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Using nearly a million dollars in what's alleged to be campaign cash to cover up an affair and the pregnancy of his mistress. jonathan serrie is live outside of the u.s. district court in greens borough, north carolina. jonathan. >> reporter: hi megyn. the jury has been seated, clearing the way for opening arts to begin. during those opening statements prosecutors told the jury john edwards is a master manipulator who knew about the nearly $1,000,000.2 wealthy donors provided to hide his pregnant mistress. prosecutors insisted the funds were campaign contributions designed to preserve edwards'...

Outcome of this potentially precedent setting trial, jon. jon: with testimony getting underway who are the top witnesses? >> reporter: we have video to show you of andrew young, former edwards campaign staffer, arriving at the federal court today. he will be the key witness for the prosecution. the defense, obviously will try to point out some inconsistencies of statements that he made throughout the year. at one point claiming paternity of reille illegitimate child, that edwards eventually admitted was his own. the defense is likely to call on reille hunter to testify, although the prosecutio...

Can say what he wants to, but they can say, no, we're supporting a bipartisan bill. >> i didn't like this bill either because i felt that in this case, they were still back dooring a little bit of health care in that bill and a lot of people weren't paying attention. >> still thinking you can have government money to create jobs and the best thing they can do is to let all businesses know no new taxes, no new costly regulations and no new mandates that are going to create problems for you in hiring people. >> part 2 of your interview with tony blair. >> six hours of grueling testimony. fascina...

Can say what he wants to, but they can say, no, we're supporting a bipartisan bill. >> i didn't like this bill either because i felt that in this case, they were still back dooring a little bit of health care in that bill and a lot of people weren't paying attention. >> still thinking you can have government money to create jobs and the best thing they can do is to let all businesses know no new taxes, no new costly regulations and no new mandates that are going to create problems for you in hiring people. >> part 2 of your interview with tony blair. >> six hours of grueling testimony. fascina...

Supporting a bipartisan bill. >> i didn't like this bill either because i felt that in this case, they were still back dooring a little bit of health care in that bill and a lot of people weren't paying attention. >> still thinking you can have government money to create jobs and the best thing they can do is to let all businesses know no new taxes, no new costly regulations and no new mandates that are going to create problems for you in hiring people. >> part 2 of your interview with tony blair. >> six hours of grueling testimony. fascinating. >> i found him a fascinating guy and we'll be wa...