all his children, including frances lynn hunter. finally, my precious quinn. who i love more than any of you could ever imagine. and i am so close to and so, so grateful for. so grateful for quinn. i m gradeful for all my children. including my son wade who we lost years ago. reporter: as he left the courthouse a reporter shouted a question whether he planned to marry reille hunter, edwards did not answer. heather: what happened inside that carolina court? our legal experts will breaker it down for you. and will federal prosecutors give this another shot? bill: we are just getting
jury about all the time and money that has going into the case and sends them back into the room to continue the deliberations, and to try to reach a verdict with the understanding that the case may have to be tried all over again with a different jury, which won t be any better than the previous jury. it appears this is not going to be the case and the jury has indeed reached a verdict. megyn: we ve been seeing john edwards wearing a green tie every day. he won t come out and say whether this was his lucky tie. i thought i saw earlier he had a red tie on today. is he there? is reille hunter there? who he is there? reille hunter is not there. john edwards is there with his daughter kate who is also an attorney and is said to have provided some of his legal counsel throughout this trial. i m told by reporters in the courtroom right now that when it was announced that the jury had reached a verdict that kate leaned over to her father s ear
the foreman will announce the verdict to the judge. john edwards faces six counts of various campaign finance violations, stemming from the 2008 election cycle, allegations that he used private funds, private campaign funds and hid those funds in an effort to hide reille hunter, his pregnant mistress during the campaign. prosecutors allege that this was done to boost his chances at winning election, where as his defenders say that he had little knowledge of the money and what was done was simply done to protect his wife, elizabeth, from finding out about the a fair. we ll find out in just minutes what the jury thinks. megyn back to you. megyn: before i let you go, just give us a quick tick-tock of what is going to happen when we go back into this courtroom in moments. reporter: when we go back into the courtroom the jury will announce its verdict, and they are going to announce the counts in the following order, they are
bill: new developments right now in the case against john edwards. the defense may rest its case today, we re told. we are also told that edwards daughter might take the stand in his defense, but apparently she has not shown up at court today. jonathan serrie is live in greensboro, north carolina. what is the defense strategy, then? it appears to shift by the way. good morning. reporter: yeah, it is certainly fueling a lot of speculation. every previous day we had seen cate edwards arriving with her father, today that was not the case, and she is not in court. is that because she doesn t want to be in the same room if reille hunter is potentially called to testify, or is it because she is going to be called to testify? those two women are among a list of four high profile potential witnesses that the defense had
listed yesterday, but the defense also saying that if they did not call these witnesses that they would rest their case. legal experts tell us that this is intended to keep the prosecution guessing. listen. okay, i m sorry, we don t have that sound. but if the defense does indeed rest today it remains unclear how it will affect the other witnesses in this case, whether they are going to call from that list of four high profile witnesses, which includes cate edwards, john edwards himself, his mistress, reille hunter and andrew young his former am pain aide, bill. bill: the defense indicates young might be on the stand. what purpose would he serve at this point, jonathan? the defense is trying to poke holes in his testimony. andrew young is after all the prosecution s key witness in this case. if they brought him back they d be trying to question some of