrer: okay, well, thank you, sara, now zanny, mean tile-- meanwhile, the people who want to replace strauss-kahn are on the move. how would you describe that situation. where are-- what is the process. >> you described it very well in your report earlier, the jockeying has begun. >> lehrer: yeah. >> this is, the horses are at the gates, if you will. and the europeans have made very clear that they intend and want the tradition of the last 65 years to continue, which is this is a job that has always extraician-- traditionally gone to a european. there has been a stitchup for the last 65 years. >> lehrer: not

those attorneys speaking, william taylor and benningman broughtman saying they are going to delay hisive a reason? apparently they did not give a reason. it's going to be delayed and as soon as we get more information on that, we will bring it to you. stand by. i want you to hold on a bit because i want to play what the attorney said if we can get it up in our -- if we can get in the diplomat, global big wig. let's listen in now. >> that's being done in light of the hour. we've agreed to postpone the arraignment until tomorrow morning, and we expect to be in court here tomorrow. >> how is your client doing? >> he's tired but he's fine. >> thank you very much. >> not before 11:00 tomorrow. >> okay. so that's his attorneys again speaking and -- sorry, it's a little shaky here but breaking news. that's how it happens. coming out of break and just finishing up their press conference and i wanted you to hear it. we'll move on. stay tuned to cnn for more information on that. "american morning" begins at 6:00 a.m. eastern time here on cnn, and they will be covering that story. meantime, let'

he hired benjamin broffman and william taylor. he's represented plaxico burress, p.s, certainly, he has lawyered up and this is the team you want when facing charges like this. >> the victim, a 32-year-old maid. she has a teenage daughter. she immediately told her supervisors that she had been attacked. she didn't wait. does that make it more difficult for strauss-kahn's lawyers to defend? >> it certainly makes it difficult. there was this conspiracy that the french confired for him because he was a possible front-runner for the french presidency. and they said would he get the go-ahead to have port authority police officers snatch him off of an airplane, someone of his stature, without a credible victim statement. that says something about how credible this woman is. she did pick him out of lineup initially. certainly, i think it's a bit difficult to defend. it's certainly one of those he said/she said cases unless they do find forensic and scientific evidence. >> sunny hostin, thanks for joining us, we appreciate it. >>> senator john kerry on the ground some pakist