of the dalia and michael dippolito show. more than seven years after dalia s outburst went viral boo-hoo. reporter: and five years after dalia was sentenced to 20 years for hiring a hitman to kill her husband, she was back again in court on the same charge facing a possible 30-year stretch. good afternoon, ms. dippolito. afternoon. reporter: first, at a pretrial hearing in february as they tried to get the entire case dismissed, dalia s new team road-tested a new reality tv defense, this time dalia was blaming her former lover mohamed the informant and sometimes tv extra. they weren t about arranging a hit. they were all about that tv presentation. the purpose of meeting him was to discuss the presentation and, you know, taping what was going to be on there. she claimed she had wanted to back out of the purported tv project but she insisted
grieving widow. police officers didn t have to wait long before the informant s story was confirmed. this woman in the car really appeared to be in the market for a triggerman. less than a minute she begins talking about hiring somebody to kill her husband. unprompted. he s not doing dental work to get the story out of her. honestly killing over that much money. even it s not even about the [ bleep ] money. we ll spend it like in the [ bleep ] blink of an eye. the meeting seemed to be all business. dalia produced photos of her husband for mohamed to hand over to the hit man. i brought pictures. just give me one picture. reporter: dalia brought something else the hit man requested, cash to buy the gun to be used. i brought $1200. he s asking for $1200. yeah. when are you going to give him the money today. reporter: she turns the money over? yes. is that a crime, detective.
is not the right way to find the person who is actually going to do that. i mean there s almost a greek tragedy in it. yeah, there is a fear deep in people that is the case. michelle goldberg, thank you very much. thank you. up next, just how much is the trump administration bungling the coronavirus response? the man who spearheaded the response to the ebola outbreak joins me right here at this table, next. joins me right here at this table, next. to lexus sales event now through march 31st. lease the 2020 es350 for $379 a month for 36 months and we ll make your first months payment. experience amazing at your lexus dealer.
numerous assault weapons. anything he wanted. and so for more than two years, the murder plot bank rolled by john killed nothing but type. they want more money. they were very valuable to you. it would have been a tough case if we had only one or two of them. someone was either happeneding out the truth or swum handed out. they were canny enough to document their feelings with the mysterious mr. john them even had a picture of help and his fancy car. wait until you see it. it s a stunner. coming up, who is this infamous mr. john? the biggest twist of all. i was in disbelief. it was so farfetched.
don t know? have the stranger said his name was john. he said, you don t know me. he told me his name. i don t know you. i was told you might be the one to do the job for me. the job? kill nancy howard. you want it done, we can count on him. like a carjacking, purse snatching. john was a man of means, he told the detectives, who drove a texas and communicated with a disposable drop phone. do you see that number? 1764? that s john s contact number if you still have the phone. that s how you cause him? he had it memorized. so he had the whole number, the 1764 number. billy knew more. he could describe nancy s car. she ain t had it long. it s dark blue, four doors like a hatchback. inning he is providing a lot of information that he should not