where his mouth is. tonight, sean penn on his work on the frontline of disaster and the situation on wall street. and you won t believe who the police dragged off to jail in the protests. not the usual suspects. this is piers morgan tonight. pretty dramatic day for the occupied wall street protests. marches and the rest across the country and some rough arrests. thousands on the streets from new york no san diego struggle to corral demonstrators. new york, more than a dozen arrest and more arrested in denver and san diego, all this after protesters declared victory on wall street. and bloomberg, pulled back on the threat to move them out of the area they re occupying. we ll talk to two of the arrested protesters later in the show. sean penn, many say his greatest role is that of activist. welcome. thank you. when you say what s happening on occupy wall street protests, do these resonate with you? is that the fury you ve felt about issues over the years? it reson
we re talking about the occupy wall street movement, now in its sixth week in cities across the country. large crowds have taken to the streets in philadelphia and boston and elsewhere. they re protesting income inequality and the lack of jobs. last week, herman cain said those fired up over america s economic troubles had no one to blame but themselves. here s what he told the wall street journal . don t blame wall street. don t blame the big banks. if you don t have a job and you re not rich, blame yourself! then this past weekend, cain fired another shot at the protesters on cbs face the nation. watch. my parents never said that we hope that the rich people lose something so we can get something. no! my dad s idea was, i want to work hard enough so i can buy a cadillac, not take somebody else s. but, listen. now cain is tweaking his message and saying the protesters should be blaming someone. the wohite house. here s what he said last night during the bloomberg
this is based on the forward looking indicators of the business cycle. that s all we do is watch those indicators, monitor them. there s an overwhelming message when we look at those indicators that is consistent only with the new recession starting here. when you think back to 2008, while we made that call, then it was prior to the lehman crisis economists were looking backwards at gdp. once we saw the lehman crisis everybody was on board with the fact there was a recession. before that there was a question. correct. when you see gdp positive or jobs numbers positive, you say there isn t a recession and you get pushback. time will tell. harvard professor, chief economist for international monetary fund. you ve been on the show before. your point of disagreement, you say a lot of people feel the recession never ended. now, we are four years away from the official start of this recession. it started in december of 2007. we re certainly three years into the worst of it. w
and good morning, everybody. it s wednesday, october 5th. a very cool, crisp day here in the northeast. welcome to american morning, everyone. lots of news to tell you about today. first, amanda knox is back on american soil. what a homecoming it was. knox touched down in seattle shortly after 8:00 last night, p.m. she thanked everyone who supported drew griffin was there. what was it like? reporter: before she even spoke, before anyone spoke, you could just see the relief on their faces. first the attorney addressed the crowd. if the if there were questions. mom and dad addressed the crowd? any questions for them? no. everybody just wanted to hear from her. amanda knox, and when she came to the podium, she said she had to remember, i have to speak in english now. i m really overwhelmed right now. reporter: after spending four years in an italian prison, amanda knox could hardly believe she was back home in seattle. i was looking down from the airplane and it seem
the west memphis three in their own words. it does something to you when you see something like that. it cracks you inside. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. the case of the west memphis three began in may 1993 when the naked bodies of three 8-year-old boys were found in a ditch in west memphis, arkansas. stevie branch, michael moore and christopher byers had been hog-tied with their own shoelaces. three local teenagers were charged with the crime amid allegations of at a tisatanic r. damien echols, jason baldwin and jessie misskelley. damien was sentenced to death and the others to life in prison. as the years passed, the west memphis three got attention from famous people, last month, after nearly two decades behind bars, echols, baldwin and misskelley walked free. more in a moment on that. but joining me now, damien echols and his wife lorri davis. welcome to you both. thank you. an extraordinary saga, no other way to put this, ending in the most bi