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Dominique strauss-kahn is free, released from jail on a $6 million bail package and confined to a new york city apartment. strauss-kahn is under house arrest inside the manhattan building you're about to see. locked down with reports of no one seen coming in or out. he's due back in court june 6th to formally enter a plea on rape charges. that's the wrong video you're seeing there. the conditions of his confinement super restrictive. not surprising you haven't seen him just walk out of the building to take a stroll today. >> he's not allowed to leave this building at all. this is say temporary...

If he's out today, i think. >> when we talk about how high profile this is, is this a justified type of bail? i know this was the second judge he went in front of. the first one he went in front of denied bail. here we have $1 million to get out, then a $5 million insurance bond, and then these conditions of security. is that justice for bail hearing for this type of figure? >> it's the highest, most stringent bail package i've ever heard of in over 25 years of law practice in anything except a murder case that, does this case warrant it. you could make the argument it does, because france has...

Polanski was not required to surrender his passport and he wasn't under any sort of electronic monitoring. but the fight that the american government has had literally for decades to get polanski back, if not explicitly a legal precedent, it's certainly on a lot of people's minds and just another argument for keeping him in jail. >> do you think the judge will release him on bail? >> boy, i've been struggling with that question. i think there are a lot of questions about these legal proceedings are pretty easy to answer. this one is hard. if i had to guess, i would say if not this time, then s...

Questions, you know, about these legal proceedings are pretty easy to answer. this one's hard. if i had to guess, i would say if not this time then sometime next week they will put together a bail package that will get him out. if you really believe risk of flight is the main issue here, i think the defense makes a strong case. >> what would be different about a bail package a week from now than the one now? what would make a better bail package? >> $2 million. >> so just more money. >> additional signatories. a tighter restriction on where he might go. the package presented today didn't ident...

Smart, a good economist and smart finance manager who is not a sexual predator. bill: late last night the resignation came from the imf and julie bandaras live outside the u.s. supreme court in manhattan and what will his lawyers ask for, julie? >> reporter: they are going to post a bail package, but, unlike the bail package that was posted on monday, this one, again, will ask to post a million dollars bail and, then they've also included house arrest. he's volunteering, 24 hours, with a monitoring device, where he will stay with his daughter, who is a graduate student at columbia university, ...