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all eyes on john edwards' daughter cate, as she prepares to testify in his trial. can she keep him out of jail? >>> roadside terror, a man posing as a police officer, pulling over drivers and shooting them. the hunt for a killer tonight. >>> and made in america. american inventors, selling american products around the world. a billion people clamoring for a pringle that tastes like shrimp? don't laugh. >>> good evening, we begin tonight with an abc news exclusive in the explosive case of trayvon martin, the unarmed teen who was shot while walking through a neighborhood. there's new evidence tonight about the man charged. abc news has obtained a key medical report which would certainly be shown to any jury. matt gutman brings us what we found. >> reporter: tonight for the first time, a medical report obtained exclusively by abc news is revealing the full extent of george zimmerman's injuries after his confrontation with trayvon martin. a broken nose, two black eyes, gashes on the back of his head. all this from the doctor who treated zimmerman the morning after the

cate edwards will take the stand to keep her father out of jail, saying she'll defend him because that's what families do. bob woodruff as more. >> reporter: she has been at her father's side for weeks, silent and stoic. but tomorrow could be the day cate edwards finally speaks publically about one of the most painful periods of her life. the break-up of her parents' marriage. the jurors will hear her voice -- the one that so moved us at the funeral for her mother elizabeth a year and a half ago. >> i am who i am today and i will become whoever it is that i will become in large part because she was my mom. the greatest ambition that i can think of is that we will each honor her by being the people she taught us to be. and that by doing that she will live on in each of us. >> reporter: cate edwards is 30, and newly married herself. a lawyer, like her father, and a graduate of harvard law school. by far, she would be the most sympathetic witness in his trial, making the case more personal, more emotional. >> i think she can give some real invite into her mother and what her mother felt abo

when john edwards arrived today, his daughter cate who has been constantly by his side, was not with him. cate was willing to testify for her father, but the defense opted not to call her. >> if you put your daughter on the stand and you're not willing to take the stand, that sends a pretty significant negative message to the jury. >> john edwards, who rose to fame through his skills of persuasion, decided to remain silent with his freedom on the line, rather than be cross-examined by prosecutors about his lies. but analysts say not testifying also carries risks. >> the gamble is that the jury would have expected to see john edwards take the stand and say to them, look them in the eye under oath and say i never thought i was committing a crime. >> less surprising, the decision not to call the woman at the center of the scandal, rielle hunter, who the defense worried would remind the jury of all they dislike about edwards. over the course of the trial, the defense all but demolished the credibility of edwards' chief accuser, andrew young, revealing he pocketed most of the money the go

so, the question now is when will edwards daughter, cate, take the stand? she was close to her mother, elizabeth, who died of breast cancer. and can testify that her dad didn't want her mom to find out about the affair. >> all that makes her sympathetic to the jury. could humanize john edwards to the jury. >> reporter: when cate takes the stand, it could be the most emotional moment so far. earlier this month, she had to leave the courtroom, because it was too hard for her to hear how it affected her mother. >> what a trial it's been. >>> the fbi has launched an investigation into potential wrongdoing on the part of jpmorgan chase, after last week's $2 billion trading loss. for now, shareholders are giving ceo, jamie dimon, a pass for the blunder. they've voted to let him keep his job. they also endored dimon's day package from last year. >>> and the white house disclosure forms show president obama, in fact, has a jpmorgan chase checking account. and that account holds between $500,000 and 1 million bucks. last year, that account generated $1,002 in intere

his daughter, cate, set to take the stands later today. she's been by her father's side from the very beginning. abc's bob woodruff has the latest. >> reporter: for more than three weeks, cate edwards has been her father's most visible supporter at this trial. quietly enduring, day after day, the painful and lurid details of her father's deceit. >> cate told me not long ago, i'm the child of two parents. as much as she's her mother's daughter, she's her father's son. she is going to stick by him. she believes he has committed no crime. >> reporter: and later today, jurors may get to hear from the woman at the center of this public drama, as defense attorneys put cate on their witness list. >> cate has never publicly spoken about the effect of this scandal on her. she doesn't want anybody to mistake her being at his side for condoning what he did, how badly he hurt her mother. >> reporter: the eldest daughter of john and elizabeth, cate edwards has, in her 13 years, already suffered her share of difficult days. her older brother, wade, kill

here's cate edwards, the daughter.e's willing to forgive him and testify on his behalf, perhaps jurors will take that into account as well. >> do you think this is a tricky one for the defense? obviously you want to get all that out of her. at the same time, you don't want to seem to be, i don't know, pandering or pushing too much. >> or victimizing her all over again, using her in a way where now it's the daughter that has to carry this great, great burden. i think it could potentially be fraught but perhaps it also brings an emotional side to the case. if she can forgive her father. if that kind of testimony can come in, it might be ultimately helpful. i wonder if he's a witness they would like to call instead of having to call john edwards himself. >> well, the witness they called but who they couldn't get the big picture from who they would not allow to testify to say, look, this was in no way illegal, that's basically, i guess, the heart of what they blocked. >> yeah. if that former s.e.c. commissioner had been ab

cate edwards has stood by her father's side since day one.ohn edwards himself might testify as well this week. there is uncertainty about this. jonathan serrie is in greensboro with more. >> reporter: uncertainty and speculation. john edwards and his daughter cate are both among the defense's list of potential witnesses for today and wednesday, and while that is no guarantee that each of them will testify the defense has apparently had to adjust its strategy somewhat after the judge banned some key testimony from a key defense witness. cate edwards has been by her father's side every day of this trial. while she may not have intimate knowledge of the funds that went into the cover up of her father's affair, she can certainly speak to the emotions her family was experiencing at that time. >> i think cate actually will help human ice john edward. maybe she'll show a different side. it's her dad, after all. hopefully she'll have some helpful testimony in the form of conversations with her mother. she was probably privy to conversations with both

trial as early as today. 30-year-old cate has been at her father's side since the trial began more than three weeks ago. yesterday, the judge severely limited the testimony of a key defense witness, who could have raised doubt about whether edwards broke campaign finance laws. >>> brian mcnamee returns to the stand in the perjury trial of roger clemens. yesterday, mcnamee testified he began innijecting clemens in 19. clemens is charged with lying to congress in 1998, when he said he never used performance-enhancing drugs. >>> a man convicted of drunk driving three times but was pardoned by haley barbour, is facing new charges. harry bostick is accused of driving under the influence, and leaving the scene of an accident that killed an 18-year-old woman. >>> a nigerian man is under arrest for using the identity of a murder victim to work at one of the biggest airports at the country. the man known as jerry thomas entered the country el lily in 1989 and worked for several contractors in newark, new jersey. he did not work for the tsa. but he did have access to sensitive areas. >>> more sev

edwards' oldest daughter cate could be on the stand as early as today.em about the breakup of her parents' marriage. also on the witness list, rielle hunter, the mother of john edwards' child, and john edwards could take the stand in his own defense. >>> more legal news -- o.j. simpson's new lawyer is arguing that the former football great should be freed from prison and given a new trial. the las vegas lawyer says simpson's former attorneys did such a bad job representing him that he deserves, well, a do-over. simpson is serving 9 to 33 years for armed robbery and kidnapping. his previous appeals to the nevada supreme court have failed. >>> the fbi has opened an investigation into potential wrongdoing on the part of jpmorgan chase after last week's $2 billion trading loss. for now, that blunder has not affected ceo jamie dimon. shareholders voted to keep him as the head of the nation's biggest bank. they also endorsed dimon's pay package from last year which is worth $23 million. >>> this week's facebook initial stock offering could be a bigger deal tha

cate edwards has been a steady presence by her father's said, unwaiving until head. what happened? bob woodruff tells us. >> reporter: cate edwards has been there at her father's side nearly every day of this trial. stoically listening to the humiliates details of his affair with rielle hunter. but today, with the new witness about to take the stand, john edwards leaned over to his daughter and said, i don't know what's coming. do you want to leave? she left the courtroom in tears. the witness that had john edwards so worried, campaign aide christina reynolds, a close confident of his wife elizabeth. her dramatic testimony, a window into how mrs. edwards coped with her husband's infidelity. vividly describing how mrs. edwards confronted her husband at the raleigh airport the day after a national enquirer published its first story about the scandal in october, 2007. elizabeth was very upset, reynolds testified. she stormed off and collapsed into a ball in the parking lot. she wanted, we took her to the bathroom in the hangar. she seemed a little calmer and then stormed out of the ba

cate was willing to testify for her father, but the defense opted not to call her. >> if you put your daughter on the stand and you're not willing to take the stand, that sends a negative message to the jury. >> john road to fame through his skills of persuasion. decided to remain free rart than be cross-examined by prosecutors, but not testifying also carries risks. >> the gamble is that the jury would have expected john edwards to take the stand and look at them under oath and say i never thought i was committing a crime. >> less supplirprising, the decn not to call the woman at the center of the scandal, rielle hunter, who the defense worriyi would remind the jury of all they did not like about edwards. all the demolished credibility of edward young, revealing he pocketed most of the money the government claims went to hide hunter. edwards' defense is focused on the fine points of campaign finance law. and government alleged money used to hide hunter amounted to illegal contributions to edwards, which he denies zrb some see a big hole in the government's case. >> they have to show

cate who most all of you have seen, has been here every single day. she has been here no matter what. no matter how awful and painful the lot of the evidence was for her. evidence about her dad, evidenceunts her mom, who she loved so, so dearly. but she never once flinched. she said, dad, i love you. i'll be there for you no matter what. and i'm so proud to have had her with me. this is the last thing i'm going to say. i don't think god's through with me. i really believe he thinks there's still some good things i can do. and i want to dedicate my life to being the best dad i can be and to helping those kids who i think deserve help and who i hope i can help. >> that was john edwards just a couple hours ago. nbc's lisa myers has been covering this trial in greensboro, north carolina, since the beginning. she's also at the courthouse tonight. lisa, good evening to you. >> good evening, matt. it was a day of high drama, tension, and fast chasing emotions. but at the end of the day, john edwards was hugging everyone inside. his mother, bobby, summed it u

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i was a little surprised about cate not being called. she looked all dressed up yesterday and ready to go. they didn't call her. so i thought today's the day. she didn't even show up in court, anderson. so something happened there. perhaps it was john edwards himself thinking, you know what, i've done enough damage here, i don't want to put my 30-year-old daughter through this too. >> what do you make of his defense overall, how they did? >> well, you know, they may have thought that seven witnesses over two days and a little smidge today was enough, because the prosecution didn't prove their case. but i was surprised that they did not put on more witnesses, especially a friend of john edwards named david kirby. this is an attorney who had dealings with andrew young and they sort of set it up during the trial that he was going to come here and say andrew young was full of beans. well, david kirby never showed up here at all. so, again, maybe they thought the prosecution did not prove its case and, i'll tell you, the prosecution has a ver

i think we will see cate edwards. i don't think we'll see rielle hunter. it's too great of a risk and the evidence is already in that the youngs kept most of the money. at the end of the day i think john edwards will take the ultimate risk and take the stand. >> i want to ask you about that in a minute. let me turn to you, sand ra while we're still on the topic of cate edwards. you've spoken to those close to her. she's obviously very loyal to her father and her mother. is she conflicted at all? >> friends who have texted her are concerned about how difficult this is say that she is not conflicted. that she is absolutely convinced he committed no crime, and she knows that this is what her mother would have done. >> what do you mean? >> her mother told me before she died, elizabeth said, i wish the grand jury would call me to testify. she, as a lawyer, had gone through what she knew to be the facts, and absolutely believed that he committed no crime. cate now would be the final note in what has really been an ugly and sordid line of testimony, and she would

we expect cate edwards this afternoon.ocent victim in the whole affair and its cover-up. she's a harvard-educated lawyer. could be a very powerful witness for john edwards. >> is she also able to potentially sway the jury in the fact that she can paint john edwards, who has not been painted in such a great light, but in a much better light as a father and more as a human being? >> reporter: well, that's certainly the defense team's hope. she's able to talk, i think, about how much edwards, her father, wanted to preserve her family and not just his campaign, which is a key thick for the defense. edwards, i think, got a break this morning. one of his former lawyers, wade smith, very well regarded, was able to serve essentially as a character witness for edwards and talk about what a hard worker he was. also the former fec chairman, scott thomas, was allowed to testify in a very limited capacity but he did make clear that his 30-plus years no one had ever asked him about the legality of money to cover up a mistress. >> so bas

john edwards, his daughter cate nor rielle hunter none of them taking the stand.sted their case today. lisa myers has been covering the trial. what went into that decision? >> well, i think there was a calculation that they had poked enough holes in the government's case and that putting on some of these witnesses all came with risk. certainly i think there were many analysts and most of john edwards' friends thought he would take the stands in his own defense. his success as a trial lawyer and politician were based in large parts on his skills of persuasion. in the end the defense may have decided there have been too many lies he could could have been con fronted with during cross-examination and he could have been asked about some of the facts of the case and not had really good answers. clearly they calculated they were better off doing a limited defense and not exposing john edwards to the jury. the other issue is whether the jury would have found him believable and believed that he finally was telling the truth. and you know, that goes to his psyche and i thi

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bob woodruff is watching the trial. >> reporter: he's the eldest daughter, cate. today may testify in his defense. it will be the first time we've heard from cate since she took a much different stand a year and a half ago, speaking at her mother, elizabeth's, funeral. >> we'll each honor her by being the people she taught us to be. and by doing that, she'll live on in each other us. one thing remains true, which is this, we're still a family. >> reporter: her testimony could turn the tables of this trial. showing jurors the emotional toll edwards' affair took on in his family and elizabeth. his lawyers say edwards was hiding the relationship from his wife, not voters. >> cate is the perfect person to do it. she comes to a stand as a total victim in this case. >> reporter: edwards' defense attorneys, who say they could wrap up their cases as early as today, may also call the other woman at the center of the controversy, rielle hunter. on tuesday, jurors learned hunter was given $9,000 a month, on top of free housing, by edwards' former finance chairman to support

cate blanchett plays a loose woman at odds with the outside world. the play is performing in germany. the oscar-winning actress plays a woman who finds himself rejected by her husband and most other people she encounters. she says the situation is one audiences can identify with. >> for me, what has been very rewarding as that the play has struck a chord with people. perhaps women mostly because it does describe a woman in her invisible years, when she is not old, not young. "what is my purpose? what is my place?" i think that is something that is timeless for people. >> the production is a creation of the theater company run by planchette and her husband year against getting cast based their version on a new english translation. >> i think perhaps because we do not have a visceral an immediate connection to the history that surrounds this work -- we understand it intellectually -- i think we have been quite liberated from perhaps the baggage that might come with the reinvention of this work, so we found it really liberating. >> in the quirky role, b

his eldest daughter cate will take the stand in her father's defense. that could happen as early as today. but will john edwards himself testify? a new decision from the judge in that case could actually force his hand. we're going to get the latest in a live report. >> and a little bit later, betty white is going to be here. she's going to be talking in a live interview as she gets ready to take the hot seat for the friar's club annual roast. you've been roasted. >> i don't even know if she understands what she's in for. it can be brutal. but you know what? she's got a feisty sense of humor. i still have scars. it was two years ago. anyway, we look forward to talking to betty. we begin, though, on a tuesday morning with the ongoing fallout over that $2 billion trading loss at jpmorgan chase. as the firm holds its annual meeting today. nbc's ann thompson has the latest on this. ann, good morning. >> good morning, matt. today those shareholders will take a nonbinding vote on the krensation packages for two of the principles involved in this drama, $23.1

both his daughter, cate, and rielle hunter could take the stand today. >> and the defense lawyer saidhis could also be the last day. >> could be. >>> and we showed you the video of halle berry taking on the paparazzi outside her daughter's school. she was so angry then. now she is calling if the big guns. she is asking president obama for help. and we're going to get into that. >> asking the president. >>> right now, we're going to get to the west, where extreme heat and high winds have ignited wildfires blazing right now. and sam, of course, has been tracking it all. has the latest for us. what's going on here, sam? >> this is way too early to be talking about this. there's way too many fires. more than 100 fires burning in the west, 8 very large fires. two of the largest fires are just north of phoenix. let's show you pictures coming out of the area for us this morning and during the yesterday. the fire -- as you look at the flames going, it started about 4,000 acres. and doubled in 24 hours to 8,000 acres. just this morning, it's 12,000 acres. that's all with 20-mile-an-hour to 30-

>> reporter: and he acknowledged how difficult these weeks have been for his children, especially cate. >> she has been here no matter what. no matter how awful and painful a lot of the evidence was for her. evidence about her dad, evidence about her mom, who she loves so, so dearly. but she never once flinched. she said, "dad, i love you, i'll billion there for you no matter what." >> reporter: then, for the first time, he ocean moll aly spoke of his young daughter, quinn, the child he long refused to acknowledge. >> and then, finally, my precious quinn. who i love more than any of you could ever imagine. and i am so close to and so, so grateful for. so grateful for quinn. i'm grateful for all my children. including my son wade, who were lost years ago. >> reporter: refhe finished wit what amounted to a stump speech, beginning of his rehabilitation. >> i don't think gold's throud' with me. i believe he believes there are good things i can do. and whatever happens with this legal stuff going forward, what i'm hopeful about is all those kids that i've seen, you know, in the poorest part

throughout this trial, cate edwards has always been there, by her father's side. she sits right behind him in the courtroom, maintaining her composure during days of embarrassing testimony. but on wednesday, that changed. when the prosecution called christina reynolds, a former campaign staffer and confidante of elizabeth, to testify about elizabeth's knowledge of her husband's affair. soon after reynolds took the stand, edwards turned to his daughter and said, "i don't know what's coming. do you want to leave?" cate broke down in tears and hurried out of the courtroom as her father called her name. >> it was probably the most human moment that we've had in this trial and really drove home the human drama, about the human tragedy of what's really happened to the edwards family. >> reporter: in dramatic testimony, reynolds says elizabeth called her to the edwards home in the summer of 2007. she told me that mr. edwards had had an affair. and he said it was over. but she believed it was still going on. that october, the first tabloid story about john edwards' affair