Christopher Dickeys News Today

Going around. there was a confrontation here, christopher, that was reported in the french press that strauss-kahn at one point accused president sarkozy, to his face, of planting rumors to discredit him politically. now, of course, you have those questions flying about whether this encounter was a plant. is there any shred of evidence youve seen in the french media to support that? >> there is no evidence that this was a conspiracy. there is a lot of speculation that it might have been because ...

Known, very credible figure. so i think that it may not be as disastrous as all that. but it should be said that strauss-kahn has been a very powerful and influential leader of the imf. and one that has been taken very seriously and basically has gotten very good reviews from the people who deal with the international monetary fund. thats people all over the world. so it certainly is a loss, but it is not necessarily a disaster for the imf and those critical negotiations will go on even if he ca...

Sarkozy and there are some conspiracy theorists who say this may be politically motivated, that perhaps he was framed. there is one radio station in france reporting that he was actually at lunch with his daughter when this happened. so he has an alibi. none of this has been confirmed. we expect to hopefully get more details about the prosecutors case at this arraignment. theyre going to fight, no question, for either a very, very high bail or no bail at all, afraid hes a flight risk saying he h...