. >> and what about edwards wife of 32 years, elizabeth? she has not only had to deal with her husband's betrayal, she is dealing with a cancer that threatens to take her life. >> yes, it was as bad as it sounds. edwards cheated on his cancer stricken wife, had a baby with his secret girlfriend slash employee, and then tried to pass it off as a key campaign staffers kid. for years, edwards followed the three simple rules for unfaithful men deny, deny, deny. >> i have no idea what you're asking about. i don't respond to these lies. >> so when the truth came out, he looked like the most untrustworthy politician in the united states. >> here's the statement john edwards issued today. i am quinn's father. it was wrong for me ever to deny she was my daughter. and hopefully one day, when she understands, she'll forgive me. >> the scandal torpedoed his career, and with it, the dreams of so many people who had believed in him. >> it's very shocking. this is a man i was willing to vote for as president. >> why would he do a thing like that? >> why wo

who he was for elizabeth edwards. and then there was who he was for the american public. >> and that's the paradox inherent to politics by design. individual human beings have to be the vessels for all our lofty ideals. and yet to this day, we keep on investing and believing in these candidates for higher office. hoping, praying that they do not break our hearts. because maybe, just maybe, this one is different. >> i do think a lot of his campaign staffers were die hard, believe in the cause fans, and a lot of them do work in the white house right now. that's his legacy. and i think that puts a nice bow on a story that is a big old mess. >> every day in every state across the country. our political system is bankrolled by an army of fundraisers, pulling in millions of dollars a race. sometimes it looks like you might imagine knocking on doors, calling every name in the phone book and emails. so many emails. but for all those little fish throwing $100 to their local race, it's the whales. those campaign fundraisers rea

kudlow and have a very merry christmas, everybody but first, you've gotta tune into edward lawrence he's in for elizabeth macdonald. he's up next. it's all yours, edward. reporter: thank you, david that was a great show to start the week let's carry this through here. david: absolutely. >> i'm edward lawrence in for elizabeth macdonald. we will get right to this. welcome to the evening edit. president-elect trump suggested that the u.s. should take back control of the panama canal complaining about how tolls and china's influences but panama firmly rejected the idea. grady trimble is live at the white house investigating this , grady? reporter: hey, edward. so the panama canal used to belong to the united states and was controlled by the united states but gradually, until 1999, the u.s. handed over control completely to panama. well, now, the president-elect is saying if they don't lower the fees, u.s. shipping companies pay to use the canal, then we might have to force them to return it to us. this is the post on truth social that got this debate started. the president-elect writes, the fees being charg

kudlow and have a very merry christmas, everybody but first, you've gotta tune into edward lawrence he's in for elizabethrter: thank you, david that was a great show to start the week let's carry this through here. david: absolutely. >> i'm edward lawrence in for elizabeth macdonald. we will get right to this. welcome to the evening

i'm edward lawrence in for elizabeth macdonald welcome to this special edition of the "evening edit." proposal to lower prices by increasing energy production includes boosting u.s. oil drilling, and lng exports, grady trimble said white house with more on the plan to "drill baby drill." reporter: edward there's excess supply of oil globally now expected to continue that surplus into 2025 according to the international energy agency, and as he gets ready to move into the building behind me, the white house, president-elect trump is looking to make good on his promise to lower prices across-the-board by increasing energy production, in the united states. >> we're going to have so much oil & gas and other things you won't know what to do with it. you'll say please, president trump, stop. we have too much. the prices are going too low, sir. i will direct every cabinet secretary to cut 10 old regulations for every new regulation, which i did last time. >> [applause] reporter: despite president biden's green agenda, the u.s. set a record for crude oil production in 2024 and president-elect

so i'm edward lawrence in for elizabeth macdonald.elcome to the special edition of the "evening edit." so doge calling to cut back on washington's financial regulators as they look to consolidate the federal government. grady trimble live at the white house digging deeper into the new target. grady? reporter: yeah, so elon musk and vivek ramaswamy, edward, have floated this idea before of consolidating or maybe even outright eliminating some financial regulators and now they're doubling down on that, in a post on x, the day after christmas, vivek ramaswamy is calling out the consumer financial protection bureau specifically because of a rule it finalized less than two weeks before christmas that has to do with overdraft fees for banks. ramaswamy says that that rule will drive low income americans to high cost pay day loans instead, and he says it is flat out government overreach. writing in that post, this latest cfpb is just a symptom of a deeper and unconstitutional cancer of unelected bureaucrats substituting their policy judgments

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huw edwards not only fronted the bbc's flagship news at ten, but was the key figure in anchoring huge state occasions like the death of queen elizabethu get back space please? >> get back? >> get back? >> in july, he arrived at westminster magistrates court to answer multiple allegations of possessing indecent images of children. is there a 41? pictures and video clips, including seven of the most serious category a abuse images, two involving a child as young as seven. >> extraordinary scenes at westminster magistrates court, where the former bbc presenter huw edwards has pleaded guilty to making indecent images of children, some as young as seven. >> almost two months later, huw edwards was back in the same court for sentencing. and there was widespread anger as he avoided a jail term. instead, he was handed a six month suspended sentence and a court order that he must attend a treatment programme. his legal team said he was deeply remorseful. mr edwards, do you repent? the judge ruled against the implementation of a sexual harm prevention order, which would have allowed authorities to monitor his use of the internet. what do you s