Edwards: "The Clinton campaign has no conscience"

Edwards responded sharply to a Clinton aide's criticism today, intensifying a back-and-forth that began at last night's debate, after Clinton said Nataline Sarkisyan could be alive if the patients bill of rights, which he'd boasted of championing, had passed.

"The Clinton campaign has no conscience," Edwards said, after Clinton spokesman Jay Carson said Edwards does no more than "read articles about people who need help and talk about them."

"The idea that everything is about them [suggests] that they have no conscience," Edwards said of the Clinton campaign, my colleague Josh Kraushaar reports. "I'm very surprised by the comments."

Clinton, at her avail just now, responded.

"That's just totally untrue," she said of any implication she'd blamed Edwards for the death during the debate, something his aides have suggested. "He answered a question about what his greatest accomplishment was in the Senate by trying to mislead people that a bill he worked on became law."

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this item indicated that Edwards was responding to Clinton. He was responding to Carson.