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edwards lawyers say it was gifts from old friends intended to keep the affair street from elizabeth edwards who died back in december. first, joe johns lays out how all of this mess began. >> reporter: john edwards, the politician. remember him? >> we have much work to do. because the truth is, we still live in a country where there are two different americas. >> reporter: as it turned out, mr. two americas had two very different faces himself. people close to him said it was the face ...

in december. first, joe johns lays out how all of this mess began. >> reporter: john edwards, the politician. remember him? >> we have much work to do. because the truth is, we still live in a country where there are two different americas. >> reporter: as it turned out, mr. two americas had two very different faces himself. people close to him said it was the face of betrayal. betrayal of the people closest to him. his late wife, elizabeth, supporters, his staffers, his contributors. ...

We got usama bin laden. the way that joe biden deployed the bin laden killing is exactly how theyll do it es less in national security issue, less of foreign policy issue than a character issue. thats how they want to frame it. they say this is the president who had the fortitude to made a tough decision, when outcome was uncertain, there were significant political risks for him and he had the fort tuesday to do this. the reason -- fortitude to do this. the reason it will work or help them, it u...

Laden. we got bin laden. what is your medicare plan? we got usama bin laden. the way that joe biden deployed the bin laden killing is exactly how theyll do it es less in national security issue, less of foreign policy issue than a character issue. thats how they want to frame it. they say this is the president who had the fortitude to made a tough decision, when outcome was uncertain, there were significant political risks for him and he had the fort tuesday to do this. the reason -- fortitude t...

Federalism argument saying, well, it is okay at the state level to have a state experimentation or state experiment with this, but not okayt the national level. because hes had such problems with shifting positions of social issues in the past, he couldnt renounce it because then he would underscore the character issue about mitt romney not being able to stick with the position, so he said, im not going to apologize, not going to say it was a mistake, but it was only okay at the state level. tha...

They remember where they were when they heard of bin ladens death. it has emotional failure. it does address the character issue. it will be important -- you hear how carney tried to flip negative to a positive. he looks indecisive and he is looking so deep, so long, in to the strategic future that what appears of iterring is real strategic depth and leadership. it reminds me of the crazy of a fanatic follow trodsky who said he was such a visionary not one of his prophecies have yet come true. i...

Lib yeah. they remember where they were when they heard of bin ladens death. it has emotional failure. it does address the character issue. it will be important -- you hear how carney tried to flip negative to a positive. he looks indecisive and he is looking so deep, so long, in to the strategic future that what appears of iterring is real strategic depth and leadership. it reminds me of the crazy of a fanatic follow trodsky who said he was such a visionary not one of his prophecies have yet co...

>> so this is a character issue. you believe barack obama may, youre suspicious because of this relationship, may have anti-american views. otherwise, it is probably irrelevant to the discussion. >> absolutely. >> you think barack obama has anti-american views? >> absolutely, i am very concerned he may have anti-american views. what i would say is that the news media should do a penetrating expose and take a look. i wish they would. i wish the american media would take a great look at the views ...

Awareness of the mccarthy period. she wanted the media to go back and investigate everybody going back -- here u. wanting us to investigate members of congress for anti-american activities. lets watch, as if it never happened once. so this is a character issue, you believe that barack obama may -- youre suspicious because of this relationship -- may have anti-american views, otherwise its probably irrelevant to this discussion. >> i absolutely. >> you believe barack obama may have anti-american ...

Happened once. >> so this is a character issue. you believe barack obama may, youre suspicious because of this relationship, may have anti-american views. otherwise, it is probably irrelevant to the discussion. >> absolutely. >> you think barack obama has anti-american views? >> absolutely, i am very concerned he may have anti-american views. what i would say is that the news media should do a penetrating expose and take a look. i wish they would. i wish the american media would take a great loo...