BLITZER: Sentencing in New York for convicted Russian arms dealer. His accusers call the merchant of death. He is in court this hour facing 25 years to life. CNN's Erin Burnett is out front with this story. Erin, you're talking to someone who knows this individual really well. Tell us what you're learning.</s>ERIN BURNETT, HOST, CNN'S "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT": It's pretty amazing. We are literally waiting for the sentence to come down, Wolf, at any moment. And the way that it is supposed to be is a minimum, mandatory 25 years up to life in prison, as you just said, for Victor Boot. This guy is -- there are a lot of arms dealers still out there doing their jobs and you can only imagine people who are making a lot of money, for example, on what's going on in Syria right now. But Victor Boot was among the prolific arms traders in history, surface-to-air missiles, machine gun, sniper rifles and 10 million rounds of ammo just in Colombia alone, Wolf. So he was prolific and as you know, of course, for the "Lord of War" movie with Nicholas Cage in 2005. Nicholas Cage was playing Victor Boot. We're going to talk to a woman named Kathy Lynn Austen and I've been talking to her during this entire trial, Wolf. She has spent 10 years, she's spent following Victor Boot through Africa and through the Congo basically under cover trying to find out what he was doing and doing deals with him, for example, when he wanted to buy planes to transfer his weapons in and out of the Congo. She's at the trial today and she's going to be our guest tonight and it will be very interesting to see what the sentencing actually is.</s>BLITZER: We'll be watching at 7:00 p.m. Eastern later tonight. Erin, thank you.</s>BURNETT: All right, thanks, Wolf. Amid fears they'll turn Egypt into a strict Islamic state, members of the Muslim Brotherhood meet with key Obama administration officials at the White House and the State Department. Stand by.
Sentencing for "Merchant of Death"