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Prosecution would like the jury to believe, or whether these are separate issues. listen: >> the government charges one big conspiracy but if there are unrelated conspiracies it may set up nicely for defense's motion to dismiss the conspiracy based on the way it was charged. >> reporter: the defense is trying to portray all of these donations as private gifts, not campaign contributions, as the prosecution is arguing, jon. jon: so the central question in all of this is how much did jon edwards know about this money. has the witness shed any light on that? >> yeah, that's what both sides are tr...

They're trying to establish that edwards had no knowledge that some of mellon's money was being used to hide his extramarital affair with rielle hunter. jonathan serrie, live in greene borough, north carolina for us now. jonathan, what are we learning from this lawyer? >> reporter: the lawyer you're talking about, jon, is alex forger, he, of course, the estate lawyer for rachel bunny mellon who over the course of these events funneled more than $700,000 to andrew young, an aide that was working for edwards at the time. after news of edwards' affair broke, forger said he became suspicious and w...