Diddy Trial, Trump's "One, Big, Beautiful Bill", Syria Attacks Israel, And Dave Portnoy Melt Down!
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3 hours and 4 minutes
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145.64626
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Summary
On this episode of Behind The Bum, we have a special guest on the show to talk about his experience with Puff and Steph, and how they treated him. We also get into the details of what it's like to be a stripper in New York City, and what it was like to work for Puff.
Transcript
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She left the room to talk to him, and she came back like,
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And then she said to me, yo, do you want to finish?
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Meaning, you know, I guess, do I want to bust a nut?
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And my first example, you know, I'm trying to be professional.
00:38:08.000
But she did say, all right, well, when we get back in town,
00:38:13.420
I'm like, yeah, I just got 2K to rub down like a super.
00:38:17.820
Yeah, so you got paid like 2,000 instead of 200.
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So I'm not, of course, I'm down if you want to hit me back.
00:38:37.200
I've seen also in the transcripts that you said it was just supposed to be like a sexy scene,
00:38:45.720
meaning that Puff would tell you to move the candles a certain way
00:38:50.340
or tell her to move the candles a certain way for lighting purposes for his visual.
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Yeah, so, like, when I first got in there, she made it clear that this was a scene we were setting up for her husband.
00:39:09.480
All the furniture in the suite was covered in sheets.
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So it was like a single chair across from, like, a big sofa.
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And we were supposed to sit on there and kind of put oil on myself.
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And then at some point, we're rubbing on each other and we're doing little, like, masturbating.
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So did he have them, like, stare at each other and goon, which is something else that he wanted them to do,
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Like, the sex scene in the little Cinemax movies.
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So we're trying to make it look like the part, you know?
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And then he, so he would give subtle cues because he's across the room.
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And if it's instructions for me, it goes to her and she tells me.
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So it was, like, a real scripted kind of routine.
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And it really went like that every single time.
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So he was basically orchestrating a sex scene without directly talking to you, but telling her certain things.
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I seen also in the transcript, or I actually heard you talk about this, that Puff would have the Muslim mask on and be naked from the neck down.
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That Puff would have the Muslim mask on and be naked from the neck down.
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Bro, that was, that was, like, the weirdest shit ever.
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Nigga come with the thing naked from the waist out, bro.
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That's why I showed y'all that short of me doing that.
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Like, it's already weird knowing, like, a dude's coming in the room, you know?
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And mind you, this guy has erectile dysfunction, Chad.
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So could you imagine you've been struggling with ED your entire life?
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And now some dude walks in wearing a fucking, uh, a veil?
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So it's extra crazy because it's not straight on.
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And, and he, and he's, half the time he's beaten off and he's dead.
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Let me, I'll keep playing the interview and I'll pull it up for you guys on the side, bro.
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So it was, it was, it was some, it was, it was, it was definitely a difficult space to try to be in.
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I'm looking at the scenario and I'm trying to make it work.
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In search of freezer meat, a story of the male mental health crisis caused by erectile dysfunction.
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And the only true cure no one is talking about.
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Man, I would have just pled guilty if I was Diddy, bro.
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But I think at some point after, like, the year and change, and it was a while.
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And at some point, he just changed to a Yankee fitted.
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And I guess he figured out, all right, homie figured it out.
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I also seen that you say when you and her were doing what you guys were doing,
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he would be pacing back and forth with a bottle of Astroglide?
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He could tell that it was Astroglide because of the purple cap, I think.
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Like, something he was into in terms of visually watching this.
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What was being done with the Astroglide, though?
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I guess he's using it as lubricant to beat off.
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That was, you know, he's pleasuring himself during the action.
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Yo, jacking off with a New York fitter is crazy, bro.
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Yeah, I mean, the whole time, that's what I thought it was.
00:45:51.720
Yeah, voyeurism is just basically looking, right?
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But, like, this, yeah, 100%, this is just straight up cuckin', bro.
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Because voyeur can mean you watching anybody, not your girl.
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That's just, like, pervy niggas that want to, like, look at shit.
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But when niggas want to see specifically it be their girl, yeah, 100%.
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Bro, that'd be crazy if the nigga was wearing Tim's and a Yankee fitted and nothing else is naked everywhere else.
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The closest he got to actual action, like it was one time.
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All this stuff, almost every session happened in the living room, but it was one specific one where they, we got moved to the bedroom, me and her.
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So, in the bedroom, he's in a closer proximity because he's walking, now he's walking around the bed.
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And at some point, like, almost at, like, the strip club, he took, like, a stack of hundreds and just threw it on the bed while we was, um, while up.
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When he threw the stack of money and that shit threw him off, bro.
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Well, when me and her was having sex and we both was like, like, what's going on?
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And he just was like, nah, I'm enjoying this shit.
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Yeah, because she even turned back and said, you know, Puff, you okay?
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Like, like, because the nigga just walked in and just, could you imagine, bro?
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Like, guys, you gotta, yo, you just gotta, like, I don't want to put your guys' minds in a dirty place, but for purposes of, um, you know, understanding the scenario, to understand this, um, crime, you're sitting there and you're smashing some chick, right?
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And then, you know, you kind of know that you're being watched or whatever.
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But then, the nigga just comes into the room, barges in, and just throws a stack of money at you and her, right?
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You're over here, like, you know, trying to focus.
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And on top of that, you got erectile dysfunction, right?
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So you're just, like, you're just doing it like this with your eyes closed and shit, trying to imagine that this is somewhat normal, trying to fucking bust it up.
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Because, you know, if you don't, you're not gonna get a fucking job after this.
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Because, you know, she's obviously on all fours and shit.
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He was like, yeah, I'm just enjoying this shit.
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And, you know, we just kept doing what we was doing.
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Some, like, hood dude from Harlem listening to this story.
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I was just, just thinking, what was the most money you made doing this with them?
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Every single time I came, it was $1,200 to $2,000.
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But like I said, sometimes I could come three days in a row.
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Like, a few hours, I'll go home, you'll come back again.
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And, and the reason why, guys, because he used to, he used to cycle in multiple escorts.
00:50:12.000
Like, he doesn't know this Punisher, but what Diddy would do is when he would do these
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freak-offs, he would circle in multiple, um, escorts, and it would go for multiple days.
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That nigga's on time, that nigga's on clockwork.
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Um, I knew, it was clear, man, this was something we were setting up for her dude, right?
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At the time, I'm thinking her husband, because she said this to me the very first encounter,
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So I didn't think it was a personable, she's into me, but obviously, if this is something
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that has to be done based on their sexual fetish, well, she's going to do it with somebody
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that, all right, I'm comfortable with this dude, you know?
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So, I always took it as, all right, however the vibe was, however things went, it worked
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for her, so that's why she said, I'm going to call you back, you know?
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Did Puff ever appear jealous while you guys were having intercourse or participating with
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Like I told you, the focus was making sure he got the right visuals, the lighting was
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right, the, you know, put more baby oil on, like it was, it was, he was, he was into it
00:51:50.280
So, but you're saying he basically never, never was jealous.
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Yeah, nah, that was, that's a big no, because he had to be there.
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Nah, I was strictly busy, and honestly, man, I wasn't, I wasn't even trying to play that,
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Yeah, the money was too good, he didn't want to fuck that up.
00:52:16.080
Fantasy, I know one of the other dudes got caught up in some fantasy of.
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Yeah, the other, the other guy, Phillips, got like, started getting feelings for Cassie
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They could be together, I, I knew what it was, man.
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Like, I'm in, I'm, she with a dude in $30,000 a night suites, like, like, like, I move, I,
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I, I, I, I can pull it off with chicks, but, you know, that's a tough act to follow, you
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So, I saw it as an opportunity, man, and I was just trying to come through to, you know,
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come up whatever way I could with that easy money, how I saw it.
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I ain't gonna lie, guys, this is why Cam'ron is one of my favorite rappers.
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When I used to listen to Hip Hop Heavy, back in the day, this, this guy was actually one
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Yo, nigga, cut to the chase, and that's the real questions, man.
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Nigga asking what the, he, nigga's a man for the people.
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He's asking what the, what the rest of us want to know.
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And guys, the reason why this is even funnier for me, because you guys got to look at it
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This shit's funnier for me because I sat in the courtroom.
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So, when I sat in the courtroom, I listened to the Punisher straight up.
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I listened to this guy, like, on the stand, saying this shit.
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Because I'm like, all right, I got to report on this later on.
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So, I know this case to a very deep level, right?
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So, it's really funny for me to be here, listen to this broadcast with Cam, knowing
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all the shit that I know, and hearing all the other testimony I've heard, right?
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Because in my head, as he's telling the story, I'm pausing it, and then giving you guys
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And explaining things and weaving things together.
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If you're paying attention to a trial, witnesses' statements all start to match up.
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Because I've heard this testimony, but now he's able to tell it in a more candid manner
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with Cam, because obviously, when he's there and the prosecutors ask him questions, it's
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He's got to answer the questions, be proper, don't go too far.
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So, now I'm hearing the testimony kind of unedited, right?
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And then Cam, instead of being the prosecutor asking questions about the crime, this nigga's
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asking the questions that the rest of us want to hear.
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So, this makes it extra fucking funny for me, man.
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If you guys have been watching my Diddy coverage, you guys know I go into crazy detail.
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A lot of you guys are probably very well aware of the case as well now at this point,
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if you guys have been watching this channel, right?
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The stuff I have to follow, you know what I'm saying?
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And I was just trying to come through to, you know, come up whatever way I could with
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Yeah, because I think this guy's from Harlem, too, actually.
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You know how New York people sound when they talk.
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Y'all know, because obviously niggas is searching freezer meat.
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When I found out it was puff, it got all the way worse.
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Because if you grew up in Harlem, if you grew up in that era, I can't validate it.
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There's rumors that he could be, you know, interested in dudes.
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Now, what Cassie would do is she would tell the strippers that Diddy's not gay and he's
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Because there were a few times where some of the escorts would get nervous because they
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But she would always assure them, look, he's never going to touch you.
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And sometimes when he would give her directions, I would hear, like, something completely different.
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Like, he'll say, yo, I like the position you're in.
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And I'm like, yo, did he just say I wish I could penetrate him?
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So, basically, you never could get comfortable because, so let's just be clear and get the
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So, therefore, you're saying that already, just to put everything into perspective, that
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you're there for this chicken to get this money.
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So, you're already thinking, like, okay, this nigga's being weird, whoever it is, and
00:58:59.980
I gotta keep an eye out for him because we don't know what type, in case he wanna, if
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he get mad, if he wanna join, I'm not with none of that.
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I'm here to bone your bitch, like you paid me to do, and stay the fuck out of it.
00:59:12.060
But what you're saying is, the paranoia intensified once you found out it was puffed, and you
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And also, the other thing, too, that you guys gotta understand, look, I know there's
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a lot of young guys that watch me and stuff like that, but all my guys that are born in
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the 90s and the 80s, you guys know what I'm talking about.
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I'm telling you guys, like, Diddy was, like, as big as Drake back then, right?
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Because even though he wasn't necessarily known as being, like, a great artist, he was
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known for being the dude that could bring multiple people from different factions together,
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And he was, like, the first, I would say, Diddy was the first rapper to, like, become
01:00:05.140
Like, to make hip-hop into a business, to be credible and taken seriously in the business
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See, and I got a bunch of guys in the chat agree with me.
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See, look, all you younger guys, you know, you might not know.
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Because I know Diddy, after, like, 2015, he started to fall off.
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People didn't really know what the fuck was going on.
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You could not avoid this motherfucker in the early to mid-2000s, bro.
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Like, if you heard something on the radio, he was either, it was either his shit or he
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And he was, like, the first rapper to, like, really be an entrepreneur.
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You know, diversifying and dealing with other types of musicians, other type of artists.
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He was one of the first, like, he was, like, one of the main rappers that would, like, be
01:01:16.220
Because, not only am I fucking this nigga girl, but it's Puff.
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So, now you say you hearing shit that you wasn't hearing, and now you can't really enjoy
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Like, I'm not, I'm not intimately connected, yo.
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Like, I don't think I got a real erection the entire time.
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Like, I was loading up, loading up on any pill, anything that I could take just to get
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And back then, like I said, he's paranoid because Diddy was that guy back then, bro.
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And then it's like, homie got on the veil and butt naked.
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And then, then, like I said, I find out it's puffed and then it's the rumors.
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I'm like, yo, I don't, I don't want this to go left.
01:02:20.860
Well, listen, man, we're going to get you some pink horsepower because it don't matter what
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No, every time you went raw and this is actually where he had the problems.
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That same day, that same day when he threw the stack of hundreds.
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Like it, that was like, it was, we were on the bed and, and, you know, I started out,
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And, and after you would tell it was like some excitement, some connection.
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So when I pop up, she's scooting towards me for the, for the penetration.
01:03:14.780
Have you guys covered the Billy Goats gruff situation with incident with took place at
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Your boy, Lem says, I got something for you, bro.
01:03:33.680
Um, Johnny boy says, WMARW, what's your take on Vital situation that when PH offered
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deportation to both Russia and us, they refused and he might be spending his whole sentence
01:03:43.660
Um, I mean, you guys gotta remember, he's not an American citizen.
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So America doesn't really have any vested interest in him.
01:03:50.320
Um, and, um, you know, uh, and then Russia, I don't think Russia wants him back.
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I feel bad because like, I like Vitaly a lot, bro.
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Santos says, Maren, why you never buy a woman a watch?
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I'll save you the embarrassment and not show the audience this shit.
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Cause they'll call you a cornball if I put this up on screen, bro.
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Y'all go raw and Cassie be like that, my nigga.
01:04:57.620
Um, uh, some of my co-hosts, they got a couple of questions for you, but I got one more question
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We hear about, uh, fifties baby mom, Daphne being involved in some of these things.
01:05:10.440
Did you ever fuck Daphne, 50 cents baby mother?
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That, that, and the reason why he's asking that chat is because there's rumors that the
01:05:20.420
woman that Diddy was dealing with in 2020, who I think is going to be witness three when
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it comes to the abuse, they got Cassie, they got Mia, and then there's supposed to be a
01:05:29.860
third woman that he met in 2020 that had a kid.
01:05:31.800
A lot of people suspected that is, uh, 50 cents baby mom.
01:05:38.580
So that is why, um, he asked that question, Chad.
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Every time I was cold or involved in any way, it was only Cassie specifically.
01:05:48.880
Hey, yo, my man, Larry, Sheree, you got a question.
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Now, uh, so anyway, I figured I'd show you guys that interview.
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Uh, all right, let's get into the actual trial.
01:05:59.380
Jesse Weber and welcome to Law and Crimes Live coverage of the Sean Diddy Combs criminal
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Well, Jesse, first off, I have to say it was perfect execution's case and I'll get into
01:06:21.800
This is our, we're going to have Elizabeth Milner up, our long crime reporter who just
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exited the courtroom, talked to us about today's testimony, and we have an all-star
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panel, an all-star panel to take your questions for the next hour or so.
01:06:38.980
Why was he so important to today's testimony and the trial in general?
01:06:44.880
Okay, so a digital forensics expert took the stand today.
01:06:48.440
Well, Jesse, first off, I have to say it was perfect timing because the,
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an ambulance just passed by me as you were asking me this question.
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Also, I just want to shout out Germany for watching this.
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Little known fact about me is I actually grew up in Germany, but just as far as Frank
01:07:01.520
Piazza's testimony goes, I was really kind of looking forward to his testimony.
01:07:05.200
What did he have to say just about the Intercontinental Hotel?
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Let me, uh, let me find something else for y'all.
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I don't know how these niggas didn't have that.
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Bro, I'm telling you guys, bad audio, people will make concessions for bad video,
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but they will not make concessions for bad audio, bro.
01:08:19.540
It's not playing any music on the background for me, bro.
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And sometimes somebody with a female point of view might differ.
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And when I was trying to talk to her and just ask her about certain things,
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listen, I didn't get what, I was no naive chick.
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Because it gets to a point, though, where a nigga is, is just going too crazy.
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Like, he's trying to fuck every chick you know.
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He's trying to fuck all the rappers you won't work with.
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I think he's covering like the DDG shit or some shit like that.
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That she was on cocaine when, when Diddy gave her that made that,
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purportedly made that threat that he could kill her.
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So the question of her credibility is something that we certainly should foresee.
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The defense is going to try and attack because she seems as if she has done a lot of drugs.
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In her lawsuit, Cassie referred to her ex-girlfriend that she was sleeping with on the couch.
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But Bungalyn says, no, we weren't in a hotel and my ex-girlfriend wasn't Tiffany.
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Have you talked with Cassie about your testimony or hers?
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He says, have you hired a lawyer about the balcony incident?
01:10:45.160
Oh, Sean, did he call a trial recap woman who alleges to dangle there from the balcony?
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Okay, so this girl was mentioned earlier in the trial chat.
01:11:01.960
Okay, and Diddy didn't like her because she would use drugs with Cassie.
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So Diddy did not want Cassie hanging out with this girl.
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She came up early on in the trial when Cassie talked about Diddy hanging her over a balcony
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So did you mention everything in your first meeting with us?
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So by the way, they're jumping ahead of what the defense is going to say.
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So it seems everybody has a lawyer who is testifying.
01:11:36.660
Yeah, and they're going to do that because a lot of these people are suing Diddy.
01:11:40.280
And that's to kind of prevent the angle of you're only hiring a lawyer because you intend
01:11:45.060
to sue and try to get some civil compensation, right?
01:11:54.280
I wanted to get to the idea of, remember they show those exhibits?
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So I personally do not agree with the strategy the defense seems to be employing here.
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He was hanging out with Cassie, that he thought that they would do drugs together and that
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at a certain stage in the relationship, looking around 2016 or so, that we've heard all sorts
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of indicators that Diddy was not happy about Cassie's drug use.
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And she testified that she did sometimes provide Cassie with drugs and Cassie would pay for
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it, including oxycontin, cocaine, K, X, and an array of drugs.
01:12:35.840
But there's some interesting stories that have come out already this morning that we
01:12:41.900
One incident that Bonna relayed is that she was at Cassie's house, which she said she was
01:12:46.540
She would frequently sleep there, either on the couch or on the balcony or in Cassie's
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I'm trying to find, I'm assuming this is the guy?
01:12:58.840
Hey, 16, under Diddy Tron, this morning we're getting to hear direct testimony from Bonna,
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which is what her friends called her, Brianna Bonilon.
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She is the last of the inner circle of Cassie Ventura's friends from the time that she was
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At least we'll ask the names that we've routinely...
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I might need to go back to New York chat so I can fucking do this shit properly for you
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Heard during direct testimony from several different witnesses, including Cassie herself.
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Now, the testimony from Bonna is coming on the heels of testimony from an expert witness
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who was looking to verify the validity of the infamous surveillance video from Intercontinental
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Hotel that displayed Diddy throwing Cassie to the ground, kicking her a couple of times.
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And some very interesting cross-examination of the defense that raised a lot of eyebrows.
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I'm a New York litigator who has practiced in this very courthouse in the Southern District
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And I'm coming here from the Diddy trial trying to give you the legal perspective and background
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so you get a better understanding as to the opposing approaches of the state of defense
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If that sort of thing is your deal, I appreciate it.
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If you'd like, share, hit it before this trial even started, which displays Diddy wearing
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nothing but a towel and socks running down the hall of the Intercontinental and into the
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elevator brank, throwing Cassie's infamous video that has been seen by millions of people
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before this trial even started, which displays Diddy wearing nothing but a towel and socks running
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down the hall of the Intercontinental and into the elevator brank, throwing Cassie to the
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He grabs the back of her hood, throws her to the ground, and then kicks her a couple
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of times before trying to drag her down the hall.
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And we've heard a lot of testimony about this incident.
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The very first witness who came forward in this trial was the manager, who actually can
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be seen later on on that surveillance video, who arrived on this scene, and he's the one
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And the defense has raised issues saying that it looks as if it's been sped up and that maybe
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this raises some sort of issues as to the credibility of the video, perhaps seeking to get the court
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to toss the video all together on the basis that it's not an accurate, fair and accurate
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So the state brought in this expert witness trying to establish that it does fairly and
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During the cross-examination, after he came forward and walked through on direct, that
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this does, that why it is that the video seemed to jump from this spot to that spot.
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And he explained how it's a motion-sensitive surveillance camera, meaning it's not always
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It only turns on when it detects that there's some level of motion.
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And there was talk about ghost images and whether the video skips at certain points.
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And he actually shared some interesting tidbits saying that the wall parts that are shown
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there, the parts that don't move, are static, meaning it always looks like that unless something
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It might not even be capturing what's happening in that very moment, which is very interesting.
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There was indication that perhaps Diddy threw the vase, which supposedly he had simply knocked
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And on cross-examination, Tenny Garagos, for the defense, kept going through the video,
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I want to share with you a thought about this from a legal perspective.
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You know, there's a famous, there's a famous incident.
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So perhaps they're hopeful that they can get a ruling from the court to have this thing
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See, bro, now everybody's cut out to be a YouTuber, bro.
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A lot of niggas are just not cut out for this shit, bro.
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Second witness to come forward today is Brianna Bonilon.
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Witness to come forward today is Brianna Bonilon, aka Bonna.
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She is a friend who we've heard a lot of testimony about how Diddy didn't like her hanging out
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with Cassie, that he thought that they would do drugs together and that at a certain stage
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in their relationship, looking around 2016 or so, that we've, we've heard all sorts of indicators
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that Diddy was not happy about Cassie's drug use.
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And she testified that she did sometimes provide Cassie with drugs and Cassie would pay for
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it, including oxycontin, cocaine, K, X, and an array of drugs.
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I made some merch concepts with the squad and sent them to UNX.
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Check them out and let me know if anything needs to be altered.
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That's not really me, but merch is coming soon.
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Stories that have come out already this morning that we had never heard before.
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One incident that Bonna relayed is that she was at Cassie's house, which she said she was
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She would frequently sleep there, either on the couch or on the balcony or in Cassie's
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And she said one time there was a pounding on the door and that Diddy came in and he took
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And he said, you know, she thought it came close to Cassie.
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And the state asked Bonna, how did Cassie respond?
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And she said she picked up the knife and threw it back at him.
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But, you know, obviously that is displaying certainly a reckless disregard, one would think,
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The second story we heard about that we had never heard is Bonna testified that she was
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on the beach with Cassie and Diddy was there and that he came up to her and spoke close to
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her in her face and said that, I am your devil and I can kill you.
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But she was, I am your devil and I can kill you.
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Asked, you know, why did you continue to hang out with Diddy after that?
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Why did you continue to hang out with Cassie after that?
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Now, her testimony seems like someone who is somewhat affected in the sense that she talks
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She talks like someone who's suffering, who has suffered through some trauma.
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There's been no talk that that trauma has come at the hands of the defendant or from other
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So I'm certainly not speculating about that, but I just want to convey to you the feeling
01:20:02.320
that she, that she gives when she's testifying, that her voice sounds very soft.
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A lot of the questions seem borderline leading, if not really leading in order to try to elicit
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And we, her testimony began the opening statement that she made when she was asked to, you know,
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He, he tried, he, he, he, he, he, he hanged me over the 17th floor of a balcony window.
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Now we had heard talk in opening statements that.
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And we heard this from a couple of other people as well.
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And the thing also that's interesting is like a lot of these people have lawsuits out
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So that's how we've heard a lot of this information prior to the trial.
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Diddy had dangled a woman off the balcony of a window.
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And there was some testimony from Cassie and a third party.
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I think it, I think it was Deontay, but I'm not sure.
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I don't recall precisely about the Banna on the balcony with Diddy incident.
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But now we're, but the Cassie wasn't there when it happened.
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No one seemed to have been there aside from Banna.
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And the question is how much credibility she's going to have.
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She admits that she was on cocaine when, when Diddy gave her that made that purportedly
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So the question of her credibility is something that we certainly should foresee.
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The defense is going to try and attack because she's.
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They're a hundred percent about a cooker on that.
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And even on the stand, she seems, she seems very soft and almost a little bit lost.
01:22:03.940
So it'll be interesting to see how the defense attacks, but one would expect that they're
01:22:08.340
going to attack the reliability of her memory, given the volume of drugs that she's admitted
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So let's see if the, what's the afternoon testimony was.
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All right, let's go back to the Law and Crime Network real quick.
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Portnoy, apparently this happened earlier today.
01:22:59.100
Portnoy got pissed off with some of these guys.
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Let's go ahead and go into this and then we'll cover the big, beautiful bill after this.
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What do you, every comedian, don't tell a joke about it.
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Because, like, dude, that's how the world works.
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When does freedom of speech impinge freedom of religion?
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I don't, I don't, I don't have a good, I don't have an answer.
01:23:34.620
So maybe, maybe you stop with the fucking Jew jokes and act like it's not a big deal when
01:23:44.920
Bro, Dave Portnoy is such an unlikable fucking scumbag, dude.
01:23:48.080
Like, the dude is literally just, like, bro, you eat pizza, man.
01:23:54.500
You're like a typical fucking, you know, frat bro, pizza eating, weed smoking, alcoholic,
01:24:08.260
Like, bro, like nobody watches Barstool Sports anymore, man.
01:24:13.000
These guys haven't been popping since, like, the early 2010s, 2013.
01:24:18.180
But, like, this guy, bro, and the crazy part is, like, he signed with Rumble.
01:24:21.680
He, like, made it, he did a partnership deal with Rumble.
01:24:23.740
And it's like, bro, you're over here crying about freedom of speech?
01:24:26.140
Like, or you're trying to impeach on freedom of speech because it offends you because they're
01:24:34.940
That makes zero sense why he's so fucking sensitive.
01:24:43.360
You should, like, fucking kick those people out.
01:24:50.980
You are defending this guy, Mick, for what he said right after that happened.
01:25:02.840
What I'm saying is you should have him on here or somebody else like that.
01:25:06.720
And fight with him because then you have a conversation.
01:25:27.120
But for you to go ahead and make like a whole big post about it and put the kid on blast.
01:26:05.580
I had to get some protein chips, ninjas, and some blueberries.
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Well, watch this thing, then I'll break it down.
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Are you ignoring what's going on in the world right now?
01:26:35.220
Dave, what do you want to do with those guys in the bar?
01:26:43.960
You're quite literally changing everything you say.
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Kirk, if you just want me to kick them out and not mention it,
01:26:49.440
not care that this kid is anti-Semitic, shut up.
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Look at how he's treating this guy on air in front of everybody.
01:27:10.940
Like, this all started, guys, going back in time a little bit.
01:27:23.240
Some college kids are at a bar celebrating a birthday in Philadelphia.
01:27:27.660
A couple of the kids pitch in and get a bottle.
01:27:30.120
And when they get the bottle, you know how the bottle girls bring out the little sign
01:27:32.340
and they're, you know, putting it up and down and shit like this?
01:27:35.880
A Twitter account called Stop Anti-Semitism tags Dave Portnoy and says, hey, are you aware
01:27:48.560
Portnoy makes a video fuming saying that he's going to find out everyone that was involved
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So he finds out the two bottle girls that were responsible for bringing out the thing,
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He finds out who the people were that bought the fucking bottle, contacts them.
01:28:14.060
The kid that he put out there, he did not buy the bottle.
01:28:21.620
And that Instagram story is one one viral that Stop Anti-Semitism posted and gave to Dave.
01:28:26.060
So the kid posted a story because he was in the section.
01:28:30.920
Stop Anti-Semitism gets that clip, puts it on Twitter, tags Dave Portnoy.
01:28:37.360
He gets angry over a joke saying, fuck the Jews with a bottle sign that this kid didn't
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He's a college student at Temple, gets suspended from the school, loses internship.
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Portnoy says, oh, you got to go to the Holocaust Museum or you got to go to Auschwitz.
01:29:00.760
And he says that him and Robert Kraft are going to pay for it.
01:29:03.780
If you don't know who Robert Kraft is, yeah, one of them.
01:29:08.740
Also got caught in a fucking sex trafficking ring.
01:29:17.340
But anyway, he says, we're going to go ahead and send you to Auschwitz.
01:29:21.220
They agree to be sent to Auschwitz in exchange for him not destroying the kid's life.
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I'm not going to go to Auschwitz anymore, et cetera.
01:29:31.660
Then he's in Canada eating pizza and somebody drives by and says, fuck the Jews, right?
01:29:37.980
To piss him off because he made such a big fucking spectacle of this shit.
01:29:43.760
And there's like kids in the back recording him as he's eating the pizza.
01:29:51.160
Now he's running this broadcast with guys that work for him, it seems.
01:29:55.360
And even his co-workers are like, bro, you're kind of taking this shit a little too seriously, bro.
01:30:07.560
Now you guys understand where the fuck this conversation, how this conversation started
01:30:17.460
This idiot, Vallejo Santos-Mario, need more than protein chips, dude.
01:30:26.140
I guarantee your fucking stomach is like a pitcher's mound, you bitch ass nigga.
01:30:29.700
You sitting here probably eating a taco right now as we speak, Santos.
01:30:41.760
You're the one who's like, oh, big boss man, don't tell.
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Kirk, are you ignoring what's going on in the world right now?
01:31:07.000
What do you want to do with those guys in the bar?
01:31:12.440
You're quite literally changing everything you say.
01:31:14.920
Kirk, if you just want me to kick him out and not mention it, not care that this kid
01:31:32.620
Well, you're the one who's like, oh, big boss man, don't tell.
01:31:50.440
You're literally saying people should be allowed to make Jew jokes, say whatever they want,
01:31:55.520
Yes, I think people should be allowed to make jokes.
01:31:57.420
So how many motherfucking Jews have to be killed before you stop?
01:32:02.720
Everybody, I don't think, what else, where else is that happening with the religion or
01:32:08.140
I don't think those, those psychopaths, I'm with you, they're.
01:32:11.660
Bro, how many fucking Muslims get killed every day, bro?
01:32:17.760
How many times have we given aid to countries that are killing Muslims all the fucking time?
01:32:30.900
Dave Pornart, just so you guys know, is stupid.
01:32:33.080
Bro said that I'm going to send him to Auschwitz.
01:32:44.600
But Dave, you're telling a comedian not to make a joke?
01:32:48.740
I'm with you, I'm with you, but you said stop all jokes.
01:32:57.960
We'll get the Constitution, we'll get Congress and stop Jew jokes of that nature.
01:33:04.320
When does freedom of speech impinge on freedom of religion?
01:33:09.400
I'm like freedom of speech should, I think freedom of speech is the most important thing
01:33:13.340
Okay, so people can go kill the Jews and there's no responsibility if someone goes and kills Jews.
01:33:17.860
No, that's, that's a crime if you kill somebody.
01:33:27.720
I told you that they were going to use this shit to justify censorship.
01:33:35.040
He is trying to justify and rationalize censorship against jokes.
01:33:39.820
Once they start going after the comedians, it's all fucking downhill from their chat.
01:33:46.060
I'm telling y'all, I called this shit when it first happened.
01:33:50.100
I'm telling you guys they are going to use all these attacks to rationalize and justify
01:33:54.980
censorship of speech under the guise of anti-Semitism prevention.
01:34:00.880
You got guys like this, literally, that are members on Rumble, right, with stands for free
01:34:06.980
speech, calling for mass censorship because it hurts their feelings.
01:34:14.680
When I tell you guys that the concept of censorship in America is controlled by them boys, I mean
01:34:21.160
And guys like Dave Pornart, they're showing their real face.
01:34:33.260
You can't sit there and say, oh, the reason why group A is dying is because of jokes B.
01:34:41.020
Whether jokes are made or not doesn't change anything.
01:34:44.580
Those extremists that are going to commit acts of violence, they're going to commit those
01:34:48.680
Instead, what we should be doing is trying to get Israel to stop killing innocent kids
01:34:56.400
and then they might not get the negative fucking reputation that they got.
01:35:03.640
Again, I don't think that innocent Israelis should be hurt because of what their government
01:35:12.480
Because unlike the Zionists, I appreciate all life.
01:35:15.220
However, I do think it takes a little bit of reflection to understand that Israel is
01:35:20.500
currently doing a genocide and killing children every single day.
01:35:25.600
And everyone reacts differently when they see dead kids on their phone.
01:35:31.700
Some people look at it like me and analyze it strategically and identify where the problems
01:35:37.180
are and talk about it in a way where you guys can kind of understand.
01:35:42.160
And talk about the conflict, how we got here, et cetera.
01:35:50.220
Other people might get emotional and get angry and do some stupid shit, as we've seen with
01:35:55.840
Because leftists in general push for violence and they're idiots and they can't control their
01:36:00.920
But Portnoy needs to understand that this environment, this situation that we have going on right
01:36:10.440
now, this rise in anti-Semitism as him and Jonathan Greenblatt and all these other idiots want
01:36:15.920
But this is a direct result based on the actions of the Israeli government.
01:36:23.280
We have to be able to identify the problems to solve the problem.
01:36:25.680
The Israeli government is committing war crimes as we speak.
01:36:33.000
The mass starvation, elimination and destruction of an area that houses two million plus people
01:36:43.360
where 50 percent of the population are children.
01:36:50.960
And you're so much of an idiot that you don't even understand the conflict.
01:36:53.940
You don't know anything about what's going on in Palestine.
01:36:56.840
You probably can't even put Gaza out on a map, if I'm going to be honest.
01:37:03.780
So, the first step to dealing with this rise in anti-Semitism, as they say, is we got to
01:37:17.420
And the problem is the mass extermination of innocent people in Gaza.
01:37:23.480
That is why an international community condemns Israel.
01:37:25.880
That is why college students are protesting all across the country.
01:37:28.880
This is why governments all across the world are condemning Benjamin Nanyal's actions.
01:37:33.200
This is why the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Israel.
01:37:42.020
They want to write everything off as fucking self-defense.
01:37:50.640
So, we're quickly getting to a position here where these Zionists are going to push and
01:38:02.600
Jonathan Greenblatt was just on CNN yesterday talking about censorship.
01:38:14.700
You don't do it, but someone hears you and goes do it.
01:38:20.860
Why is pornoi fucking mischaracterizing fucking quotes, man?
01:38:31.500
Obviously, everyone is fucking against saying stupid shit like that.
01:38:48.320
They are all using semantics for anti-Semitism right now.
01:38:52.560
And I can tell the difference because for 20 years of doing it, I've never mentioned it, Kirk.
01:38:57.680
No, and I said to you when this thing happened.
01:38:59.460
Well, how can you not realize we're in a different time right now?
01:39:03.900
And I'm sensitive to the fact that you're sensitive and I feel bad that you're-
01:39:12.440
Dave Portnoy really is a fucking scumbag, dude.
01:39:16.920
Look at how he's treating his fucking employees over jokes, man.
01:39:25.100
All right, so this suite right here, right, I'll show you guys kind of what's going on here.
01:39:31.780
Let's finish playing this clip with Portnoy and then I'll show you the next clip.
01:39:40.280
Then when you start harnessing free speech and what can be said and what can't be said-
01:39:43.700
I'm not saying throw any of these people in jail.
01:39:50.780
No, what I would like you to do, in my mind, this is why I pitch it to the producers
01:39:58.960
I thought it would be interesting to have somebody on who you disagree with, who I think
01:40:02.620
at the end you wouldn't disagree with that much, have a conversation, which is what I
01:40:08.380
Which I thought you were trying to do with bringing these guys to Auschwitz, trying to
01:40:12.080
So you put a name in the face of somebody you disagree with and have an actual conversation.
01:40:30.240
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt calls for strict censorship on Instagram and TikTok saying
01:40:37.200
This guy is the face of censorship in the United States of America, guys.
01:40:51.960
He's head of the ADL, Anti-Defamation League, which was created to protect a pedophile
01:40:57.560
crapist named Leo Frank after he killed an innocent little girl in a pencil factory and
01:41:15.460
Beakers spreading blood libels in an environment where you have social media influencers making
01:41:22.260
People like Hassan Piker over on Twitch or there's others on TikTok and Instagram saying
01:41:30.400
wild baseless things about Jews, about signs, about Israelis.
01:41:37.280
So I think we really need tech platforms to step up and stop, you know, lifting up these
01:41:46.820
We need people from all walks of life to stand with their Jewish friends and neighbors today,
01:41:52.840
maybe show up for their own walk next weekend and say we won't be intimidated by the bigots.
01:41:57.860
Because I look at social media now and many of these platforms, I mean, the dominant characteristic
01:42:05.520
that I see is what you're describing, anti-Semitism, racism, misogyny, and the spread of misogyny.
01:42:27.220
I mean, are you having conversations with the leaders of these companies to at least try
01:42:31.600
to remove that nefarious content from their platforms?
01:42:35.600
Yeah, Vlad, we've talked about this before over the years.
01:42:38.160
I think social media is a super spreader, as you said, of anti-Semitism and racism and
01:42:44.620
Unfortunately, companies like X and Meta have retreated from content moderation in recent
01:42:58.560
Like, it's always you fucking losers that call for censorship, man.
01:43:03.280
I mean, Vlad, it's a little crazy that the most sophisticated, profitable companies on
01:43:07.560
the planet Earth are outsourcing content moderation to the users.
01:43:11.940
So, yeah, we are seeing a rampant, you know, just explosion of hate.
01:43:16.360
We are not only talking to the companies themselves.
01:43:21.840
And just so you guys know, Jonathan Greenblatt is responsible for getting TikTok banned back
01:43:25.920
earlier this year, and Trump kept it from being banned for 24 hours.
01:43:33.280
If you guys remember, this guy right here was one of the biggest lobbyists to get TikTok
01:43:38.520
I mean, I think it is time for government to step up here.
01:43:41.920
These companies are, you know, they say too big to fail.
01:43:45.200
These companies are too big to just leave alone.
01:43:49.920
And again, they allow for this unmitigated rise of the kind of hate that explodes in real
01:43:57.620
So, yeah, it is time for these companies to demonstrate the same kind of accountability
01:44:02.480
that we see in other media businesses and simply, you know, knock the Nazis, knock the
01:44:08.320
anti-Zionists off the platform once and for all.
01:44:13.240
Look, let's go ahead and do a quick little deep dive on the ADL, OK?
01:44:21.980
I'm about to wake you guys up right now to how fucking censorship works in America.
01:44:24.800
The Anti-Defamation League, formerly known as Anti-Defamation League of Benite Birth,
01:44:28.160
is a New York-based international non-governmental organization that was founded to combat anti-semitism
01:44:32.560
as well as form bigotry and discrimination, right?
01:44:46.980
Now, it was created to protect this guy, Leo Frank, OK, was an American lynching victim
01:44:53.320
convicted in 1913 of the murder of 13-year-old Mary Fagan, an employee in effect in Atlanta,
01:45:00.800
Frank's trial, conviction, and unsuccessful appeals attracted national attention.
01:45:03.640
His kidnapping from the prison and lynching became the focus of social, regional, political,
01:45:06.900
and racial concerns, particularly regarding anti-Semitism.
01:45:10.200
Modern researchers generally agree that Frank was wrongly convicted.
01:45:14.440
Basically, this guy was one of them boys, right?
01:45:17.300
And he was tried and convicted for killing and graping a little girl, Mary Fagan, OK?
01:45:27.700
That's why the ADL was created, to basically support this fucking guy, right?
01:45:36.740
That's the dark history of this piece-of-shit parasitic organization that is trying to take
01:45:40.900
your rights away of freedom of speech, because that's what the ADL does, right?
01:45:44.900
They go after people that are critical of Israel, people that are critical of them boys and
01:45:49.140
their power and American influence, and they label everything as evil anti-Semitism, right?
01:45:58.320
You got guys like Dave Portnoy and now Jonathan Greenblatt pushing for mass censorship on social
01:46:05.560
Once they start going out to the comedians, it's a rap chat.
01:46:13.460
That's why I'm so big when I tell you guys, don't fucking condone violence.
01:46:18.980
Because whenever these fucking radical leftists or anybody conducts acts of violence, guess
01:46:27.840
We're not going to win this with violence, guys.
01:46:29.420
We're going to win this with ideas, with discourse, with debate.
01:46:40.500
And if you do commit acts of violence, all you do is prop up these dickheads to justify
01:46:46.940
When the Colorado attack happened, when the embassy attack happened, all these idiots went
01:46:50.400
to mainstream television saying, we need more censorship.
01:47:01.000
They are using it to fit their political agendas.
01:47:08.580
So anyone that advocates for violence against the Jewish people needs to be completely ostracized.
01:47:19.120
Because they're actually doing what the Zionists want, which is to impede on your freedom of
01:47:28.940
We know that they practice the Hannibal Directive.
01:47:31.080
We know that the Israeli government doesn't give a fuck about its people.
01:47:33.700
We know that they killed a bunch of them on October 7th.
01:47:36.280
We know that the Apache helicopters shot the concert goers.
01:47:38.560
We know that the tanks were shooting into the kibbutzes.
01:47:44.860
They care about Israeli life a little bit, and then they care about Palestinian life even less
01:47:47.880
But if it could help them fit their agenda to push mass censorship, to justify wars across
01:47:53.400
the Middle East, to justify hegemony in the Middle East, under the guise of self-defense,
01:48:00.100
any type of domestic action that occurs in the United States, whether it be a terrorist
01:48:05.600
attack, a shooting, any of this stuff, is what they want.
01:48:11.180
How do you guys think we end up becoming a police state like we are now?
01:48:13.840
America entered the surveillance state after 9-11.
01:48:20.540
The United States government had information that Osama bin Laden was going to attack the
01:48:28.940
And they had sent warnings to the White House all 2001, saying that attacks were imminent and
01:48:39.460
They couldn't give a date or a time, but they knew that it was coming.
01:48:48.460
We were able to start collecting information on U.S. citizens.
01:48:50.680
The Department of Homeland Security was created.
01:48:53.600
We launched a war into Iraq and war on terrorism and invaded the Middle East.
01:49:01.920
So, terrorism attacks against innocent people, it's almost always weaponized by higher level
01:49:11.340
powers to justify and rationalize putting in new procedures or laws.
01:49:20.560
And right now, with the embassy shootings, with the Colorado attacker, or anything else that comes
01:49:27.620
after this, it is going to be used to rationalize censorship and encroaching upon your First Amendment
01:49:44.300
Even a retard like Dave Portnoy, who doesn't understand the law whatsoever, doesn't understand
01:49:47.880
this conflict in the Middle East, is over here speaking up.
01:49:59.820
We got, like Myron said, it's only freedom of speech when it benefits them.
01:50:04.280
Myron, you have an Amazon basket so we can buy Frank some treats.
01:50:13.740
Uh, Unforgiven says, the only thing worse than freedom to the guilty is killing the innocent
01:50:39.540
D. Almeida says, WMRWFrankWCats, you and Frank are my favorite racist Sudanese-American influencer.
01:50:44.920
Uh, for real, I really admire you and your work.
01:50:56.180
Uh, all of, all I see on IG reels now are super-based stuff regarding them boys, mustache
01:51:02.660
And all the comments on the vids are aggrimming.
01:51:04.520
We can only hope it's too late, uh, to censor them now.
01:51:10.960
There's no need to do anything, um, we don't need violence.
01:51:15.440
You don't need violence and you got the truth on your side.
01:51:17.360
We can change the public perception with our voices.
01:51:21.040
We protest, we boycott, we make content, we bring awareness to people.
01:51:31.160
Okay, so let's go into the big, beautiful bill.
01:51:33.120
All right, so, um, real quick, as you guys know, uh, Donald Trump is working on this,
01:51:38.920
And, uh, it's a comprehensive package of legislation passed by the House of Representatives
01:51:43.120
in May 2025, encompassing various provisions, including tax cuts, border security measures,
01:51:49.100
It seeks to extend and expand the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, adds new tax deductions,
01:51:54.640
and allocates funding for border security, and includes provisions for Medicaid reform.
01:52:01.640
The bill makes permanent the 2017 tax cuts, which include lower individual and corporate
01:52:05.180
tax rates, increased standard deductions, and other changes.
01:52:12.280
And I know some of you guys are going to say, why, why the fuck are they going and giving
01:52:17.600
The reason why, guys, is the philosophy from the Republican side, and this is what they
01:52:23.280
The philosophy is, with corporate tax cuts, you allow the company to get larger profit
01:52:30.040
Larger profit margins means that they're going to invest back into the business, right?
01:52:35.400
It's more of a trickle-down effect, which I do agree with to some degree, right?
01:52:43.040
Now, a lot of Democrats would disagree with this concept, but, you know, here's what it
01:52:47.780
And includes provisions for no tax on tips and no tax on overtime, creating new individual
01:52:51.720
tax income deductions for qualified tips on overtime pay.
01:52:55.440
It's also increasing funding for border security, right?
01:53:01.800
This video does a really good job of explaining it, because I know some of you guys might not
01:53:04.560
be too familiar with how, you know, passing bills works in America.
01:53:09.480
So, let's watch this little video for you guys, and we'll, you know, give some commentary.
01:53:15.220
And it's all about whether President Trump's big, beautiful bill will pass.
01:53:22.260
And also, just so you guys know, Elon Musk is not happy with this bill, because it's going
01:53:29.580
And what Elon Musk came in with Doge, his job was to create, was to save money, right?
01:53:39.060
His job was literally to come in there and save money for the government.
01:53:41.960
But this bill is going to kind of undo a lot of the shit that he did with Doge.
01:53:45.180
So, Elon Musk has not been happy about this whatsoever.
01:53:48.220
And I'll show you guys real quick one of his posts on this shit.
01:54:04.420
Look, 3.7 trillion, that's how much our leaders forecast the reconciliation bill will cost.
01:54:09.220
10% of national debt in one bill, our government is out of control, CNN saying...
01:54:12.180
See how he's reposting all this shit when it comes to bills?
01:54:16.180
So, all the Republicans voted on this, by the way.
01:54:18.440
And, like, Thomas Massey and, like, two other Republicans did not vote for this bill.
01:54:23.100
But the big, beautiful bill is the debt bomb ticking.
01:54:25.160
It's also the biggest missed opportunity conservatives have ever had to put our country back on track of fiscal sanity.
01:54:31.820
If we defeat this bill, a better one can be offered.
01:54:34.440
So, X filed a federal lawsuit against individuals for attempting to abuse X creator revenue sharing program by posting inauthentic content and fake engagement metrics.
01:54:43.880
Look, this spending bill contains the largest increase in death ceiling in U.S. history.
01:54:51.460
He's been complaining about this fucking bill all day.
01:54:58.220
And, guys, he just resigned or he just left the White House.
01:55:01.880
So, this is a 180 degree turn from what he was doing before.
01:55:12.620
So, Megyn Kelly, Elon Musk is the greatest free speech warrior in the modern world.
01:55:20.800
Elon Musk has become so important in expanding the national debate.
01:55:22.820
Okay, so, of course, he's going to post this thing of this war.
01:55:29.120
This guy is the greatest free speech warrior that we have in the modern day world.
01:55:47.460
His whole fucking page has been about this bill.
01:56:09.840
That means they can't afford to lose more than three votes from their own party.
01:56:42.040
A few have even floated future cuts to Social Security as part of broader spending reforms.
01:56:50.240
Since many Americans view Social Security as off-limits.
01:57:00.320
Let's take a closer look at the key proposals and the high-stakes fight unfolding in the Senate.
01:57:06.060
One of the first issues causing real disagreement among Republicans is Social Security.
01:57:11.020
While President Trump has pledged not to cut Social Security benefits,
01:57:15.860
this bill falls short of earlier promises to eliminate taxes on Social Security income.
01:57:21.720
Instead, it introduces a $4,000 standard deduction for seniors 65 and older,
01:57:28.240
but only if you make less than $75,000 as an individual or $150,000 as a couple.
01:57:34.620
That's meant to lower how much of your income is taxed.
01:57:37.020
And for many seniors, every bit of relief helps.
01:57:41.460
But this deduction is temporary and set to expire in 2028.
01:57:48.780
especially the full repeal of taxes on Social Security benefits.
01:57:55.500
have even proposed reclassifying Social Security as discretionary spending,
01:58:00.840
meaning it would need to be voted on each year,
01:58:03.400
a move that could threaten the stability of the program.
01:58:05.960
A lot of people feel like they're being taxed twice.
01:58:09.160
Once when they earn the money, and again when they retire.
01:58:12.360
The failure to fix this issue is frustrating for many,
01:58:16.380
and some lawmakers have said they want to revisit it later.
01:58:19.560
This internal split has made it hard for Republicans to agree on how far to go.
01:58:27.320
while others are worried about the rising national debt.
01:58:30.420
And then there's Medicaid, another major sticking point.
01:58:33.340
If you or someone in your family uses Medicaid, here's what you need to know.
01:58:39.500
The bill proposes new work requirements for certain adults to qualify.
01:58:43.840
It also freezes provider taxes that many states use to help fund Medicaid,
01:58:50.700
That means some states could lose critical funding,
01:58:54.460
making it harder to keep local clinics and small-town hospitals open.
01:58:58.660
In some areas, seniors could be forced to travel further just to access basic care,
01:59:06.720
something that's not always easy for those living on fixed incomes or with mobility issues.
01:59:11.900
Senators like Susan Collins from Maine and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska are speaking out.
01:59:18.020
They're worried that seniors and rural residents would be hit the hardest.
01:59:24.920
even small funding changes can have big effects.
01:59:34.080
this could quickly turn into a crisis of access.
01:59:36.400
Yeah, we don't got universal health care in the United States, guys,
01:59:40.360
...access, where seniors are unable to get timely checkups,
01:59:46.420
And then there's the idea of new co-pays for Medicaid users.
01:59:50.560
Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri calls it a sick tax.
01:59:55.040
He says that asking people who are already sick or poor to pay more just to see a doctor isn't fair.
02:00:03.840
even $5 or $10 extra could mean skipping a visit or prescription.
02:00:11.400
leading to worse health outcomes and higher costs down the road.
02:00:14.660
And, you know, this actually does bring a lot of, you know, questions out there.
02:00:22.160
which, to be honest with you guys, I do understand their argument with this.
02:00:25.580
You know, one of the things that the left and the progressives and the Democrats always complain about
02:00:31.180
is how we have a for-profit care system, health care system.
02:00:36.360
And obviously, when you make anything for-profit, ethics tend to go out the window, right?
02:00:42.360
It starts becoming, you're basically using capitalism in a sector that shouldn't be involved with capitalism,
02:00:55.360
When you are creating for-profit medical systems,
02:01:01.660
what ends up happening is this is why insurance claims get denied.
02:01:05.620
This is why, you know, you got people like Luigi Mangione going crazy
02:01:09.100
because they oppose the health care system the way that we have it here.
02:01:12.260
Because it's in their best interest to deny people care so that they can save money, right?
02:01:17.960
Like I said before, these companies have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to be profitable.
02:01:28.780
So, after Luigi Mangione did what he did, right?
02:01:34.420
And executed the CEO of, I think, UnitedHealthcare, if I'm not mistaken,
02:01:38.660
UnitedHealthcare started to approve more claims.
02:01:47.740
no, you guys need to start denying more of these claims.
02:01:50.500
So, the stock goes up and we're able to get more money.
02:01:53.940
And, you know, this is kind of something where I, you know,
02:01:58.860
you guys know I make fun of liberals and progressives all the time.
02:02:01.440
But this is one of their arguments and one of their stances that I would actually argue is stronger than other things, right?
02:02:05.820
The cultural stuff, like, you know, all this other bullshit.
02:02:09.460
You know, when it comes to the, you know, LGBT and alphabet community and pronouns, all that other shit.
02:02:14.880
But I can see their argument when it comes to the for-profit healthcare system that we have.
02:02:20.820
I see the capitalism side, but I also see how that can create problems.
02:02:27.060
And, obviously, Medicaid is one of the only ways that a lot of these people are able to get any type of aid.
02:02:35.740
So, whenever you cut into that, it creates problems for a lot of people.
02:02:39.280
So, but, yeah, I forgot to tell you guys this, but, yeah, United Healthcare, the investors really started complaining, saying, like, yo, you need to start denying more claims.
02:02:49.720
Because after the whole Mangione event, they started proving more claims with an enormous amount of pressure.
02:02:55.080
And it brought awareness to the issues going on in our healthcare system in America.
02:03:00.000
However, like I said before, you guys know me when it comes to, like, bro, you shoot the CEO, someone else is going to step in and just keep doing the same shit.
02:03:12.600
But, dude, again, this is why violence doesn't solve anything, man.
02:03:16.980
Beyond healthcare and taxes, the bill would also raise the debt ceiling, which is basically the country's borrowing limit.
02:03:26.800
Senator Rand Paul and others say they won't vote for that unless Congress also agrees to slash federal spending back to 2019 levels.
02:03:38.340
It would mean cuts across the board, including programs that help seniors and veterans.
02:03:43.100
Programs like housing support, transportation assistance, and nutritional programs, such as Meals on Wheels, could see funding reductions if these spending targets are enforced.
02:03:54.480
So right now, you've got moderates like Murkowski and Collins saying the bill cuts too much, and hardliners like Rand Paul saying it doesn't cut enough.
02:04:03.060
And with only 53 Republicans in the Senate, they need almost every single one to...
02:04:08.080
And also, guys, this is probably going to be the biggest piece of legislation that Trump will be able to get through.
02:04:12.200
Um, because they're going to lose the House, bro.
02:04:14.700
So, um, you know, good luck with getting anything fucking passed, um, later on.
02:04:20.180
So, this is probably going to be one of the most significant bills that Trump gets across, and there's a reason why he's doing it now.
02:04:28.900
This creates a fragile balancing act where every vote counts, and just one or two defections could send the entire...
02:04:36.880
And we know Thomas Massey, who's, you know, obviously a Republican, he voted against it.
02:04:40.900
So that's already one down that we know that didn't vote for it.
02:04:48.060
Even if the Senate passes the bill, it doesn't go straight to the president.
02:04:52.240
It has to go back to the House of Representatives.
02:04:55.020
If the Senate makes too many changes, the House might not agree, and the whole thing could collapse.
02:05:00.920
Yeah, that's the bureaucracy of the United States chat.
02:05:04.460
Checks and balances are fantastic, but they obviously impede the speed of bills.
02:05:10.780
You guys want to know what bills never get fucking stopped?
02:05:16.160
Yeah, those bills for that certain state in the Middle East never get opposed.
02:05:25.700
They will go ahead and pass a bill to give Israel money over giving support to American citizens.
02:05:52.260
When it comes to bills that deal with American citizens and spending,
02:05:57.180
you know, we can change this a little bit, we can change that, you know, too much money, not enough money.
02:06:07.200
And then people get mad when I say that we don't run America.
02:06:12.220
Certainty and potentially another fight just to keep the government funded.
02:06:18.140
The U.S. could hit the debt ceiling later this summer.
02:06:20.700
That means the government might not have enough money to pay its bills.
02:06:30.060
And financial markets could get rocky, which could hurt retirement accounts.
02:06:34.740
If markets drop suddenly, many seniors relying on 401k,
02:06:39.880
S, or pensions might see their nest eggs take a hit.
02:06:45.400
It's a real concern for anyone trying to live on what they've worked for their whole lives.
02:06:52.060
Back in April 2025, financial markets took a hit after Trump announced new tariffs on goods from China,
02:07:00.840
That single move sparked panic among investors.
02:07:04.060
In many 401k, S and retirement accounts saw sudden losses.
02:07:08.900
So when people hear that the government might not be able to pay its bills,
02:07:14.560
Now, let's take a moment to clear up some confusion around Social Security.
02:07:19.080
Yeah, we're going to be paying interest only very soon, bro.
02:07:23.840
Many people are wondering if this bill changes how much they'll receive from Social Security.
02:07:29.160
It doesn't, at least not the monthly benefit amounts.
02:07:33.960
It could still impact how those benefits are taxed.
02:07:36.540
If your income lands near the current tax thresholds,
02:07:40.620
even small changes in deductions or rules could push more of your Social Security into taxable territory.
02:07:48.300
That's frustrating for a lot of retirees who feel like they're being taxed twice.
02:07:52.820
Once when they earn the money, and again when they receive it in retirement.
02:07:56.580
And while this bill offers a new $4,000 deduction for some seniors,
02:08:03.120
It's one of those issues that keeps getting talked about, but never fully solved.
02:08:09.160
A lot of people lump Medicare and Medicaid together, but they're different programs.
02:08:13.900
This bill doesn't change Medicare benefits, for now.
02:08:17.040
But it's always worth watching, especially as lawmakers look for ways to trim spending.
02:08:24.800
Medicare might not be far behind in future negotiations.
02:08:28.400
So this is more than just another Washington debate.
02:08:31.480
In fact, it's personal, if you're retired or close to it.
02:08:34.980
This bill could affect your taxes, your health care, and your peace of mind.
02:08:39.200
All right, so here's some of the Republicans pushing back on the bill.
02:08:44.940
Unless we separate out the debt ceiling, you take the debt ceiling off the bill.
02:08:49.340
I'm a no, unless we separate out the debt ceiling, you take the debt ceiling off the bill.
02:08:54.520
I'm pretty much a yes on most of the rest of the bill.
02:09:05.640
This is Rick Scott, aka Hassan Piker's best friend.
02:09:08.920
Hassan Piker made a fucking comment suggesting the unaliving of this guy got banned from Twitch
02:09:18.240
I'm telling you guys, man, liberals get away with anything, dude.
02:09:20.980
If we follow the path of the House bill, we'll have close to, I think, $60 trillion worth
02:09:27.540
The American taxpayer has said they don't want to give us higher taxes.
02:09:31.280
I found a video for us, by the way, guys, on Diddy.
02:09:33.160
So we will cover the day 16 of the Diddy trial as well.
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What we've got to do is do what every family does.
02:09:39.020
We've got to go through every line of the budget.
02:09:40.260
And that is Senator Rand Paul on Capitol Hill and Senator Rick Scott with me on Mornings
02:09:44.500
with Maria this week, voicing concern with President Trump's big, beautiful bill, already
02:09:47.520
passed by the House, currently in the Senate, which the Committee for Responsible Federal
02:09:50.040
Budget says will add roughly $3 trillion to the national debt, including interest over
02:09:54.120
Both senators saying they cannot vote for this bill in its current form.
02:09:57.040
And this weekend at the Reagan National Economic Forum, I spoke with J.P. Morgan Chase
02:10:00.360
Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon, who told me interest rates will spike and markets will get
02:10:04.420
disrupted once investors realize the impact of rising debt levels.
02:10:08.240
How much are you focused on debt and deficits right now?
02:10:14.560
But one day we're going to have the bond markets going to have a tough time.
02:10:20.900
But the public has to understand is that something like $30 trillion of securities trades every
02:10:26.300
Foreigners own $35 trillion of American securities.
02:10:29.580
We're going to watch a little bit of this, guys.
02:10:31.940
Trump did speak with President Putin earlier today.
02:10:38.240
Another $30 trillion of private investments in the United States or something like that
02:10:43.060
And they're going to be looking at the country, the rule of law, the inflation rates, the central
02:10:46.660
bank policies, you know, what they want to hedge and what they don't want to hedge.
02:10:49.460
And so those rates aren't set by central banks.
02:10:52.700
If people decide that the U.S. dollar isn't the place to be, yeah, you could see, you know,
02:11:31.620
Well, first of all, let me say, I'm a big supporter of President Trump.
02:11:37.000
But at the same time, you know, I sprang out of the Tea Party movement to, you know,
02:11:39.500
campaigning in 2010, doing parades, shouting, this is a fight for freedom.
02:11:48.480
And I think what has disappointed me about the debate that went through the House, if you
02:11:51.120
even call it that, we weren't looking at the facts and figures.
02:11:53.460
The only figure we ever heard about was $1.5 trillion.
02:11:57.100
But when you put it in context of the $89 trillion we're going to spend over the next
02:12:00.480
20 years, the $22 trillion in additional deficit we're going to incur, that's $2.2 trillion
02:12:09.580
So again, from my standpoint, I want to see the president succeed.
02:12:12.660
I want to take a tax increase, an automatic tax increase off the table as soon as possible.
02:12:17.220
The border funding, take an automatic tax increase off the table.
02:12:22.380
But again, I don't want to just, you know, do $5 trillion.
02:12:24.580
I'm happy to give the president, you know, increase the debt ceiling for one year so we
02:12:28.100
can come back and get serious about returning to a pre-pandemic level spending.
02:12:30.920
Because right now, based on the House bill, it doesn't look like anybody is.
02:12:33.700
Well, I mean, Senator, with all due respect, I'm still not hearing any solutions.
02:12:37.440
I understand what you're saying, but somebody at home who's critical of what you're saying
02:12:40.780
might say, well, this is rich, given the fact that the House already identified one
02:12:44.940
And all I heard from the Senate was four billion in cuts.
02:12:46.980
I know that there's the Byrd rule and that's technical, but still, what are the solutions?
02:12:52.320
Well, exactly like Rick Scott talked about, you go line by line.
02:12:56.680
And again, I've laid out all the variances of how much we're spending today that exceeds
02:13:00.340
2019, plus stuff for population growth and inflation.
02:13:03.420
So you literally have to go through a couple thousand lines of the federal budget, probably
02:13:06.460
hundreds of lines beneath each one of those lines.
02:13:16.220
So again, this would be not an across the board as some basic percentage, but an across
02:13:20.160
the board forensic audit of all government spending.
02:13:25.600
We exempted most spending, looked at a couple of programs, tweaked them, tried to get a
02:13:28.980
CBO score, talked about what seemed to be a big number, but a number that is completely
02:13:38.880
That CBO estimate assumes we're going to increase taxes by about $4 trillion.
02:13:42.320
Now we can argue over, okay, if you increase taxes, they probably wouldn't get that amount.
02:13:45.040
You still have to account for that $4 trillion if you don't increase taxes.
02:13:47.880
So again, we are facing a moment here where we've had an unprecedented level of spending
02:13:55.900
And it's just, we should have returned to pre-pandemic level spending in 2021.
02:14:04.440
Obama in his last four years averaged $550 billion.
02:14:07.480
I mean, that is, again, you have to put all these numbers.
02:14:10.860
Bro, we are never going to get rid of this debt, man.
02:14:13.800
Because the thing is, is that the three things that Republicans care about the most when
02:14:16.580
it comes to funding is obviously military spending, corporate tax cuts, and immigration,
02:14:22.140
Those are the top three things that typically Republicans almost always dump a bunch of
02:14:30.860
It's going to be tough, especially with the military spending, with what the fuck we got
02:14:37.340
Hope to have a complete of the 2025 budget reconciliation facts and figures.
02:14:42.320
And then on top of that, we already talked about, you know, the bureaucracy of the government
02:14:44.960
where, you know, they pass the bill of moves, Senate changes it, sends it back to the House.
02:14:54.380
And what ends up happening a lot of times, guys, is they stall it out.
02:14:56.780
When they stall it out, this is how they kind of are able to get killed bills.
02:15:02.820
Four years is not that much time to get shit done.
02:15:05.620
...hearing within the next couple of weeks, certainly before we take any votes on this.
02:15:08.560
Are you willing to take this so far as to blow up President Trump's agenda and lose
02:15:18.840
But again, my loyalty is to the American people, to my kids and grandkids.
02:15:25.360
The transfer of wealth from old people like me to young people is literally immoral.
02:15:36.940
Cryptocurrency has made more retarded fucking millionaires than ever before.
02:15:40.940
And then you got the whole economy of the internet with thoughts, you know, making a bunch of
02:15:50.820
There's no justification for $4.4 to $7 trillion in just six years.
02:15:54.820
Getting back to a reasonable pre-pandemic level, you do it line by line by line.
02:15:58.380
Listen, I think the House has done a lot of good work.
02:16:03.060
Nobody's been willing to take the time or do the work to go line by line.
02:16:05.760
Again, Rick Scott has the experience in Florida.
02:16:07.940
Take a look at how successful he was at reducing spending, balancing his budget, and then giving
02:16:14.300
You've said a number of times that you want to get back to pre-pandemic spending.
02:16:19.080
Senator, what specifically will it take in terms of the number of cuts?
02:16:22.960
How much cutting do you need to do to get back to pre-pandemic spending?
02:16:28.620
My guess is there would probably be hundreds and thousands of cuts line by line.
02:16:36.640
You leave Social Security, Medicare, and interest alone, spend what you need to spend,
02:16:39.780
plus of all those actual outlays by population growth and inflation, you end up with a baseline
02:16:43.520
budget somewhere between $5.5 and $6.5 trillion.
02:16:46.680
You know, Senate budget, when we passed our budget reconciliation, we picked a midpoint
02:16:53.260
How many times have you heard members of Congress say you need to return to zero-based
02:16:57.640
All right, let's move real quick to foreign affairs, because we're going to type for time
02:17:03.160
I just finished speaking by telephone with President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
02:17:05.680
The call lasted approximately one hour and 15 minutes.
02:17:07.920
We discussed the attack on Russia's docked airplanes by Ukraine and also various other attacks
02:17:13.600
It was a good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to immediate peace.
02:17:16.340
President Putin did say, and very strongly, that he will have to respond to the recent
02:17:21.120
We also discussed Iran and the fact that time is running out on Iran's decision pertaining
02:17:24.920
to nuclear weapons, which must be made quickly.
02:17:27.380
I stated to President Putin that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
02:17:30.020
And on this, I believe that we were in agreement.
02:17:32.720
President Putin suggested that he will participate in discussions with Iran and that he could perhaps
02:17:36.400
be helpful in getting this brought to a rapid conclusion.
02:17:39.040
It's my opinion that Iran has been slow-walking their decision on this very important matter
02:17:42.700
and will need a definitive answer in a very short period of time.
02:17:45.280
Yeah, the reason why they're slow-walking the answer is because they don't trust you, Donnie.
02:17:50.960
You ripped up the nuclear deal that Obama took years to put together.
02:17:58.680
Because last time we told people to give up their uranium and nuclear program, there was
02:18:04.660
a guy named Gaddafi and he got killed 10 years later.
02:18:09.560
Busy day trying to convince holdout Republican senators to support his budget bill.
02:18:15.240
He also had a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin about Russia.
02:18:19.260
So these are some—so three things on Trump's plate right now.
02:18:22.320
This bill, right, which is going to add more deficit, obviously.
02:18:26.400
The big, beautiful bill, which is hilarious that he called it that.
02:18:30.080
Obviously, Iran and the nuclear deal and the conflict in Russia.
02:18:37.480
We talked about the history of it, et cetera, if you guys want to know more.
02:18:45.560
We went all the way from the beginning to how we got to this conflict to what transpired
02:18:50.720
But for those of you that are just tuning in, basically what happened was Ukraine led an
02:18:55.820
operation where they had a bunch of drones, kamikaze, in five different strategic locations
02:19:00.880
for Russia, and they destroyed a bunch of aircraft.
02:19:03.280
And some of the aircraft they destroyed were nuclear-capable aircrafts of dropping atomic
02:19:08.820
Obviously, this is a big problem because that's going to—that costs Russia billions upon
02:19:13.660
billions of dollars, this attack, because it destroyed some very sophisticated and important
02:19:19.000
equipment when it comes to what they destroyed with these fucking cheap drones.
02:19:25.720
It took them something like 18 months to plan, and they were successful.
02:19:28.940
And obviously, Russia's going to have to retaliate to this to some degree.
02:19:34.320
But, you know, that's kind of where we're at, man.
02:19:39.760
Ukraine got a good operation going across—got a good operation conducted, but they're going
02:19:50.160
And make no mistake about it, the reason why Trump jumped on the phone point today to
02:19:53.420
talk about—to talk to him was, number one, to say, hey, I had no knowledge of this.
02:19:57.820
Number two, please don't totally fucking decimate Ukraine.
02:20:01.260
And then, number three, let's come to some kind of peace agreement.
02:20:04.220
But I guarantee you, most of the phone call was probably about the attack on Russia and
02:20:14.360
Which is a significant escalation, chat, by the way.
02:20:18.160
President Trump is meeting with some Senate Republicans Wednesday who still have questions
02:20:24.360
Some Republican senators have criticized what the president calls his one big, beautiful
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We've got it sharp in the pencil, and we go to the White House today.
02:20:34.660
I'm sure we'll have a discussion about ways we have to do it.
02:20:37.200
But the House had a good start, but we're not done yet.
02:20:40.020
The Congressional Budget Office released a new estimate, projecting the bill would add
02:20:43.980
$2.4 trillion to the deficit over the next 10 years.
02:20:48.060
It also says cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act would result in nearly 11 million
02:20:53.560
people losing health insurance over the next decade.
02:21:01.560
That this bill is just tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy, paid for by gutting health care
02:21:10.020
Yeah, and the Democrats are absolutely going to vote against this bill, all of them.
02:21:13.660
The House has pushed back on a previous warning from the CBO that the bill adds to the deficit.
02:21:19.620
This is an institution in our country that has become partisan and political, and we are
02:21:23.620
very confident in our own economic analyses of this bill.
02:21:27.300
President Trump also spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin for more than an hour Wednesday
02:21:32.100
as his administration pushes for a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine.
02:21:36.340
Trump said he had a good conversation with Putin, but not one that would lead to immediate
02:21:43.400
And we went over what Russia wants yesterday, actually, guys.
02:21:46.580
We went in detail about it, but I think it's five different things.
02:21:49.300
Excuse me, let me try to remember from the top of my head.
02:21:51.560
Number one, demilitarization of Ukraine with 50,000 or less soldiers, maintaining the territories
02:22:00.800
that they've already conquered all across eastern Ukraine to include Crimea.
02:22:04.300
No NATO joining, Zelensky steps down as leader, and someone else comes in.
02:22:16.760
I think actually it was demilitarized, and then the fifth one was maintaining a force
02:22:35.480
Number four, they keep the territory that they've already conquered.
02:22:37.800
And then number five, having less than 50,000 troops.
02:22:46.540
Ukraine wants Russia to completely pull out of Ukraine and pay them reparations.
02:22:54.920
So, Zelensky needs to stop being a fucking retard.
02:23:01.820
It's actually comical for him to try to sit there with no leverage and say,
02:23:05.300
oh, yeah, you guys got to pay us the reparations, too.
02:23:07.160
No wonder we can't fucking find a middle ground.
02:23:08.720
...that Russia will respond to Ukraine's latest drone attack on Russian airfields.
02:23:15.620
President Trump added President Putin offered to help discuss,
02:23:20.540
offered to help end discussions with Iran about ending that country's nuclear program.
02:23:28.800
Because there's a lot of fucking rumors on this thing with the Iran deal.
02:23:32.820
We might not have time to get into the Iran deal, I'll be honest with you guys.
02:23:35.200
In the press briefing room, we do see that folks have their cameras at the ready, so...
02:23:42.980
Let's get into the Diddy thing, because we didn't get a chance to do this.
02:23:48.840
Two new witnesses taking the stand on day 16 of testimony...
02:23:52.020
Yeah, because we didn't get the full testimony for today.
02:23:56.580
and then I might cover the Iran nuclear deal tomorrow for you guys,
02:24:02.180
...in the Sean Diddy Combs sex trafficking and racketeering trial.
02:24:05.400
This morning, a forensic video expert testified about that 2016 hotel surveillance footage
02:24:12.320
The defense raised questions about whether the footage was manipulated,
02:24:15.620
but the experts saying there are no anomalies going on in the file
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This is the video, obviously, of Diddy chasing Cassie down in the hallway.
02:24:28.920
Okay, and that's the Asian girl I told you guys about, Bongalon, or whatever her name is.
02:24:33.160
...Cassie Ventura's friend, Brianna Bongolin, known as Bonna,
02:24:36.220
she told the jury that in 2016, Combs dangled her over a 17th floor balcony.
02:24:43.220
Bongolin also testified about a time she said she was asleep in Ventura's apartment
02:24:52.360
I just remember seeing a knife get thrown in her direction, referring to Ventura.
02:25:04.620
Bongolin responded, she threw it back, adding that it didn't hit Combs.
02:25:10.680
If convicted, he faces the possibility of life in prison.
02:25:13.800
Later in the show, the frenzy around this trial.
02:25:16.620
We have a YouTube star, Tisa Tells, joining us live.
02:25:18.760
She goes to court every day, live streaming her real-time commentary for her more than half a million followers.
02:25:23.740
She'll help us set the scene about what's happening around this high-profile criminal trial.
02:25:28.480
But we begin with ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent Aaron Katursky, live out...
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Yeah, I'll be honest with you guys, for a lot of these YouTubers, this shit is like a fucking big come-up for a lot of them, bro.
02:25:38.800
A lot of these YouTubers, bro, they only get views when they cover shit like this.
02:25:41.820
Not really too diversified or interesting themselves.
02:25:45.920
Not saying that that's what Tisa Tells is, but a lot of YouTubers, man, like, this is their shit.
02:25:54.980
Inside the federal courthouse here in Manhattan.
02:25:57.160
Aaron, the day started with that forensic video analyst talking about the hotel video.
02:26:06.220
It's more what his testimony allowed federal prosecutors to do.
02:26:09.760
And that's play what may be some of the most visceral evidence for the jury over and over.
02:26:17.620
And the judge told them as much outside the presence of the jury.
02:26:19.920
By suggesting that the video had been manipulated or sped up or somehow altered,
02:26:24.180
the judge told the defense, you know, you're having prosecutors dispel that by having them play the video,
02:26:30.220
which is not something the defense really wanted.
02:26:35.980
Because it is going to influence the jury to a degree.
02:26:38.280
And yet there was Frank Piazza, this forensic video analyst, walking through frame by frame in the jury.
02:26:45.540
I will probably go back up to New York and cover this case a bit more.
02:26:50.120
Because I do think that I got the best coverage by far.
02:26:52.500
Because these other YouTubers, man, they don't understand how the legal system works
02:26:55.800
or how the feds work or any of that other stuff.
02:26:57.300
So I might go back up there, guys, maybe next week.
02:27:06.960
Again, getting to see Sean Combs throwing Cassie Ventura to the floor, kicking her, stomping her, dragging her, throwing a vase of flowers at her.
02:27:17.740
And on cross-examination, the defense took pains to show how the time codes didn't match or the cameras didn't appear to be in sync.
02:27:24.740
But there was no evidence that any of this footage had been altered.
02:27:27.220
And Eva, remember, when it first appeared on television.
02:27:30.040
Yeah, so the defense fucked up by bringing that in, by saying, oh, yo, you guys edited the footage to make it look worse because they sped up the footage, right?
02:27:35.740
And it makes it look like Diddy was chasing after her.
02:27:37.940
And he hit her super hard because he, you know, because he kicked her and it goes faster.
02:27:42.140
So it created this element of, you know, of him being more aggressive than he might have really been because they sped up the video.
02:27:52.480
He said what's depicted on the video, his behavior, was inexcusable.
02:28:02.300
How did she come to be a part of Combs and Ventura's circle?
02:28:06.720
Brianna Bongolan met Cassie Ventura while working for a design studio.
02:28:12.600
And Cassie was sort of the name brought in, the talent.
02:28:15.720
And Bongolan was the one to extract the ideas and come up with a clothing line.
02:28:19.480
And they eventually did, although Beyonce and Rihanna also had lines of T-shirts at the same time.
02:28:24.720
So they were never really successful, she said.
02:28:28.040
And really, they became drug partners, as she testified.
02:28:32.200
Both she and Cassie Ventura developed a drug partnership where Bongolan...
02:28:38.960
Like, Cassie was talking about how she was on drugs like everyday, opiates and shit like that.
02:28:45.340
This was a drug-fueled freak-off slash degenerate party, man.
02:28:52.060
Drugs sell them to Cassie so much so that she became reliant as part of her income on Cassie buying drugs from her.
02:28:59.100
Ecstasy, molly, cocaine, marijuana, ketamine, cocoa puffs, which the jury learned what that was, a mix of marijuana and cocaine.
02:29:08.200
And the defense tried to seize on that to color her testimony.
02:29:11.780
She also told the story about Diddy dangling her over a balcony.
02:29:21.480
She said she was asleep in Cassie Ventura's apartment when she woke to Sean Combs yelling and banging on the door.
02:29:26.520
And then she remembers running out onto the balcony, trying to make it seem like she was acting casual.
02:29:31.420
Sean Combs comes and lifts her up, telling her, you know what the F you did, and lifts her onto the railing.
02:29:37.020
She said her feet were dangling over Sean Combs, then lifted her off the railing, threw her onto some furniture.
02:29:43.700
The jury saw pictures of the bruise on her leg and the bandages on her back.
02:29:52.380
I'm curious, what was the reaction from the jurors, from Combs?
02:29:56.960
Yeah, Sean Combs was shaking his head when she first talked about some of these things.
02:30:00.260
She said that Sean Combs threw a knife at Cassie.
02:30:02.160
She said that once Sean Combs threatened her, that you know I'm the devil and I could kill you.
02:30:06.200
And Sean Combs kind of shook his head a little bit as if to say he didn't quite remember that.
02:30:10.000
And on cross-examination, the defense hammered home what they said were inconsistencies
02:30:15.300
and the way that she's gone over these accounts with prosecutors before trial, the way she testified to them today.
02:30:21.320
Yeah, they definitely attacked her credibility, probably saying you use drugs, you had an axe to grind, you probably also have a lawsuit.
02:30:27.340
And the way she wrote about them in a civil lawsuit that saw 10.
02:30:37.360
Colcom's going to take the stand again tomorrow.
02:30:41.320
There'll be more of the same relentless cross-examination defense attorney Nicole Westmoreland is asking her,
02:30:45.660
you know, you said this to prosecutors, you testified this way.
02:30:51.800
But Eva, I'm curious as to whether it even matters, because the only thing I can figure is that her story about the balcony and the knife throwing,
02:31:00.540
it all kind of goes to the racketeering point that maybe this is why Cassie Ventura, as prosecutors allege, felt coerced into sexual acts,
02:31:07.040
because she witnessed some of the violence that Bongolan described.
02:31:10.360
On the other hand, her testimony may not have been important at all for that reason,
02:31:13.060
but because she did testify that Sean Combs sold her drugs, another component of racketeering,
02:31:18.420
and that may be what prosecutors hope to gain from her testimony.
02:31:21.340
Erin Katursky there at the courthouse, and we should note that Combs denies all of the charges,
02:31:25.620
including those claims that he was dangling her over the balcony there.
02:31:28.980
We have now with us ABC News legal contributor Brian Buckmeyer joining me.
02:31:36.000
So, of course, we had the two witnesses, Frank Piazza and Rihanna Bonglin, who testified.
02:31:39.120
Frank Piazza, again, with the video surveillance, saying that the defense basically made the argument
02:31:43.240
that the time codes didn't match up from the different angles, but also one of the angles, that being the lobby.
02:31:49.700
I've seen that guy in a courtroom before, this black dude.
02:31:52.260
Got a 10 and 20, sometimes 30 second skips, but nonetheless, the video spoke for itself.
02:31:55.900
And Rihanna testifying about, again, as Aaron Katursky pointed out, those harrowing moments of the knife being thrown,
02:32:00.600
allegedly, at Sean Combs and then actually thrown back at him and then picking her up by the armpits
02:32:06.500
I still have a big question, Marcus, whether or not it's true.
02:32:08.720
OK, this video expert that we heard from today, he confirmed that the video was not altered,
02:32:15.780
It was a big question that the defense had brought up before the trial had begun, during the trial.
02:32:19.260
And I'm not sure if, for lack of a term, the juice was worth the squeeze, because
02:32:23.620
They're trying to make it seem like it's being skipped over.
02:32:26.940
But it gave the government the opportunity to play it over and over and over again.
02:32:31.360
Not something you want the jury to see of your client.
02:32:33.400
Some of the most violent and dangerous testimony and video they're going to see in this case.
02:32:37.600
We also heard from Cassie Ventura's friend at the time, Brianna Bonglin.
02:32:42.180
The story that she told Aaron and was just talking about that, her dangling over the balcony,
02:32:46.820
The jurors got to see the pictures of the balcony there.
02:32:50.520
And I remember I had covered this balcony before chat, this balcony story, because this woman
02:32:55.700
had, like, launched a lawsuit against Diddy, and this balcony incident was mentioned in
02:33:00.560
So, again, you know, it's kind of good for the defense that they have these lawsuits because
02:33:06.340
it gives the defense ample time to research and attack them on it.
02:33:09.620
Like, hey, you got a financial incentive in this?
02:33:14.140
But for the most part, he was just yelling over and over again for about 15 seconds.
02:33:17.400
But I'm the son of a general contractor, and I thought that this story didn't make sense
02:33:21.060
because most balconies, if you know, I mean, we have young children.
02:33:25.720
Balconies in California and New York have to be 42 inches high.
02:33:28.200
She's 5'1", if you believe Sean Combs' social media and post.
02:33:36.760
When I saw him in the courtroom, he's not 5'10".
02:33:38.540
And lift them 42 inches high to that point, that didn't make sense to me.
02:33:42.440
And the allegations that she's using drones and that she couldn't understand or remember
02:33:45.560
a lot of these incidences, I think that's what the defense are.
02:33:48.000
It's going to really hone in on and be like, this story is not plausible.
02:33:50.940
Yeah, we heard Erin talk a lot about all the list of drugs that she said she had been using.
02:33:55.440
And at some point, both her and Cassie Ventura tried to stop using the drugs, but they couldn't.
02:34:01.260
Drug use is difficult, especially when we're talking about the various cocktails.
02:34:03.920
I mean, I practiced defense here in New York for over a decade, and I was learning about
02:34:07.300
some of the drugs that they were using, the cocoa puffs that Erin brought up.
02:34:10.400
But they did say they were close friends trying to kick the habit that they had tried cooking
02:34:13.600
as a way of trying to pull apart from the drug use.
02:34:16.160
But it was so much, even to the point that Brianna, when she...
02:34:25.420
...reached out when Cassie had filed a lawsuit about this very incident about the balcony.
02:34:33.000
And her response was very interesting as to Cassie kind of just almost shrugging off and her giving
02:34:36.820
an excuse of, we use a lot of drugs at the time.
02:34:39.940
Another thing I think the defense is going to hone in on, and I'm not quite sure if this
02:34:42.400
was the best witness to put on at the end of the day.
02:34:44.080
I don't think it really helped the government, but it definitely gave the defense someone
02:34:48.640
Yeah, you're a degenerate drug user, just like Cassie.
02:34:51.640
Let's sprinkle that throughout the rest of the trial and say, maybe other things are false
02:34:56.020
Still ahead, allegations of abuse and violence, admissions of heavy drug use.
02:35:00.220
Which side did the best in presenting their case today?
02:35:01.940
Our legal minds, Brian and Bernardo, break it all down for us when we come back.
02:35:08.440
Did they really need an expert witness to testify about that video?
02:35:14.160
The prosecution had to call an expert witness to testify about the video because there were
02:35:17.420
allegations by the defense that the video was altered.
02:35:20.220
So in order to prove its validity, its authentication, the prosecutor...
02:35:25.080
And that's why, like, for example, they brought in a special agent when it came to the forensic
02:35:29.120
They brought in a special agent when it came to the search warrants.
02:35:32.480
I had to call an expert and testify that, look, this has not been altered.
02:35:36.480
So what you see in that video is exactly what transpired.
02:35:38.980
Because now you take that question off the table from the jury.
02:35:41.140
They don't have to figure out, wait, is the video altered?
02:35:45.680
Now you take it away from them because you have an expert that testified that that did
02:35:49.400
So yes, unfortunately, the jury did have to see it at least 50 times today during a direct
02:35:55.080
If you were saying, like, it's not a good idea to play this not flattering video of your client,
02:35:59.280
I don't think it's a great idea, but if you're going to do it, then do it.
02:36:01.100
And I think the positive that does come from it is when you watch a video as harrowing
02:36:04.420
as this, the first time you watch it for the violence, the second time you do it as well,
02:36:07.040
the third, the fourth, the fiftieth time, now the sting has already been taken out.
02:36:10.800
But that was the defense that was actually playing it so many times today.
02:36:13.760
I mean, literally, they played it at least 25 times.
02:36:17.360
But now you might have trained the jury to say, OK, you've seen the violence already.
02:36:25.960
And if you can discredit the government for how they're presenting the case, you're that much closer
02:36:29.940
OK, we have to talk about Breonna's testimony on the stand today.
02:36:33.220
What's the prosecution hoping to show with her?
02:36:35.380
So the prosecution called Breonna to show a couple of things.
02:36:38.560
Number one, they want to corroborate Cassie's testimony in terms of the violence that Cassie
02:36:42.640
underwent at the hands of Combs, in terms of what is Combs' demeanor, what's his, in terms
02:36:47.860
of threatening people, the threats that she actually heard from Sean Combs.
02:36:51.420
Also to go through, they wanted to put that piece of evidence that she was dangled from the
02:36:56.420
But I think more importantly, when we're talking about the charges, the racketeering
02:36:59.120
conspiracy, how does her testimony fall into the charge?
02:37:02.080
It's a predicate act of the possession with intent to distribute.
02:37:05.040
Because she did testify that there were multiple occasions that Sean Combs gave her narcotics.
02:37:14.760
I don't think, and we've seen this in our own cases, I don't think people believe drug
02:37:17.860
And at the end of the day, that's what she's going to be painted as.
02:37:19.560
She testified on the stand that her and Cassie used drugs at least once a week.
02:37:22.800
And then when pressed on by even the government, she said, well, it increased over time.
02:37:26.760
And then when the defense came up, Nicole Westmoreland, amazing cross-examination thus
02:37:40.460
And now you have this person who's supposed to risk their credibility of what Cassie was
02:37:45.160
I think they could have done without this witness.
02:37:48.280
And this is why I say that as a former prosecutor, when you're dealing with witnesses, one thing
02:37:53.300
that you tell the jury all the time is that you take your witnesses as you get them.
02:38:04.080
I'm presenting you the person with their flaws as they are.
02:38:08.500
In the end, it was the defendant that made that person a witness.
02:38:11.020
Also, remember that also fits in the narrative in the sense of that the prosecution is saying
02:38:15.000
that Sean Combs is the one who got Cassie addicted to drugs.
02:38:18.560
So here you have the corroboration from another person.
02:38:21.020
Yeah, and that's where the importance comes in with this witness, though.
02:38:25.120
The thing is, is that there's been other witnesses that are more credible that have corroborated
02:38:33.860
The balcony dangling is important because they're trying to illustrate that Diddy is a violent
02:38:38.600
individual that uses, you know, fear, intimidation and violence to rule over his organization.
02:38:43.280
That's another important reason why they brought her in as a witness, despite the fact that
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On drugs, this is how much drugs they used to take as a result of it.
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I feel for people who have substance abuse issues.
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We have represented people who have hit rock bottom and my heart breaks for them.
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I am not discrediting her for having that abuse and going through that.
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That is her own trauma that she's working through.
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But if you're going to ask me to believe what she heard, what she saw, what she felt and
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what she's testing to when she was in the thralls of that all, that's a whole different
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I'm glad that she gots a tattoo of January 2nd, 2018 on her neck and she's now getting
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Leaving what she saw and heard on that day, that's a different thing that the jury's
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I'm like, it doesn't make sense if Sean Coles is picking her up from underneath the armpits
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I did question the prosecutor for calling this witness.
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Personally, I would not have called this witness as a prosecutor on this case.
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Because I don't think that the pros of what she brings to the table, how she moves the
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ball in terms of proving these charges, are not outweighed by the cons that she has in
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terms of the drug abuse, in terms of selling drugs, in terms of the inconsistencies, in
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terms of how she held herself up doing cross-examination.
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Yeah, it always comes to a cost-benefit analysis.
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Based off the testimony I've heard, she might have created more problems than benefits bringing
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her in, just because of her questionable past, the story happening while she was high.
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Again, but the government looks at it like, look, we got a lot of witnesses.
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They're hoping, I think, to just show a bunch of different witnesses that are saying the same
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thing, even if some of them aren't credible, to corroborate the fact that Diddy is violent.
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So I think that's what the prosecution strategy was.
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We're bringing her in because, though she's not credible herself, our other witnesses are
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I think she also hurts the case because she's the person who's testifying that she's supplying
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drugs to Cassie, something that the defense is definitely going to pounce on.
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And I love that you kind of both agree on that one.
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Ryan Buckmeyer, Bernardo Villalona, thank you both for being here with us today.
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Still ahead, the media circus, the networks, the influencers, the vloggers.
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They are all lining up outside to bring their followers and viewers in.
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We chat with YouTuber Tisa Tells when we come back.
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I'm so curious because you have a lot of followers.
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What are they most curious about learning about with this trial?
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So they're curious about learning something that you can't get in the tweets or even the
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They want to get as much information as they can.
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Everybody just wants a bird's eye view of what's going on in the courtroom because they
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want to they want to find out whether he's going to be convicted or not.
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And they want as much spoilers as they can get.
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Like how many people are like when you look at the numbers of people who are like coming
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Are you seeing a spike in those types of views?
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Like, again, even people that aren't even on YouTube, you know, of course, you guys.
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See, and that's another reason, too, why I wanted to come back.
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I didn't want to make my channel a fucking Diddy channel, man.
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Then you guys can see, like, the numbers drastically change once the trial begins.
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So this is a big come up for a lot of people, bro.
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Look, now she's getting into the hundreds once the trial comes because she's there.
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Because prior to that shit, you look like no views, bro.
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See, what ends up happening is you end up having to keep reporting on the same thing to get views.
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And I didn't want to fall into that Diddy trap, man.
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But, like, you know, what ends up happening a lot of times is you just get stuck in that niche and you can't do nothing else.
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It's really, I've never seen this much coverage across all platforms when it comes to a trial.
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And so what's interesting with this trial is that there are no cameras in the courtroom.
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All right, I've already described what's going on in the trial.
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Okay, so you guys, we're diversified over here, baby.
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All right, let's talk about Syria bombs Israel.
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This guy right here, a.k.a. Ahmed al-Shara, also known as Jolani.
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But he's their current president of Syria right now.
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And he basically, guys, met with Trump not too long ago when Trump made his Middle Eastern trip.
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In Saudi Arabia this morning, the new Syrian leader is a former insurgent once jailed by U.S. forces after being captured in Iraq.
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Trump has agreed to end sanctions against Syria, a country that has been shattered by more than a decade of civil war.
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And the face-to-face meeting comes as Trump rapped.
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And just so you guys know, Jolani came into power because of Israel.
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If you guys want me to talk about it, give me ones in the chat if you guys want me to talk about how this guy came into power.
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If not, give me twos if you just want to keep it pushing.
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Give me ones if you guys want me to explain how he came into power.
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Give me twos if you guys just want it to keep pushing.
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Because I've talked about it before, but I know we've got a lot of new viewers in here.
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He's now in Qatar amid criticism and scrutiny about a $400 million luxury jet the royal family offered to give to him.
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Today, President Trump heads to his second of three Gulf states, arriving in Qatar this morning and leaving Saudi Arabia,
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where he heaped praise on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,
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the man U.S. intelligence concluded orchestrated the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal.
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The Saudi Arabian government did because he was criticizing the government.
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In 2018, Trump instead focusing on the region's economic prosperity and announcing at the Crown Prince's request he will lift U.S. sanctions on Syria.
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To give them a fresh start, it gives them a chance for greatness.
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This was the former president of Syria before Jelani took power.
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Its new government now in power for the past six months.
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There's a humanitarian reason to want the sanctions to be lifted, which is that, you know, the people of Syria have suffered under the sanctions.
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The United States should be cautious, too, because you don't want...
02:47:09.000
Hey, guys, if this is your first time catching a live stream, do me a solid, man.
02:47:13.960
Give me an O slash in the chat, guys, if this is your first time catching a live stream.
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Give me an O slash in the chat if this is your first time.
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I want to go whole hog in and invest in any particular regime.
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Trump meeting with Syria's new president today before heading to his next stop, hanging over the president's entire Middle East visit, questions about the...
02:47:40.960
You clearly can't take directions, you fucking dumbass.
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Change your name to a retard advocate because that's what you are.
02:47:46.600
Yeah, give me an O slash if this is your first time catching a live stream, guys.
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Trump family's business interests, sons Don Jr. and Eric Trump, now run the Trump Organization and have projects in the works in all three countries the president is visiting this week.
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His visit to Qatar also under scrutiny after its royal family offered that $400 million luxury jet, which Trump wants to use as Air Force One.
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All right, so I'll go ahead and quickly explain this to you guys.
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But I will go ahead and show you guys how this guy came into power.
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Now, for you guys to understand what's going on here, we need to understand proximity and geography.
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So Syria, for a very long time under the Bashar al-Assad regime, was a proxy power utilized by Iran to wage its war against Israel.
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So Syria's main purpose in this situation was Iran would ship weapons, soldiers, equipment, resources, you know, supplies to Hezbollah over here in Lebanon.
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Now, Syria was critical for this because what Syria would do is they would facilitate these items being transported to Lebanon so that they can go ahead and fight against the Israelis.
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Now, after October 7th happened, the Israelis decided to launch a ground campaign into southern Lebanon.
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Because in southern Lebanon, they were shooting rockets into northern Israel.
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This is creating a pandemonium for the Israeli government.
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They had to pretty much evacuate this entire northern Israel region, Haifa, et cetera, all these major areas because the rockets were constantly coming in from Lebanon.
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Now, these rockets were being supplied by Iran and the rockets were moving through Syria.
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So when Israel went into Lebanon on this ground offensive, they went in to destroy these homes that were being utilized to shoot rockets, as well as they started bombing Beirut.
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During the course of their bombing, they murdered a guy named Hassan Nasrallah, okay, the leader of Hezbollah.
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Also, when they made their ground assault here, though they did not go as far as they wanted to, they were supposed to pass the Latani River and they did not.
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They were claiming that they were going to make it all the way to Beirut, but they did not.
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But they were able to weaken Hezbollah, significantly weaken Hezbollah.
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Also, they ran the Pager attack, which was successful, and also created some tension within their ranks.
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So what ended up happening was Hezbollah, by losing their leader, being attacked on a ground offensive, and the Pager attack, it pretty much put them in disarray, okay?
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And what ended up happening was Lebanon and Israel struck a ceasefire, okay, at the end of last year.
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When Israel and Lebanon struck the ceasefire, the Israeli troops pulled out, but Lebanon, being weakened, created an opportunity.
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When they did the ceasefire, what they did was, they were set up over here in the Idlib area, these rebels, and they basically went in and took over Aleppo.
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And after they took over Aleppo, they went and worked their way down to Damascus.
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They were able to take Syria over within two weeks, okay?
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By the end of 2024, Syria is now under new rule of the rebels, okay?
02:51:27.240
Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia, and he's currently there on asylum.
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So, once Jolani took over the Syrian government, two things he wanted to do.
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He wanted to normalize relations between Israel and the United States and get the sanctions lifted, okay?
02:51:43.800
As you guys know, under the Bashar al-Assad regime and the civil war that they had been suffering for almost 10 years now, the government had—the economy was tanked.
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So, this new leader, thanks to the Israelis, was able to use the opportunity provided by the ceasefire to go in and take over.
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Now, once Jolani took over, he kicked all of the Iranian officials out, the IRGC, and he is not allowing Lebanon to be resupplied and Hezbollah to be resupplied, okay?
02:52:48.660
Okay, now, the reason why this is so weird is because Syria got the sanctions lifted by the United States, and they're making moves to recognize Israel as a sovereign state, or officially recognize Israel, which many Arab countries don't want to do, but Syria is.
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So, there was this rocket attack against Israel from Syria.
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But this was from a rebel group that has nothing to do with the Syrian government, if I'm not mistaken.
02:53:19.780
So, they shot rockets from Syria—from Syrian territory.
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Okay, let me see if I can find a better video for this shit.
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Yeah, that's the only problem with these, um, with these fucking foreign, uh, niggas, man.
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They, they, they, they're fucking trashed the city.
02:53:55.480
So, we're just hearing that the Israeli army is shelling Syrian territory with artillery.
02:54:01.980
Yes, so Israel did, uh, respond and shoot back at Syria.
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But these people that, um, shot at Israel in the first place were, um, Syrian rebels.
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That's after it said two projectiles made impact in the occupied Golan Heights after being—
02:54:18.720
Okay, Golan Heights, guys, is, um, this area right here.
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Uh, it's occupied by Israel for strategic reasons.
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Uh, it's a basaltic plateau at the southwest corner of Syria.
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It is bordered by the Yarmouk River in the south.
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Um, and this is obviously a very strategic area for Israel, right?
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And Israel's been occupying this area for a very long time.
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So, internationally recognized as Syrian territory, but it's occupied by Israel.
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Because, you know, that's what the Israelis do.
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They occupy a land that isn't theirs all the time and say it's for defense.
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And, um, there's a group of people that live there called the Druves, if I'm not mistaken.
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Uh, they maintain Arabic language or culture as integral parts of their identity.
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But yeah, this is where they, uh, this place has a big Druze population.
02:55:38.180
For more on all of this, we have Hamda Salhout joining us live now from the Jordanian capital of Amman.
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And as we mentioned earlier, she's there because the Israeli government has banned Al Jazeera from reporting.
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Yo, they banned all international reporters, man.
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Reporting not just inside of Israel, but also the occupied West Bank.
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Now, uh, Hamda, uh, what more are you hearing from where you are?
02:56:06.240
Well, two incidents taking place just in the last hour or so.
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The first one, a missile launched by the Houthis in Yemen.
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The Israeli military says that it was successfully intercepted.
02:56:16.340
But this projectile caused sirens to go off in 139 different locations across Israel.
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The sirens heard all the way from the north to the south.
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And even in occupied East Jerusalem video on social media showing the projectile and the interception in the sky as far as Beit Hanina in Jerusalem.
02:56:34.980
Now, as for the other story that we're talking about here, two rockets the military says launched from Syrian territory.
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The first such attack in over a year since May 2024.
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And they say it's the first since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime.
02:56:51.260
The military says they're now responding with artillery fire and that both of those rockets fell in open areas without any injuries.
02:56:58.240
But now they're investigating who exactly launched those rockets.
02:57:05.040
Obviously, guys, they're in the early stages because this guy, Jelani, only took power in January.
02:57:11.340
So obviously there's still going to be a bunch of rebel groups that are still all over Syria that don't like the Israelis.
02:57:15.660
Right. Right. But, yeah, Jelani is trying to normalize relations with the West.
02:57:21.880
But the military. And just so you guys know, maybe this is me putting my tinfoil hat on.
02:57:25.300
But I think the Israelis actually backed him when he went over to overthrow the Assad government.
02:57:29.860
I definitely think the Israelis paid him and backed him to do it.
02:57:33.760
The guy's 100 percent a Western asset for sure.
02:57:39.660
Terry's basically a public government that benefits the West.
02:57:42.560
Says they're going to continue to strike wherever they see threats.
02:57:47.560
Hamza Salhouda with that latest update there on projectiles from both Yemen and Syria towards Israel.
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Let's see if we can find the one because they were retaliating.
02:58:34.900
Let me let me check and see if we if we're going to go live right now or if I still have some more time.
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And as you guys know, anytime they're getting, you know, missiles are coming over,
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they flare these loud-ass alarms, and the Iron Dome starts shooting them down.
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Myron, I just got a raise at my job from $33,000 to $43,000.
03:00:36.180
Well, over time, I can make between $140,000, $170,000.
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Appreciate everything you do for young men and just men in general.
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Got you, St. Francis. Congratulations on your raise, my friend.
03:00:50.520
I didn't see Portnoy complain when he tried this pizza.
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but I forgot to mention during the RP Music Night that a good song is Ludicrous Ho.
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And you guys can see the streets are all fucking empty.
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Yeah, these international media outlets are trash when it comes to that shit.
03:02:07.620
So, guys, what I'm going to do is I'm going to end the stream here.
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I don't know if I'm going to cover that tonight on Fresh and Fit or I cover it tomorrow on my show.
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And we're also got After Hours for you, ninjas, as well.
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And we're going to have a Zoom call also with Cast Club members.
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I'll drop the link for you guys in the – I mean, we're going to go there anyway.
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And we're going to be live on Rumble and on YouTube, guys.
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So, wherever you choose to watch, come on over.