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an affair and pay his mistress. edwards attorney says known was not a campaign donation but a gift from two edwards supporters. joe johns is following the latest developments and he joins us by phone from near raleigh, north carolina. joe, you ve been following the twists and turns how this unfolded. what do we know about the specific counts against edwards now? reporter: the indictment, as i looking through it, has a lot of the information we expected to be in there, essentially, illegal campaign contributions, a number of counts on that. there s a conspiracy count and the other thing is the thing we ve been looking for forever since we really heard about this case, a false statements count. that is essentially, that edwards was able to falsify wilfully conceal, cover up and otherwise keep information out of the public eye about contributions that he received from at least two individuals we ve talked about again and again. that would be a woman named bunny melon, a phila

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