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and weve got a lot of breaking news today. the jury in the john edwards federal corruption trial reaches a verdict on just one of the six counts against the one-time presidential hopeful. the defense asks for a mistrial, but the judge tells the jury theyve got to keep at it. lets go straight to cnns senior correspondent, joe johns. hes in greensboro, north carolina. joe, what is going on down there? >> reporter: well, you know, it gets stranger and stranger every minute. quite frankly,...

Dickenson, editor of -- and karen finney, former dnc communications director and an msnbc political analyst. karen, according to newt, it sounds like adelson is on board with romney and so the adelson millions should be flowing from those cannes ksino tables strai into the romney campaign. >> it kind of makes you wonder why the romney campaign was so worried about getting another $2 million by showing up with donald trump today. when he has sheldon adelson and several other billionaires. >> dona...

Birth certificate is real. last night on the plane flight romney steered clear of that listen. >> i dont agree with all the people who support me and they dont agree beverage i believe in. but i need to get 50.1% or more. and im appreciative to have the help of a lot of good people. >> today, the obama campaign hit romney with a video showing arizona senator john mccain, the 2008 nominee dissing questions about mr. obamas birth certificate in the last campaign. the video suggests romney is weak ...

The money theyve donated? >> a donor might have a lot of reasons for giving money. its hard to look into their heart and predict what the reason is. but we know that hes said, one, the reason he put a lot of money into the newt gingrich super pac was to help his old friend, newt. he wanted to see this campaign go on for a while, back when there was a primary campaign. hes also a huge hawk on israel. and its clear he wants somebody in the white house who shares his views on israel. and finally he...

john edward probably couldnt help himself and gone off and talked about things, such a good spokesperson, gift of gab, he can talk well, great trial lawyer, it had to be hard as could be for him to not say a word. probably the right choice. if you catch somebody in a lie, even unintentional lie, it shoeses him. he didnt get himself a chance to get hung on his own words. >> who made the smarter case, prosecution or defense? >> the prosecution did everything they had to do. the real ques...

Were we giving money in that last election? hed have to say because we want to get something. >> by the way, i thought this through this afternoon with our producers. if this is really to make more money for people, in other words, get the right politicians in, you might as well get a tax deduction for it. if its in your business interest to buy a politician, thats just the cost the doing business. perhaps thats carrying it to absurdity. weve been looking at numbers. something to help you make y...

Come in and tilt the balance. >> the koch brothers. >> others as well. there are a whole bunch of others. on a moments notice they saved romneys super pac friends saved his butt, adelson, kept newt in the game longer than he otherwise would have been. theyre having real impact. this is before we get to the general election. the general election is going to vote on six, eight, ten state elections, not nationally. you say 6, 10, 20 billion and put them in the key states, thats a lot of influence a...

>> thank you. [ inaudible ] >> greg: box though bob, though? you look like you dozed off. big surprise? >> bob: no. i think george herbert walker bush and we know mrs. bush are the kind of republicans to stay over. if i were them id do it. jeb did it last week. time for people to close ranks. i dont know if santorum and newt gingrich will get the program here, but i notice that adelson said its over for newt. a big deal. santorums super pac will continue to go to the

>> thank you. [ inaudible ] >> greg: box though bob, though? you look like you dozed off. big surprise? >> bob: no. i think george herbert walker bush and we know mrs. bush are the kind of republicans to stay over. if i were them id do it. jeb did it last week. time for people to close ranks. i dont know if santorum and newt gingrich will get the program here, but i notice that adelson said its over for newt. a big deal. santorums super pac will continue to go to the convention.

line as well, doesnt it? yeah, yeah, yeah. >> santorums closing pitch, a poke at the former illinois senator who now lives in the white house. >> you have a particular obligation to write a wrong here in the state of illinois. >> there are 54 delegates at stake tuesday in the state of illinois. a look at the math shows you time is running short for anyone else trying to stop governor romney. you need 1,144 to clinch. governor romney is 519, not halfway but look how commanding the lead ...