days lost control of was worried about how his affiliates, how effective they would be in carrying out these plots. very interesting. very insightful. into the mind-set. now a major development involving chinese human rights activist caught in the middle of a diplomatic crisis. the chinese foreign ministry says chen guangcheng can apply for government permission to study abroad. he requested a meeting with secretary of state hillary clinton. chen fears for his family s safety. the interrogator told her that if her husband did not walk out of the u.s. embassy, they will kill her. later, a friend released a statement saying that chen only wants to come to the u.s. for a rest. then he ll return to china. weird twists and turns in that case. an interior designer who secretly helped to funnel money to the john edwards campaign is expected back on the stand today in edwards criminal trial. yesterday the focus was entirely
on edwards mistress rielle hunter. here s abc s bob woodruff. reporter: john edwards arrived at the court with his daughter cate once again by his side. she was composed as her father s former aides described the bizarre interactions with his ex-girlfriend rielle hunter, the campaign s one-time videographer. i m so glad you like it. reporter: on the stand, john davis, edwards right-hand man by his side on the campaign trail. davis testified that in february of 2007, more than a month after rielle hunter was no longer employed as a videographer, he saw her in a hotel elevator. i would have preferred not have seen her, davis says. i was concerned why she was there. i was suspicious they had maintained a relationship. some time later, hunter knocked on his hotel room door. she told me she and john edwards were very much in love, davis testified. the next day edwards denied they were having an affair to davis. he told me she was crazy and we needed to make sure she didn t contact h
the power of the love does override all the issues that come up and all the judgments. this is wrong. what you are doing is wrong. the power of the love did that? yes. reporter: the prosecution is trying to establish that edwards used money from top benefactors to cover up the affair and save his campaign. edwards insists he was only trying to protect his family. davis also testified about a plane ride he took with edwards and benefactor fred baron. when the subject of the national enquirer article came up, baron told the two not to worry. he said the press isn t going to find miss hunter because of the way i am moving her around, davis testified. i think the plane ride was very hurtful to john edwards today. he is sitting 18 inches from baron, an alleged co-conspirator. baron spells out the conspiracy in a nutshell. we don t know yet if john edwards will testify in this trial or not but we do know that rielle hunter will.