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Talking about a drug kingpin who the united states was happy to turn over and send back to italy, wouldn't that extradition be much faster? you think there's a reluctance on the part of the u.s. to send amanda knox back if, if she were to be convicted? >> i think it's a combination of things. the extradition process is never smooth. you know, there has been a long dispute in the italian and american legal systems about a former cia agent who were tried in absentia in connection with the extradition after 9/11 of detainees in connection with e the -- the war in afghanistan. that has been kickin...

And could she be forced to go back and take part in that trial? >> first of all, nothing in this case is going to happen quickly. this is a case where time is measured in years, not in months. so the first point is amanda knox is never going back to an italian prison. that is just never going to happen. yes, in theory, it is possible that she will be retried in absentia. but in the unlikely event that she is convicted, and that conviction is upheld through many years of appellate proceedings, the odds against her being extradited. the extradition process is even slower than the italian justice...

Italy could ask to have amanda knox extradited. are there laws to protect her from doing that? >> the extradition process is one of the most slow, most cumbersome, most rarely enforced forms of law. you know, there was a group of cia agents that were charged in an italian courtroom in connection with the treatment of the detainees. the united states has never made a move to extradite them. i think, you know, those laws are on the books, but in reality, there's not going to be any sort of attempt to get her out. she's home, she's going to stay home. >> so 5:00 a.m. tomorrow, i guess, eastern ti...

how are you feeling besides wiped out there, richard? >> reporter: i think the next thing i'll be having is a prescription for some form of antibiotics. no, it's been amazing. look, the rain is still pouring, my suit is drenched. but we have seen over four days a carefully choreographed, constructed routine from the spectacle of the river to the ceremony of today, right through the way to the balcony at the end and the fly-past by the world war ii planes. if that isn't really showing with 1.5 million people standing outside your front doorstep, if that isn't showing an element of app...

i want to bring in mark preston to talk about with what all of this means. i guess in a way mark, we knew that things were partisan. that's not surprising. but if you look at how pew researchers measure this, 48 different ways of measuring how we feel about politics over the years, and they find that we're more divided than ever. almost double over the past 25 years. why? >> you know suzanne, talk about a comprehensive study that pew has done now, you know, there's a lot of reasons. and what's interesting is that it shows that not only are we more divided politically but also seeing ...