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that it was all a lie and never happened. let s go to cnn s drew griffin, who has been found a trough in the start. drew, first break down the verdict for us. how exactly did the jury get to the figure of four point $1 million. the jury was asked a series of questions. keep in mind, they came in only for the punishment phase or money face. alex jones was fined liable by the fault in this case. one of the cases was for the father of he claimed definition. that defamation is what the jury awarded at least for them. that was $110,000. but for both parents, scarlett lewis and neil heslin, the jury said, for the inception of emotional distress, now and then the future, warning them each $2 million. as you say, that is far below the $150 million that they asked for. jim, i just viewed an obnoxious video by alex jones that he put out on his website, as he begged for money from his viewers calling this a major victory for truth, alluding to the fact that this whole trial wa ....
prosecutors as we speak are asking for a sentence of nine and a half years in prison. i m going to go straight to cnn s fred pleitgen who is live outside the courtroom near moscow. fred, what is the latest? what are we hearing about how that sentencing will go? yeah, i mean it really is significant information that we re getting, dana. first of all, you re absolutely right, the court has found brittney griner guilty. as we see on our screens right now, the judge is still sort of reading out the verdict and what exactly the specifics of this verdict are. but there s something that s very important that the judge has read in saying that they have found brittney griner guilty with criminal intent. that means that the court believes what the prosecution has said, that they believe that brittney griner intentionally took narcotics to the russian federation, obviously talking about those two vaping cart ridges. you ll recall one of the cases or one of the things that the de ....
Whelan, and others. now even in the midst of this trough, if you want to call it, that crisis against russia relations, we do have a prisoner swap earlier this year. how likely is it that in exchange can come together now? as you, know the americans already offered viktor bout, a convicted arms smuggler, the russians tried to, that, by the, wait for griner and paul whelan, the russians that hey, how about this convicted murderer murderer held by germany as well? is it just about finding the right exorbitant price at this point? i think now is the time, jim, when real negotiations are going to start. i think it s going to be a very much behind the scenes. of course, part of that calculation is always, how much can get whether it s on the american side or whether it s on the russian side, publicly? but overall, i m cautiously optimistic that a deal will be reached, simply because this is how vladimir putin and the kremlin play the game. they want to extract the highest price to get ....
This, however, is that the biden administration hasn t just been sitting on its hands waiting for this day, they were trying to get the wheels in motion back in june when they did put an offer on the table with the russians, offering up viktor bout, a convicted arms smuggler, siervig a 25-year sentence here. the russians hasn t played ball. they put another offer through some back channels on the table for a russian who s actually serving time in germany right now. basically they haven t been able to have productive conversations to make an agreement about that prisoner swap. and that s why today is important because the expectation was that when there s a sentence, it may allow them to move forward in those discussions. i do think it s important, dana, though, to point out that the judge is saying that she did this deliberately. and that is exactly contradictory to what brittney griner has said is the story ....