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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,...

There are good, decent men and women who go out and work hard every day and put their skills to test that arent taught by some liberal college professor and trying to indoctrinate them. i understand why he wants you to go to college. he wants to remake you in his image. i want to create jobs so people can remake their children into their image, not his. >> every kid doesnt want to go to college, but i think we should aspire to let every child reach his maximum or her maximum potential. and if se...

Indicates, indicates, especially that sort of thing done statewide. and even obamacare. you can repeal a bad policy. you give 30 million illegal amnesty, you cant repeal that. perrys position on illegal immigration is a much bigger problem than romneys problem with romneycare. >> laura: lets move on to this stuff are rick santorum. i assume you saw it. and your reaction to how that went down on fox news sunday? i got a lot of e-mails about it. santorum is very socially conservative, but what was...

The amount of peaceful protesting that were seeing post the mubarak speech. i would have expected at least sporadic outbreaks of violence from people who are clearly very angry. they seem determined to do this in a peaceful way. if you are mubarak and you are to many peoples eyes a dictate o. runt sitting back thinking, this is okay. it is not violent. i dont need to worry too much. >> on the contrary. if it turned violent, he could actually say that he can unleash the full force of his police s...

That he pulled a bluff on them, basically. and so i think as this unfolds over the next few days, you have that dynamic. and then you have something no one has talk about yet. that is the number of strikes that have taken place oh the last few days. this is a dynamic that helped bring down the shah when he could not have a if you knowing economy. the danger is you get not just the young people but an extraordinary cross second quarter of egyptian industries, key places like the suez canal where ...

>> ressa, let me turn to you. what seems perplexing to me is the amount of peaceful protesting that were seeing post the mubarak speech. i mean, i would have expected at least sporadic outbreaks of violence from people who are clearly very angry. but they seem determined to do this in a peaceful way. if you are mubarak and you are to many peoples eyes a dictator, arent you sitting back thinking, this is okay. it is not violent. i dont need to worry too much. >> on the contrary. if it turned viol...