bryan huffman, the charming, stylish decorator and friend of 101-year-old bunny mellon told the jury how he became the middle man for what became known as the bunny money, used to help cover up edwards' affair. he testified when mellon learned that the $725,000 she provided to help edwards with an unspecified personal problem was meant to take care of hunter, she didn't condemn him for having an affair, but huffman said, she thought you should probably pay for your girlfriend yourself. >> the jury erupted in laughter, as did much of the courtroom and even the judge cracked a smile. >> huffman said he and mellon referred to the money for edwards as the furniture business because the payments were disguised as checks to buy furniture. why hide what was going on? mellon didn't want her lawyer to know because he didn't want her to give any more money to edwards. huffman said mellon told her it was the prosecution's star witness, andrew young, and not edwards himself who asked her for the money. >> that supports the defense theory of the case that this money flow was created by andrew you

it was money for senator edwards, testified huffman. the scheme worked for awhile, until one of those checks for $150,000 bounced, alerting mellon's attorney that something was unusual about these transactions. now, this has been a turning point for the prosecution in this case. so far, the talk has been mostly about the affair, but now there is new evidence about a key point in this case. did edwards know about the money flow intended to keep the affair secret during the campaign? john edwards' lawyers will have their chance next week to fire back. diane? >> and bob woodruff will be tracking it for us. thank you, bob. >>> and we're learning more tonight about that secret service scandal. this time, from the woman at the center of it. an escort hired by one of the agents advancing the president's trip to cartagena, colombia. and here's abc's pierre thomas. >> reporter: we've seen her pictures splashed across the tabloids. but today, for the first time, we hear from dania suarez, who describes herself not as an ordinary prostitute, but a

brian huffman back on the stand today, he was used to funnel money to cover up an affair with stafferunter, nbc investigative correspondent lisa myers has the latest from gre s greensboro, north carolina. >> reporter: prosecutors showed how far john edwards went to cover up ace hihis affair. >> it's a great speech. >> can you read it? >> yes, i can read it. >> you can? >> yes. >> reporter: later that day, davis said hunter knocked on his door. she told me that she and senator edwards were very much in love. then the next day davis, said, edwards denied he was having an affair with hunter. he told me she was crazy and that we should make sure she didn't talk to him. davis testified. but edwards press aide caught the government by surprise, revealing that for all of edwards lies, he had refused to lie under oath. he testified that a tabloid has suggested it would drop a story if edwards signed a sworn affidavit denying the affair and paternity of hunter's child. edwards refused. >> as a lawyer he knew that signing this affidavit would be a crime. he was unwilling to do that. >> reporter

huffman replied, it was money for senator edwards. prosecutors are trying to show that the checks were campaign donations intended to boost john edwards' election prospects in 2008, but the defense claims edwards was unaware of the money scheme and that the donations were private gifts to help protect the candidates' family from finding out about a private affair. >> the prosecution and the defense essentially agree on the basic picture. they are putting different frames around it, however, and it depends on which frame the jury likes. >> reporter: according to court records bunny melon funneled more than $700,000 to edwards' aide. the prosecution asked huffman whether his friend melon was aware of the $2,300 individual campaign contribution limit peri hrebgs cycle to which huffman replied, quote, she thought it was a little low. jon. jon: thanks jonathan. harris: fox news alert the u.s. state department con teurpling it has just received a new application from transcanada regarding that keystone pipeline. that is the cross border pip

huffman testified he believed young was telling the truth. melon's money is at the center of the campaign corruption trial. prosecutors alleged that edwards masterminded the scheme to use $1 million to hide the pregnant mistress as he sought the white house. many legal experts say worn 01- year-old melon is not expected to take the witt only does she of information based on what i told, she was taking steps to cover this up. quite frankly, technically, she should have been sitting next to john at the defense table. as a prosecutor, she was a big edwards supporter. >> reporter: think the issue is that bunny melon is unavailable as a witness for multiple reasons. yes, her age and also, i'm not sure she will be a compelling government witness. she absolutely drank the kool- aid, so to speak, and believed that edwards was this country's saviour. >> reporter: melon gave an estimated $6.4 million to organizations supportive of edwards' presidential bid. jonathan sery, fox news. >>> last night during our 11:00 p.m. newscast and this morning, we aire

brad huffman, interior designer and friend of rachel bunny huffman.middleman which he delivered to edwards fixers, andrew and cheri young. when asked what the 101-year-old mellon thinks about the case now says she doesn't condemn affairs but thinks you should pay for your girlfriend yourself. huffman said didn't know what the money was for. we knew nothing about a girlfriend or baby. all she wanted to do was make a president. that last statement could have helped the prosecution persuade the jury edwards intentionally accepted illegal campaign money but happened after the jury had been sent out of the room for an objection. huffman's testimony helped both prosecution and defense says a local law professor. >> they have to show bunny mellon wrote checks, his name on the checks. what he really did for the defense was establish he didn't know john edwards at all, didn't have any skex. >> reporter: also testifying bunny mellon's attorney saying he started checking out the payments after a $150,000 for bogus furniture almost bounced. probably the most dram

no we expect to hear more testimony from brian huffman. did you know rielle hunter was not her real name. she was born lisa truck in fort lauderdale. lisa joe was the black sheep of the family. a party girl here in new york. then a wanna be actress in l.a. hunter told gq magazine change her name because of acting career. why rielle? according to a friend it just a came to her. san diego medical examiner's office has just confirmed that the former football player junior seau did indeed kill himself. his girlfriend found him yesterday according to police with a single bullet wound to his chest. he was a legend for 20 seasons for the nfl. well known for charity work after leaving the league. police say they found no suicide note and family and friends say they don't know why he would have killed himself. junior seau was 43 years old. well, that blind chinese activist trying to escape his government is at the center of a dramatic global play out in realtime. direct appeal to lawmakers. called congress from china. called in to a congressional h

bryan huffman, the decorator and friend of heirress bunny melon told how he became a middleman helping cover up edwards' affair. huffman testified that when melme mellon learned the money she used to help edwards actually was meant to take care of hunter, she didn't condemn him for having an affair. but huffman said she thought that she should probably pay for your girlfriend yourself. >> the jury erupted in laughter, as did much of the courtroom and even the judge cracked a smile. >> reporter: huffman said he and mellon referred to the money for edwards as their furniture business because the payments were disguised as checks to buy furniture. why hide what was going on? mellon didn't want her lawyer to though because he didn't want her to give any more money to edwards. huffman said mellon told him it was the prosecution's star witness, andrew young, and not edwards himself who asked her for this money. >> that supports the defense theory of the case that this money flow was created by andrew young to line his own pockets not orchestrated by john edwards to cover up the affair in a w

huffman said they didn't know what the money was for.ng about a girlfriend or baby, all she wanted to do was make a president. the last statement could have helped the prosecution persuade the jury edwards accepted illegal campaign money but happened after the jury was sent out of the room for an objectioobjection the testimony helped both the prosecution and defense. >> have to show bunny mellon wrote checks. what he really did for the defense was establish that he didn't know john edwards, didn't have any connection. >> also testifying was bunny mellon's attorney, alex forger who started checking out mellon's payments after $150,000 personal check she wrote to brie a brie huffman almost bounded. the dramatic testimony came from christina reynolds, also a friend of the late elizabeth edwards. john edwards' wife. reynolds testified after an article about the affair in the national enquirer, she started tearing off her clothe while telling edwards, you don't see me anymore. cate, who had been sitting in the courtroom behind her father, go

huffman, no. martha: the defense will get up there today and we're likely to hear i would imagine, jonathan, something along the lines it was clearly to sort of protect the family and cover it up from the family, right? >> reporter: exactly. they're also trying to prove, the defense is, that edwards may not have been aware of all the financial wheeling and dealings that his aide, andrew young was up to. and that, as you pointed out, that the money was intended to protect edwards' family, not the campaign. that is what the defense has been trying to underscore throughout this trial. so it's not so much the money trail that's in question, martha but the intent behind the money is what jurors must ultimately decide. listen. martha: yee. >> they see this affair being covered up as part of edwards' presidential aspirations? or is it simply a person who wants to preserve his family and his marriage and is lying about that? >> reporter: professor friedland says there is another way to look at it. basical

the designer, brian huffman, aá sent him checks that totaled $725,000 for fake antique furniture purchases huffman said he endorsed the checks and sent them to a fundraiser for dwads' 2008 -- edwards' 2008 campaign. the checks stopped after her lawyer learn good them. aides stopped efforts to hide the affair with rielle hunter. prosecutors are trying to prove that edwards illegally used campaign donations to do it. edwards denies the charges. >>> 4:36. this morning a newborn baby is in the hospital recovering from dog bites. police say the family dog attacked the baby boy in his bassinet while the mother slept. this happened tuesday at a house on culpeperculpeper county. police say it appears the jack russell terrier bit the baby more than 30 times. when the father got home he pulled the dog off the baby and shot and killed the dog. that baby is in stable condition. >>> a 4-year-old montgomery county girl recovering this morning after falling out of a complex in aspen hill yesterday. a witness said she saw the girl fall through the window screen to the grass. when she was taken to the hosp

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huffman called the money arrangement a furniture business because ms.r furniture, chairs, tables a bookcase. he didn't cash the checks but passed them to andrew and sherry young. all very hush hush, he didn't take any money and it wasn't supposed to be for the edwards presidential campaign. the parade of former edwards staffers continues here in greensbro, testimony from bodyman, john davis, who described a bizarre conversation he had with edwards' mistress rielle hunter. she saw him in detroit and announced she and john edwards were in love. but when he talked to edwards the former senator told him rielle hunter was crazy. wrapping up the second week of the trial, prosecutors charged edwards used illegal campaign money to cover up the affair, as the defense attorneys say the money wasn't for the campaign. joe johns, cnn, greensboro, north carolina. >>> one of the big stories of the day the talkback question for you will julia win battle for women voters? from one julia to fake one, i will be voting for mitt, he's better than the one in the white house

and huffman reasonablied "she thought he should pay for your girlfriend yourself." trace?e: thank you, jonathan, outside the courthouse and now our legal panel, former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney. jeffrey, the question in this, is it fair game as he was talking for the prosecution to bring up the affair again and again to prosecute john edwards? >>guest: absolutely. in a murder case the defendant doesn't want the prosecutor to show you the gory pictures of the scene but that is part of the prosecution case and no matter how much the defense wants to stipulate and say, we agree, we don't need to have the testimony, the prosecution has the right to put the testimony forward. >>trace: according to court watchers the "bunny money," the $725,000 for john edwardss personal use and $6 million in political action committee has been amusing. as you listen to the testimony about the money coming in and bunny mellon not know what it was used now how much does it hurt or help his cause? >>guest: the issue is did he know it was a campaign coverup or personal? if it is camp

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today brian huffman a close friend of a key donor testified the heiress thought she was being used. prosecutors said he used money from wealthy donors to keep his mistress out of the public eye. >>> i'm roosevelt leftwich. all coming up brand-new at 6:00, a deadly crash on a foggy stretch of road in baltimore county and why people living nearby said it's nothing new. >> an aquarium is trying to get you close to the fish and the animals. those stories and a lot more coming up brand-new at 6:00. now a preview of what's ahead at 6:30. >> coming up on world news, a woman who did something unheard of and brave on national tv and what she did sparked a national dialogue. all these years later she's still dancing. be sure to watch our person of the week. >>> we watch them on youtube and post their pictures on facebook, but is it time for dogs to have a social network of their own. karin caifa explains. >> reporter: make new friends can be hard, even when you're as cute as bandit. >> he had plenty of friends in san francisco. now it's time to meet friends in new york. >> reporter: match pup

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interior designer ryan huffman took the stand today, a friend of wealthy donor rachel bunny mellon.e said mellon was very angry when she was asked to give millions of dollars in additional donations to edwards in 2008 even after presidential campaign was coming to an end. prosecutors are trying to prove that edwards deliberately and illegally used some of that money to cover up his affair with rielle hunter. >>> plan for a busy weekend in our area with metro track work and three major events drawing big crowds. the caps and rangers face off at the phone booth. the nats are hosting the rival phillies, and the avon walk for breast cancer happens this weekend. add to that metro plans to close four metro stations. news 4's tracee wilkins reports from the green belt metro station. >> reporter: every metro line is going to be impacted by the work this weekend. here at green belt station it is one of the many on the green line that will be closed so folks are going to have to use shuttles to get out of green belt. we talked to riders this morning and they're saying that while they know the

huffman also said they did not know what the money was going for.bout a girlfriend or a baby. all she wanted to do was make a president. that last statement could have helped the prosecution persuade the jury that edwards illegally accepted campaign finance money. however shall the jury didn't hear it because the judge had ordered the jury out of the courtroom. the prosecution is expected to wrap up its case by thursday. candy? >> it has been 24 days since rick san fortorum ended his presidential bid. that's how long it took to sit down with mitt romney. they met this morning in pittsburgh for 90 minutes. no one else was in the room. joining me now is the man that lent his office. what happened in the meeting? >> i think it was, from what i could couch, a very friendly, yet certainly a very serious talk. i think both of them are very focused on how to defeat barack obama this fall. so i think much of the discussion, if you will, centered around that. i do know there was some issue discussions. senator santorum particularly wanted to talk about his m

huffman said he endorsed the checks and sent them to edwards' 2008 campaign.after her lawyer learned about them. several aides described efforts to hide the former presidential candidate's affair with rielle hunter. prosecutors trying to prove that edwards illegally used campaign donations to do that. edwards denies that charge. >>> this morning, there are new concerns about the general services administration. this time about the agency -- about the agency who admitted to asking for kickbacks from contractors. the gsa says they offered tax deductions to contractors who made federal buildings more energy efficient. in return, the agency wanted 19% of the tax breaks' value. the policy raises questions about whether the agency was trying to raise money without congressional approval. the gsa is already under fire for lavish spending at agency conferences. >>> the san diego medical examiner officially ruled junior seau's death a suicide. the former san diego chargers linebacker died on wednesday of a gunshot wound to the chest. the medical examiner says it is awa

the court has been hearing a lot of testimony from brian huffman. he helped funnel some of that money from rachel bunny melon of northern virginia. mellon was one of edward's major benefactors. >>> still ahead on 9news, he's back. michael phelps talking about another gold rush at the olympics. we'll hear from the pride of baltimore. >>> michael feel phelps is back in the pool. this time his sights are set on the summer games in london. four years ago, the baltimore native was the sensation of the beijing olympics, winning eight gold medals. phelps and his coach sat down with 60 minutes contributor, anderson cooper. >> can he win multiple gold medals? >> i don't know. >> i feel like my old self again. i'm swimming races like i used to. everything is coming back to me what it was, i guess, before '08. >> listen to his retirement age. when he finally decides to call it quits, he'll only be 27. you can see more of his story during this sunday's broadcast at 60 minutes here on channel 9. >> wow. >>> tonight, the plot thickens into the case of georgetown

huffman said he then endorsed the checks and sent them to a fundraiser for edwards' 2008 campaign. the checks stopped after her lawyer learned about them. several aides described efforts to hide the former presidential candidate's affair with rielle hunter. prosecutors are trying to prove that edwards illegally used campaign donations to do it. edwards denies the charges. >>> five exotic animals will begin their journey back to their ohio home today. last october, their owner, terry thompson, released dozens of wild animals from his farm, then committed suicide. police were forced to shoot more than 40 tigers, lion, and bears thompson's widow is taking in two leopards, two monkeys, and a bear and bringing them back to the farm. >>> the new jersey mom accused of letting her 5-year-old use a tanning bed is firing back at critics. since the story broke, 44-year-old patricia krencel has become the butt of jokes on late night talk shows. yesterday she told reporters outside her home she's an excellent mother and the victim of fat and ugly critics who are jealous. that's according to th

in this note from huffman to young, huffman writes, as bunny says, for the rescue of america. now this note and others like it would often accompany the checks that bunny mellon was writing. so prosecutors entered into into evidence hoping to convince jurors that the intent behind the money was political and not just personal. but whether the jury's buying it is anyone's guess, jon. jon: so many guessing games about what those jurors are doing. thanks, jonathan serrie for bringing us the latest. >> reporter: certainly. jenna: it was a big morning as far as space exploration goes. spacex blasting off on a mission to the international space station today opening what could be a new era in private spaceflight. there it goes. the unmanned rocket carrying a lot of supplies including some very important items. i don't want to give too much away. phil keating is live in miami with more. phil are when we talk about the important items the final frontier is a resting spot for some. tell us a little bit about that. >>. >> reporter: begins with you writing a check for $3,000 by either yo

rachel "bunny" mellon according to this witness, brian huffman, she was completely enamored with john edwards, loved had i am to pieces, wanted to help him in any way she could. and if you are a mellon, that's money. he testified yesterday he was the conduit through which this money flowed because she did not want her attorneys to find out she was giving $725,000 away. they had been cautioning her to ease up a bit on the millions she was giving away. so that was yesterday. today brian huffman came back to the stand for a little direct and then the cross-examination, and to me it was a lot of rehash about how the checks went from him to andrew young's wife into their bank account, and then ultimately spent to hide rielle hunter. the most fascinating thing with brian today came at the very end of his testimony when the prosecutor asked was mrs. mellon disturbed when she found out how her money had been spent. he said she was in that she didn't particularly condemn people for having an affair, but she thought that you should probably pay for your own girlfriend. this has been a very colo

brian huffman, who also served as middleman for $725,000 of the cover-up money provided by mellon.uffman regaled the court with stories of mellon's estate, and private jets, and how she falsely labeled the checks as payment for outrageously expensive furniture. >> he said that bunny mellon called it the furniture business. in his testimony seemed to indicate that they were having some fun with it. >> reporter: huffman said he knew the money was to help edwards with a personal problem, but had no idea it was being used to conceal an affair. the government alleges the funds amounted to illegal campaign contributions which edwards denies. ann? >> all right. lisa myers this morning. lisa, thank you for your reporting on that. and coming up, a woman wakes up to find her husband lying next to her in bed murdered. and becomes the prime suspect in the case until this man confessed to the crime. she'll open up about her ordeal in a live interview coming up. but first, this is "today" on nbc. >>> coming up here, the mom accused of bringing her young daughter to a tanning salon. she's got cho

one very interesting witness later on today is bryan huffman. a very close friend of the big benefactor for john edwards, for bunny mellon, and he appeared yesterday very quickly in the court, and he was just cracking up the entire court making the jurors laugh. all of us laugh. he's going to be very funny again today. george? >> bob, thank you very much. >>> let's bring in our legal analyst, dan abrams, for more on this. and, boy, john davis brings you right into the heart of the edwards campaign with all these details. >> witness after witness being called to say this was part of the campaign. again, the crucial question, was this money designed for a campaign cover-up, which would make it illegal, or a personal cover-up, which wouldn't be illegal. so the prosecutors are trying to call all these campaign workers to say, yeah, we knew about this. yeah, this was a part of our lives. yeah, this was a part of the campaign. so these are all important witnesses, piece after piece. >> and davis ties it right back to the campaign chairman, fred baron.

huffman endorsed the checks and sent them to the 2008 campaign.they described efforts to hide the president's affair with rielle hunter. prosecutors are trying to prove ?#, to the weekend? >> indeed. the clouds are closing in. the sky is darker in the west. the first of the showers and thounder showers we've been talking about are beginning to getthe metro area. right now it's mostly cloudy at reagan national. it's75 there. humidity is rather high. we had that stubborn fog around the bay. it's gradually dissipating over the last few hours. richmond, 81. all this area in orange beginning to get up near 80 degrees. upper 70s, northern virginia, 60s, though, this green area. that's around the bay where they still have fog, as well as northeastern maryland. where they've had showers go through west virginia, it's only in the 60s. it's really cooled it down there. over the last 12 hours we had this first round is coming through, thankfully. don't have severe reports. there is thunder and lightning here in this darg orange and pink in central county. th

bryan huffman, was not unhappy that it went to cover up the affair. but she thought that maybe edwards should pay for the girlfriend himself. from the beginning edwards said that the money was not for his benefit. but yesterday, alexander forger, one of edwards' lawyers, said he asked if edwards' knew about the money. john had said yes. he acknowledges this is for his benefit. edwards' lawyers will now have their chance to fight back on monday. bob woodruff, abc news, greensboro, north carolina. >>> we're joined by jean casares. when they were talking about this, they kept making a big deal about the specific language he used. why does it matter? he was upset. but why does the language matter? >> it got pretty dicey. they want to dirty him up, prosecutors do. but more than that, if it's the truth, you must speak the truth in court. and the truth becomes evidence. more than anything, it's the state of mind of john edwards. this is back in 2006. this is a former campaign adviser that said, look, this is a political campaign. you want to become president