a brilliant economist and a very skillful politician now caught up in the messiest of sex scandals. let's learn more about the man at the center of this controversy. fareed zakaria, thanks very much. let's get right to this man. you know him, dominique strauss-kahn. were you shocked, like all of us, or is this something that we should have been bracing? >> no, i was completely shocked. i know him professionally. he is one of the smartest people you can find in the world really on macro economic policy. he was a perfect head of the imf in that sense, in the sense that his professional capacities were in some ways unmatched. he was a very good finance minister of france. presided over a period of growth for the french economy, cut the deficit. you know, in professional terms, he was highly competent, he was also very arctic lat and a