Crunch Time For Big Beautiful Bill, Diddy Verdict Watch, Bezos Wedding Protests： AM Update 6⧸30
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GOP senators race against the clock to pass President Trump s big, beautiful bill by July 4th. Domestic violence isn t being charged in the Sean Diddy case. The defense concludes its closing argument in the criminal trial as the jury is now set to begin deliberations. And the Bezos-Sanchez star-studded wedding met with hundreds of protesters. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Monday, June 30th, 2025, and this is your AM
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Update. They're all going to get socked by another $2,000 on average every year.
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GOP senators race against the clock to pass President Trump's big, beautiful bill by July 4th.
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Domestic violence isn't being charged. If it were, he would have pled guilty to that.
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The defense concludes its closing argument in the Sean Diddy Combs criminal trial as the jury
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is now set to begin deliberations. And the Bezos-Sanchez star-studded wedding met with
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hundreds of protesters. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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expert help from Tax Network USA. The Senate GOP clearing a key procedural vote late Saturday night,
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narrowly approving the advancement of President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill Act in a 5149 vote.
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Republicans aiming to pass the bill by a self-imposed July 4th deadline. The bill makes the 2017 Trump
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tax cuts permanent, increases spending on border security, and implements a host of other campaign
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promises, including no tax on tips and no tax on overtime. Indiana Senator Republican Jim Banks
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Sunday on Fox laying out the urgency of extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts before they expire by the
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end of the year. Remember, this is a tax bill. This is about taxes on working class Americans. And if we
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don't pass this bill, these Americans will get such a big tax increase. They're all going to get
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socked by another $2,000 on average every year. Republicans who are touting the bill point to
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generational reforms on Medicaid, including imposing work requirements on able-bodied
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adults. Democrats have used this to accuse the GOP of cutting taxes for the rich while taking away
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health care for the needy. Republicans counter it reins in the bloated expansion of a program under
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Presidents Obama and Biden that is supposed to be for the truly needy. Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne
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Mullen on changes to Medicaid within the bill. What we're doing is cutting the waste, fraud and
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abuse, and I want to use that word abuse, out of the Medicaid system and make sure it's for the people
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that it was originally intended for. Keep in mind, right now, there's 35 million people that live under
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the poverty line inside the United States, yet there's 70 million that's on Medicaid. Now, it's
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unsustainable. Medicaid was designed for those in the most dire need, and that's what we need to make
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sure it's there for. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer attempting to throw a monkey wrench in
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Republicans' push to pass the bill by Independence Day, demanding the full text of the nearly 1,000-page
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bill be read aloud on the Senate floor, a time-consuming procedural maneuver aimed at slowing momentum.
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If the bill passes the Senate, the House is required to wait at least 72 hours before voting on changes
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made by their Senate colleagues. Republicans are using a special process called reconciliation to pass the
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bill with a simple majority, meaning only 51 votes are necessary, so no Democrat support would be
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needed to pass it. Republicans control the Senate, 53-47. Senate clerks began taking turns reading the
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bill on the floor just before midnight on Saturday. Alabama Senator Republican Katie Britt explaining Sunday
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morning on CNN what happens once Senate clerks finish reading the bill aloud on the floor.
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We will move into debate. Democrats will have 10 hours. Republicans will have 10 if they so choose.
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I would assume Democrats take all 10 of their hours. Republicans may take a few to continue to
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make the case for this great piece of legislation. And then after that, we'll start voting. So I will
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actually be in the chair tonight. I am signed up between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. So if anyone is bored
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or needs an opportunity to put themselves to sleep. C-SPAN 2. C-SPAN 2. But I would imagine if it currently
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tracks, that's likely when we'll start voting on amendments. And amendments will come from both sides,
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Jake. And actually, there is no limit to how many people can bring. So I think you'll see some
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fruitful debate on the floor. Probably a vote on Monday, you think? I would think so.
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Fox News' Maria Bartiromo on Sunday asking President Trump if he's confident the bill
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will arrive on his desk by July 4th. I don't know. I mean, I can't tell you that. I hate to say yes.
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I'd like to say yes. But the problem is if we're two days late or five days late, everybody says,
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oh, he had a tremendous failure. Whatever it is, as long as we have it, it's very important.
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If we don't have it, there's a 68 percent tax increase.
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In another moment from the Sunday shows, NBC asking Democrat Senator from Connecticut,
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Chris Murphy, about the record low crossings at the southern border.
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Do you give the Trump administration some credit for that? And are you,
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when you look at those figures, do you think things are moving in the right direction,
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No, I don't give them credit for that because border crossings are low because they're violating
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the law every day. So we have a law in this country that says if you are fleeing terror or
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torture from another country, you can come here and apply for asylum. The Trump administration
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has suspended that law. They are not allowing anybody to come here to apply for asylum.
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So it's true, there are very few people crossing on a daily basis,
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but that's because the Trump administration is violating the law.
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Senator Murphy deflecting from the Trump administration's resounding success in securing
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the border, pointing instead to a side issue unrelated to border enforcement.
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President Trump did sign an executive order pausing most asylum applications on the first day
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of his second administration, arguing economic refugees are abusing the asylum process,
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seeking entry for a better lifestyle rather than actual fears of persecution.
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Fox News reporting just 5,414 apprehensions at the border and only 986 known gotaways between June 1st
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and June 22nd. Those are the lowest numbers ever recorded.
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Coming up, jury deliberations set to begin today in the Sean Diddy Combs criminal trial and Jeff Bezos
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and Lauren Sanchez greeted by hundreds of angry protesters at their three-day over-the-top wedding
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the defense finishing its closing argument and the prosecution completing its rebuttal. Combs is facing
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a total of five counts on charges of racketeering, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in
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prostitution. Over the last seven weeks, the defense hearing from 34 witnesses, prosecutors building
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the case around the testimony of two key witnesses, former girlfriends Cassie Ventura and Jane, who
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testified using a pseudonym. Both Ventura and Jane describing feeling forced to participate in
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freak-offs or hotel nights against their will. These prolonged, drug-fueled sexual events involving
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male escorts choreographed by Combs could last days at a time. In closing arguments, defense attorney
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Mark Agnifolo arguing the freak-offs and hotel nights were consensual events between consenting
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adults. Here now, a portion of the defense is closing. The transcript here read by the Diddy
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trial daily account moderator on X. What is this trial really about, based on the evidence? It's
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about personal use drugs. That's it. That and a certain lifestyle, swingers. But the prosecution
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have used one of the most serious statutes on the book. They've turned threesomes and drugs into RICO,
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racketeering. They wrap yellow crime scene tape figuratively around his bedroom, around all the
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hotels with his girlfriends. That's a lot of crime scene tape. The crime scene is his private sex
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life. And Cassie, sex trafficking your girlfriend? That only applies to if you're forcing prostitution.
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She made a choice, and she left. And guess what happened? Nothing. She always could have left.
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Pick a message from 2018. These two loved each other. If racketeering conspiracy had an opposite,
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it was this relationship. On rebuttal, Assistant U.S. Attorney Maureen Comey arguing the defense
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spent, quote, a whole lot of energy trying to blame Combs' victims and the U.S. government
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for his lies, his threats, and for his inexcusable behavior. Make no mistake, she continued,
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this trial was about how, in Sean Combs' world, no was never an option. Throughout the trial,
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prosecutors repeatedly showing the jury's security camera footage of the 2016 incident at the
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Intercontinental Hotel, with Cassie Ventura allegedly attempting to flee a freak-off.
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In footage that is hard to watch, Combs is seen in a towel shoving Ventura to the floor,
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kicking her, and dragging her from the Intercontinental Hallways back into the hotel room.
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The defense pointing out that Combs is not charged with domestic abuse here,
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a charge that has passed its statute of limitations in California. Again,
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a reading here from the Diddy Trial Daily ex-account.
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The domestic violence, we own it. We didn't ask Ms. Ventura about being hit,
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kicked, or dragged. We didn't cross Jane on that either. But domestic violence isn't being
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charged. If it were, he would have pled guilty to that because he did that. But racketeering
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conspiracy, sex trafficking, kidnapping, bribery, he didn't do that.
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In the government's rebuttal, Assistant U.S. Attorney Comey telling the jury,
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sex trafficking, involves getting someone to say yes to sex through illegal means like force,
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fraud, or coercion. Comey telling the jury, quote, when violence is paired with unwanted commercial
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sex, it turns into trafficking. Being a domestic abuser is not a defense to sex trafficking. If part
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of the abuse is making your partner participate in a commercial sex act, you are guilty of sex
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trafficking. Comey telling the jury they only need to find one freak-off or hotel night was sex
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trafficking to convict, meaning even if only one of the freak-offs was non-consensual, then that's
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enough to find Combs guilty. The defense making the case that the jury should acquit Combs on the two
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counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, which seem the easiest counts on which to convict,
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and also arguing there was no racketeering conspiracy.
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Only two escorts testified. Neither admitted prostitution. They were paid for their time.
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That's legal. Porn actors are paid to have sex. That's legal. Combs thought this was legal.
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Racketeering? An enterprise needs organization. Only Combs was charged. No testimony of co-conspirators.
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So no racketeering. Maybe conspiracy, but no co-conspirators? KK? She was helpful. She was
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an assistant, but she wasn't a criminal. No evidence of anyone else involved.
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For 20 years, the defendant got away with his crimes. That ends in this courtroom. The defendant
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is not a god. He is a person. And in this courtroom, he stands equal before the law. Overwhelming
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evidence proves his guilt. It is time to hold him accountable.
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The jury is set to return to the courtroom this morning. The judge will provide jury
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instructions, and then deliberations are set to begin. We'll be going live on our YouTube feed
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as soon as we have a verdict. The Jeff Bezos-Lauren Sanchez three-day coronate, I mean wedding,
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concluding Saturday evening in Venice, Italy. Bezos, one of the wealthiest men in the world,
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and his bride reportedly began their love affair in 2018 while still legally married to other people.
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More than 200 celebrities attended the weekend's events, including self-described astronaut Gayle
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King, Oprah, Kim and Khloe Kardashian, Kendall and Kris Jenner, Tom Brady, Sidney Sweeney, and more.
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You know, all their closest friends, obviously.
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Ford Magazine estimating the weekend set the billionaire back by approximately 25 million,
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hardly a rounding error for him. CNN reporting it was more like 55 million, just a drop in the bucket of
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the Amazon founders estimated 237 billion net worth. Hundreds protesting the event throughout
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the weekend. Demonstrators waving signs ranging from kisses yes, Bezos no, to the 1% ruins the world
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signs. This as days earlier, the couple's yacht overflowed foam into the Mediterranean from their
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half-naked foam party in their ship's pool. CNN reporting a group called No Space for Bezos
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planned a Saturday blockade of the canals near where the couple planned to hold a party,
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with the group taking credit for forcing a change in venue to a less picturesque shipyard.
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The bride and groom, moments after saying their I do's, dropping their photos on the cover of Vogue,
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of course. Vogue readers who fancy themselves a woke, anti-oligarchy types, recoiled with posts
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online reading, I didn't realize you could just buy a cover now and read the effing room. Instead,
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the couple would prefer, presumably, that everyone ignore how this relationship began and celebrate the
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higher love they had their guests sing, thanks Whitney Houston, just after they took their vows.
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Aww. And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for The Megan
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