what's your answer to that person? >> i hope i wouldn't run of the out room screaming, but there's a chance. so, you know, the problem is, trying to do something like that in a expenditures are supposed to be exposed, is clearly a problem. >> yes. >> you have to say to the candidate, you can't do that. >> correct, yes. >> the white house makes the argument, well, there was the case involving senator edwards, and he paid money. the jury didn't convict him. that's a pretty weak read here because, first of all, the prosecutors charged senator edwards. there was a trial. the jury didn't convict him, but they were split on it. the facts were really different. this all happened before the election had started in edwards' case. it involved payments for a child he had had, when his wife was