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About still more fallout from his affair with rielle hunter. last week, he had to testify under oath in the civil case over a sex tape he allegedly made with hunter. potentially far more menacing, a parade of witnesses at this courthouse 30 miles away. federal prosecutors are trying to prove that edwards was involved in spending more than $1 million to conceal his affair with hunter. >> it's a great speech. >> can you read it? >> yes, i can read it. >> reporter: with whom edwards fathered a daughter, frances quinn, almost 3. political consultant and watchdog joe sinsheimer. >> we know that edw...

Team, john edwards' legal team, will get a chance to argue, tell the government why they don't think this case should proceed. but i would expect something in the next 30 to 4 days. >> lisa -- lisa myers, thank you very much. live pictures from the white house. we're half an hour away from president obama's surprise news conference. the budget, the middle east all topics that could be on the table. we're watching that for you. plus, man vs. machine. i'll talk with 74-time champion ken jennings about his tough battle versus the computer known as watson. [ male announcer ] this is james.

Fred barren provided hundreds of thousands of dollars used to keep a pregnant hunter out of sight. >> if john edwards was aware that money of paid to hide his mistress and it was to help his campaign, he's in trouble. >> reporter: edwards has denied knowing nothing. >> i know nothing about this. >> reporter: his wealthy friend also said that edwards new nothing about payments to hide hunter in lavish homes or fly her in his private jet. but that's vigorously disputed by edwards' former aide, andrew young, who handled the money and lived with hunter in hiding. young says edwards himself solicit...

Influence of alcohol during this. wow. okay. is former presidential candidate john edwards about to be indicted over a sex tape? and cold has moved back to the northeast where it's 20 to 30 degrees colder than yesterday. on the west coast, rain and snow continues. nbc meteorologist bill karins is tracking the forecast for us. bill? everyone's giving me a hard time. they expect 60, 70 degrees the rest of the winter. that's not the case today. very cold conditions, windy, too. we have gusts up to 35 miles per hour, especially around boston. the windchill is still minus three in albany, new...

Isn't he encapsulating that view by going down the middle with his budget? >> yeah. he's trying to find middle ground. and as long as, i said earlier, and i'm going to continue to harp this point, until you deal with revenue generation for the federal budget we are always going to be talking about cuts. we're always going to be talking about reductions to a very limited amount of the budget which is domestic spending, which is less than 20%. we cannot sustain, nor can you balance the budget off the backs of those programs. it's impossible without generating revenue. >> it is budget day on the ...