and in some cases with racial disparity. you can watch the full interview today on the lead at 4:00 p.m. eastern. also much of this interview will be the topic of discussion on john king s show inside politic, the show is returning to cnn this sunday 8:30 a.m. eastern. now we will get to chris s live interview with dennis rodman in just one moment. first some breaking news this morning. amanda knox speaking out after the latest chapter in her legal saga. an emotional knox was defiant saying she will never go back to italy willingly and expected better from the courts. knox was convicted of murder again despite already being acquit on the very same charge. erin mclaughlin is back with us from florence of what knox had to say and getting her reaction. good morning, erin. reporter: good morning. it was an emotional intervul
republicans on this issue. congressman luis gutierrez, thanks so much. that brings us to today s big question, can republicans share their image as a party of no? still ahead, leading to prisoners across this country to being released. why the government thinks certain people have served their time and then some. also ahead, this we re still on the journey to the truth and it may be the fact that we don t ever really know what happened that night. the family of murder victim meredith kercher speaking out one day after amanda knox was convicted again in her murder. what knox is saying about this new verdict coming up. you need a bunch of those to clean this mess. then i ll use a bunch of them. then how is that a bargain? [ sighs ] no, that s too many it s not gonna fit! whoa! cascade kitchen and math counselor. here s a solution. one pac of cascade complete cleans tough food
roommate, meredith kercher, which happened four years ago now. knox addressed the court just moments ago. translator: i want to go back home. i want to go back to my life. i don t want to be tarnished, to have my life, my future taken away from me for things i haven t committed. because i am innocent. i am innocent. raffaele is innocent. cnn s paula newton is live outside the prison where amanda knox will be held while the jury deliberates. she joins us live from thousand. paula, we heard amanda in her own words. now what s next? she will arrive at this prison in about 15, 20 minutes and what a day it will be for her. the judge has already said he does not a return back until at least 8:00 p.m. local tonight. 2:00 p.m. local our time back home. she got up and what was different this time carol, than other times, she didn t have a prepared statement, she might have, she perhaps discarded it, she perhaps committed it to memory. she was not composed enough to speak at firs
would never be able to take time off what i big project has to get done on deadline. funding the government, that s a big project with a very important deadline. and consider this. according to expedia.com, the average american worker gets 18 vacation days a year. 18. and they only use 14 of them. did i mention that since january congress has only been in session for 125 days? plus they divided 112th congress promises to be the least productive in recent memory. since january only 14 house measures have been signed into law by president obama. and look at this, had when democrats controlled the house last year from january to june, 466 bills and resolutions were passed. by comparison over the same time frame this year only 207 bills or resolutions got approval. they spent more time bickering than getting anything actually done. yet house lawmakers sure do get paid a lot. rank and file representatives earn $174,000 a year. the speaker of the house takes home $223,500. now, com