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Opinion as a lawyer, john edwards as a lawyer. >> all right. jon: it has been said that it's been difficult to tell in the courtroom who is on trial here. is it john edwards or cheri young's husband, andrew, the guy who tried to cover up for edwards and then eventually wrote a tell-all book about the whole experience. >> jon, you know very well when you're a criminal you don't consort with choir boys. jon: i know we develop when i'm a criminal? >> i didn't mean it that way. jon: thank you. thank you. >> you know about criminals. jon: i'm sorry, go ahead. when you're a criminal, what? >> you do...

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Testimony about all this fit into the case? >> reporter: well, the defense has been trying to portray her husband, andrew young, as someone who profited off of edward affair, but cheri is able to speak about the sacrifices that her family went through to keep the politician's pregnant mistress in hiding. she describes reille hunter as high maintenance and demanding, and she and her husband were pretty much left to deal with her on her own especially after hunter gave birth to her child. in court yesterday mrs. young said quote, this was a huge, huge source of the problem, because after the bab...

Around 3:30 yesterday afternoon so mrs. young could go home and take medication and resume her testimony today, jon. jon: here is the part of this case that i have been wondering about, because andrew young originally claimed he was the father of reille hunter's baby. what did his wife say about that on the stand? >> reporter: yeah, cheri young said she hated the idea and she says that the idea was john edwards'. she claims that she found out about it when she was waiting in a mcdonald's drive through and it prompted an argument with her husband. she says she reluctantly agreed to the plan, th...

After yesterday. boy there was an emotional break down on the stand, plenty of tears. the wife of edwards former campaign aide actually is back on the stand today. hi, everybody, i'm jaime colby in for jenna lee, great to be with you again, jon. jon: good to be back with you. i'm jon scott. the defense cross-examining cheri young, wife of andrew young. she testified she was wary about the cash arrangements that edwards claimed was legal. as you might remember the former presidential candidate is accused of using nearly a million dollars in campaign money to hide an affair and love child he had...