>> she talked about one encounter with a fellow cancer survivor last year to cnn. >> a lot of people who have breast cancer come up to me. one of the people who came up to me in cleveland in 2007 was a working mother who said she was afraid for her children because she couldn't go to the doctor despite the fact she felt a lump in her breast. she was whispering in my ear because she hoped that in america you still had the power to whisper in the right person's ear and get the kind of changes you needed. it is unconscionable that in a kuchbt this wealth a working method cannot afford to buy the health insurance that will protect her and allow her to continue to be a good mother to her children. >> many also credit edwards as being the driving force behind her husband theae political career. joining us from raleigh, north carolina, to talk more about the life and death of elizabeth edwards is a close personal friend of the edwards family and a senior adviser for the edwards 2008 presidential campaign. >> mudcat, everybody knows