client, rachel "bunny" mellon considered edwards a personal friend and was responding to a request for funds to help with an unspecified personal issue. mellon considered her donations to not be campaign contributions. she wasn't interested in being named secretary of state or body, it was the person that interested her. another witness, tim tobin, just wrapped up cross-examination by the defense. yesterday tobin told prosecutors about a meeting he had with edwards in 2008 in which the former presidential candidate discussed funding and advocacy group for the poor. according to tobin, edwards said he had a friend, mrs. mellon, who had great wealth. it would be a chip shot for her to endow that foundation with $50 million. but tobin said a year later he had another meeting with john edwards in which edwards denied that he had initiated the $50