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Transcripts For CNN At This Hour With Kate Bolduan 20240707

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 ....

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Transcripts for CNN At This Hour With Kate Bolduan 20240604 15:03:00

They are saying that they didn t buy it. i want to bring in cnn s kylie atwood at the state department. kylie, based on what fred is just reporting, what is your sense from your sources where you are at the stated department about how hard it is going to be or not to take the next step, and the next step everybody expects will be an attempt at a prisoner swap? yeah, well, today will have an impact on that next step and that s because when you talk to u.s. officials, the expectation that there was any potential prisoner swap wouldn t come to fruition until brittney griner confessed guilt. so she pled guilty back in july and she expressed that she was sorry that she committed this, though she didn t intend to today again in the courtroom, and that also there would have to be sentencing in this trial. so that s why today will have an impact on the ongoing efforts to try and secure a prisoner swap to get brittney griner home. now, the backdrop to all of ....

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