trial, today his defense teams goes after one of the prosecution's star witnesses, grilling the wife of a former aide, asking what the couple was seeking, seeking to gain by helping edwards cover up an affair with his pregnant mistress. jonathan serrie is live in greens borough, north carolina, the defense team has been going off the couple's bank statements and tax returns. what are they hoping to show here, jonathan? >> reporter: hi bill, they're trying to establish that cheri and andrew young kept most of the donor money in question for themselves, bank records suggest the young's obtained $1.2 million from two wealthy donors during 2007 and 2008, but forms filed with the irs during that time list less than $200,000 in so-called conduit money the young's transferred from the donors to edwards' mistress, rielle hunter. yesterday, edwards' lawyer, alan duncan, asked cheri young, do you think he would have asked you to do something that was illegal.