mr. edwards allegedly spent large sums of campaign money to cover up an extramarital affair. he's been charged with conspiracy, illegal campaign contributions, and making false statements, but he denies ever breaking the law. european and imf officials say greece will receive the next installment of its bailout funding following a month-long inspection. they said that progress has been made, but further reform is needed. among the initiatives, greece will set up a privatisation agency that will be managed independently from central government. back here in the u.s. today, there are further signs that economic recovery may be weakening. unemployment rose in may to nine. % after hiring dropped to a dismal level. it is just the latest in a series of dismal be disappointing figures that have driven the american stock market low. >> boston is better off than many american cities, with some thriving high-tech companies and your out of work than the u.s. average. but for people here, the path is not straightforward. statistics reflect real nervous about the future. today's figures s

mr. edwards is accused of spending nearly $1 million of campaign money to cover an extramarital affair. he has pleaded not guilty to the charges. european and imf officials say that greece will receive -- say that greece will receive another bailout. they have had a notable pickup in exports. the greek government plans further austerity measures. there has been a further sign that the economic recovery in the united states is weakening. unemployment has risen above 9% and only 54,000 jobs were generated in may, far fewer than expected. it is the latest in a series of disappointing economic figures that have led to sharp drops in the u.s. stock market. from boston, our north american editor reports. >> boston is better off than many american cities, with some thriving high-tech companies and you're out of work than the u.s. average. but the people here -- for people here the past is -- fewer out of work than the u.s. average. but for people here the past is not straightforward. the number of new jobs grew by a measly 54,000 and unemployment is at 9.1%. economists had expected jobs to gro

mr. edwards, on this chart. my understanding is you provided these numbers to the committee as part of your testimony today. and i see a big upswing in the number of investigations. do you know why that is and why are you a dramatic spike there in the number of investigations? >> there are 38% increase in complaints against c.b.p.'s since 2004 from 3,112 to 4,162. these increases are because we have to -- as the act that was passed last year, we need to go back and c.b.p. needs to do the background investigation, the polygraphs of the employees because we find 60% of the employees who go through this don't pass it because of the corrupt criminal background in their background. >> there's a big spike in that. >> so you're saying that -- say that again. that we're -- as you're doing more of the polygraphs, more and more are showing up with -- >> we had a huge backlog. and now c.b.p. has gone back and has -- there was a huge spike. and still haven't caught up and we are hoping by 2012 to be able to do 100%. >> perf

mrs. edwards from finding out. but it was partly to protect his position as a potential presidential candidate. so, in that sense, it is a donation to help him politically, isn't it? >> that's certainly what the prosecution is going to argue here. but i don't think there's any case for that. campaign contribution has never been defined that broadly to allow a wealthy person who wants to donate to a politician's mistress, give money to a politician's mistress to say that's a campaign contribution. i think it's a huge stretch and there's literally no precedent in the law. you have to wonder why the justice department was so eager to take on this case when so recently it dropped the case from john ensign, the senator from nevada who lied to the fec about a $96,000 severance payment made to a former mistress. so there's really something incomprehensible about the strategy at the department of justice. >> al derschowiz, greg craig, the attorney for edward, goes along for what you said, an unprecedented prosecution, an u

mr. edwards denies it. meanwhile his campaign never gets off the ground. he quits in january 2008 after a disappointing showing in the early primaries. by august of that year, john edwards admits to having the affair. january of 2010 he admits that the child is his. for his phony campaign image as a loyal husband and for using his wife who was battling terminal cancer in his campaign ads and for denying he fathered a child he is capital c creepy and for being indicted last week, he is among the most prosecutable here. which bringstous the reason i am here with this slappy handed pointer thing in the first place. congressman anthony wiener of new york, democrat. hi, congressman. welcome to our consequence-o-motor. he has just admitted to exchanging explicit photos and facebook messages with women who were not his wife. some before he got married some after he got married it is kind of creepy the idea of messages like that coming from a congressman's twitter account and facebook page that he also used for a lot of official politicking. so far this one looks

mr. edwards, do a start their? >> sure. well, the inspector general played a critical role in the transparency on this and the fact is accountable government. both personal and organizational independence of oag is investigated caveat work. secondly, also avoiding duplication. the statutory authority that ig has, we do 100% of the investigations. we feel, you know, our position is cpi a place to grow and even congress recognized that. cbp, that is the integrity work right doing the screening of applicants and including polygraphs and background investigations. i have worked, both myself and alan have been working together trying to come up way or cbpia agents could work, could be detailed to oig and work on the oag supervision to work some of the cases. that gives commissioner bersin the information that is looking for in the agreement that died, in fact last night signed in senate over to sign it because i have to look into my independence, tax authority and management to write to her oig has delayed. i think allen recogni

mr. edwards?good morning, chairman pryor, a ranking member paul and distinguished members of the subcommittee. i am charles edwards, acting inspector general for the department of homeland security. thank you for inviting me today to testify about the role of the effort to eliminate corruption in thus cdp workforce at securing the nation's borders. the smuggling of people and goods across the nation's porter is a large scale business dominated by organized criminal enterprises. the mexican drug cartels today are more sophisticated and dangerous than any other organized criminal groups. these torture and brutality to control their members and intimidate or eliminated those who may be witnesses or informants to devotees. the drug trapping or additions also turn to corrupting the dhs employees. border corruption and pact national security. the corrupt employee may accept a bribe for lobbying what appears to be undocumented aliens into the u.s. while unwittingly helping the terrorists into the country

mr. edwards yesterday. >> i regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that i caused. , and iotak the law th never ever thought of as breaking the law. host: as far as his argument is concerned, what will be the rationale from his lawyers? guest: they will attack him on several fronts. the main one will be the that the money is to hide the affair from his wife, and it had nothing to do with the campaign. they will say that there is a lot of people to use money for that sort of thing, and it was not connected to the campaign. they have experts to say even if it was, it is not a criminal violation of the campaign finance law. that is not what the campaign finance law is about. it will be a battle of the experts for some time. host: is there any evidence that the money exchanged in this process was filtered through any campaign account? guest: not at all. that is is not a criminal violation of the campaign finance law. they looked at the campaign account in the money that went in and out. it was not part of any indictment. if it was all money flowing directly from donors in going t

mr. edwards yesterday. >> i regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that i caused. , and iotreak the law th never ever thought of as breaking the law. host: as far as his argument is concerned, what will be the rationale from his lawyers? guest: they will attack him on several fronts. the main one will be the that the money is to hide the affair from his wife, and it had nothing to do with the campaign. they will say that there is a lot of people to use money for that sort of thing, and it was not connected to the campaign. they have experts to say even if it was, it is not a criminal violation of the campaign finance law. that is not what the campaign finance law is about. it will be a battle of the experts for some time. host: is there any evidence that the money exchanged in this process was filtered through any campaign account? guest: not at all. that is not the allegation of the government. they looked at the campaign account in the money that went in and out. it was not part of any indictment. if it was all money flowing directly from donors in going through an interme

mr. edwards: ids i've been listening all afternoon and i heard -- ms. edwards: i've listened all afternoon and i heard fiscal conservatism and rugged individualism. we even heard talk of lebron james. one thing is really true, we haven't heard anyone on the other side of the aisle talk about hunger. even lebron james is not hungry. i want to talk about a simple economic theory, it's called hunger. it means when you're a young child in this country and you wake up in the morning and your parents can't afford to feed you, you're hungry. it's about going to school and not being able to consen trait -- concentrate because you're hungry. it's about going home on a weekend, having eaten a school lunch on friday, but not eating again until monday, and being hungry. i had a physical, i described -- i went 10 hours without eating, i described myself as starving. clearly neither i nor any member of the house of representatives knows what it's like to be really hungry today. before i came to the floor, i had my piece of chicken. that was more than the republicans a

edwards clonl mr. speaker -- ms. edwards: i call it like it is, here are the fact about the republican medicare ending plan. seniors will pay approximately $6,000 more in out-of-pocket expense, double today. they'll lose benefits. they'll be forced to negotiate, or seniors will be forced to negotiate with the big insurance companies under the republican medicare ending plan. under their plan, republicans -- the republican plan, seniors will immediately reopen the prescription drug doughnut hole that we closed. and so, mr. speaker, this is not a mischaracterization, it's just speaking the truth to the power of the republican medicare ending plan to our seniors and to those who are approaching the age of 65. so i rise today, mr. speaker, to say that democrats are going to stand on the side of jobs, working people, and on those who want to protect medicare for future generations. with that i yield. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlelady from alabama rise? mrs. rob

mr. david evans behind us was there, and eric edward. do you remember doing that?> i don't mean to be rude, sir, burr you're being a little vague. >> reporter: earlier, casey anthony father george took the stand again with the defense implying he had an affair while his granddaughter was missing. >> do you know a woman by the name of crystal holloway? >> i know her by that name and also another name. >> what other name do you know her by? >> river cruz. >> did you have a romantic relationship with her? >> no, sir. no. to me that's -- that's very funny. >> very funny. >> yes,sir. >> and were you ever intimate with her? >> no, sir. and also -- that's also very funny. >> reporter: george anthony main as that holloway was just a volunteer who helped look for his granddaughter. the defense allegation that george anthony in a moment of intimacy confess today holloway that his granddaughter's death was an accident that snowballed out of control. >> did you, prior to finding your granddaughter, tell crystal holloway or river cruz that caylee's death was an accident that sn

mr. chief justice of. i am from durham, n.c., and the comments about the use of your law clerks, judge edwards suggests that our judiciary coverall all levels are to disconnected from our academies. i want to know your thoughts on that, whether or not you agree or whether you take the relationship between the practicing bench and our academies are fine or whether or not there is an impact on the future of our profession? "judge edwards is a great friend of mine. he helped me greatly. he was a model for me how to judge. he came in the very first week was there and said he was going to teach me how to use laptops and you'd be a great thing to benefit. i told him, "thank you very much, judge, but i am not up to speed on technology and i would rather not worry about." he said, "i did not ask you if you wanted to come i told you you were goingo." he was tough to argue in from to when i was arguing cases, and i am glad he did what he did. it'sort of helped bring me up to speed. we are on the same page on that point. there is a great disconnect between the academy and the profession. pick up a copy of any law revi

edwards: thank you, mr. speaker. today i rise in support of medicare. it's a decades old promise that my grandmother made to my mother and i make to my son. for the last five months, republicans have played political theater with our nation's most pressing issues, putting takes for millaries and -- tax breaks for millionaires and oil companies ahead of health care for seniors. just yesterday in a procedural silliness there was another act by the republican majority quest to end medicare and jeopardize the health of our seniors. yet again republicans told our seniors loudly and clearly that they are willing by any means necessary to end medicare. that's just wrong. they have also tried to trick our seniors into believing their budget plan wouldn't affect them today, but that's wrong, too. the fact is the end of medicare would mean that our seniors and individuals with disabilities would pay $12,500 in health care costs. the plan would force seniors to pay nearly $6,00 out of their own pockets -- $6,800 in the first year alone. i'm going to urge all of us

mr. manzullo: madam chair, in my office, there are two photographs, one with me and edwards demming and the inventor of the m.r.i. the doctor visited our office and i said what's wrong with this bill and he said everything. he said if this bill were law, today, we would not have the m.r.i. there are a lot of problems with this bill. this is my fourth patent site but we agree but we have two persons who disagree on policy. back in 2004 when i chaired the small business committee, i was instrumental inputting in a fee structure for small businesses. and to do that, i had stricken from the bill, the authority of the p.t.o. director to set fees. this new bill gives the ability to set fees even though the initial filing fees for small businesses had been lowered. the problem is that the p.t.o. can come in and simply raise fees to sokol manage their operations. in fact, two reports filed in june of 2002 by the u.s. p.t.o. said fees, based upon a highly progressive system based on limited applicions contain very high number of claims and also the same thing in 2007. their idea of decreasing claims

mr. speaker, i'm very pleased to rise to support my colleague, donna edwards, and her bill to reduce the corporate tax. mr. bartlett: to create more jobs in this country. the corporate tax is the most regressive tax we have. because in reality you cannot tax a corporation it simply becomes a part of the cost of doing business and they pass it onto the consumer who pays the tax which makes everything cost more that the consumer buys. so the consumers will be benefited several ways when we reduce the corporate tax rate. corporations will grow and there will be more jobs. more corporations will move to this country, creating more jobs and by the way the revenue stream from this increase in the size of corporations and the number of corporations may actually increase the three bills of reducing the tax rate. there will be more jobs for our consumers and the things they buy will cost less. this is a win-win-win for everybody. thank you, congresswoman edwards, for your leadership. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman fro

mr. chief justice. i am from duran, north carolina. judge harry edwards suggests that our judiciary all levels and be practicing bar are, unfortunately, to disconnect it from our academies. i want to know your thoughts on that. do you agree with that or do you think the relationship between the practicing bar and our law schools -- is there some impact on your structure as it relates to the future of our profession? >> first of all, judge edwards is a favorite of mine. he helped me greatly when i joined the court of appeals for the d.c. circuit, not only as a model for a judge, but also in a wide variety of areas. he came in the first week i was there and said he was going to teach me how to use a laptops to let me stay connected with the court where ever i was. i said, "thank you very much, the judge, but i am not up to speed on the technology and would rather not worry about it." he said, "i did not ask you if you wanted to do it, i told you you're going to do it." [laughter] he was tough to argue in front of. i am glad he did what he did because it bro

hillary stood by bill and even elizabeth edwards kept john edwards secret so he could n for the presidency. we have not yet heard from mrs. weiner and it is necessary, i think, from a political view point forher to stand by her husband. i totally understand if she doesn't want to. but if she doesn't want to i think his career is at an end. >> rose: my impssion is that she said she'd... he said that she would be standing by him. that was my impression from what he said. did i misunderstand... >> it was his explicit representation, roger is right. we'll have to see whether it's true. i think he's got... roger laid out a lot of his problems. a big problem he has is he has the unfortunate position of being a congressman from this city. new york city media is tougher on this kind of stuff than anybody else. and so... >> rose: front page for a week. >> and you can only imagine what the coverage will be like tomorrow and now there will be a feedinfrenzy to look for details and there will be a compition between the "post" and the daley fuse and it's not just the tough local media but this is where the national media is headquart

she was trying to persuade john edwards to come clean about the mistress rielle hunter and their love child. now, according to the reporting of the associated press, mr. ed wards in the e-mails and notes averaged knowing about the payment to rielle huntedder but what they don't reveal is whether he ordered the payments and most critically legally is whether he knew the payments were coming out of campaign finance cash. >>shepard: we don't know if this will actually go to trial? >>jonathan: no. obviously it will take a long time to get to trial. i spoke to judge napolitano and he said likely to be at least a year before it gets to trial. and there will be ongoing conversations about a plea deal. he could be interested in one for obvious reasons but, also, according to the judge, prosecutors could be interested because the judge says this is a very difficult case to prove, and they have brought up some unique charges here and, therefore, they may be looking for a plea deal, as well. so watch this case, that is the bottom line. >>shepard: thank you, jonathan. not too late to join in the conversation at foxnews.com/shep. click on "on the hunt," on the ri

[applause] edward lengel is the editor-in-chief of the papers of george washington. for more information visit gw papers dot virginia.edu. >> mr. thompson, what's your book about? >> i like to say my book is about moonshine, but that one word often requires thousands more of explanation because i'm trying to take what people think about this subject, moonshine director into the history of a broader time period in american history. and this was the 1930s during prohibition, and the air of the depression. >> why didn't moonshine me to america in the 1920s, 1930s? >> of course, america even back in his formation had always had spirit, flickr, as part of its social gathering and so forth. three of our first five presidents had liquor distilleries on their plantation. for example. and we 1919 came around and the nation forbade anyone from making or distributing alcohol, suddenly here we have both a time period of deep poverty and unemployment, 25%, and a tiger when the government is saying it's illegal to have liquor. suddenly there's a great market for illegal whiskey. so you mix unemployment and poverty with a high demand for pro

mr. kline may have been virtually unrecognizable in his recent appearance as edward stanton of the secretary of war in the movie the conspirator. but he is no stranger to us he testified before our committee ten years ago at our 2001 hearing, and i am delighted that he's made a return performance and encore i guess i will call it, and because i look forward to hearing his perspective on the progress that has been made during the past decade and the road ahead. so welcome. we are delighted to have you here. >> [inaudible] hello? talk, he says. time remaining? [laughter] a bitter talks quickly. senator collins, thank you, senator lieberman, thank you and for the mice mention of the conspirators and my performance as a historical figure. members of the committee, thank you all for inviting me to appear today with this distinguished panel and a mixed this collection of such remarkably policed self possessed quiet but ultimately very vocal delegates. ten years ago as you mentioned i had the honor of joining mary tyler moore and the 100 plus delegates at the 2001 jdrf congress. since then, i am ha

mr. kline may have been virtually unrecognizable in his recent appearance as edward stanton of the secretary of war in the movie the conspirator. but he is no stranger to us he testified before our committee ten years ago at our 2001 hearing, and i am delighted that he's made a return performance and encore i guess i will call it, and because i look forward to hearing his perspective on the progress that has been made during the past decade and the road ahead. so welcome. we are delighted to have you here. >> [inaudible] hello? talk, he says. time remaining? [laughter] a bitter talks quickly. senator collins, thank you, senator lieberman, thank you and for the mice mention of the conspirators and my performance as a historical figure. members of the committee, thank you all for inviting me to appear today with this distinguished panel and a mixed this collection of such remarkably policed self possessed quiet but ultimately very vocal delegates. ten years ago as you mentioned i had the honor of joining mary tyler moore and the 100 plus delegates at the 2001 jdrf congress. since then, i am ha

edwards, the politician. remember him? >> we have much work to do. because the truth is, we still live in a country where there are two different americas. >> reporter: as it turned out, mr. two americas had two very different faces himself. people close to him said it was the face of betrayal. betrayal of the people closest to him. his late wife, elizabeth, supporters, his staffers, his contributors. grant it, he was a promising politician at first. rich trial lawyer, but a spokesman for the poor. smart but homegrown. talked such a good game, he good 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 gave birth to edwards' child. edwards at first denied having the affair and then denied being the father. last year he finally admitted it. the story reached a sleazy low point when a video surfaced that

edwards, the politician, remember him? >> we have much work to do because the truth is we still live in a country where there are two different americas. >> reporter: as it turned out mrme here had two different faces himself. one wasn't very pretty. people close to him said it was the face of betrayal of people closest him. his literary wife, elizabeth, supporters, staffers, contributors. granted, edwards was a promising politician at first, successful democratic senator from the south, rich trial lawyer but spokesman for the poor. smart but homegrown. talked such a good game, 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 gave birth to edwards child. edwards at first denied having the affair and then denied being the father. last year, he finally admitted it. the story reached a sleazy low

mr. kline may have been virtually unrecognizable in his recent appearance as edward stanton of the secretary of war in the movie the conspirator. but he is no stranger to us he testified before our committee ten years ago at our 2001 hearing, and i am delighted that he's made a return performance and encore i guess i will call it, and because i look forward to hearing his perspective on the progress that has been made during the past decade and the road ahead. so welcome. we are delighted to have you here. >> [inaudible] hello? talk, he says. time remaining? [laughter] a bitter talks quickly. senator collins, thank you, senator lieberman, thank you and for the mice mention of the conspirators and my performance as a historical figure. members of the committee, thank you all for inviting me to appear today with this distinguished panel and a mixed this collection of such remarkably policed self possessed quiet but ultimately very vocal delegates. ten years ago as you mentioned i had the honor of joining mary tyler moore and the 100 plus delegates at the 2001 jdrf congress. since then, i am ha

staff sergeant edward reynolds jr. over here, mr. speaker. united states army. he was killed at the age of 27 on september 26, 2006, just a few days after lance corporal ryan miller was killed. he's from port arthur, texas, another refinery area in southeast texas. he was looking forward to new year's eve because that's when he was going to get married. and he was a man that pushed, as his fellow warriors say, pushed others to succeed in what they do. next is captain david frazier, 13th individual on this poster. he was a member of the united states army. he was killed on november 26, 2006, at the age of 25. he was from spring, texas. and you might notice -- you can barely see it but you might notice his uniform, mr. speaker. he was a west point graduate. he wasn't just a regular cadet at west point. he graduated top student in civil engineering. captain david frazier gave his life at the age of 25 for america. lieutenant -- lance corporal luke yepson, member of the united states marine corps. he was killed on september 14, 2006. and he was from wing -- kingwood

mr. manzullo: madam chair, in my office, there are two photographs, one with me and edwards demming and the inventor of the m.r.i. the doctor visited our office and i said what's wrong with this bill and he said everything. he said if this bill were law, today, we would not have the m.r.i. there are a lot of problems with this bill. this is my fourth patent site but we agree but we have two persons who disagree on policy. back in 2004 when i chaired the small business committee, i was instrumental inputting in a fee structure for small businesses. and to do that, i had stricken from the bill, the authority of the p.t.o. director to set fees. this new bill gives the ability to set fees even though the initial filing fees for small businesses had been lowered. the problem is that the p.t.o. can come in and simply raise fees to sokol manage their operations. in fact, two reports filed in june of 2002 by the u.s. p.t.o. said fees, based upon a highly progressive system based on limited applications contain very high number of claims and also the same thing in 2007. their idea of decreasing clai

mr. chief justice of. i am from durham, n.c., and the comments about the use of your law clerks, judge edwards suggests that our judiciary coverall all levels are to disconnected from our academies. i want to know your thoughts on that, whether or not you agree or whether you take the relationship between the practicing bench and our academies are fine or whether or not there is an impact on the future of our profession? "judge edwards is a great friend of mine. he helped me greatly. he was a model for me how to judge. he came in the very first week i was there and said he was going to teach me how to use laptops and you'd be a great thing to benefit. i told him, "thank you very much, judge, but i am not up to speed on technology and i would rather not worry about." he said, "i did not ask you if you wanted to come i told you you were going to." he was tough to argue in from to when i was arguing cases, and i am glad he did what he did. it's sort of helped bring me up to speed. we are on the same page on that point. there is a great disconnect between the academy and the profession. pick up a copy of any la

. >> but now we're learning that edwards worried about spending time in jail is reportedly not taking a plea deal. good morning, mre heard him on friday after the indictment came down saying that he had no knowledge of any of this. isn't what this whole case hinges on? >> i suspect what it really hinges on is whether or not they can show that john edwards knew the sourcing of the money and knew that it was inappropriate for it to be funds that were substituting campaign funds which would otherwise have to be expended. >> you have a situation where $925,000, apparently most of it coming from a contributor named bunny melon. she gives this money, thinking it's going to the campaign and the allegation is that money went to cover up the affair that john edwards was having with his mistress rielle hunter specifically after he found out she was pregnant and about to give birth to their child together. how tough is it to prove that edwards knew? >> well, as i understand it, there is going to be direct and circumstantial evidence that edwards not only knew the sourcing of the funds but understood the distinction between t

edwards to speak to what it seems to be their star witness. >> all right. so you have the two donors here from which this money is stemming from. you have mrs.s of age tough to testify at that age, and fred barron who is no longer with us. so, how might those two donors of the information that at least we know that mellon might provide and help or hinder edwards' case? >> well, it is all about those donors, because the government has to prove they were in fact campaign contributions, and in order to prove that, they have to prove that the correct shuns were made, and that their personal expenses of course of rielle hunter, and they have to prove those contributions werer meant to keep the campaign alive and not just meant to keep it at secret from elizabeth edwards who we know was stricken with cancer at that time, and who has died since. so those are fact issues. if bunny mellon can get on the stand and say, well, no, john edwards didn't know anything about it, and that is the second element that joe johns said, they have to prove these were campaign contributions and were being paid, they have to have bunny mellon get on the stand and say,