this is an unusual interview. all right. let s do it again. live free or die, victory or death, bring it. this year, washington suffered an actual earthquake. feel that? and some political tremors too. there were debt ceilings. pull off the band-aid, eat our peas. super committees. if you spend more than you earn, you lose your butt. and congressional deals from hell. but on the surface, looks like a satan sandwich. a long war brought to its end. the war in iraq will soon be brought to history. and a bright political career brought to its end by a tweet heard around the world. that s not a picture of you? i can t say with certitude. there were profiles and political courage like the montana state representative who fought to protect the right to drive drunk in big sky country. either you hitchhike or you drive. i promise you they re not going to hitchhike. the illinois state senator
united nations got up and walked out right in the middle of a security council meeting. good morning to you. it is wednesday, october 5th. this is your a.m. wake-up call. i m carol kos tecostello live fw york this morning. it s a brand-new day in every sense of the word for amanda knox. she ll be waking up at home for the first time in four years. she returned with her family yesterday, just one day after an italian appeals court overturned her murder conviction in the death of her british roommate, meredith kercher. knox held back tears speaking to reporters thanking her parents and her friends for their support during her time in prison. what s important for me to say is just thank you to everyone who has believed in me, who has defended me, who has supported my family. i just want my family is the most important thing to me right now, and i just want to go be with them. so thank you for being there for me. italian prosecutors say they ll appeal the knox ruling to i
these taverns and bars in these smaller communities connect people together. they re the center of the communities. and i ll guarantee you, there s only stwo wtwo ways to get ther. either you hitchhike or you drive. first of all, i love his colonel sanders necktie. and also here s the most unsurprising star of the story. he owns a bar. of course. i love these guys. they re so brazen. issa with a road that leads to his property. this guy has a nerve to come out in a colonel sanders and be like sdru drunk driving is our way of life, man. i own a bar? that s just a coincidence. he s so depressingly ignorant. i mean, i love how he s thinking about businesses but he s not thinking about the number of people that die from drunk drivers. i can t believe he went up there and talked about that. it s our way of life, drunk driving. these guys are supposed to be law and order republicans.
so it felt a little like watching a car wreck when montana state representative alan hale rose to speak against all dui laws. these dui laws are not doing our small businesses in our state any good, at all. they re destroying them. they re destroying a way of life that has been in montana for years and years. that s insulting. reporter: the president of mothers against drunk driving was just getting warmed up. it s scary. it s alarming. it s ridiculous. these taverns and bars in these smaller communities connect people together. they re the center of the communities. reporter: they sure connected folks in classics like hang em high. but riding drunk was a lot less lethal than driving drunk from a bar. there s only two ways to get there. either you hitchhike or you drive. and i promise you that they re not going to hitchhike.