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Family and friends have begged for leniency. this judge, amy berman jackson can give him a maximum of 10 years that you just laid out. why is she expected to be harsher than the last judge? >> well, its not really -- i dont think its a question of being harsher. manafort signed a plea agreement when he pled guilty in the district of columbia, which called for a sentence within the federal sentencing guidelines of 210 to 262 months. thats about 18 to 22 years. and that was contingent on his accep...

Lower here today. an operates mi president trump says he plans to meet with xi jinping. >> well have a signing summit which is even better. so hopefully we can get that completed. but were getting very, very close. >> here is a look at wall street pre-market, u.s. stocks are leaning a little lower here. but i would call that almost directionless. u.s. stocks closed the highs of. the dow closed up 60 points, but giving become almost the early rally of 210. s&p 500 and nasdaq both closed up slight...

Was created 100 years ago. its long off of patent. the other thing we heard over and over again today and i stressed and made very, very clear in the hearing is that the majority of research, basic research is done by taxpayers through the national institute of health. when they talk about new innovations and how they need to put money into innovation, the companies before us today in their own sec filings spent more on sales marketing and administration than on their research. the r&d. since 20...

20. defying the country supreme court travel plan to attend venezuelan aid concert in columbia. the show down the delivery of aid to venezuela turning deadly tonight. venezuelan security forces firing on protesters near the brazilian border, two protesters killed in a dozen wounded. israel looking to the men launching first privately funded lunar lander on eight cape canaveral falcon nine rocket. benjamin netanyahu said the launch was a giant step four is really technology and israeli craft sche...

12 hours earlier, would it have made any difference? >> because they wouldnt have found out. they would have marked the death certificate as death unknown. he would have been put in the ground, and it would have been just a mystery. unknown -- unknown assailants. turn the page, move on. >> its the key of this murder. polonium 210 was discovered and now we know exactly sasha was killed by polonium 210. >> reporter: its an almost perfect murder weapon. polonium has no smell, little taste, and with...

Before litvinenkos murder, the russian parliament passed a law authorizing the liquidation of enemies of the state anywhere in the world. >> you dont pass that just for the sake of passing it. you have to have somebody in mind. >> reporter: seven months after the law was passed, someone was liquidated. a prominent russian journalist, shot in the head outside her moscow apartment. she was a friend of litvinenko. three weeks later, litvinenko himself was poisoned with polonium 210. duma leader zhi...

>> reporter: alexander, as in litvinenko. scaramella says thats why he met with litvinenko in london, to tell him about the hit list, to warn him. but, he says, litvinenko didnt buy it. >> he said, mario, dont care about that. >> reporter: he says its bs. >> i think its just a provocation, but please check whats happening. >> reporter: but after what happened to litvinenko, scaramella says he takes the hit list seriously. are you frightened for your life? >> well -- do you have another question?...

Old-fashioned bullets in bodies work rather effectively and quite cheaply. >> reporter: why not just shoot him? >> i didnt say they would have done. they could possibly. we -- >> could possibly have done -- >> we -- we dont do that sort of thing. >> reporter: also remember, litvinenko was working for mi-6 and it was lugovoi and his partner dmitri kovtun who left a radioactive trail all over london especially at the pine bar. lugovoi is hardly hiding here in russia. he did our interview in one of...

Without knowing what killed him. the results from a battery of tests came in too late. but they did come in. it turned out he was killed by something far more lethal than common rat poison. >> its polonium. >> reporter: polonium 210 to be exact, a rare and deadly radioactive isotope. the news shocked the world, even though most people werent exactly sure what polonium was. but paul joyal knew what it was and what it could do. that his friend effectively burned to death from radioactivity. >> its...

Make sure we knew. >> tucker: makes jaw is open. can that be right? can she know the name of the dog that won the show? >> ultimately the top prize at the westminster dog show going to the top terrier. appropriately named king. 3-year-old wire fox terrier. >> my mom literally texts this out at 7:00 a.m. to everyone in my family. >> can this be an eject button? >> tucker: i like dogs as much as anyone on earth and i didnt know the answer. another multiple choice question. on tuesday we celebrated...