dippolito said she's misunderstood. >> who is dalia dippolito? >> understanding, sweet, compassionate. >> because of that -- >> reporter: at the time her newly hired high-powered attorneys wouldn't let her talk about certain parts of the case, particularly those seemingly damning videotapes, because she's now facing a new trial after her first conviction was overturned on a technicality. bu yesrday there was no avoiding them. moment we've all seen again and again. >> 5,000 percent sure. >> that's all mohammad told you to say, right? >> yes, he told me to say that. >> 5,000% sure? >> i needed to project confidence. and yeah. but that's what he toldd me, to make it look believable. >> reporter: perhaps the most surreal moment in the courtroom, when the prosecutor plays an audiotape of her trying to explain to her then-husband mike ththat she actually didn't pay to have him killed. >> please, i need an attorney, can you help me? it's not true. >> you said you wanted to have me killed, i heard that. >> it's not true, that is not true! >> reporter: ac

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. >> dalia is testifying in a retrial hearing after her conviction for hiring a hit man was reversed. let's get to victor oquendo, he is in the newsroom. >> yeah, lori has been house arrest awaitinin her retrial. she spent much of this afternoon on the stand saying th she was set up. >> just didn't want to do any re. >> dalia claimingher innocence, in a foiled murder for hire plot. >> he threatened to hurt me, he threatened to hurt my family. >> he says a police informant she says was an active project. >> it was an actor who had faked it and he was on the emsend, and he gave us the idea on how to do it. >> but the state wasn't buying it, the prosecutors going for their second conviction after the courts threw out her first one. because jurors were tainted. they said she hire add hitman to kill more husband mike. >> is those plans documented in these videos. >> this ishe video that went viral, august 2009. boynton beach tells at a staged murder scene her husband was dead. now defense attorneys say that this video shows the p lice department only wanted publicity because of the time th

. >> dalia is testifying in a retrial hearing after her conviction for hiring a hit man was reversed. let's get to victor oquendo, he is in the newsroom. >> yeah, lori has been house arrest awaiting her retrial. she spent much of thihi afternoon on the stand saying that she was set up. >> just didn't want to do any more. >> dalia claiming her innocence, in a foiledurderor hire plot. >> he threatened to hurt me, he >> he says a police informant pressures her to go forward what she says was an active project. >> it was an actor who had faked it and he was on the emsend, and he gave us the idea on how to do it. >> but the state wasn't buying it, the prosecutors going for their second c cviction after the courts threw out her first one. because jurors were tainted. they said she hire adddd hitman to kill more husband mike. >> is those plans documented in these videos. >> this is the video that went viral, august 2009. boynton beach tells at a staged murder scene her husband was dead. now defense attorneys say that this video shows the police department only wanted publicity because of the

dalia dippolito is serving 20 years for the crime but now she's back this court taking the stand for the first time in a new bid for freedom. abc's linsey davis is tracking >> reporter: good morning, george. dippolito claims she was not trying to kill her husband. she says she was simply caught on tape discussing it because job. her lawyer claims she was set up and the police department only cared about being on the reality tv show "cops." dalia dippolito is taking a stand for the first time facing a retrial for hiring a hit man to kill her husband of six months. >> i was afraid. >> reporter: her 2011 guilty verdict was overturned due to a tainted jury pool. >> he threatened me. he threatened to hurt me. he threatened to hurt my family. >> you know, he gets two in the head. >> i'm positive like 5,000 percent sure. >> reporter: dalia says she was acting during had video from a script that dalia, her then husband michael dippolito and former lover mohamed shihadeh had written for an acting project they planned to post 0 on social media. >> this is something to be something you guys are

dalia al-awqati told us that her charity, mercy corp, feed and clothe 500,000 people in northern syria every month. >> it's not much, but it's essential to keep a family alive. >> reporter: now they're racing to get food parcels to families in aleppo city, fearing more starvation in a country senseless war. and as if syria's war wasn't complicated enough, today some american-backed rebels told us they were attacked by kurdish fighters who were also supported by the u.s. now, the kurdish fighters say it wasn't deliberate, but, scott, this shows just how difficult it is for the u.s. to unite different factions on the ground in syria. >> pelley: holly williams, thanks. so what can the u.s. do to stop the war? for that we turn to margaret margaret? >> reporter: well, today the u.s. is trying to broker an immediate ceasefire. today secretary kerry pushed both russia and iran to stop attacking syrian civilians in aleppo and allow in aid to besieged areas, but the russians haven't been quick to agreed agree to that. in fact, vladimir putin's military has cut off supply lines to the u.s.-backe

dalia dippolito is taking a stand for the first time facing a retrial for hiring a hit man months. >> i was afraid. >> reporter: her 2011 guilty verdict was overturned due to a tainted jury pool. >> he threatened me. he threatened to hurt me. he threatened to hurt my family. >> you know, he gets two in the head. >> i'm positive like 5,000 percent sure. >> reporter: dalia says she was acting during had video from a script that dalia, her then husband michael dippolito and former lover mohamed shihadeh had written for an acting project they planned to post 0 on social media. >> this is something to be put on line -- >> on social media, right, so we can try to get an acting job from it. >> so this is acting? >> yes. >> reporter: but prosecutors say that was no act and alleged she paid an under undercover cop posing as a hit man $3,000 to kill her husband. >> is your husband michael? >> reporter: the real act investigators say was dippolito's reaction to these south florida police officers telling her this lie. >> i'm sorry to tell you, ma'am, he's been killed. >> no. >> reporter: but her