Explosive Diddy Trial Testimony From Former Assistant, Bongino Teases Epstein Tape： AM Update 5⧸30
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A witness in the Sean Diddy Combs trial speaks out as a former assistant and alleged victim takes the stand, recounting multiple instances of violence. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces a crackdown on Chinese foreign nationals in the U.S. on student visas. FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino slams former FBI Director James Comey over a social media post. 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 Friday, May 30th, 2025, and this is your AM
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Update. When I walked in a room, I got complete anxiety, like my entire body was shaken. A
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witness in the Sean Diddy Combs trial speaks out as a former assistant and alleged victim
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takes the stand, recounting multiple instances of violence. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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announces a crackdown on Chinese foreign nationals in the U.S. on student visas. Of all the things
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that have surprised me in the close to now three months I've been here is the depravity of Jim
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Comey. FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino slams former FBI Director James Comey over a social
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com code Megan. On Thursday in the Sean Diddy Combs trial, an alleged victim of Combs going by the
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pseudonym Mia taking the stand. The jury is aware of Mia's real identity, though that information
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remains under seal. Mia worked for Combs as a former assistant and director of development and
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acquisitions for Revolt Films, describing the work environment as, quote, chaotic. It was toxic.
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It could be exciting. The highs were really high and the lows were really low. Mia continuing, quote,
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he's thrown things at me. He's thrown me against the wall. He's thrown me into a pool. He's thrown an ice
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bucket on my head. Mia testifying to working long hours, going days in a row without sleep,
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staying up with the assistance of an extended release ADHD medicine, eventually leading to a
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physical breakdown. The jury looking at a list of Mia's job responsibilities, including always staying
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within Combs's eyesight while on duty unless he advised otherwise. Mia saying she was not allowed to
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leave Combs's house without permission, nor was she allowed to lock her door when she stayed in his
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homes. Combs would often berate her and threaten her job. The witness saying she developed a close
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relationship with star witness Cassie Ventura. Mia describing Ventura's relationship with Combs as
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toxic, saying Combs always made the final decisions regarding Ventura's career. Mia saying Combs would
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dictate when and where she was allowed to hang out with Ventura, saying she was supposed to be keeping
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tabs on Ventura. The witness testifying that if they did something without Combs's permission,
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quote, punishment was typically unpredictable but pretty terrifying. Mia testifying, she often
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witnessed abuse in the Ventura-Combs relationship, describing an incident previously addressed in
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court by Ventura. Mia was with Ventura and stylist Deontay Nash, who has also testified, at Ventura's
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apartment when Combs showed up angry and began attacking Ventura. Mia thought Combs was going to kill
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Ventura. The witness saying, quote, me and Deontay immediately jumped in and tried to stop it.
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We were both just trying to get him off of her. At some point, he had Deontay in a position where
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I was scared he was going to kill him, and I jumped on his back. He threw me against the wall so quick
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and so easily, and I realized we were in real, real danger. The violence ending with Combs slamming
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Ventura's head on the bed frame, splitting open her forehead just above her eyebrow. The witness
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attesting to many more instances of violence by Combs, saying she did not report any of them to the
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police because she, quote, believed that Puff's authority was above the police. This was a period
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where, years and years before social media or Me Too or any sort of example where someone had stood
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up successfully to someone in power such as him. Mia recounting that Combs sexually assaulted her
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multiple times while she was his employee, saying she was first victimized by him just a few months
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after she began working for him in 2009 at his birthday party held at a Plaza Hotel penthouse.
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Combs allegedly calling Mia into the kitchen, clearing out everyone else. Mia says he told her
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she was doing a great job. He then poured each of them two shots of alcohol. The shots affecting Mia
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more than usual, she said, and shortly afterward, saying Combs began kissing her and placing his hand
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up her dress. Mia testifying that the next thing she remembers is waking up in a chair in the meeting
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room of the penthouse, unable to remember how she got there. Mia describing another night waking up in
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her room in Combs' L.A. house with, quote, the weight of a person on top of me. The witness testifying
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to feeling, quote, terrified and confused and ashamed and scared, telling prosecutors through sobs that
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she did not want to have sex with Combs. Mia says she never told Ventura about it. Her testimony will
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continue later today. Exotic dancer Sheree the Punisher, Hayes, speaking out on Wednesday to CNN
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about his role in the so-called freak-offs and his experience in the Combs trial. Last week,
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Hayes testifying that he was originally hired to dance for a bachelorette party at the Trump
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International Hotel. When Hayes arrived there, he was greeted by Ventura, who had booked the dance
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under a fake name. Hayes testifying that Ventura asked if he would be comfortable creating a
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sexy scene for her husband to watch, with the husband being Combs. Hayes saying he was paid
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$2,000 for the encounter, going on to participate in 8 to 12 more sessions with Ventura and Combs,
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never witnessing any kind of violence. Hayes here describing to CNN how it felt inside the courtroom.
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I thought going into it, I was pretty prepared and confident, but literally when I walked in the
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room, I got complete anxiety. Like my entire body was shaking. Whatever I envisioned or what I
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thought, because obviously you can't see anything, it was the tension and the magnitude of the moment
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was much, much deeper. So it was to some degree terrifying. Like I just could not, whatever I
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envisioned, it was just so much more that I was not mentally prepared. Throughout testimony, Hayes
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describing many interludes with Ventura. Asked by CNN whether he had any with Combs during the so-called
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freak-offs, Hayes responding. No, actually not one conversation, not even eye contact. Really?
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Yeah. Did that surprise you? Well, it was told to me immediately, like on the first encounter, that
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I was instructed to not look at him, not acknowledge him, not have any interaction. On the question of what
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he would say to Ventura now, if given the opportunity, Hayes responding. I would apologize
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because I had no idea, no indication what she was going through. And if, you know, obviously my
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involvement kind of fervored her suffering, you know, so just me knowing that as a man, you know,
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being raised by a single mom and a grandma, you know, just the thought of partaking in a scenario
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where a woman is possibly being abused is tough to hear. So, you know, I would just apologize to her
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and, you know, tell her that I was really remorseful and regret if I contributed to a bad experience for
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her. Coming up, the State Department announcing a crackdown on Chinese student visas. And FBI
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Deputy Director Dan Bongino slams former FBI Director James Comey over a social media post.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio announcing on Wednesday that the U.S. will begin aggressively
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revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party
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or who are studying in critical fields. Secretary Rubio did not define critical fields.
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Many CCP Party officials send their children to study at American universities, including Chinese
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President Xi Jinping, his daughter graduating from Harvard in 2014, with few aware of her true
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identity during her time there, according to The New York Times. A report published by the State
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Department and the nonprofit Institute of International Education says about 277,000 Chinese nationals studied
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in America during the 2024 academic year. 277,000, the second largest group of international students
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after India. According to the assistant DHS secretary, Tricia McLaughlin, China accepting just 800 U.S.
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students in the same time period. In response to Rubio's announcement, a spokesperson for the Chinese
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The U.S. uses ideology and national security as a pretext to revoke Chinese student visas. It is fully
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unjustified. The spokesman continuing on to say, quote,
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This politically motivated and discriminatory move exposes the U.S. hypocrisy over freedom and
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openness. It will further damage the image and reputation of the U.S. itself.
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In 2018, then-FBI Director Christopher Wray answering a question in a Senate Intel hearing from then-Senator
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Rubio about the counterintelligence risk posed by Chinese students.
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I think in this setting, I would just say that the use of nontraditional collectors, especially in
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the academic setting, whether it's professors, scientists, students, we see in almost every
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field office that the FBI has around the country. It's not just in major cities, it's in small ones as
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well. It's across basically every discipline. And I think the level of naivete on the part of the
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academic sector about this creates its own issues. They're exploiting the very open research and
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development environment that we have. It's not just the intelligence community, but it's raising
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awareness within our academic sector, within our private sector, as part of the defense.
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In February, the House Committee on Homeland Security releasing a report outlining more than
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60 cases of Chinese Communist Party espionage on U.S. soil from 2021 to 2024.
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Several of the suspects linked to U.S. universities.
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FBI Director Cash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino in tight-lipped interviews this week on Fox
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News, revealing some new threads in high-profile investigations, teasing information but offering
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few details. Earlier this week, Bongino announcing the FBI is ramping up investigations into three
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high-profile cases, the January 6th pipe bomber, the Dobbs leak, and the cocaine found in the White
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We got a fascinating tip on one of these cases, one of the three. I don't want to say which one,
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but I'm pretty confident that we're going to close out one of them, hopefully shortly.
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The place has taken a reputational hit. There is zero question about it. We had to fix it and rebuild
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public trust. One of the ways to do it is these cases of significant public interest that matter.
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You know, we had two pipe bombs planted on January 6th, and no one seemed to show any interest in
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this case. The second we got in, I put a team on it, and I said, I want answers on this, and I'm
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pretty confident that we're closing in on some suspects. Patel and Bongino last week drawing
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criticism from many by definitively saying disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein did kill himself
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without providing any supporting evidence. Bongino announcing Thursday that new video footage
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will be made public eventually. There is video. That is something the public- There's video of
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him killing himself. No, no, not the actual act, but the entire MCC Bay, it was only one camera.
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There were other, there's video that when you look at the video, and we will release, that's what's
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taken a while on this. We are working on cleaning it up to make sure you have an enhanced, and we're
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going to give the original so you don't think there were any shenanigans. You're going to see there's
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no one there but him. There's just nobody there. So I say to people all the time, if you have a tip,
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let us know. But there's no DNA. There's no audio. There's no fingerprints. There's no suspects. There's
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no accomplices. There's no tips. There is nothing. If you have it, I'm happy to see it. There's video
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clear as day. He's the only person in there, and the only person coming out. You can see it.
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Bongino stopping short of naming a specific date by which the footage would be released.
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Both Patel and Bongino slamming former FBI director James Comey for wading into politics
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by posting a picture on his social media of seashells arranged to resemble the numbers 86-47.
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86 being a common reference to killing and 47 a likely reference to President Trump.
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Comey denying across multiple media appearances promoting his new thriller novel that he had any
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idea that 86 could refer to killing, saying he just thought it meant canceling or removing
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something. In the wake of the incident, many Comey supporters posting similar 86-47 messages to their
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own social media. On Wednesday, Director Patel warning the trend is pulling FBI resources away from real
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threats. Do you know how many copycats we've had to investigate as a result of that beachside venture
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from the former director? Is that right? Do you know how many agents I've had to take offline from
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chasing down child sex predators, fentanyl traffickers, terrorists, because everywhere across
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this country people are popping up on social media and think that a threat to the life of the President
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of the United States is a joke and they can do it because he did it? That's what I'm having to deal
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with every single day. And that's what I'm having to pull my agents and analysts off because he thought
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it was funny to go out there and make a political statement. On Thursday, Deputy Director Bongino going
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a step further. Of all the things that have surprised me in the close to now three months I've been here
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is the depravity of Jim Comey. This man is a disgrace to the badge, the FBI and the country. We have wasted
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countless man hours now running out tips to our tip line about people putting 86-47 because of Jim Comey,
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because he cannot control himself and his emotions. He is a child. He is a big child.
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And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for The Megan Kelly Show,
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