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Now prior for this weekends incident, strauss-kahn was considered a top candidate for the president of france in the elections next year. richard was talking about that. a french opinion poll published on sunday taken before the scandal broke showed him in first place among six hypothetical candidates, including the current president nicolas sarkozy. let me tell you about the man himself. strauss-kahn is married to an american-french journalist, ann sinclair. they live in d.c. she issued a state...

Hypothetical candidates including the current president sarkozy. strauss-kahn is married to an american french journalist ann sinclair. she issued a statement defending her husband. bottom of the hour we are going live to paris, cnn jim bittermann has the reaction to the news of strauss-kahns arrest and impact kite have on the global economy. concerns about the global economy weighing around stocks down around across the board around the world. markets are down in europe and asia and here in t...

Challenging nicolas sarkozy next spring are dead. >> his wife is coming to her husbands defense. she is an american-born journalist and hosted one of frances most popular political tv shows for 13 years. covered the 2008 presidential race and released this statement -- coming up in about 30 minutes, ill ask our legal contributeor for "in session" about what strauss-kahn faces today. president obama hoping to provide comfort to victim of that massive flooding along the mississippi river. he lea...

Inquiries on the allegation and one only mentioned it briefly in court. >> i cant respond to allegations that were made in a foreign country that did not result in any criminal prosecution. >> reporter: she did not report the alleged incident to french police at the time. why not? her mother told a french tv station what they told her daughter at the time. >> translator: there wasnt a rape, strictly speaking. there was an attack. for the rest of your life you would have on your resume, you know?...

Strauss-kahn, in 2008 more than just a rumor he was accused of sexual harassment for his affair with one of his subordinates at the international monetary fund. he was later cleared but he had to apologize to the imf and on kind of a probation. >> you talked about his personal life, his issues and what about his personal life now. is he married right now? >> reporter: he is march rid, has four children and his wife, ann sinclair is a high profile person, on television and after the 2008 affair s...

Imf. which he would have had for another year. >> now, im reading a number of different sources that would suggest that problems like this have been simmering, shall we say, under the surface. except even back in 2008 didnt he face accusations at the imf over a relationship with an employee there? >> well, theres no question that he had a relationship with an employee there. a hungarian woman. and he eventually apologized but said it hadnt affected his work at the imf. his wife, ann sinclair, hi...

But those lines are whats taking all the headlines today. >> thats a very important point because many people were making a lot of similarities between george w. bushs policies, the bush doctrine. i mean, remember how much attention that got. how dare george bush say we want to talk about democracy in this part of the world. well, president obama really changed his tune as brian just mentioned from two years ago. thats not going to grab the headlines this morning. its going to be all about israe...

Harassment. she charged him with sexual harassment and he was cleared of those charges. and because he was cleared of those charges, i think people tended to discount them. although, there have been roomers that have been circulated for years around his personality about sexual indiscretion. his wife always stuck by him, however. shes now sticking by him again. ann sinclair, a high profile television personality. hes helped by the fact that hes a brilliant economist, an able political organizer,...