you heard jonathan serrie say we couldn t get answers from our own administration on it. kimberly: we have interesting news here, that is why you don t want to move. john edwards, getting information from the bureau he might be coming out soon, shortly to give a speech. comments about this pretty stunning verdict, in fact. in terms of the not guilty. eric? eric: a couple of thoughts. count three he was found not guilty on, receiving contributions from rachel bunny melon, but on count five, receiving contributions from rachel bunny melon. hung on that one. whacky jury. no consistency. on may 14, this guy edwards former sec chairman says he testified that he believed that the money, contribution, payments were actually gifts. i mean does anyone go up to a politician and say here is a boatload of money, not that it has anything to do with your campaign or willingness or wantingness to be vice president. here is money.
just select the zip codes where you want your message to be seen. print it yourself or find a local partner. and you find the customers that matter most. brilliant! clifton, show us overjoyed. no! too much! jennessa? ahh! a round of applause! [ applause ] [ male announcer ] go online to reach every home, every address, every time with every door direct mail. whatever you might think of john edwards personal conduct, there is one thing that is he not guilty of, and it is called count number three. it was selfed and received illegal campaign donations from rachel bunny melon. today the jury in john edwards campaign finance fraud case returned a not guilty verdict on that one charge. the jury was split on five other counts and so the judge declared a mistrial on them.
hemmingedly accepted illegal campaign contributions in 2008 from rachel bunny melon. they announced they could not reach a verdict on the other five counts. realizing they had not cop up with a unanimous verdict, the judge sent them back in the jury room w while she met with the lawyers. the prosecution wanted the jury to continue deliberating. the defense wanted the judge to declare a mistrial. the judge instructed jurors to go back and continue their deliberations and try to come up with the unanimous verdict on the other count. 45 minutes later, juror sent a judge a note saying after nine days of deliberations they were confident in their conclusions saying we do not believe a different verdict will be reached. the judge declared a mistrial on the other five counts. the judge spoke to the jury briefly before dismissing jurors saying, i know you re probably frustrated but you worked hard.
going to announce whether john edwards is guilty or not guilty of illegal campaign contributions that he allegedly received from rachel bunny melon in 2007 and then the same for contributions from rachel bunny melon in 2008. then they will move onto say whether or not he is guilty of receiving illegal campaign contributions from another wealthy donor, fred baron in 2007 and then answer the same count from fred baron in 2008. then the jurors will indicate whether they have founded wards guilty of making false statements, that is hiding these alleged illegal campaign funds and failing to report them to the federal election commission, and then finally, the jury will announce whether john edwards is guilty of a count of conspiracy, that is knowingly conspiring to receive campaign contributions in excess of the maximum individual donor cap while the
there are a lot of other moving pieces here, particularly related to conspiracy and misleading the government about what has transpired. megyn: let me ask you this. julien. i ll give you a chance tow respond. let me ask you this. what i have said before publicly is i think the biggest obstacle to the prosecution here is they have to prove he knowingly violated campaign laws, that he knew it was illegal, and he did it any way, and that is a very high standard. i think they wrote that into the law because it was the lawmakers themselves who run for office to said, let s make it as high and tough a legal standard as we can. but that is tough. as to your point, julien that the prosecution didn t get it done on the evidence, on proving that this was a campaign contribution, as opposed to just a gift, because bunny melon loved john edwards, because fred baron loved john edwards, let me just tell you what the jury has been asking for. they wanted a handwritten note in which the 101-year-old h