normal. in heat like that, as you know, it's so crucial to hydrate. so for chasing life this week, a question i get all the time, how much water should you really be drinking normally? i want to give you an easy way to figure it out. take your body weight and divide it in half and drink that many ounces. i weigh 160 pounds, i shoot for 80 ounces. i'm drinking water all the time. stay connected with me at cnn.com/jcnn dom sl cnn.c cnn.co cnn.com/sanjay. time now to get you a check of the top stories with randi kaye in the cnn "newsroom." from cnn center, this is cnn sunday morning. sex, money, betrayal. we'll hear how these themes played in the 2008 presidential campaign. as we look ahead to the trial of john edwards which begins

tomorrow. desperation in syria as reports of more government atrocities mount. syrians swarm the newly arrived u.n. monitors. and a new warning from the u.s. to assad's regime. plus, a perfect game for number 41. we'll bring you the final pitch that led to last night's victory. and later, "the new york times's" nick kristoff joins us to talk about his column. good morning, everyone. i'm randi kaye. it's 8:00 on the east coast, 5:00 a.m. on the west. a lot to tell you about this morning so let's get you straight to the news. we start with a look ahead. tomorrow former presidential candidate john edwards heads to federal court. prosecutors say edwards used nearly $1 million in campaign

contributions to deceive the public. they say he was hiding an affair and a child. the mistress, rielle hunter, is expected to be the star witness at the trial. she has immunity. edwards and his attorneys say he did nothing wrong. we'll have much more on the case later this hour. and to syria now. the united nations security council has decided to increase their involvement from 30 observers to 300. now, you may think that sending in 300 unarmed monitors doesn't seem like much, but listen to the reaction in homs syria when the first monitors arrived there yesterday. >> today is the first day since two months without shooting, without killing, without fire. it's very important for us, at least understand, because of that we want you to stay. please stay. this is what we want. this is our interest. when you can, killing stop. >> a cease-fire that went into

effect earlier this month has nod henot held. at least seven people were killed across syria today. one senator is now calling the white house into question over the secret service scandal. iowa republican chuck grassley asked the secret service director if any white house employees shared hotel rooms with the offender agents in colombia. the white house quickly denied at the involvement. six agents have already resigned. six more still under investigation. a major figure from the watergate scandal has died. chuck colson. colson was the first of richard nixon's aides to be convicted. he was the president's special counsel but was also known as nixon's hatchet man. he took his punishment, seven months in prison and turned his life around. here he is in 1999. >> we have healed a great deal from what happened in watergate, but it auto took a long period of time for people to recognize what they had done wrong. i apologized for what i did, went to the people i had

offended, and felt a repentant attitude throughout. >> after leaving prison in the mid-1970s, colson founded the prison fellowship, providing spiritual support for scores of prisoner. his humanitarian work earned him redemption in the form of the presidential citizen medal in 2008. he was 80. investigators looking for ans into the disappearance of a new york boy 33 years ago say they have found a suspicious stain. they discovered the stain on a concrete wall yesterday while tearing apart a lower manhattan basement about a half block from where etan patz's parents still live. they sprayed a chemical that can indicate the presence of blood. for now officials are only calling the stain an area of interest. patz vanished in 1979. a little piece of baseball history with this out. chicago white sox pitcher philip humber became the 21st pitcher

in major league baseball history to throw a perfect game. no runs no, hits, no errors, no walks, absolutely perfect. >> the 21st perfect game. >> ajust a lot of joy and excit am, and most of all just gratitude. thankful for where i'm at and thankful, that was just an awesome -- what just took place was just awesome. >> absolutely, just awesome. after the game humber's first phone call was to his pregnant wife. he was calling to make sure the excitement didn't send her into labor early. in case you didn't know or you just forgot, it is earth day, the day set aside to focus on the world's environment is now in its 42nd year. we want to know what the forecast is for the big earth day. reynolds wolf is keeping his eye on that. >> any celebrations outside on the eastern coast, well, the east coast, is going to be rainy for the most part. carry the unbrem las wil las wi.

2 to 4 inches of rainfall. isolated flooding possible. also snow is going to be in the forecast for the eastern great lakes namely south of buffalo where you might see 8 to even 10 inches of snowfall. we'll have more on that coming up in a few moments. >> a soggy day, a soggy earth day. thank you. more eyes on syria this morning. united nations is giving a go ahead to more observers, but what effect will it really have on the peace process? a live report is next. you're watching cnn "sunday morning" where news doesn't take the weekend off. stive issues with three strains of good bacteria. hit me! [ female announcer ] live the regular life. phillips'.

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humanitarian access with an estimated 1 million civilians still in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. the united nations security council has called upon the government to take concrete actions. the syrian government has ignored this counsel. in the united states our patience is exhausted. >> joining me from abu dhabi is rima. how will the presence of now 300 u.n. observers stop the violence? >> reporter: well, these 300 unarmed military observers are supposed to look after the cease-fire. they have to ensure that the cease-fire is happening. however, with all the decisions that have been made in new york yesterday, today just before noon four people have been killed already in syria, and there has been violence and

shelling in one of the suburbs of damascus, the capital. the city of homs was under shelling and even the state news agency reported an attack on a train carrying bread, wheat, and six were injured in one of the cities in syria. so far violence is still carrying on. >> and, rima, any reaction to all of this from the syrian government? >> reporter: well, we have heard from the ambassador, syrian ambassador to the u.n. he said that the syrian security forces will maintain maximum self-restraint. however, he said they will attack and defend the country and attack any terrorist groups. and this has been the problem with the syrian government. how do they define terrorist groups? the opposition says political disdends asidents are not terro

where the government accuses some of them of being terrorists and islamists. it's very vague. the syrian government has a chance with the national community make the peace plan work. >> rima, thank you very much for that update. a political scandal is brewing in china. one of the country's top leaders is out of a job and his wife, she is under suspicion of murder. i spoke with "new york times" columnist nick kristoff about the controversy china's history with corruption and why a new leader may turn things around. >> this is the biggest political scandal in china in two decades and it has real implications for the power struggles that are always unfolding in bay jik. this politician who was implicated was a member of the politburo until he was kicked off and he was campaigning to be on the top organization, the

standing committee. now all of a sudsen heden he's his job, his wife is under investigation for murder. his son, who has been in the headlines for wild parties at oxford and now he's at the kennedy school of government has mysteriously vanished. if you made a movie about this, the script would be rejected as totally implausible. >> what would her motive have been? >> the rumors -- everything at this point is a rumor. the rumor is that his wife was trying to move millions of dollars outside china, move her ill-gotten money out of china and this british businessman neil heywood was doing that for her. that they disagreed about his cut and he to get leverage threatened to expose her and she in turn ordered people to poison him. >> you also write about how you have watched as how china has grown steadily more corrupt over the years.

can you give us some examples? what have you seen? >> sure. well, china is very impressive in the caliber of the officials, the intelligence of the officials whom it appoints, but those officials have also become steadily more crooked. and one friend of mine is a judge in white collar criminal cases, and i was always a little surprised by his wealth. i gradually realized ep though he was a judge in corruption cases, he was making a living off of taking bribes from defendants in those corruption cases. and this is just so widespread. everywhere you turn there are these extraordinary stories. when i lived in china 20 years ago, corruption might be a cop taking a $10 or $20 bribe. these days the average take in one report, the average amount stolen by officials was $7 million. >> china though has been and is one of the most successful

economies in the world. so is it buckling under pressure? is it crumbling? >> that's a fascinating question. there have been other countries like taiwan, like south korea that were fantastically corrupt, but because they were delivering the goods, they were raising living standards, the leadership was able to get away with it. until now that has also been true of china. but it does seem to me that china's greatest success maybe has been in educating the country and creating a modern middle class and in doing so i think it's sewiowing the seeds the demise of the thor teariaut system. >> what could all of it mean for the u.s. and the u.s. economy? >> china has really been kind of unmoving. it's been in a political stale me stalemate for the last ten years. that's going to change in a few months.

a man call ee eed xi jinping isg to take over. we don't know a lot about him but there's some reason to think he may be more of a reformist than china has been lately, and i think that in the long run would be good for china and also good for the u.s. >> and my thanks to nick kristof for another fascinating conversation. you can read his latest column at "new york times".com. a first of its kind. a film that includes footage from every country on the earth and it's being shown in more than 160 nations on this earth day. i'll talk live with the men behind it next. but first, it is a beautiful day in washington, d.c. certainly looks like it's shaping up to be one there. nice shot of the capitol. good morning from u-2. good morning from us at cnn. ♪ what ?

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>> what you just saw is the result of 19,000 filmmakers in over 160 countries with more than 3,000 hours of video. but it all began with just one idea. joining me now are the men behind this idea. kyle redick and brandon litman are the director and executive producer of "one day on earth" a documentary that highlights the lives of millions of people in every country on the planet on one october day two years ago. it debuts today, of course, in m honor of oeearth day. another art form, music, was the inspiration. what specifically about music made you decide to produce a documentary? >> music is this universal language, and musicians from all over the world can sit down in a room and make music together in a matter of minutes. and i believe that cinema is a universal language that can be understood across borders and

languages as well. music has this immediacy and i wanted cinema to have this immediacy so i had this idea what if we had as many people across the world film during one day and make a film out of it. >> and was there any significance? it is such a cool idea and it's a great concept. it's really enjoyable to watch some of the footage. it's incredible how much footage there is. was there any significance on the date on which "one day on earth" was shot which was october 10th, 2010. 10/10 slosh 10/10/10. >> it was an easy day to remember and hopefully we get to continue to do this. we did it on 11/11/11. we'll do it on 12/12/12 and figure it out after that. >> 10/10/10 just means something for everybody and we were celebrating diversity. >> with every country in the

world represented, the difference among cultures is fairly obvious, but what would you say were some of the common threads you found, if any? >> i'd say children, love, marriage, music. >> yeah. there was joys and struggles all over the world every single day. so you get to see these and experience these stories, and you come to realize doing this project and having done it twice now, these common threads exist everywhere and it's just a matter of, for us, how deep can we go and how far can we go in order to aggregate these stories together, but you definitely get a sense of the joys and struggles of everyday life. >> one of the central characters of this film is vincent a young man in the netherlands. i want our viewers to watch a clip of this and then i want your thoughts on it. ♪ four men on the balcony ♪ overlooking the parking lot

♪ looking at a figure in the distance ♪ ♪ the king has just been shot >> we don't have the exact tape but i know vincent played a critical part in this film. how so? >> well, he's this young boy. he turns 10 on 10/10/10 and vincent has a nerve disease which his life expectancy is that of ten years. for me i know that he was such a powerful story because he represents living beyond expectations and living another day and having that choice to live another day, and i think that really sort of typifies every day we're alive we have choices and i think that sense of gratitude -- vincent is still alive today. i know his family is watching the film probably pretty close to right now, and, you know, i think that there's just a really beautiful mother/son story that was kind of one of the main through lines of our film.

>> every day is a gift for vincent and every day could be a gift for all of us. >> absolutely. "one day on earth" has several themes. some of them are lighter like love and music. there are more serious issues like water scarcity and poverty. was that part of your goal here? i mean, is there a message to this? >> absolutely. i think that, you know, we wanted to make a film that had a message, that carried some weight, that exposed some of the challenges around the world, but we really wanted people to walk out of the theater going, my god, i have hope to make a choice, to make this a better place, too. not just the sense of despair that we have all these challenges, but we also have huge opportunity. >> brandon, quickly, a final thought from you. >> one of the ways we went about and did this was by partnering with some of the world's most respected ngos and the united nations and forming these partnerships, we were able to dive deep into these issues and

it's exciting to be able to deliver it back to the community. we have screenings right now in over 160 countries. you can go to our website and see the film and order the film into your community. we hope people could gather around the film and explore these issues together and hopefully talk about it after the film. >> we're having amazing community effort to make this screening happen and that's been beautiful as well. >> kyle redick, brandon litman, director and executive producer of "one day on earth." thank you both they have. good luck with the film. >> thank you. >> time 24 minutes past the hour. let's check out some of the stories making news around the nation. it's not just fenway park that's celebrating a milestone this weekend. satellite's spa seattle's space needle is 50 years old. a man was badly burned after a truck carrying two propane tanks exploded near a mcdonald's in california. he was actually trying to stop one of the tanks from leaking

when firefighters say static electricity caused the propane to ignite. three people, including two children inside the truck escaped. also, no one inside the mcdonald's was even hurt. two men have been arrested and charged with reckless endangerment after rigging a utah hiking trail with booby traps. police say a wire along with a second one would have set off two different devices. both men have confessed to setting these traps. a bright political future down the drain. john edwards seemingly had it all but did he take advantage of the public trust? that's what a jury will decide. we'll break down the trial next. stay with us at cnn "sunday morning," where news doesn't take the weekend off.

♪ my baby takes the morning train ♪ ♪ he works from 9:00 till 5:00 >> that is a good morning train in lasm, right? avoid all that traffic. it looks like reynolds, are we keeping you awake there? >> i'm just listening to this wonderful music. >> i thought you were yawning. >> no, no. music has a great effect on some people. sometimes it can make you happy, sometimes it can make you sad, sometimes it can make blood just explode from your eyes. that's one of those things. >> really? >> yeah, pretty much. >> i'm not going to ask you why because i like that song. i think that's a great song. >> i'm just teasing. it's one my favorites. if you're hoping for some rain you will be a happy karcamper f

philadelphia to richmond. if you will notice from norfolk, you have one band of shower activity moving through but heavier storms to the south. we're not talking about anything severe for the time being but later this afternoon when you have a little more heat that's going to be in the picture, it might cause the atmosphere to destabilize further and you might get a rumble of thunder but we do not anticipate a severe weather outbreak in terms of strong storms. however, heavy rain a possibility. with that we do have a flood watch that will be in effect for parts of the northeast including boston, south of bangor, maine, south of burlington, not far from new york and philadelphia. the places that are going to be most susceptible are place was poor drainage. also buffalo, i know winter is over, spring is here, but that doesn't mean the snow is out of the picture. 8 so 16 inches of snowfall possible mainly later tonight through tuesday. that lake-effect activity. plenty of sunshine for the central and southern plains. as you wrap it up, your high, 73 in san francisco. 62 in kansas city.

67 atlanta. 53 in new york. you are up to speed. let's send it back to you. >> thank you. former presidential candidate john edwards will take his place in federal court tomorrow in his home state of north carolina. his once promising political career is in shambles. as prosecutors prepare to tell a jury the tale of a candidate out of control, personally and financially. cnn's senior correspondent joe johns has more. >> reporter: this political soap opera started at a bar in new york city where edwards met self proclaimed filmmaker rielle hunter in early 2006. she was quickly hired by edwards to hire webi sodes. it showed how close edwards and hunter had become. >> so glad you like it. >> i like it.

>> reporter: immediately those close to edwards suspected an affair. behind the scenes the government argues that edwards was orchestrating a massive cover-up. loyal and wealthy donors paid for his pregnant mistress to relocate and personal aide andrew young would claim paternity. in the fall of 2010 a tabloid published a story on the affair. immediately the campaign went into defense mode. >> when you were running for president, you flat out denied having a relationship with rielle hunter. did you give me a truthful answer? were you telling the truth then? >> yes. >> reporter: after being chased by reporters, eventually he admitted personal failure. >> there's no question that i have done wrong, and i take full responsibility for having done wrong. >> reporter: once a prominent politician preaching to america, edwards himself was living two lives. he had fathered a child with his mistress while his wife, elizabeth edwards, was dying of cancer. in 2011 the government indicted edwards on six counts, including

conspiracy, issuing false statements, and violating campaign finance laws. he faces up to 30 years in prison. >> we're conditioned to say the same things. we're conditioned to be political, and it's hard to shed all that. >> reporter: edwards has spent the last year preparing for his trial, shuffling his legal team and undergoing surgery for a heart condition. former top aides are expected to testify at his trial. rielle hunter has immunity. >> i will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that i have caused to others, but i did not break the law, and i never, ever thought i was breaking the law. >> reporter: experts say the government has a tough, unprecedented case to prove in the arena of campaign finance. but no matter what the outcome, it is the ultimate fall from grace for edwards, who was once adored as a son of the south. joe johns, cnn.

>> and coming up in about 20 minutes, we're going to talk with mark schwartz, a legal expert, and we'll talk about this trial which begins tomorrow. and now some top stories. we begin in syria where the violence is escalating. while the u.n. has agreed to send 300 u.n. monitors to syria, opposition activists say the assad regime has resumed shelling the city of homs. the presence of u.n. monitors is meant to hold the government accountable and to push troops to uphold a cease-fire. susan rice had this warning. >> in the united states our patience is exhausted. >> so far today at least seven people were killed according to a human rights group. in france voters are heading to the polls today in the country's presidential elections. president nicolas sarkozy cast

his ballot with his wife, carla bruni, in paris. it's shaping up to be a challenging fight with nine other candidates. the economy and jobs are key issues. urban outfitters has this t-shirt for sale. critics say it resembles the star of david patch worn during the holocaust. you are looking at a design of a church that will temporarily replace the christ church cathedral 14 months after an earth nearly destroyed it. believe it or not, this transitional church will be made of cardboard. you heard me right. it will be made up of hundreds of cardboard tubes along with timber, steel, and a concrete base. once completed the $4 million structure will be able to hold up to 700 worshippers. church on the web? we'll talk to one pastor who is

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♪ so i brought it to mike at meineke. we gave her car a free road handling check. i like free. free is good. my money. my choice. my meineke. welcome back, everyone, to cnn "sunday morning." i'm randi kaye. just about the bottom of the hour now. this morning many of you probably have plans to go to church. but did you know that you don't have to physically be sitting in the pews to attend a service anymore. instead, you can just surf the web. it's that easy. many churches have website, some even stream sermons live and more are turning to social media like christ fellowship church in mckinney, texas. want to make church donations? they even have an app for that.

you could say sunday service at church has gone high-tech. bruce miller is the poster at christ fellowship. your church is nondenominational nondenominational. about 2100 people attend on sunday. why the digeal oital outreach? >> we want to reach people who cannot attend church. whether it is physically or emotional. >> so how does it work? are there live chats during the online sermons or digital bible shouldy? >> yes, there are hosts who are online. when you walk on on your computer so to speak, there is someone to greet you and say, welcome, randi, we're glad you're here, how is your mom? we were praying for you last week. the service appears in a window on your screen and there's chat available just like on sunday morning when you elbow the

person next to you, you can be talking during the service with other people who are participating at the same time. >> are you at all concerned just as i listen to that, i can't imagine attending a service online. are you at all concerned that it's too impersonal? >> well, actually through the internet often times people are more willing to open up because of the feeling of anonymity, and we also have a private ability to -- for someone to pray for someone on a separate chat line where they're able to have a private conversation with someone who can reach out to them personally. >> i know the christian church has seen a decline in its membership over the past five years among the young. is this a way to try to get the youth back into the fold? >> well, we're hoping that being able to speak the technological medium of our day that, that we can communicate with people who are familiar with using facebook. our online campus is through a

facebook xliapplication. >> how has it been received? >> it's really been received well. not only by young people, but we're finding people who are older often have more health limitations that prevent them from coming on a sunday morning, and yet they're able to participate through the internet. >> and what about the older church members? do you find that they're taking part in this as well? have they figured it out? >> they really have. the number of people who are older who are on facebook, as you know, is a large number, and so they're able to participate. we seen find family members who are across the country who will come visit their children on a holiday and tell me we were watching online and able to discuss the sermon and the service with our children even though we live in different cities. >> so where do you go from here? do you plan to expand your digital outreach? >> yes. we have a number of opportunities during the week where you can participate in an online service, and we want to

increase the number of those, and we're also about to start a spanish service online. we have a spanish service in our church and we're now going to move that onto an onloine campu. >> i like what you're doing and i'm glad you're getting a nice reaction. pastor, thank you very much. >> thanks, randi. thank you very much. >> for more stories on faith check out our belief blog at cnn.com/belief. john edwards in court. the conspiracy trial starts tomorrow. so how is his legal team going to defend against his mistress taking the stand? we'll check it out. you're watching cnn "sunday morning," where news doesn't take the weekend off. active naturals wheat formulas restore strength for up to 90% less breakage in three washes. for strong, healthy hair with life, new aveeno nourish+ strengthen.

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welcome back. let's head to washington now. cnn "state of the union" coming up at the top of the hour, which means we get a preview now from candy crowley. good morning. >> good morning. >> you have an exclusive interview with marco rubio campaigning with mitt romney apparently saying no to thev vp run. but do you get the feeling they are testing the waters a little bit? >> marco rubio is certainly a rock star inside the republican

party. when he got elected everyone said this is the republican's barack obama, young guy, he's exciting, et cetera, et cetera. anytime you can get him to campaign with you, i think the romney campaign would take them up on that. obviously, we're going to look at it as a tryout. what's interesting to me, you're right, rubio has been saying in a lot of different forums, i'm not going to be the vice president and that means no, i don't want it. i want to stay senator. i asked him the exact same question when we did our interview, and he has a different answer. it's not yes, but it's, well, you know, i'm not going to do that anymore, we're going to respect the process. that was all theoretical before, now the process is ongoing and i'm sure mitt romney will pick a good vice president. it's interesting to me that suddenly we have a slightly different answer. i don't know if folks said, hey, if you don't want it, tell him privately, not publicly, so he's backing off, or whether people have said keep an open mind. it's a markedly different tone. >> i'm sure you saw that clip this week where he goofed and

said when i'm vice president. that's not what he meant to say. >> yeah. you know, calling dr. freud, yeah. >> exactly. i know you're also going to speak with representative elijah cummings of course talking about the secret service prostitution scandal. what do you think he's going to tell you? we spoke with him briefly yesterday and it seems he still has confidence in the director sullivan at the secret service. >> i must say that seems to be -- there are some calls certainly for sullivan to resign, but by and large there is a real -- there's such a kind of respect as a whole for the secret service that i think people don't want to go there yet. i think you'd have to say it depends -- most people don't want to go there yet. i think it depends on what else we learn and what i want to know from the congressman is, is there more to be found out? i mean, do we know the parameters now? do we know what happened? or is there more going on than meets the eye? >> yeah, and, of course, now with word of it spreading

possibly to a second hotel -- >> right. >> and questions to the white house even if there were anyone from the administration in the same hotel. >> sure. there are plenty of advance teams down there from the military, the secret service, the white house, certainly the political arm, they send advance people down there to make sure the lighting is right. lots of folks were down there. >> candy, i look forward to the program today. we'll be tuning in. thank you. and, of course, keep it here for "state of the union" with candy crowley. it starts in about 13 minutes. 9:00 a.m. eastern, 6:00 a.m. pacific. right here on cnn. the difference between a campaign contribution and a million dollar gift. that distinction will be at the center of the john edwards' trial. it starts tomorrow and we'll break down the challenges for both sides coming your way next. ♪ [ acoustic guitar: upbeat ]

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senator john edwards is facing 30 years in prison. prosecutors say edwards used nearly $1 million in campaign funds to cover up an affair. edwards contends that the money was just a gift from friends. his federal trial starts tomorrow as we've been telling you, in north carolina. joining me now is criminal defense attorney david schwartz to talk about this. david, edwards is charged with one count of conspiracy, four counts of illegal campaign contributions, and one count of making false statements. which would you say is the big one here, conspiracy? >> well, yeah, certainly the conspiracy because the conspiracy laws are so broad that you could find a person 1% guilty of a conspiracy and they're guilty of conspiracy. he has to take this seriously, the conspiracy, the campaign fraud, and the false statements. the false statements are the ones he may go down for actually. >> how hard do you think it's going to be as we look at what's on the table here for edwards' team to prove that the money was

a gift, as they say, and no t the -- not a campaign contribution to cover up an affair and mistress. >> let me rework that premise for a second, randi. it's the prosecution's burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. the defense team could sit on their hands during this team. if the prosecution can't prove their case, then he's not guilty. the bottom line is though i'm sure you're going to see a very aggressive defense in this case, and this case hinges on the fact these funds were never campaign funds in the first place. and it's almost scary that the prosecution would bring a case like this. this case is unprecedented, and it's a complete stretch. these funds were never deposited in the campaign of john edwards. >> ybut you have andrew young, who will be a key witness for the prosecution. he's the one -- he's probably the reason why this case is even

going to court, and he was a go-between to try to work with edwards to figure out how to get the money and how to pay for rielle hunter, the mistress. >> yeah, but, you know, we have to analyze this case in the abstract. number one, the money that went in, it was a gift, okay? so it never entered the campaign funds. i understand it went to young, and young has credibility issues also, which is going to be a second line of defense for the defense team because andrew young is accused of stealing the money and putting it towards his house. that's another line of defense for the defense team. the prosecution has a lot of hurdles to overcome in this case but a jury can do anything. >> we mentioned rielle hunter. does edwards need to be concerned about her testimony given she has immunity? >> yeah. obviously, what the problem with the edwards' case is, he's a hateful human being right now in the eyes of the public, in the

eyes of that jury. so the testimony of hunter, the testimony of his then-girlfriend who he fathered a child with while running for the highest office in the land while his wife is sick with cancer is going to be devastating to john edwards to come over and, you know, cases are won and lost in jury selection. you know, i'm sure they've voir dired heavily on the fact that you can't convict their compliant, you can't convict john edwards based on the fact you don't like him. you have to convict him on the evidence at the trial. >> excellent point. david schwartz, thank you so much. nice to see you on this sunday. >> thanks, randi. let's take a look at the week ahead. we have our new week ahead calendar which we have devised here. let's tell you what's coming up. on monday as we've been talking about, john edwards trial begins. he's accused of using those combine funds to cover up an affair.

edwards' team says the money was to help with a personal problem an not a campaign donation. also on monday we have some campaigning. mitt romney and florida senator marco rubio campaigning together outside philadelphia. wonder what's in the works here, right? on wednesday the supreme court is set to hear the arguments in the arizona immigration law case and at the heart of this case you may recall is the question about police questioning the immigration status of people they pull over. also on wednesday we have the united states secret service skra scandal which has been unfolding in clolombicolombia. and on saturday something fun, the white house correspondents dinner. talk show host jimmy kimmel will host the 98th white house correspondents dinner. look for your invitation in the mail. i'm still waiting on mine. as a prostitutiititution sc

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