[ crowd chants do your job ] welcome back. these are scenes from town halls. it was suburban salt lake city, utah, greens borough, and it came after jason chaffetz, the chairman of the house oversight committee said president trump is exempt from conflict of interest laws which is true. chaffetz was one of a number of republicans this week who got a taste of what tea party supporters did to democrats in 2009. we just saw, katty, the two visions of where the democratic party should go in bernie sanders and jim webb. this is georgia and utah pictures, right? that s right. the democrats, the base that is furious. they are trying to drag the leadership to the left, but that puts democrats who are in red states, who are up for reelection in an incredibly difficult position and take someone like claire mccaskill
and this week from the mountains to our coast there has been some kind of winter weather. it is deep here where we are standing in greens borough, north carolina. about nine total inches of snow for an area that rarely sees more than an inch at a time and only a couple times per winter. it began to melt a little last night and it is frozen over. just a solid sheet of ice on top and a little salt underneath. road crews have been working since really mid afternoon on wednesday trying to clear the streets. all businesses really were shut down. valentine s day, that could be really financial trouble for a lot of places. so a really tough situation here in north carolina for everyone. i think we are all looking forward to spring. yeah. we are both from the carolinas and we have family down there and they are ready for it to end as well. thank you so much, shannon. tell our families hello.
i was a bit overcome. i don t even know how to explain it. how to caps liez your childhood, you know, in one room. i was a little overwhelmed. . another supporter of same sex marriage. joe biden was asked his stance on sunday. and boy did it set off a wave of comments on facebook and twitter. men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men marrying women, all entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights and civil liberties. this morning, arnie duncan went further ena and expressed his support during an appearance on msnbc s morning joe. have a look. do you believe that same sex men and women should be able to legally get married in the united states? oh, come on. you re going to start there? yes, i do. turns out, it was a good place to start, whoever was making that comment. jessica yellen joins me now from the white house. the obama campaign is saying no, it s not the official fogs. the president s position is evoling. what this is,
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.
putting in, not only for the campaign, but also, hiding his pregnant mistress, rielle hunter. lawyer duncan asked, if you can get john edwards, that s what you want to do, isn t it? mrs. young replied, excuse me? duncan repeated the question. young replied, sir, that is a completely false statement. i m here to tell the truth about my experiences, about my life. meanwhile, bill, we ve seen josh brumberger, former chief of staff for john edwards, saw him entering in the courthouse here. he is currently on the witness list for both the defense and the prosecution. bill: jonathan, thank you. we roll on there in that case in greens borough, north carolina. some of the allegations are that they used the money to make improvements with their house and some of it is not disputed. some of it has been admitted. martha: what a mess. they think they re bailing out john edwards, and say what you want about that part of it, but the money doesn t go to them, it looks