thought i was doing anything illegal. >> i did an awful, awful lot that was wrong. >> the jury acquitted edwards on one charge and split on the other five in. the justice department to ultimately dropped the case. >> well, the election interference and it's got to stop. it's a third world country. >> trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments made to hide an alleged affair with an adult film star and influence the 26th seen election, trump denies the affair and has pleaded not guilty, but trump's former attorney, michael cohen, swore under oath that he made the payments in order to affect the outcome of the election cohen though, was convicted of perjury in a separate case. the edwards case had its own star witness, a close aide to the former senator who testified to helping edwards keep that a fair secret, but prosecutors do not prove their claim. the cover-up was about the election. the woman with whom edwards had the affair, real hunter told cnn, edwards did