carl edwards trying to deny him. from the outside of the front row. brad keselowski, stewart, kahne, hamlin, green flag, two to go. >> darrell: boy, the 2 car will get up there and that will mess with carl a little bit. carl should get steam up the outside. >> larry: regan smith in the 78 gets a good run through one and two and pulls away from carl edwards down the back stretch. >> mike: stewart loses ground. loses two spots. it's smith in turn three. edwards has the grip. and here he comes to the white flag. regan smith, one lap away. paul menard blowing up in the back of the pack. white flag. >> darrell: can he do it? can he hold him off? no matter what. >> larry: we have a race now. they will race it back. if we don't get a caution. >> darrell: boy, smith got off turn two -- >> mike: he hit the wall. >> darrell: he's all right. he's okay. he got off there, great. >> mike: edwards didn't jump inside. >> darrell: they're wrecking behind him but it's okay. hold him off. one more car. >> mike: coming to the flag. regan smith looking for his first sprin

the edward bernays went into try to sweeten things up. he arranged for a trainload of this dollars along with a famous entertainer to come from broadway in new york the station in washington to be picked up at the white house by cadillac's, broadband where they spent the morning eating breakfast with the president and actually singing and dancing with them. one of my favorite newspaper headlines ever was the next morning in the new york times where it said president almost smiles. this was edward bernays and managed to lighten up in this seemingly duck president. several months later he was reelected. the lee edward bernays does not deserve all the credit, but help people see this guy as a human being. c-span: to pay for all of that? >> the white house. c-span: what did he do for herbert hoover? >> the type to do the same thing. seen as a dark personality in a dark time of our history with the depression. edward bernays but he could come in and rally business leaders and the public behind hoover. he had a wonderful campaign is to try to d

carl edwards trying to deny him. from the outside of the front row. brad keselowski, stewart, kahne, hamlin, green flag, two to go. >> darrell: boy, the 2 car will get up there and that will mess with carl a little bit. carl should get steam up the outside. >> larry: regan smith in the 78 gets a good run through one and two and pulls away from carl edwards down the back stretch. >> mike: stewart loses ground. loses two spots. it's smith in turn three. edwards has the grip. and here he comes to the white flag. regan smith, one lap away. paul menard blowing up in the back of the pack. white flag. >> darrell: can he do it? can he hold him off? no matter what. >> larry: we have a race now. they will race it back. if we don't get a caution. >> darrell: boy, smith got off turn two -- >> mike: he hit the wall. >> darrell: he's all right. he's okay. he got off there, great. >> mike: edwards didn't jump inside. >> darrell: they're wrecking behind him but it's okay. hold him off. one more car. >> mike: coming to the flag. regan smith looking for his first sprin

what is going on behind the scenes right now is that advisers to john edwards and john edwards himselfot it makes sense to go forward with the trial. or somehow try to get out of this situation he's in, try to come up with a plea agreement that will satisfy federal authorities. it's not clear at this point whether or not that's going to work out. and there was a pretty glaring statement that came out from john edwards's attorney, a powerful attorney here in washington, greg craig who essentially said that the government is not putting together a very strong case, essentially saying that this is really an fec matter and to lay it out for you, this is what the government is looking at, based on some of the claims coming from andrew young. and that is that campaign money from various donors to john edwards -- and we have sort of a graphic that can lay this out for you -- campaign money from john edwards' donors somehow went to rielle hunt are to keep her affair with john edwards quiet. some of those donors have been contacted by various reporters over the years. they have said through the

john edwards the politician, remember him?much work to do because the truth is, we still live in a country where there are two different americas. >> reporter: but as it turned out, mr. two americas here had two very different faces himself. one of them wasn't very pretty. people close to him said it was the face of betrayal. betrayal of the people closest to him. his late wife elizabeth, his supporters, his staffers, his contributors. granted edwards was a promising politician at first, successful democratic senator from the south. rich trial lawyer, but a smo smokesmsmok spokesman for the poor. he got picked up as john kerry's running mate in 2004. >> i have chosen a man who understands and defends the values of america. >> reporter: but it didn't work out, so, next election cycle edwards jumped into the race for the white house, once again. by early 2008 -- >> it's time for me to step aside. >> reporter: he was out. but not before getting entangled in a messy relationship with a woman named rielle hunter. she eventually gav

but edwards says, no, that's not true.hat money, which they call the bunny money, her name is bunny melon, was a gift from a friend. if she wasn't running for president, she would have given him that money in way. that is his defense. he said the lunch supports that. he's not running now and they're getting together. >> what's the holdup? why are investigators waiting to indict him? >> it's taken a while because the justice department wanted to look at this case and some of the witnesses who are going to be testifying against edwards before they signed off on a prosecution. this is not an easy case against john edwards. now they've done that. they've given the local u.s. attorney in north carolina the green light to go ahead and bring those charges. >> any idea what is next for john edwards. is he waiting for something to happen now? >> behind the scenes stuff going on quite frantically about a plea deal. is he going to be able to try to reach some kind of an agreement with the justice department that might mean lesser cha

john edwards has done wrong in his life. the government's theory is wrong on the facts and wrong on the law. there's no civil or criminal precedent for such a prosecution. continued its pursuit even after finding that not one penny from the edwards campaign was involved. so pretty powerful denial there. what do you make of what you said? >> makes you think they might not be able to reach an agreement. a lot of people are talking about a possible plea agreement. that's not the type of language you hear from a defense attorney when you hear in a week from now they've got a deal. those are fighting words so to speak from the defense team. >> yep, it doesn't sound like a deal is on the table at the moment. dan abram, thank you very much indeed. her best friend gayle king's tribute to the great oprah. [ man ] i got this new citi thankyou card and started earning loads of points. you got a weather balloon with points? yes i did. [ man ] points i could use for just about anything. ♪ ♪ there it is. [ man ] so i used mine to get a wh

welcome, edward dolnick. [applause] >> well, thanks for that, and thanks for coming out on the last day of the world and sharing that with me. that's -- [laughter] a generous thing to do. it turns out, actually, that this business of the world coming to an end is going to be incredibly relevant. this is a book about the 1600s, but nonetheless, to my surprise, to my delight it turns out that that's a theme that comes into play. so we'll get to that. what i'm going to do is talk for about 20 minutes, and then i hope there'll be some questions. um, i want to talk about one of the strangest periods in human history. it was a time when the world lurched from something that would have bewildered us to something that we could just about begin to recognize. in the -- can you hear? can everybody hear? in the year 1600, an italian philosopher and mystic named bruno declared that the earth was one of infinitely many planets. the inquisition threw him in jail, dragged him from his cell, paraded him through the streets, t

so i know it's not possible. >> last year, edwards did finally admit the child was his. the government's case claims that campaign donations were used to cover up the affair while he ran for president. the star witness will be andrew young who initially claimed that hunter's child was his. young claims that he masterminded the plot to keep the affair secret. it finally headed the marriage. elizabeth filed for separation and died of cancer this past december. >>> they say edwards can either fight the charges or make a plea deal. who he says if it goes to trial and he goes to jail, he won't be able to practice law again. ♪ >> westminster hall in london as president obama addressed the parliament today. he sent a message that american and european influence remains as dominant at ever even though china and india asserted themselves. >> of what they are or who they believe, we are the nations most willing to stand up for the values of self-determination that lead the peace and dignity. >> earlier he and the first lady joined david cameron and his wife at a barbecue to honor

so i know it's not possible. >> last year, edwards did finally admit the child was his.he government's case claims that campaign donations were used to cover up the affair while he ran for president. the star witness will be andrew young who initially claimed that hunter's child was his. young claims that he masterminded the plot to keep the affair secret. it finally headed the marriage. elizabeth filed for separation and died of cancer this past december. >>> they say edwards can either fight the charges or make a plea deal. who he says if it goes to trial and he goes to jail, he won't be able to practice law again. ♪ >> westminster hall in london as president obama addressed the parliament today. he sent a message that american and european influence remains as dominant at ever even though china and india asserted themselves. >> of what they are or who they believe, we are the nations most willing to stand up for the values of self-determination that lead the peace and dignity. >> earlier he and the first lady joined david cameron and his wife at a barbecue to honor tr

at issue -- did edwards use campaign money to cover up his affair and out of wedlock daughter? prosecutors have been investigating edwards for two years. >> they could conclude that was a misuse of campaign money for personal purposes, which would violate the campaign finance laws. >> after first denying the child is his, edwards acknowledged he is the father of hunter's baby. edwards' attorney says the campaign finance case is wrong on the facts and the law. >>> another former banking executive is accused of sexually abusing a new york city hotel maid. 74-year-old maw mud abdul salam omar is expected to be arraigned this morning. he was once chairman of one of egypt's major bank. police say omar called a maid to his room sunday night and touched her inappropriately. it was two weeks ago that dominique strauss kahn, the former head of the imf was arrested on similar causes. >>> making plans for thousands of people who lost their homes. some could be moved to rental homes an hour's drive away and fema is considering trailers if enough homes aren't available. yesterday, elephants

there's, i think, little doubt that the justice department is going to indict john edwards.ng to have to prove a case that is very novel both in facts and law. the bottom line on it is his big donor, buddy mellon, gave him $4 million, $700,000 of which has been applied to rn reasielle hu and a cover-up. the only witness left, the discredited andrew young, the former campaign aide. >> about the money, prosecutors are going to have to prove, if there was money that was transferred to rielle hunter, that it came from that mellon money and not perhaps from john edwards' own bank account, because he had money, too. >> sure. >> so that's going to be difficult, is it not? >> well, i don't think it's going to be difficult, fred, since his former finance chairman, fred baron, already gave interviews with the government to say that he absolutely took that money and used it for a cover-up to cover up his relationship with her. they'll forensically trace the funds. the issue is a violation of public trust. the department of justice is not going to put up with that. he raised some $49 mi

has to be sweating tonight because federal prosecutors have completed their investigation of edwards and sources say he could be indicted within days. edwards is accused of using money from a supporter to cover his extramarital affair with a campaign staffer. ,,,,,,,,,, i know you're worried about making your savings last and having enough income when you retire. that's why i'm here -- to help come up with a plan and get you on the right path. i have more than a thousand fidelity experts working with me so that i can work one-on-one with you. it's your green line. but i'll be there every step of the way. call or come in and talk with us today.

. >>> john edwards is ready to to fight any charge, looming over whether edwards misused campaign money to cover up his affair. edwards' attorney denies any lou was broken and accused the government of continuing pursue edwards after finding no campaign money was involved. >>> president obama travels to france for high level meetings, before leaving london, mr. obama spoke to parliament m the continuing leadership of the u.s. and european allies. he marvelled before he stood before lawmakers, as grandson of a kenyan who served as a cook into the british army. >>> the first lady told the women at oxford when it comes to choosing a date, throw out that checklist. >> a lot of women have the boxes, did he go to the right school, what is his nick. >> that's right and first lady continues to wow with her wardrobe choices. at the black tie dinner she wore an off the shoulder gown by ralph lauren and serious bling at the neck and left wrist. she looked good. >>> take a look at your weather around the country this morning. severe weather shifts east, bringing gusty winds, flash flooding and hail

. >>> new trouble for john edwards. the government takes a big step toward indicting him for covering up his extramarital affair. >>> a surprise outcome to some, a jock becomes dancing's mvp. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "america this morning" with rob nelson and peggy bunker. >>> good morning. thanks for being with us today. we want to get right to the breaking news. a new line of deadly tornadoes zeroing in on several states from the plains to as far east as virginia. >> it looks like the tiny town of denning, arkansas, may be bearing the brunt of it. we're hearing a massive twister was on the ground for 20 miles in the area east of fort smith. at least one person was killed. and there are reports of extensive damage. arkansas tor among more than 30 that touched down overnight. john hendren has more on those. >> reporter: the new spate of twisters swept in ravaging the landscape outside oklahoma city. >> this was a large tornado. >> reporter: some homes were turned to rubble, killing several residents, as othe

we never stop moving. >>> is former president candidate john edwards about to be indicted? doubt that the justice department will indict john edwards but they're going to have to prove a case that is very novel in facts and law. bottom line is his big donor gave him 4 million bucks 700,000 of which is alleged to have been applied to hunter. john edwards went to visit her yesterday and the only witness left is the discredited andrew young, former campaign aide. >> prosecutors are going to have to prove that if there was money that was transferred to hunter that it came from that melon money and not from john edwards' own bank account because he had money too. >> sure. >> that's going to be difficult, is it not? >> absolutely. >> i don't think it will be difficult since his former finance chairman already gave interviews with the government to say that he absolutely took that money and used it for a coverup to cover up his relationship with her. they will trace the funds. the issue is violation of public trust. the department of justice is not going to put up with that. he ra

however, i'm open to the fact that king edward ii may not be the right oneful. as our told -- as i told our mayor's office of housing who i am working closely with and respect a great deal, it has gone so far down the road where the community may be past the point of no return in terms of support. i want to let that process play itself out. i know it's been a big deal. it's not necessarily a budget issue right now. i'm happy to take it offline. >> [inaudible] >> i completely agree that's one of the biggest problems with the king edward ii itself. we will continue to work on that, you have my commitment as your district supervisor to be on top of that issue. i understand it's one of the primary ones in the district. >> [inaudible] we have a lot of 20 manufacture somethings there and it's a good thing and to to the bring that crime in here is very inappropriate. it is a budgetary issue. we have asked about this, we have had meetings and every one of us has said no. our former supervisor filed a complaint and gave a list of reasons why it's not an appropriate thing

a person close to the case said an indictment could come within days unless edwards reaches a plea deal. they are focusing on whether campaign funds were used to keep his mistress and child in hiding in 2007 and 2008ment edwards quit the democratic race for the white house months before the affair that he first denied was reported. >> three of the country's four largest banks will let customers transfer money from bank account using an e-mail address. clear exchange will make it less costly to make payments. this effort is an attempt to keep customers who are switching to palestinian or prepaid debit cards. >> and a new technology could make it possible for people who have wheelchairs stand up again. elegs is being tested in santa clara valley medical center. the 24 year old stephanie crashed her car back in january. today she strapped on elegs and help from the robotic device she walked. >> my first steps were incredible. they said i did well for not knowing and having previous training. >> her therapist operated the device today. but hopefully stephanie in time will do it herself. ele

say that there's really no contest about equally bad but the biggest difference here is that john edwards is hiding it while running for president and hiding it from the american people and i think that puts him on a whole nother level now with even though it was a pretty awful i mean price so this time around if you can just already out there and he had his john edwards moment he well back i guess in the ninety's when all this came out i mean it's old news and it's out there he's being open about it and you have to give him credit i suppose but again like you know john ensign it took him forever to leave office mark sanford never stepped down never stepped up and just waited out his term to paycheck schwarzenegger had his kid with his mistress living in his house with him for ten years and i'm not even made public while he's running for governor not even californians that voted for him maybe i don't know i mean it's like you know david vitter got reelected you know john ensign thought he would get reelected but you know what you're saying is that republicans who are unfaithful tend to be

our big question does it strike you as appropriate for the justice department to go after john edwardsh a criminal investigation of the use of donated money for his mistress and their daughter? joe? >> leave him alone. why waste our effort on that when we haven't indicted a single banker after the crash of 2008? >> i don't know enough of the facts. i don't know whether edwards personally directed that the money should go to some cover-up of his mistress but millions of dollars. >> was it campaign money though? >> i don't know. chris: billions. >> i don't know enough of the facts. chris: andrew, do you like the smell of this case? >> no and i agree with joe that we should focus on the people who plunged the country. chris: we have enough crime without worrying about this. thanks to a great roundtable. joe klein, elisabeth bumiller, gloria borger and andrew sullivan. monday really is memorial day. we will be right back here next ♪ let's go out to the dmv ♪ it's ok that we're number four hundred and three ♪ ♪ we'll find ourselves a comfy seat ♪ ♪ and watch some shows and stuff ♪ ♪ ♪ let's

and democrat donna edwards of maryland, member of the progressive caucus. we welcome both of you to "fox news sunday." >> good morning. thank you for having us. >> good morning. >> chris: let's start with medicare. paul ryan's plan to turn it from a fee-for-service plan into a voucher system. congressman west, even though this wouldn't start until 2022, you've got some push-back at one of your town hall meetings recently. let's watch. [ chanting >> chris: congressman west, as we saw in the special election up in new york state this week where the democrat beat the republican and medicare was a big issue, as we see in the national polls a lot of people, especially seniors don't want to see medicare changed this way. >> i think when you look at paul ryan's plan, first of all, there is no change for anyone who is a senior 55 and above. i sit here right now and i'm 50 years of age. the board of trustee has said you have 13 years and something bad is going to happen with medicare. what will be there for myself when i'm 63-65? what we see is at least there is a p

audrey edwards, former executive editor of "essence" magazine. and mary macnamara, television critic for the "los angeles times." audrey edwards, why is the end of this particular television show such a big deal? >> well, oprah for 25 years was number one in the ratings. that's historic in and of itself and i think she literally transformed a nation in terms of how women in particular deal with issues. she taught a whole generation of women that you can be the best that you can be. it's about taking charge of your life. it's about confronting your own fears and being the best that you can be. and a 25-year reign is a long time so any time something of that length comes to an end, it's going to be noticed and she was number one for all of those 25 years, which has got to be historic in terms of television history. >> ifill: mary macnamara, your take on that? >> well, i don't think we've ever seen anyone quite like oprah, anyone who's had this kind of personal impact on popular culture. there really isn't a part of popular american culture at this

. >>> within weeks, former presidential candidate john edwards may be indicted.hat, according to sources close to the investigation. federal prosecutors are ending their two-year investigation into edwards' financial dealings. nbc news reports much of the focus is on hiding his pregnant campaign photographer, reille hunter, during the presidential race. experts also examined spending during his time in the u.s. senate and his connections with political action committees. sources say edwards could still strike a plea deal to avoid an indictment. >>> topping our health watch tonight, there's a new study out and it finds 20% of young adults are battling a condition that you typically find in older people. high blood pressure. researchers measured the blood pressure of more than 14,000 men and women between the ages of 24 and 32. the problem is potentially serious since many young adults don't go to the doctor that regularly, and the condition has no obvious symptoms. if left untreated, high blood pressure silently damages the heart, the brain, the kidney, even your

. >>> john edwards may have to testify again. our legal guys weigh in, next. to a doctor, it's groundbreaking. to a ceo, it's powerful. to a teacher, it's the future. if you ask a child, she might call it magic. and if you asked us, we'd say it's just getting started. >>> john edwards is back on the hot seat forced by a judge to go under oath again and answer more personal questions about his one-time mistress. it's part of a civil case and our legal guys tackled it this weekend. >> he goes to his first deposition, john edwards, and he refuses to answer like three-quarters of the questions they had. so now objections are made to the court, so the judge says, i'm going to sit and listen. ask him questions and i'll make rulings on each one you object to right there. that doesn't happen in real life, fred. trust me, it doesn't happen like that. >> sometimes it does. sometimes it does. >> but the judge has released certain documents to the press, he's waiting until after this edwards deposition. i think he's going to release everything that should be out there, bu

felony charges against former presidential candidate in 2004 democratic vice presidential nominee john edwards. we begin tonight here in joplin with the threat of more severe weather rattling a shell shocked community where even residents who have lived in america's tornado alley for decades say they have not been able to sleep. >> i'm scared something's going to happen if we go to sleep. and i'm not going to be awake to hear it to help everybody else. i just -- in my mind, it just keeps going over and over. >> tonight could be another restless night in joplin and across an already stressed region. let's get first to chad myers in the cnn severe weather center in atlanta. >> we have 25 tornado warnings right now. that means thatted p the radar from the national weather service picking up 25 separate storms that are rotating. some of them actually on the ground. one not all that far from memphis south of little rock. that's down near truman and york town. another one here just in the boot heel of m missouri. then move a little further to the east there was a tornado on the ground south of india

and given his track record she better stay away from doctors so alliance of the someone like john edwards who was also caught cheating on his sick wife has been blacklisted from politics forever if the republicans are rallying behind newt gingrich a serial adulterer i don't think there's any you rightly well that was how you might have perspective there is. i think if he's dead in the water i mean yes but not because of his wives of each. the water because he came out and talked about conservative socially no i think he was he was already. no shot because of his history of anybody knows that if you are unfaithful to your wife you're probably going to be unfaithful to the country or state you know whoever you represent so i don't know the rationale that was used to impeach clinton yeah i mean i don't think they had a chance and all this other stuff that's come out with tiffany is and with his criticizing the ryan plan it just all works against him to them are. we have a point was to i mean you know david vitter for example i mean this guy this blows my mind i don't understand it david vitt

elizabeth edwards filed for a legal separation and died of cancer this past december. >> now john edwards and his team, do they fight in it court or reach some kind of plea bargain? >> they go after a plea bargain and a chance he might go to trial and maybe go to jail but if he does, then he could be found to be, this could be a felony, and if that happens he cannot be a lawyer ever again. >> that's really the choice, if he goes for the plea bargain he won't be able to practice law again but he won't go to jail. so, that's where has to figure whether to take his chances in court? >> we know he won't get a misdemeanor, a felony if he does go with this. we don't know how much time it would be if he does go to jail but could be significant. if he wants to get out of that go for it, otherwise, just roll the dice. >> we'll see what happens. >>> and now josh elliott back from joplin with the news. good to see you back. >> good to see you george and robin and all of you. we begin with a seismic event in the political world, democrats pulled off a shocking upset, winning a special election in a s

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authorities spent more than two years investigating edwards' campaign finances.ocus is on money from wealthy supporters who wanted to keep mistress rielle hunter and baby in hiding. this happened to protect the democrats' white house campaign from scanned a. edwards who has made millions as a trial lawyer, could lose his law license if he enters a guilty plea. >>> thousands of bay area women set out every year this time to explore the world, looking for new adventures, new experiences and something they'll remember for the rest of their lives. but for one local woman, her journey turned into something that scarred her forever. her story is painful to share, but she wants every woman in the bay area to be aware of it. nbc's vickie winn takes us in-depth tonight. >>> i remember saying no and then trying to say stop in spanish, but then i remembered his hand going to my neck to stop me from speaking. i do know that i was sexually assaulted. >> reporter: it was the summer after her freshman year at usc. joelle emerson was in spain for the first time for a three-month

but a tell-all book written by edwards' aide said, yes, john edwards knew all about it. >>> a judge isxpected to decide whether or not the shooter in the tucson shooting rampage is competent to stand trial. he's accused of shooting congresswoman, gabrielle giffords, and 18 others on january 8th. six of those people died in the ram pain. two mental health experts have evaluated loughner. >>> and wounded congresswoman, gabrielle giffords is back at a rehab hospital in houston after having surgery at another hospital in texas. as you know, last week, doctors implanted a synthetic replacement for part of her skull. they also gave her a permanent shunt to relieve any fluid buildup in her brain. she was shot in the head during that rampage in tucson and part of her skull actually had to be removed. >>> at least eight people are dead after several tornadoes swept through arizona. this is video from canton, oklahoma where a tornado hit yesterday afternoon. so far no fatalities have been reported in the area, but city workers are reporting numerous natural gas los angeles and searchers are bein

lead to a felony charge for edwards.d lunch at the estate of bunny mellon. the meeting was reported by abc news. let's get background here. bunny mellon, multimillionaire. she's important because the theory of the prosecutor's case is several hundred thousand dollars from her went to cover up the affair, which makes it very odd that john edwards was meeting with her, even though the lawyers said it was a social meeting. >> his lawyers would say, it's okay for him to see friends of his. on the other hand, there's no question it's going to lead to raised eyebrows. and remember, he has to be careful, of course. his lawyer with him. that anything he says to her, she could later be asked about. well, only days before "x," what did john edwards say to you? how did he seem? >> the prosecutor would be worried that he's tampering with a potential witness. >> witness tampering is an aggressive term of him visiting a friend for lunch. but there's no question that the prosecutors are going to want to know why he was there. >> meanwh

edwards has a daughter with. young kept hunter in hiding and provided voice messages to prosecutors. >> andrew, hey it's john. i had a wonderful conversation, long and wonderful conversation with bunny. i think we can completely count on her. just wanted you to hear that and once again to tell you i love you. i really love you, andrew. >> reporter: rachel bunny melon is the now 100-year-old heiress and ard ant edwards supporter. her decorator brian huffman said he sent her checks totalling about $700,000, one enclosed in a fancy box of chocolates. checks he then forwarded to andrew young. >> payments were being made to keep rielle hunter happy and payments being made to keep the story from ruining job edwards' presidential campaign. >> reporter: huffman and melon, through their attorney, say they were asked to help edwards with a personal problem but had no idea what it was. rielle hunter was hidden away in lavish homes, flown around in a private jet. much of that was paid for by edwards' campaign finance chair f

podemos enfrentar la justicia el ex senador john edwards por sus relaciones extra matrimoniales.l senador edwards violó reyes para esconder ina relación extra matrimonial. l abría usado cientos de miles de dólares para pagar y proteger a su amante con quien tiene una hija. >>> el estrés de los inmigrantes un documentados en estados unidos al tratar de esconderse tiene un efecto negativo en sus hijos. ser hijo de indocumentados tiene enormes consecuencias sicológicas. según la universidad de harvard y así muestra blanca rosa vilches. hijos de familia indocumentadas de origen mexicano. y dominicano en new york. debió su desarrollo desde que nacieron a los 3 años. el estado mi frra tri de los padres de estos niños. evaluaron los niveles de compresión. recepción visual y expreso vid de estos niños. según la investigación. al cumplir los 2 años. los hijos de indocumentados. mostraban niveles de comprensión y habla sin negó tivamente más bajos que el resto de la población. y el nivel de estrés o tensión, asociado a la situación migratoria de sus padres. les afecta incluso antes de los

. >>> is john edwards about to be indicted for misuse of campaign money to cover up an affair. i put that to our legal guy. >> think there's little doubt that the justice department is going to indict john edwards but they're going to have to prove the case. the bottom line on it is his big don donor, buddy mellon, gave him $400,000, much of which was applied to hunter. john edwards went there yesterday and the only witness left to discredit it, andrew young, former campaign aide. >> but about that money, prosecutors are going to have to prove if there was money transferred to ray yell hunter, it's going to be difficult, is it not? >> i don't thing it's going be difficult, fred. they had interviews with the government saying he used the money for a cover-up to cover up his relationship with her. the issue is violation of public trust. they another going to put up with that. he raised money from campaign donations and if they applied any of that money to cover up his relationship, that's improper. that's what they will indict for. i guarantee you john edwards' hair is all messed

words from running john edwards can brought you know i just don't wish to go because. we've got to go i use if you are just making a full time job at all times it only affect the federal prison system might be soon barring john edwards the running. but if you let me i'm with you i think that this is newt's retirement you know he's also one of the new campaign laws or i guess over the last decade to change enough that people can keep money that they raise for a given go so he's he's just trying to know how much his political action committee raised last month not enough to pay his wife stephanie three hundred two thousand dollars the guy is not a serious contender and nobody nobody is going to very quickly get my take on this is if you look at david vitter you know he was busted on a hollywood madam you see madam and and he comes out and confesses and ask for apology and then comes back into the senate and they're probably to stand up and give him a standing ovation i think that for the hard right republicans but david vitter is the mark sanford's the johnsons although

was trying to keep bill clinton out of the white house for having an affair considering that john edwards who cheated on his wife while she had cancer too has been blacklisted from american politics newt gingrich is embraced within the republican party to say about republicans supposed family party and family values why the double standard before i respond let me just say i want to dedicate my performance was to the late great rock macho man randy savage who passed away today since we are on the road will a. good. that's going to was going to affect the well we'll talk about that later we're going to break here but the answer to question is one i think the better examples arnold schwarzenegger because he ran for office while having this great probably already background and that's the problem with that what we did i read he had one of the fifteen women but there is no double standard if it's there's evidence the other way gary studds who slept with they in turn i didn't give it a router gets gas didn't get forced out mark foley did so so if there's a double standard i think it might be th

within days and there is contemplation whether edwards will strike a plea deal. they are trying to decide if he used hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to hide his extramarital affair. >>> classes are getting underway at the napa airport for 30 young chinese people. the program comes one year after the airport lost its japan air flight after 40 years in operations. the new program will bring 10000000-$20 million to the economy. >>> we will have an update from the midwest. >>> plus, a mini urban oasis in the east bay is gone. a video could solve the mystery. >>> coming up, details on a tornado warning around the chico area and details on the rain chances in the bay area as we do approach the holiday weekend. ♪ let's go out to the dmv ♪ it's ok that we're number four hundred and three ♪ ♪ we'll find ourselves a comfy seat ♪ ♪ and watch some shows and stuff ♪ ♪ ♪ let's follow that lady with the laptop ♪ [ male announcer ] now you can watch hit tv shows on your laptop with u-verse online and on your smartphone with u-verse mobile, included wit

he's waited until after this edwards deposition. i think he's going to release everything. edwards is stupid because he's under criminal investigation and he's waiving his fifth amendment rights here. i can't believe he's giving depositions. >> no, he's not. no. >> you can refuse to give a deposition? >> of course he can refuse. >> plead the fifth amendment. >> here's the deal. this is a civil matter, a civil matter. when the judge -- after the deposition starts in this civil matter because there's a federal grand jury and some of the things that he's being asked will be incriminating, he's clearly going to be interposing his constitutional rights. he's clearly not going to answer certain questions. the bottom is line rielle hunter was actually his photographer for purposes of federal campaign funds will probably not be answered. yeah, she took pictures all right, but not for purposes of a federal campaign fund. and we're not going to see any of that evidence. >> also at issue is this infamous videotape, the one that the friend, andy young, found in the house that he was st

. >>> a major development in the case against former presidential candidate john edwards.abc news learned that the justice department has now green-lighted the prosecution of edwards for violation of campaign laws while he was seeking to cover up an extramarital affair with rielle hunter. edwards is aware that an indictment could come within days. >>> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu laid out his vision for middle east peace before lawmakers on capitol hill. the israeli leader says his country is willing to make, quote, painful compromises for peace. but then he tacked on a list of conditions that have been unacceptable to the palestinians in the past. once senior palestinian went so far as to call the speech a declaration of war. >>> president obama wraps up his visit to the uk later today after kicking it off with pomp, protocol, even a little ping-pong. >> getting it all in. >> getting it all in. but it was an ugly game, though. >> the first couple received the royal treatment, so to speak. but the visit did not go off without a hitch. sunlen miller is travelin

that is carl edwards down low. joey lagano high.d doesn't make contact with joey but he spins just the same. and boyer's car and there was absolutely nothing he could have done. but he later acknowledged there was no contact he simply lost it. edwards took the checkered flag under the 9th caution of the race. jimmy johnson is on the pole for the sprint cup race in dover. >>> cal and rugby championship synonymous terms. the bears playing against utah. danny barrett going all the way for the tray after they inbound the ball. they earned their way into the national championship game next saturday with a 62-14 win. they will meet byu for the national championship in those five previous meetings cal has come away the winner four times. earthquakes 3-0 winners over columbus. that will do it for this saturday night edition of sports wrap. see we spend a lot of time together. well mainly in traffic. i'm serious. we've been together, what, a super long time. true. and at first it was all business, you know, i'd take him here, i'd take him th

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