and friends of the couple say that relationship may have fizzled according to the reporting in the new york post, a restaurant worker reportedly spotted john edwards and her dining and said the pair never held hands adding and i quote, they looked like a married couple you would think that if you didn t know them. and now, like outside the courthouse. jonathan, what are we learning from opening statements? that can tells how the trial could unfold there. jonathan: the prosecution told the jury that john edwards knew exactly what was going on with the nearly $1 million, the two wealthy donors provided to hide the then pregnant mistress and they will try to prove the money was intended to protect the candidate s public image during the 2008 campaign and that, therefore, it represents campaign contributions. if they win this trial, it could change the way political
he does not think war with iran is inevitable. racism can be reduced by popping pills according to a study from oxford university. they used propanovol a common drug used for heart disease. those given the drug have less race bias. it deals with the part of the brain that deal with fear. there s a multi-million dollar settlement for mario vitally s restaurant worker. they sued over a pattern of illegal tip skimming. he and his business partners sk settling the class action lawsuit for $5.2 million. it applies to waiters bartenders who worked for him between 2005 and 2012. he owns 7 restaurants. did you ever wait tables? i did at a seafood buffet in
and for now at this point, kyra, i ve reached out to some republicans here on the hill. they re reserving judgement at this point. as you know, they frequently talk about wanting smaller government, so on its face this seems like something that they could go along with but, of course, they re waiting right now to see what president obama says. they re waiting to see if there are any catches. you see president obama here doing a couple of things. he s trying to make good on some promises about having more efficient government. he s also trying to put congress in a spot where he says, i m proposing something that you should be on board with and sort of trying to force republicans to say, yes, to that. so watch for what the president is going to say at 11:20, kyra, and then watch to see how republicans react. if they say, yes, this is something we can go along with or if they say is shuffling the deck chairs. we will take the president live at 11 clock a.m. eastern hour. thank
things could get messy in new bridges and subways to prevent york, they could take over the subways, try to stop the opening investors from getting to their bell on wall street. jobs on wall street. could be another tense day with protestors and police. could be another messy day here we ll keep an eye on that. in the big apple. federal authorities have another big headline this morning is gop presidential uncovered a major cross-border candidate newt gingrich, after drug-smuggling tunnel stretching from san diego all the way to tijuana, mexico. his surge in the polls, stored inside the tunnel, 17 tons of marijuana. political insiders want to know kgtv reporter luis cruz has details from the california-mexico border. why freddie mac paid him nearly reporter: you re looking at brand new footage of the latest $2 million. underground tunnel found tuesday it could be a campaign evening along the u.s./mexico bombshell. and did a restaurant worker in ohio force a 2-year-old to bord
keep the government from defaulting. early this afternoon bulletins went out via the new york times and the wall street journal that president obama and house speaker john boehner were close to an agreement on debt reduction on a deal there, but the white house is shooting those stories down. listen up. the breaking news report that you all probably received is incorrect. there is no deal. we are not close to a deal. the fact is that there is no progress to report, but we continue to work on getting the most significant deficit reduction package possible. you can see that is a flat-out denial from the white house, but keep in mind we had two major news operations reporting pretty much the same thing this a deal was in reach. let s go to kate balduan joining us live from capitol hill. kate, what are your sources saying up there about this? reporter: a couple of things on this. you heard there from the president s spokesman jay carney. we ve, of course, been asking ab