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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 of betrayal. betrayal of the people closest to him. his late wife, elizabeth, supporters, his staff...

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. grant it, he was a promising politician at first. rich trial lawyer, but a spokesman for the poor. s...

We got usama bin laden. the way that joe biden deployed the bin laden killing is exactly how they'll do it e's less in national security issue, less of foreign policy issue than a character issue. that's 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 undercuts the chief republican critique of president obama, which was that he was weaselly and vac...

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 they'll do it e's less in national security issue, less of foreign policy issue than a character issue. that's 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 undercuts the chief republican critique of pr...

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 he's had such problems with shifting positions of social issues in the past, he couldn't renounce it because then he would underscore the character issue about mitt romney not being able to stick with the position, so he said, i'm not going to apologize, not going to say it was a mistake, but it was only okay at the state level. that is a hard needle to thread. he still is the republican with the best chance of those in the rac...