ceo meg whit nan is not commenting out in -- with theman is not commenting now, but is expected to sayght now a jury in north carolina is deliberating john edwards fate. we have a live report from outside the courthouse. good morning, jonathan. >> reporter: good morning. a lot sat stake, because at least in theory, if convicted on all six counts of various campaign finance violations, john edwards could face up to $1.5 million in fines, and 30 years in prison. now, what the jury must consider is whether john edwards was, first of all, aware of the secret money that went into is hiding his pregnant mistress during his 2008 bid for president, and then whether the more than was simply private gifts to protect him from his wife finding out about his affair, or whether the money was intended as something more, to keep his campaign on track, therefore being campaign finance violations. during that election cycle, there was a $2300 individual donor cap, so if you divide the nearly million dollars in question from these two wealthy donors, that's well in excess of that cap. so prosecutors are