unfolding diplomatic crisis. and why do women only make 77 cents on the dollar compared to men? i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. tomorrow marks one year since the u.s. mission that killed osama bin laden and today the terror leader s name is popping up out there on the campaign trail. the romney and obama campaigns are each trying to paint their candidate as the toughest, but for team romney, it s a built of an uphill battle right now. our national political correspondent jim acosta is watching all this unfold. what s going on in this fight? for months, mitt romney has been on offensive. he in this debate over the killing of osama bin laden, romney has been on defense, just the way the president wants it. as mitt romney was shaking hands in new hampshire, he was asked the question, he had given the same order to kill osama bin laden. even jimmy carter would have given that order. cnn breaking news. tonight i can report to the american people a
cane is back, he has a column for theblaze.com. an all-boy panel this morning. you re used to that. you know what? i am getting kind of used to it a little bit. our starting point this morning is day two of john edwards criminal trial. it s going to get under way in about 2 1/2 hours. and back on the stand, his former aide, andrew young. he is the key witness for the prosecution. the issue is did john edwards inappropriately use campaign funds to hide his mistress, rielle hunter? the prosecution called edwards a master manipulator, saying this. if the affair went public, it would have destroyed any chance to become the president, and he knew it and he made a choice to break the law. we re joined by melanie sloan, executive director for citizens of responsibility and ethics in washington. nice to see you, melanie. thanks for talking with us. nice to be here. walk me through what happened. andrew young will be back on the stand as i mentioned again today. yesterday was
and using hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions to conceal edwards extramarital affair. the justice department contends that edwards was mounting a campaign that said family comes first, and if it was found that he had had an extramarital affair, not to mention a child with rielle hunter, that that would undermine the idea of him being a family man and would therefore destroy his presidential campaign, so the u.s. attorney has tried to link those things, the money that was given, payments given by buddy mellon and fred barren so this idea that they were trying to not help john edwards out of a sticky situation but protect his campaign for president, and if prosecutors can make that case in court they just may have something against john edwards. as gregg craig, his attorney said, no one in the history of presidential campaigns has ever been charged with the sort of violations that john edwards is charged with, they say they can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that those p
you re in the cnn newsroom. this is sunday, may 29th on this memorial day weekend. i m fredericka whitfield. one week ago a tornado pack 2g 00 mifrp winds ripped through the city leaving at least 142 people dead and hundreds more hurt. numbers continue to rise. this isn t about a scoreboard. those numbers have far exceeded what never had ever hoped for and far exceed all the tornados in our country. today we bring everyone together go focus on it and inspire others to come together as the they have here. we ll hear from both the president and the govern right here on cnn. lockheed martin says hackers who attacked their system did not get anything important. it s one of several military vendors that hackers targeted. the aerospace security team took countermeasures to protect information from being compromised. back in joplin, our white house dan lothian is also there. dan, with so much destruction, where do they find a building large enough to actually accommodate e
both in facts and law. the bottom line on it is his big donor, buddy mellon, gave him $4 million, $700,000 of which has been applied to rn reasielle hu and a cover-up. the only witness left, the discredited andrew young, the former campaign aide. about the money, prosecutors are going to have to prove, if there was money that was transferred to rielle hunter, that it came from that mellon money and not perhaps from john edwards own bank account, because he had money, too. sure. so that s going to be difficult, is it not? well, i don t think it s going to be difficult, fred, since his former finance chairman, fred baron, already gave interviews with the government to say that he absolutely took that money and used it for a cover-up to cover up his relationship with her.