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The national transportation safety board, proposing lower the limit at which a driver can be considered legally drunk. but some critics say, it's the wrong approach. the president of m.a.d.d., jan, you are against this approach. and on the surface, one would say, why mothers against drunk driving would be against it. why? >> well, it's not a matter of being for or against low caitlin lowering the blood-alcohol concentration. m.a.d.d. has a plan, based on solid research that maximizes the amount of lives saved as soon as possible. as a mother whose daughter was killed by a drunk driver, that's ...

This targetses moderate social drinkers instead of targeting the hard-core drunk drivers. the reason we still have a problem is too often we're focusing on the moderate social drinkers and not enough on the hard-core drunk drivers that cause the -- fewer than 1% of the deaths out in the highway happened in that range. the vast majority of them happen at really high levels. the average bac of somebody is 0.16% nearly twice the legal limit. if we don't start focusing on thousands people, we will not fix this problem. >> if alcoholism is considered and you're sailing people drinking to excess, if...

Percent of gas in cities is spent looking for parking. there could be an app that would navigate you to a parking spot so you would not spend that time or gas because there would be no accidents, the weight of cars would go from 4,000 pounds to 750 pounds. that would save fuel. >>heather: we showed some video of google and there are companies that are putting this in play. there are some driverless vehicles, sort, on the road all right but on the flip side there could be more demand in energy because people who would not be able to drive, say the elderly, would still be able to use the driverl...

Done that you could have found $600 to keep these level one violators from being released and don't act like you could not have. here now uma. number of drunk drivers who have killed americans. very troubling. what was this hearing. >> house judiciary committee hearing looking at the fallout from the release of those 2,000 plus detainees who were released because of sequestration concerns. budget cuts. >> bill: investigative judicial committee trying to find out who they released and why? >> right. >> bill: the headline is the most dangerous of them are the resit vista drunk drivers who they a...

>> bill: back of the book segment tonight. did you see that? we begin with a very controversial situation. the obama administration releasing illegal aliens from prison who have been convicted of crimes in this country. >> did you release any resittist drunk drivers? >> yes. >> how many? >> i don't have the exact number, but we have released many individuals who had dui offenses. >> repeat offender dui. >> repeat offender dui. congress has not provided that dui is a ground of removal. in fact most misdemeanors is not a ground of removal. it's the agency by agency policy that factors that in. i...