after farmer chris barron checks out his rain-soaked fields. >> this mostly came i think in the last three days. >> reporter: he sits perched at his desk, tweeting about how his newly planted corn crop is shaping up. >> i can kind of give reports on, okay here's where we are on planting. here's crop conditions and those kinds of things. so, they get a fundamental sense of what the situation is. >> barron started tweeting from his farm about six months ago and already has about 300 followers. they include a u.s. senator and about 100 commodity traders. >> reporter: many traders in chicago's grain trading pits got turned onto twitter a few years ago when the c.m.e. group started using that site and facebook as marketing tools. but soon traders were using social media as a sort of virtual trading floor where they could use real-time information from farmers, seed companies and grain processors to buy and sell futures contracts. >> you want to buy one out of stop at what price? >> reporter: commodities broker joseph vaclavik follows about 200 farmers on twitter, including chris barron. >

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he is sitting 18 inches from barron an alleged co-conspirator. the conspiracy in a nutshell. >> we don't know yet if john edwards will testify in this trial or not but we do know that rielle hunter will. she's on both witness lists. both the prosecution and the defense. however, we don't know exactly when this will happen. i'm bob woodruff, abc news, greensboro, north carolina. >> i'm so engaged by it. in terms of whether john edward will testify. i think it depends on how well the prosecution does. i think they are doing quite well, especially in a case like this one. i didn't think they'd be able to prove it because it's sort of a really novel theory of campaign contribution fraud. >> i think most people just have a hard time believing that john edwards, all this money is going back and forth and her hotels, her private jets and he knew absolutely nothing. he was totally oblivious to it all? most people find that very hard to believe. >> but the question is really not really whether he knew but was he doing it to save his marriage and protect e

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this week we have sasha barron cohen playing an arab guy, and he is not arab. that's my point.his movie specifically. this is the jumping off point for a bigger discussion about hollywood. >> i'm going to share this woet that you have. arabs and south asians have long been ghettoized playing exclusively cab drivers, delhi workers, terrorists, and the occasional good guy who works with law enforcement who is usually killed later in the week by a bad brown guy. again, you're saying that if you are in the creative process, if an arab is in the creative process, it would change that. >> i think it would make it a better movie. less cliche. we all know that depictions of arabs and indians in movies, it's cliche. anyone can write that stuff. the joke is like the terrorist puppet. they can be better. i actually give an example for hollywood because it makes it a better movie. in the 1960s there's a movie about mafia guides, and they weren't using italians, and they were failing. paramount, the same studio that made this movie found francis ford copalla and made a great movie about ita

barron while he was on his death bed. in that conversation, barron explained the motivation behind all the money and resources he provided to hide edwards' mistress and her baby. hickman said he did it personally because these were people whose lives had been disrupted by paparazzi. the defense also tried to discredit the testimony of the prosecution's key witness. former campaign aide andrew young. when asked about young, hitman testified if andrew told me it was raining, i would go look out the window. i wouldn't trust him at all based on experiences i had with him. shep? >> shepard: jonathan serrie at the courthouse in greensboro. thanks. the ax is coming down hard at the nation's biggest bank days after jp morgan chase announced it lost billions of dollars in a very bad bet. the same kind of risky trades that really wrecked our economy back in 2008. the company announced that this top executive is out after more than 30 years with jp morgan chase. she is one of the top women on all of wall street. making more than $15

the next charge is a 2008 george along the same lines involving fred barron.harge after that is a false statements charge. this is relating to false statements being made by the edwards' campaign to the federal election commission. the question, of course, whether john edwards was responsible for those false statements. the last one is a conspiracy charge. that sort of sums up everything. that was the first charge in the indictment for all those people who follow legal things that closely, the first charge in the indictment was put all the way at the bottom of the verdict sheet because the judge thought it would be easier for this jury to sort of figure it out from there. so they've been deliberating now for nine days. this is the ninth day of deliberations. actually something like 17 days of testimony, kate, 500 exhibits, 31 witnesses. so we've seen a lot of action here over the past couple days, and we'll keep you informed when we know what the verdict is and whether they've covered all of the charges or just some of them. >> and obviously fast-moving develo

the red barron, angels and the devils and of course the justice league. >> the paddles were breaking.e kept trying. we tried to stay in unison. we did pretty good. >> it gave us an advantage overcome pet -- overcome pet tores today. u.s. olympian is in training in baltimore, it's not michael phelps. britney reese is the long jumpers training and make a special appearance at the state high school track and field championships. reese is the current indoor and outdoor long jump champion. she qualified for beijing and looking to do the same this year in london. >>> really hot as we go towards second half of the holiday weekend. remember this is a misleading, this is the airport and it does not factor in the humidity effect, which is pronounced right now. it was pronounced this morning. fog coming in off of the ocean. it burns off in a hurry. the board walk, plaza hotel, look how packed the sand is. people getting down there early. ocean city, a bigger beach, our view, towards the ocean city pier, this is going to be packed as we go in to the day tomorrow and sunday and monday as well. bea

elizabeth confronting barron, a meeting that included her husband. palmieri's testimony shows elizabeth edwards knew about the affair in october of 2007, so he couldn't have been covering up to protect his marriage. it was to protect his campaign. >> reporter: as testimony continues, and prosecutors near the end of their case, one key voice that is yet to be heard is the woman at center of it all, rielle hunter. >> make no mistake she will take the stand. prosecution wants to end strong, if they think she would not be a good ending she will get called by the defense. >> reporter: one of the most anticipated witnesses in the controversial trial could testify by the end of the week. jay gray, nbc news, greensboro, north carolina. >>> now here is a look at other stories making news. "early today" in america. >>> in wisconsin police had to use spike strips to end a high speed chase involving five people who stole a van from a child daycare center. after the pursuit went across three counties the group surrendered. investigators say they grabbed the van a

. >> reporter: a group than cludded former mooib agent jim walsh ho ho told joors fred barron deposited tens of thousands of dollars in rielle hunter's account, undercutting the government's claim it centered on his run for the whites house. former commissioner scott thomas took the stand, his testimony was limited. outside the presence of the jury, thomas told the court "this is a clear cut case that the payments were not campaign contributions and that edwards had not violated the law" the judge ruled the opinions were inadmissible. >> he was able to tell the jury how complex the federal election laws are and in his 38 years of experience, both at the commission and in private practice, that he has never addressed the situation where a third party has asked to pay the debt of another third party. >> reporter: we also learned the defense is not likely to call the woman at the center of the legal and political soap opera. >> they have previewed to the judge the witnesses they intend to call. rielle hunter is not on the list. >> reporter: edwards daughter cate is on the list. >> defense

davis testified that barron said, the press wasn't going to find miss hunter because of the way he waser around. davis said i asked him to stop talking. i didn't want to be aware of this. edwards, he testified, said nothing. >> it's damaging to john edwards because it shows he knew what was going on. >> reporter: back on the stand today, the decorator for heiress bunny mellon, brian huffman who served as middleman for $725,000 of the cover-up money provided by mellon. huffman regaled the court with stories of mellon's estate and private jets and how she falsely labeled the checks as payments for outrageously expensive furniture. >> he said that bunny mellon called it the furniture business. and his testimony seemed to indicate that they were having some fun with it. >> that was nbc's lisa myers reporting. >>> let be bring in hampton dellinger who just stepped out of the courtroom. what's going on there this morning? >> well, bunny mellon's former interior decorator brian huffman is back on the stand continuing his streak as the trial's most entertaining witness. he looks great. and for

also told jurors about a heated meeting in a iowa hotel room where elizabeth edwards confronted fred barron and his wife about their support for rielle hunter. edwards has pled not guilty. he faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted. >>> a tragic mistake, that's how former bauer police officers johanns messerle's attorney described it. they asked the court to overturn the 2010 conviction for involuntary manslaughter. he was released last year. his lawyers are purr seeing the appeal, because he can't aplay for a job in law enforcement with a felony on his report. a ruling is expected within three months. >>> an odd odor, a suspicious smell brought hazmat crews for an industrial complex on the peninsula this morning, workers tess immune path biomedical firm in mellow park we are heating gold in a beaker of acid over the night. a deputy investigating an unrelated suspicious car caught a whiff of the strong chemical smell. authorities say this process is supposed to take place inside, not in the open air. it's not clear why the workers weren't using the lab. >>> tuition could climbly 6% this

. >> i think anything that shows john edwards had knowledge that the money from melon and fred barron was being used to further their campaign is significant for the government. >> reporter: analysts say testimony from melon's testimony may back fire. >> he did explain that his client was clear and certain that the $700,000 or so that ultimately wound up with andrew and sherry young, some of it going on to reale hunter, most of it staying with them, was intended to assist john edwards with a personal matter. he also indicated that john edwards, as far as you knew, knew nothing about these monies. >> reporter: there are indications the state could wrap up its case this week and some indicate it could close with a bang. >> i think it's likely the government could close reale hunter as the crowning part of the case. >> reporter: the miss stress has yet to appear, but has been the focus of much of the testimony here. >> i do think the government has gone out of its way with its witnesses to portray ms. hunter in an unflattering way. >> reporter: in 2010 oprah winfrey asked ms. hunter abou

there's also fred barron who passed away right after the democratic convention in 2008. testify. so there's -- most of the key players here are either -- they haven't been able to appear in court or they're not living anymore. it's a very sad story in that sense but one of the biggest players here is andrew young, who we know was john edwards number one top aide. he is obsessed with john edwards, that's a word he will use himself, and he was the government's star witness. i was in the trial when he testified for the first couple days. he looked very hurt. he and john edwards barely looked at each other. they looked like at one point they had been really, really good friends, but at the very end when abbe lowell was able to cross-examine him he essentially got him to admit you wrote a very nasty book about john edwards after the money trail and all the promises and political fame ended for john edwards and, therefore, ended for you, too, and did you essentially lie in that book and his lst couple words were, yes, i did lie, and that's the government's key witness and that

it came from evening land, it came from banks like the roth childs and the barrons, these big bans of england and the bank of england kind of controlled the credit markets. but banks are the interesting part of the 1837 crisis, because for a long time historians have focused on the end of the -- that was the end of when people were panicked. the bank rush is the end of a long period of people being really nervous. >> which really don't have any -- i was struck by in 1837 that there was certainly a call for the government to accept in, is that a common theme throughout the financial crises in history? >> it's often thought that there were bank runs, the banks shut themselves down in terms of trading paper money for cold coins. so there weren't that many bankrupts at that point either. but it was a politicized argument in the 1830s. those who wanted government intervention were those who disagreed with martin van buren and andrew jackson's policies. to try to bring back a more gold and silver currency. so i do think calls for government intervention in one way or another are sort of tra

if those are the rules and the barrons made king john sign it was the rules in 1215. so that's been the rules for a long time. two and a half years without charge is an amazing thing, but it could happen to jose padilla because of who he was. what would it take in this country for it to happen to you or someone you know or someone that lives in your neighborhood? again, not because he's a good guy. the courts have found he's a bad guy. what other legal protections -- what our civil rights exist for is not to protect the rights of good people. it's to protects the rights of people we suspect might be bad people. the jose padilla case should be something that we don't forget very soon. >> i want to switch gears just quickly and get back to the panel. i know this is about contemporary struggles, but i want to go back to robert kennedy's famous trip to south africa. we can have the screen come down. he was invited by a group of students while he was a senator, and after he accepted the invitation, the head of the organization was actually arrested and was not allowed to g

we'll talk to chris barron and jared polis.e romans. >> good morning, soledad. thank you. in syria a pair of powerful explosions in the heart of damascus. one was captured on tape more than 40 people were killed. 170 others injured. syria blames attacks on anti-government terrorists and an opposition group claims sy a syria's intelligence agency was killed in the blast. >>> adam mayes on the list of top fugitives. authorities believe he's on the run with two young girls. mayes is accused of killing their mother and their oldest sister. there's now a $175,000 reward for information leading to mayes' arrest and the girls. these two little girls on their screen, their rescue. >>> vladimir putin will not attend g-8 summit in maryland. he says he has to finalize cabinet appointments to russia's new government. his cancellation is seen as another sign of a strained relationship with president obama. >>> it seems no one can explain why a toddler was ordered off a jetblue flight at ft. lauderdale airport. she doesn't look like a terror

us for a visit to milwaukee for a look inside the restored guilted mansion of german-american beer barron captain frederick h. pabst. >> i'm john eastberg and the senior historian for the pabst monshan here in milwaukee. today we're standing in the captain frederick pabst mansion that was built in milwaukee between 1890 and 1892, and i always like to start a tour of this house with a little context of why it's here, because if you're visiting this city, you'll see that the house is sitting at 20th and wisconsin avenue which is kind of in the middle of a very heavily commercial district. it doesn't make any sense why the pabst mansion should be here today. but when the pabst family chose this site, in the late 1880s, this was in the middle of milwaukee's most prestigious residential district b.50 or 60 mansions were lining the avenue from just outside of downtown, out to the countryside at 35th. so when they built this house, there was already a home standing on the site, and so they tore that down in june of 1890 and began construction of this house. now, the original cost estimate was $7

graph goodman is an award winning journalist who was written for forbes the wall street journal barron's the financial times the guardian she's also the author of the asylum the renegades who hijacked the world's oil market les welcome back to the kaiser report thanks for having me rightly a mcgrath goodman if the u.s. is now an oil exporter why is a price of gas a four bucks price of gas is a four dollars because we are now pegging our. prices to the overseas benchmark which is european oil which is twenty dollars a barrel higher and over here in the u.s. which is really convenient for those. that sounds wacky why are we paying to that overseas brand when we should be paying to w.t.f. a west texas good old west texas intermediary i think the texas intermediate has been broken for a while and it's been widely acknowledged by the market but it's been taking a while for it to catch on it was saudi arabia first started deserted it then iraq and kuwait and then wall street just decided well it's a mess and we're going to start taking everything to the overseas when the costs are just very co

the players knew it immediately and were pretty much saying goodbye to barron davis.uch be a shock if you want to go to the rehabilitation and wait a year-and-a-half to come back. he is the ultimate adventurer, his name is bill bradley and he will be attempting to climb north america's highest peak, mount mckinley in alaska. 20,320 ft.. last year, nine people vice while attempting to summit of mount mckinley. he joined us earlier tonight, he has a personality and he is ready to roll. >> you have to have a sense of humor or you will not do it. you check to make sure they you are in control. >>gary: you are not a guy on your own, you have three children. what do they think of that risking his life? >> my children are grown and i do have life insurance. there will not have to fall me out, throw me in bed and say i died of natural causes. >>gary: why do you need this? >> i like showing people what is possible. i am an average of talented guy and the odds are 300-one of me dying. that is if you do something stupid serious >> you try to figure out why those guys indicted yo

it's red barron time. open cockpit -- >> you say red barron and i think pizza. >> there you go. >> it's a generational gap we have going on around here. good weather for the day. enjoy your day west and northbound, almost no chance for rain. as you get down into far southern maryland, you need to be on the lookout for a chance for drops today. i can't give you the all clear, but from about andrews air force base, north and westbound, everything is looking a-okay. mostly clear skies out there. bright sunshine to get your second half of the weekend started. temperatures cooled off dramatically during the overnight hours. we made it to 84 degrees yesterday, and we managed to drop back all the way in the 50s and low 60s across the area first thing this morning. 60 at national airport now, and most of the suburbs are well down into the 50s and a light breeze averaging 6 miles per hour and isn't going to be a strong wind outside today, but an east breeze will gradually increase to the 10 to 15 miles per hour ran

edwards and fred barron where she says the topic of rielle hunter was openly discussed.gest that edwards and his wife had knowledge about the barron couple's attempts to keep the affair quiet before rielle hunter's baby was born. the conversation is also important because edwards' knowledge is one of the things the government has to show in order to prove its case to the jury. carol? >> now is your chance to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. the question this morning, what is your reaction to president obama's endorsement of same-sex marriage. now that the dust has settled after his announcement, the question is how will this affect the way americans vote? it's hard to say. there may be some signals. for one thing, the president needs support of african-american voters. some of the same voters who helped overwhelmingly pass north carolina's amendment banning same-sex marriage. obama's announcement worried some black supporters. edward is president of the georgia state conference of the naacp said the strategy will not turn people strictly democrat for romne

others, hickman said barron was persnickety about whether he was using the money for edwards person.ign donation. but the defense wanted to put a -- judge decided late today that she wasn't going to allow most of that system. so it was a step forward for the defense today, also a step backward. >> we'll see if it wraps up by tend of the week. thank you very much for that, joe johns on the scene. >>> facebook goes public with its stock this week and investors are clam boring to get in on the action. mark zuckerberg is about to get even richer and he's only 28 years old. today is his birthday, by the way. dan simon is taking an in-depth look at the young man who helped change the way the world communicates. >> gosh, okay. i'm glad this isn't live. >> reporter: it was about 2006, a nervous and camera shy mark zuckerberg. i'm sorry k i start that a different way? i'm like so not on today. >> mark, can you just say your name and pronounce it so nobody messes it off? >> it's mark zuckerberg. >> how would you like to be identified? your title? >> founder and ceo. >> reporter: outside silico

that's why i needed fred barron and bunny melon to funnel money to rielle to hide her because i had told elizabeth i was cutting off and i didn't. >> bill: he admits it? >> is he not on trial for having affair. is he on trial for taking campaign. >> bill: he didn't. >> claiming they were gifts that weren't meant for political purposes. >> bill: i'm betting the jury is convicting him. when is that going to come down. >> couple more weeks. the interesting thing is the prosecution did not call rielle hunter, they didn't need her when it was all said and done. they think she a loose cannon. we have to see whether razzle dazzle takes the stand. >> bill: i will interrogate him. >> last week you said he was worse than ayers attachment i'm sure you got some viewer. >> roll the tape. >> bill: taken out of context. there she is. great american news quiz, the most successful movies of all time edition. we'll be right back with it. >> bill: back of the book segment tonight, great american news quiz the most successful films of all time edition. here now fox news anchor martha maccallum playing for r

and then barron cone is allowed to -- >> for us -- >> very few people stand up for us.ndians as well, they're the ones usually people can mock. nobody stands up for us. >> do you agree with that anna? >> don, we 4ri6 in a democracy where there's freedom of spees and i think we have to be our cone conscious we can vote with your money, frankly. if we think it's not property we won't go to movietion that don't make money so we should just ourselves. >> will people get the joke or will they be offended? do you think it will stir up tensions in the -- >> that's not the issue. the bigger issue, they mafia guys and he -- it's not the freedom of speech. i'm not saying ban the movie. >> we got to go faster. i want to talk about the adventures. this movie is making money like -- 855 million worldwide. more than $555 million. why is this movie so popular? and quickly, here's the thing. what superhero you be. >> that's a very faint super man thing and i grew up in this time of underroos so these ew t-shirts. >> we're supposed to be wearing them. >> there they are. i would be super

today they seemed to have moved on to the other guy fred barron and his donation.do seem to be doing this as a matter of course. okay, what's the evidence, let's go through it. i wouldn't be too cocky if i were razzle dazzle. >> nickname for edwards. >> razzle dazzle, thank you. let me just tell the viewers what they have been asking for. they wanted a handwritten note from one of the donors to this guy andrew young the edwards' aide that he wrote on the note when he gave him a bunch of cash to be used to hide the mistress. old chinese saying use cash, not credit cards. that doesn't sound above board. >> bill: guilty. >> convict him on that? then they wanted phone message from andrew young six months after campaign ended? why is he doing this six months after the campaign ended if it's not to further his own. >> bill: make money. >> he writes everything is on go. i'm going to meet privately with this elderly donor bunny mellon and make sure you are protected. the jury just seems to be looking at the evidence that the prosecution put in to prove their case that mone

four hours talking about the nature of the relationship with the world's most powerful newspaper barront he or any of the other politicians had gotten cozy, but maybe that relationship became unhealthy. he did, though, admit that he felt it was necessary and right that he flew after way around the world in 1995 to meet rupert murdock in australia, but denied that he ever changed a policy for rupert murdock. >> i don't know of a policy we ever changed as a result of rupert murdock. does that mean he's not a powerful fixture in news, no, of course he is. >> reporter: he did admit that perhaps he failed to tackle press regulation during his ten years as prime minister but said it was a difficult issue that may have pushed other more substantial issues off the agenda putting him in the middle of a media firestorm. he also said that perhaps at times politicians had gotten too close with rupert murdock. perhaps the most dramatic moment of the day was just before lunch when a protester burst into court 73 and accused tony blair in being come police sent. >> there's a big event this coming week