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>> reporter: no, when we spoke to them they weren't aware of the slander charge. i don't think as far as this family is concerned it matters. any statement coming from the regime they say they don't believe it, they're calling them lies. the claim by officials that eman al obeidy is free, they're saying if she's free, let television cameras videotape her, let reporters talk to her. that obviously hasn't happened. >> nic, earlier in our conversation with that man, he compared this to the spark that the young fruit seller in tunisia who emulated himself and was the spark for the uprising in tuni...

But this reporter from state television said that we have taken secret video and we will be showing it to you later. because eman al obeidy refused to speak to the state television reporter because she wanted to be released. as a lawyer, she knew her legal rights. we were in that police head quarters a couple weeks ago and we saw in one room alone, there were ten secret camera there is this one meeting room alone. so that's possibly how the video that we're seeing on state television of eman al obeidy got out, not because she wanted to give any interviews at all. >> i want to play another clip...

Only because our focus is so much on amanda and what's happening with her appeal that this is just kind of a, you know, side thing. one more hoop we have to go through. really? what else do you want to try to get us with? it feels very personal now. it feels like, okay, you're after our daughter, after us. >> that slander charge in italy does -- could be punishable by up to three years in prison. amanda knox's appeal is coming up this spring. also drew griffin will join us live in an hour with more. bernie madoff speaking out for one of the first times since he was busted back in 2008 for th...

Sexual assault. they are hoping she'll get off on that because of the dna review that was done. she also has a slander charge. she nay well be convicted on that but even if she is, she could get off on her time served. she has been four years in jail. martha: in about 57 minutes we expect to hear from meredith ker -- hear frommeredith kerche. gregg: knox has been in jail for four long years. just days later knox and her former boyfriend were questioned by police. she was then put on trying for kercher's murder.