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Could keep campaigning for president and keep making the argument he should be elected in part because he was a family man. that money was spent for the benefit of the john edwards for president campaign, not just for john it edwards the man. and $900,000 being spent on that is way over the limit. for how much you can legally donate to a campaign. remember when we thought there were limits on how much money you could give to a campaign? the john edwards trial is unprecedented, nobody has been in...

It is not about whether john edwards was a bad candidate. for all the salacious detail here, ultimately this whole sex scandal now boils down to whether he took campaign donations that were too big. joining me now is hampson dellinger. hes been covering the edwards trial by blog and places like the atlantic online. mr. dellinger, thank you for time, nice to have you here. >> youre welcome. great to be with you. >> i know you have been covering this very, very closely. did i get the basics there ...

Has put together, thats another fascinating part of this, hes such an accomplished attorney in his own right, a trial lawer in his own right, yet he had to build the legal team around himself. do you think hes done a good job putting together a defense team and honestly do you think theyll win. >> hes built a team and torn it apart-time and time again going through attorneys like bezzles elizabeth they taylor went through husbands. it has been troubling to see how many fine attorneys have been p...

Democratic side of a cautionary tale about how we vet presidential nominees in this country. but the reason im making a federal case about this is because a federal case has been made of this. specifically about the money part of it, which we havent even got to yet. see during the 08 campaign with the national inyearer reporting john edwards had an affair and he denying it, the reported mistress hanging around giantly pregnant was a politically inqueent thing for this presidential campaign. two ...

That was the cover story that was supposed to survive, even after john edwards admitted the affair himself. yes to cheating, yes to the affair but no to father of a child with his mistress. that lie survived until the staffer fronting the lie wrote a book. he taped an interview with abc news that he was not the babys father, john edwards was. a week before the interview was scheduled to air john edwards admitted he had the affair but yes the baby was his. he made that public admission in january...

He was sentenced to 14 years in prison and started serving that sentence at a colorado prison last month. the second major figure from the 08 figure who is facing trial and possible prison time. his role in the 2008 election is he ran for president. having been the democratic partys vice presidential nominee south carolina member john edwards made a serious run four years later in 2008. we look back on the 08 democratic primary as the obama-clinton slug fast but john edwards was the other main c...

Candidates and their campaign, so $900,000 in indirect aid doesnt feel right, doesnt smell right. clearly his activity as a husband was heinous, but it has never been considered felonious until now. >> in terms of that aspect of it, the decision to bring a prosecution here, you clearly think there was no foregone conclusion that the case should have become a criminal matter. and clearly john edwards defense team has been making an issue of what might have motivated prosecutors in bringing this c...

Card, but also a secret second family that you pretend doesnt exist and that you hide somewhere? where? do you hide them for two terms or just the first one? then a surprise unveil after the re-elect? what exactly were you going to do, big guy? he started denying the affair in october and he dropped out in january 2008. his second secret family baby was born the following month, in february. it was not until six months later in august of that year that he admitted to having the affair, but even ...

A loving husband to the immensely likable elizabeth edwards who was fighting cancer that would eventually claim her life, john edwards had a secret second family in the making. mr. edwards was having an affair with a woman that was hired as a videographer for his campaign. when word got out in 2007, it was literally in the tabloids. the national inquirer broke the story. at the time, mr. edwards denied ever having had an affair. >> the story is false. its completely untrue and ridiculous. ive be...