any call for to help me get someone to make shoes, because my doctors have written many letters stating that it would be a lot cheaper to make choose that would fit his body than to keep having surgeries. bill: what kind of a challenge has that guy gone through throughout his life? he s 29, suffers from a pa pew tear reissue. moved to minnesota when he was seven to undergo treatment. let s hope reebok makes a match for that guy. 22. martha: let s go to the edwards case now folks where the interior designer is now the center of this trial in john edwards corruption case. his name is brian huffman, he s back on the stand. he s explaining his role in funneling nearly $800,000 to john edwards campaign. he worked for the reclusive millionaire bunny melon.
his cancer-stricken wife. that is not really relevant. it creates a hatred for him before the jury. this is not what it s about. it s about whether he actually new and intentionally used campaign funds for inappropriate purposes. the evidence we ve heard so far before the defense has had a chance to cross-examine the person who was involved with bunny melon is that the checks did not go to mr. edwards. they went from bunny, endorsed by this witness on the stand, then they went to mr. young, and mr. young, who is the primary witness really to try to prove this case is an admitted liar and law breaker and all that money went through him to mr. edward. martha: that may be so. to me it comes back to this. would this money ever have changed hands if these people did not have a vested interest in his campaign. they were deep into this campaign. andrew young he says by his account he hats spent years of his life trying to make sure that john edwards became president. bunny melon says much of
checks. where are we with this annmarie? it s fascinating no question. the prosecution is clearly trying to painted wards as this awful, awful human being, so that the jury really dislikes him, has a visceral dislike for him, and it s not hard to do with the evidence that there is. the question is going to be, though, can they actually prove that he did know that the money was being used. so far we haven t seen that link yet. martha: the central issue here is whether or not they can prove to this jury that, yes, john edwards was, you know, using money from bunny melon and fred baron to cover up his affair but only because he wanted to save his family, wanted to protect the whole thing from elizabeth edwards his wife who was cancer-stricken and the money did not have anything to do with keeping that campaign going. richard, can they prove that? that s the point. the point here is you have to take the following off the table. take off the table that he s a sinner, unethical, immoral.
this money. elizabeth edwards by all accounts already knew he was cheating on her. isn t that a fairly straight line? you could look at the money, even though the youngs took most of this money for themselves that could have been their payment for him saying that he was the one who fathered the child and so on. clearly they ve made the connects already that edwards did in fact meet with bunny melon. it s a difficult case, though. it would be much either year if they could bring in bunny melon to testify, because they are going to make the argument maybe this was a gift from her. martha: why did you do it? what was your motivation, under oath, what was your motivation, did you do it because you liked john edwards and you wanted to help him protect his family or for the sole purpose he wanting him to become president. he was pretty careful not to actually touch the money himself. correct, correct. how big of an impact does that have. there is no question the money was being used
they had a working relationship and he explained the whole thing this way. our furniture business, and that s where these checks were written that we ll talk about in a moment did not really involve furniture. the prosecutor asked, well what was it? he answered, it was money for senator edwards. i don t know how you can be much more clear than that. huffman described receiving this one hundred thousand dollars check from an heiress known as bunny melon. a former federal prosecutor joins me, and a defense attorney. this is getting more interesting every day. yesterday we had this traumatic family scene with elizabeth edwards throwing herself down on the road on the tarmac just a complete wreck. her daughter had to leave the courtroom. the next chapter is this interior designer who shows up and basically says i ve been funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to cover up this affair under the name of an interior designer and writing