Speaker 1: We're gonna get started with the latest on Seawan Diddy Combs,
Speaker 1: currently being held by the FEDS of waiting trial on
Speaker 1: sex trafficking and racketeering chargers. Today, Shawn Diddy Combs and
Speaker 1: his legal team will appear in court for his latest
Speaker 1: attempt to get out of federal custody on bail. At
Speaker 1: the time of this taping, there is no decision that
Speaker 1: has been made. I predict he gonna stay right where
Speaker 1: you at now. Maybe that's me stepping out front. I
Speaker 1: want to emphasize I'm not rooting for it. I don't
Speaker 1: know about his guilt or his innocence other than what
Speaker 1: he did on the court on video to his girlfriend
Speaker 1: Casi inventory that he beat up in a hotel hallway, Okay.
Speaker 1: Other than that, I know nothing about what is going
Speaker 1: on with Seawan Didny Combs. I'm not wishing the worst
Speaker 1: or the best for him. Let the evidence allow us
Speaker 1: to determine that. But we're gonna talk logically about what's
Speaker 1: transpiring with his situation. Right now, he's trying to get
Speaker 1: out on bail. This is like the third attempt where
Speaker 1: he's gonna try to do it. They've nixed it two
Speaker 1: other times. I'm predicting they're going to do it again.
Speaker 1: I know just recently they raided a cell and when
Speaker 1: they raided to sell and confiscated some material where he
Speaker 1: wrote some stuff down. The defense attorneys representing Diddy took
Speaker 1: it to the judge and obviously the judge overruled it
Speaker 1: and made sure that whatever they obtained was inadmissible and
Speaker 1: more importantly, probably have to be returned. Here's the deal.
Speaker 1: Those little victories, and they are victories because it curtails
Speaker 1: you from being able to use that evidence against him,
Speaker 1: still doesn't negate a bigger pointment to let him out
Speaker 1: on bail. You have to take into consideration the potential ramifications.
Speaker 1: You got to take into account why he's in jail
Speaker 1: in the first place. When you look at the Southern
Speaker 1: District of New York and the case that they've put
Speaker 1: forth against him with these bevy of allegations understanding, one
Speaker 1: of the things they were saying is that he would
Speaker 1: intimidate witnesses that if he's out of jail and he
Speaker 1: has access to a phone in his discretion, access to
Speaker 1: his people to his discretion, access to emails, access to
Speaker 1: iPads and laptops, and all of this other stuff that
Speaker 1: he could potentially influence potential witnesses. They're not going to
Speaker 1: let that happen to me. If he's granted bail and
Speaker 1: he's allowed to have that kind of access because he's
Speaker 1: a citizen that's roaming free, because he's let out of jail,
Speaker 1: that's going to drastically impede and hamper their case. And
Speaker 1: they're gonna do everything they can to make sure that
Speaker 1: that does not happen to me. If he's able to
Speaker 1: pull this off, he shouldn't have been there in the
Speaker 1: first place. They shouldn't have been allowed to get him
Speaker 1: in jail in the first place. The fact that they
Speaker 1: were allowed to combined with the fact that he was
Speaker 1: denied bailed not once, but twice, and these allegations continue
Speaker 1: to grow and grow and grow on talking about allegations,
Speaker 1: not evidence, not per se, but allegations. The fact that
Speaker 1: they continue to mount does not put him in the
Speaker 1: greatest situation at all. Now, y'all can decide whether you
Speaker 1: want him out or you don't. That's your opinion. Ain't
Speaker 1: gonna influence the courts, but you can decide. We can
Speaker 1: stand here right here on this show. Are we being
Speaker 1: fair to him. I think this show has been very
Speaker 1: fit to him. I think a lot of things have
Speaker 1: been going on. There's been no decision on the bail yet.
Speaker 1: There's been no decision. Let me be very very clear
Speaker 1: about that. So the judge ruled no decision will be
Speaker 1: made until next week. Okay, we're fine. We're fine with that.
Speaker 1: My question to y'all out there right here on the
Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith Show, should he be granted bail based
Speaker 1: on the accusations the Southern District of New York is
Speaker 1: levied against them. Homeland Security raided his homes in both
Speaker 1: Miami and Los Angeles. When they arrested them in New York,
Speaker 1: they knew he had come to town to turn himself in,
Speaker 1: they still showed up at the hotel wait for him
Speaker 1: to roll up in the hotel lobby before they sent
Speaker 1: the mountain cuffs. Well, a little purp walk to boot.
Speaker 1: They're not playing and they believe their case against them
Speaker 1: is pretty damn strong. We had both Eli Honick and
Speaker 1: Ryan Smith, seeing an in ESPN, respectively, legal analysts in
Speaker 1: their own right come right on this show and explain
Speaker 1: that there's a whole mountain of evidence against them, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't look very very good.
Speaker 2: He could still plead out, or he could potentially win
Speaker 2: the case, but it looks daunting to say the least,
Speaker 2: which means that they believe somewhere along the way there's
Speaker 2: an element, if not a bevy of truth attached to
Speaker 2: the litany of allegations that have.
Speaker 1: Been thrown upon him. Under those circumstances, do you all
Speaker 1: believe that Sean Diddy Coombes should be released on bail
Speaker 1: until his trial in the spring. Before you answer that
Speaker 1: question right on the Stephen A. Smith Show, I would
Speaker 1: ask this, do you believe that if he is granted bill,
Speaker 1: that he will do absolutely nothing to communicate with and
Speaker 1: potentially influence witnesses schedule to testify against him, Or do
Speaker 1: you think he'll just sit at home and chill and
Speaker 1: do nothing with his life on the line. I'm just asking.
Speaker 1: I'm just asking. It's a legitimate question. Take it into consideration.