count three he was found not guilty on, receiving contributions from rachel bunny melon, but on count five, receiving contributions from rachel bunny melon. hung on that one. whacky jury. no consistency. on may 14, this guy edwards' former sec chairman says he testified that he believed that the money, contribution, payments were actually gifts. i mean does anyone go up to a politician and say here is a boatload of money, not that it has anything to do with your campaign or willingness or wantingness to be vice president. here is money. take the money. the third thought if this were in business, they would be closing the jail cell right now on john edwards. look at keslowski nailed for using corporate funds with board approval, using it for a personal party he threw. he is in jail. maybe he is out now. but he spent years in jail. the rulings are different. >> kimberly: keep an eye on the microphone and courthouse steps. we hope momentarily john edwards will be coming forward to make a statement about this, a stunning verdict. hung count. keep in mind, the prosecutor's office not relea

it was selfed and received illegal campaign donations from rachel bunny melon.in john edwards campaign finance fraud case returned a not guilty verdict on that one charge. the jury was split on five other counts and so the judge declared a mistrial on them. prosecutors can't retry the case if they like but most legal experts say that is unlikely. so today is wayne a win for john edwards. john edwards' legal trouble stem not from his 2004 campaign when he was the vice-presidential nominee as amazing as that now seems. no, the donations that we're talking about here, the ones that prosecutors amounted to fraud, they were made during john edwards' very serious bid for the presidential nomination 2008 when he finished third behind obama and hillary clinton. it was mr. edwards' personal flaws that were his own undoing. unben no one no one is it unbe nouns is it to everyone at the time, john edwards with this storybook marriage was secret ly carrying on a salacious affair during the campaign. while he was still running for president, some of i had wealthy donors stepp