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free man. he was found not guilty on one count of campaign finance law and failing to reach the verdict on the other charges. this after the alternate jurors were said to be wearing the same clothes. there s even been a report of a flirtation between one of the alternate jurors towards towards. the trial itself was also tabloids about funneling cash from a contributor to rielle hunter during the primary. jurors did not believe this was against the campaign finance law and could not decide on the rest of it. the judge declared a mistrial. i wanted to say first, thank you for the jurors, and their incredibly hard work and their diligence. they took their job very, very seriously. all i can say is thank goodness we live in a country that has the kind of system that we have. that system in all likelihood will not try him again. we ll talk to jeffrey toobin about the reasons why. but first i want to show you john edwards news conference. it turned into pretty incredible ....
here s what john edwards had to say after the trial. i want to make sure that everyone hears from me and from my voice that while i do not believe i did anything illegal or ever thought i was ever doing anything illegal, i did an awful, awful lot that was wrong. the federal government still has the option of a retrial, that doesn t seem very likely at this point. joining me to talk about all of that, senior legal analyst jeff toobin and david peril managing ed tord of radaronline.com and former editor-in-chief of the national enquirer which first broke the john edwards pregnancy scandal. jeff, are you surprised by this verdict? not at all. this was a weak, weak case, but john edwards was a deeply unappealing person to the jury, so you can see how the jury was pushed in different directions and i think in a way, a mostly hung jury is sort of appropriate resolution of this case because you wouldn t want to see john edwards given how he lived his life walking out o ....
and we ve got a lot of breaking news today. the jury in the john edwards federal corruption trial reaches a verdict on just one of the six counts against the one-time presidential hopeful. the defense asks for a mistrial, but the judge tells the jury they ve got to keep at it. let s go straight to cnn s senior correspondent, joe johns. he s in greensboro, north carolina. joe, what is going on down there? reporter: well, you know, it gets stranger and stranger every minute. quite frankly, just a few minutes ago, gloria, we got the word to stay tuned. it may not be over yet, even for today. the jury just sent yet another note to judge katherine eagles here in greensboro. we re waiting to hear the contents of that note. they ve been a very communicatetive juror. it could be they just want to talk about scheduling. usually around 4:30 eastern time is usually when the jury breaks for the day. but recapping, it s been a very unusual and probably most extraordinary day in t ....
exploding blaze this morning. two states under the gun. could be the $100 million tax dodged. did facebook s co-founder give up u.s. citizenship to escape paying his taxes? he s now in singapore driving a bentley and living it up appearing in high society magazines. why did he unfriend america? block the press. reporters at a mitt romney event blockeded from asking the candidate question. cnn the only network getting the moment on tape. newsroom begins right now. good morning to you. i m carol costello. this morning police are escorting some school buses in metro atlanta after a terrifying scene unfolded for several students on their way to school. a gunman took aim at the children while they boarded a school bus. it happened in clayton county south of atlanta s airport where police have now found the rifle, ammunition and a note with school bus numbers and pickup and arrival times. here s what one witness told tom jones of our affiliate wsb. he is shooting at t ....
really? and maybe a bunch of billionaires as well. what many people are asking is to buy or not to buy? that is the question today. ali velshi and christine romans have very, very different opinions on whether you should buy in or not. i m curious. do you buy? i m on facebook. love facebook. is this going to be apple or not? remember, apple went sideways for a long time and almost went out of business first, right? it s more like google maybe. google went up. both were game changers. that s right. this is going to be history one way or the other. the way i see it, this is the second transformation of the internet. the reason i say that, remember, brooke you re probably too young to remember. when we used to get all those disks for aol, they would mail them to you. you get them at the supermarket and you get this portal? the internet was about portals where you got weather, traffic, business, sports, all these things you didn t know where to get anywhere else. ....