in two years time she will be broke and wondering what happened to the tv interest and the smarmy lawyer 22 whose hands under she s fallen. the public interest in john edwards, who is also smarmy. when he was running for president, he got into this mes mess. the department of justice s argument was that john edwards family image was part of his political image. his family man image was regulated by federal finance campaign laws. trump is the opposite. he is howard stern and show girls. he has more ex-wives than the previous 44 presidents combined and doubled. he does not have a family man image that falls within federal regulation. this is going nowhere and it s a dud. it s a blast.
using nearly a million dollars in what s alleged to be campaign cash to cover up an affair and the pregnancy of his mistress. jonathan serrie is live outside of the u.s. district court in greens borough, north carolina. jonathan. reporter: hi megyn. the jury has been seated, clearing the way for opening arts to begin. during those opening statements prosecutors told the jury john edwards is a master manipulator who knew about the nearly $1,000,000.2 wealthy donors provided to hide his pregnant mistress. prosecutors insisted the funds were campaign contributions designed to preserve edwards family man image during the 2008 presidential campaign. in opening statements, the defense argued the contributions were merely private money, intended to protect edwards family from embarrassment by the affair. they claim most of the money which was handled by the man you see in this video, former edwards campaign staffer andrew young helped finance young s new house in chapel hill.
he was sentenced to 14 years in prison and started serving that sentence at a colorado prison last month. the second major figure from the 08 figure who is facing trial and possible prison time. his role in the 2008 election is he ran for president. having been the democratic party s vice presidential nominee south carolina member john edwards made a serious run four years later in 2008. we look back on the 08 democratic primary as the obama-clinton slug fast but john edwards was the other main contender in the field. he had a very moving stump speech about the two americas, being brought up as the son of a mill worker in north carolina. for a lot of the campaign, he was in the running, but we know while the campaign was going on under the surface there was a scandal brewing that was so strange, so lurid, it would have been rejected by any self-respecting soap opera as way too farfetched. while running for president, projecting a family man image as
had he kept his mouth shut, he would have been fine because people get dui s reporter: i want to apologize specifically to everyone in the jewish community for the harmful words i said to a law enforcement officer the night i was arrested on a dui discharge. and all that. but you know what, there isn t such a thing as bad press when it s so mean-spirited the things you re doing that it turns everybody off. reporter: as his public image was taking a beating, gibson entered a court-ordered alcohol problem. / warning loss of captions a hollywood shocker. gibson s wife of 28 years filed for divorce citing irreconcilable difference. it-t reveals they had separated years earlier, in 2006, just after gibson s notorious dui arrest. gibson s family man image was shattered. less than three weeks after the divorce announcement, he stepped
a hollywood shocker. gibson s wife of 28 years filed for divorce citing irreconcilable difference. it-t reveals they had separated years earlier, in 2006, just after gibson s notorious dui arrest. gibson s family man image was shattered. less than three weeks after the divorce announcement, he stepped out publicly for the first time with russian-born singer oksana grigorieva. in an interview with cnn s larry king, oksana denied she had anything to do with the divorce. do you ever feel you caused the breakup? he explained to me over and over again that it was not the reason they separated, since 2006 for sure, and they were very unhappy prior to that. reporter: the couple soon announced they were expecting a baby.