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Courthouse who definitely would have denied him bail. start with the fact that he's not an american citizen. most american citizens, most non-american citizens who are arrested in the united states do not get out on bail. particularly those charged with serious felonies. he's very fortunate that he has the resources to put together a package with home detention. how many people in the world can afford $200,000 a month for electronic and individual monitoring? he's very lucky. and consider how long it's going to be until trial, two months, three months, maybe even longer. all those months he wo...

Case, this is not a no-bail case. this is a case where he should have received bail and did receive bail today. >> jeff, last night on the program you predicted he would receive bail and resign from the imf, both of which have happened. you say you think he got lucky with this bail. >> this was a close, close question. there are judges in that courthouse who definitely would have denied him bail. start with the fact that he's not an american citizen. most american citizens, most non-american citizens who are arrested in the united states do not get out on bail. particularly those charged with ...

Whether he's a flight risk. the prosecution tried to paint a portrait that this was somebody grabbing the first plane to france. they invoked the two words that every frenchman fears most, roman polanski. all they've got to do then, and what i assume happened here, is show that it was booked, that it was booked prior to this incident, and that he was the one, as mr. taylor was saying just then, he had called twice. he was the one who alerted to where he was, he was at jfk. if this was somebody trying to flee, he's not going to call for his cell phone. he would have got on the flight and he wou...

He was in a courtroom today as the terms of his bail were revealed. and they are stiff. he must put up $1 million in cash and post bond of $5 million, he had to surrender his travel documents, which his lawyer said he had already done. and he has to agree to home detention here in manhattan. he lives in washington. his lawyer argues he's not a flight risk. even though he was arrested on a flight about to leave for paris, the lawyer said it was a prescheduled flight, not a last-minute booking to try to escape the law. >> it's undisputed that the police knew his whereabouts is because he called ...

To approach this. he's not going to jump to any conclusions on this idea that the prosecutor announced that it was not consensual and it's a serious crime. you know, it seems like they're already in a position where they're doing pushback. i don't know why. if they have such a strong case, i don't know why they're so defensive. i would expect that ben will be circumspect until he sees everything the prosecutor has before he reveals anything. >> the defense though, mark, has tried to kind of get out the details that this flight was prearranged, that the notion that he suddenly booked this fligh...