Speaker 1: I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
Speaker 1: and everybody. You know, if you don't lie about that, right,
Speaker 1: la Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Laura L. Rosa and
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Speaker 1: We have officially started our holiday break from the Breakfast Club,
Speaker 1: so you guys are still going to be seeing content
Speaker 1: and all the good things, but we are on this break.
Speaker 1: I've been telling you guys how excited I was because
Speaker 1: I've never worked a job corporate, business wise, or especially
Speaker 1: entertainment where you know, you you actually get to enjoy
Speaker 1: the full break, the full week off there. I've never, ever,
Speaker 1: ever in my life worked a job like that, so
Speaker 1: it is very, very refreshing. We just have the time,
Speaker 1: although we are still working, and we'll get into that
Speaker 1: in the latest because literally right now as we speak,
Speaker 1: the jury in Sean comb Sean Diddy Combs's case is
Speaker 1: being briefed on how they are to go about their
Speaker 1: deliberations when they're about to make a decision for whether
Speaker 1: Diddy will be found guilty or not guilty and what
Speaker 1: he will be found guilty and not guilty of. So
Speaker 1: work is never ending, never stopping for us here at
Speaker 1: the Latest with Lon La Rosa. But it is very
Speaker 1: refreshing to be able to wake up around you know,
Speaker 1: seven to eight o'clock versus three four o'clock. So if
Speaker 1: I'm checking in behind the scenes of the Grind, if
Speaker 1: y'all can't tell or hear it in my voice, it's refreshed,
Speaker 1: you know. Again, as I was mentioning, as we're now
Speaker 1: going on into the Latest, because everywhere I go. I
Speaker 1: was out this weekend celebrating a friend's birthday, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people, even people who are not entertainment like enthusiasts,
Speaker 1: right like not people who sit and watch blogs and
Speaker 1: dot coms and entertainment news shows and nightly shows and
Speaker 1: all these things all the time, are very interested in
Speaker 1: what is about to happen in the case of showing
Speaker 1: ditty combs. Again, We've discussed it openly here about you know,
Speaker 1: there being such a tug award for some people because
Speaker 1: you know, people feel like he is on trial right
Speaker 1: now for what should be domestic violence, but instead he
Speaker 1: is facing a federal you know, case for sex trafficking
Speaker 1: and you know other things that I really feel like
Speaker 1: people do not really understand the charges. I think people
Speaker 1: don't understand the prosecutor's case. But I do think in
Speaker 1: being there and seeing how the prosecutors laid it out,
Speaker 1: I understand exactly what their case is. And I don't
Speaker 1: believe that Diddy is going to walk from this now.
Speaker 1: I do believe that, you know, some of the things
Speaker 1: that they have presented are not as strong as others,
Speaker 1: which is why we saw earlier in the week. Last
Speaker 1: week the government begin to step away from some theories
Speaker 1: because they wanted to make sure that what they were
Speaker 1: leaning in on was the strongest things that they had.
Speaker 1: So they wanted to get away from attempted anything because
Speaker 1: when you talk about attempt you didn't have to go
Speaker 1: into a tent intention. And Diddy's team for the longest
Speaker 1: was arguing that the intention like did that the government
Speaker 1: did not do a good job at proving that a
Speaker 1: lot of these acts and these things that they are
Speaker 1: claiming Diddy knowingly conspired with other people to do them.
Speaker 1: Intentionally to commit a crime. So there's been a really
Speaker 1: big conversation about what is gonna happen. I did NBC
Speaker 1: last Friday, NBC for New York and you guys can
Speaker 1: check that out on the NBSC for New York's YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: It is also on Peacock. We do a series called
Speaker 1: The Case, which is all about Sean Ditty Coombs's case,
Speaker 1: and you know, we just do a breakdown for the
Speaker 1: week and on and that's every Friday thing until the
Speaker 1: case is over. So this will be one of my
Speaker 1: last weeks doing it because there will potentially be a
Speaker 1: verdict this week. That is what's predicted. But one of
Speaker 1: the biggest things that they, you know, came out the
Speaker 1: gate swinging with on that show was what is everyone
Speaker 1: asking you right now? And when I go back to
Speaker 1: the weekend, I just had everyone wants to know what
Speaker 1: is about to happen? What do you think is going
Speaker 1: to happen? So let's get on into the latest, because
Speaker 1: you know, I love taking y'all to court. Let us
Speaker 1: take it is June thirtieth as we are speaking right now.
Speaker 1: The jury is being briefed by the judge in this case.
Speaker 1: And what that looks like is he's going through every count.
Speaker 1: He's going through everything that has been alleged of Diddy.
Speaker 1: We're going to actually go through the charges because again,
Speaker 1: I think at this point, because the stories and the
Speaker 1: testimonies have become so big, people forget the the actual charges.
Speaker 1: So Diddy is facing several federal charges. He's facing a
Speaker 1: racket tearing conspiracy. So prosecutors are basically saying that they're
Speaker 1: alleging that Diddy got together and used his businesses to
Speaker 1: function as like a criminal enterprise to engage in various
Speaker 1: sexual acts like sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, and a
Speaker 1: few other things. He's also facing a charge for sex
Speaker 1: trafficking by force, fraud, ack ortion, and then he's also
Speaker 1: facing a charge for allegedly transporting to engage in prostitution. Now,
Speaker 1: it's important to note that he has pled not guilty
Speaker 1: all of this time. Even when his team did their
Speaker 1: whole request and asked for Rule twenty nine, which was
Speaker 1: a dismissal of the charges because they feel like the
Speaker 1: government did not do their job approving beyond the shadow
Speaker 1: of a doubt that these things happened. They still in
Speaker 1: that request in the courtroom in front of the judge,
Speaker 1: not and from the jury, but in front of the judge,
Speaker 1: said that Diddy was just targeted by the government, that
Speaker 1: all of this, none of this happened, This was all targeting.
Speaker 1: This is just a man living his life and doing
Speaker 1: what he does sexually. And even the drugs were personal use.
Speaker 1: Like they went through a ton of things. But that
Speaker 1: last day on Friday that I was just in court
Speaker 1: prior to the during instruction, I think in the closing
Speaker 1: arguments number one, the closing arguments were a show. Okay.
Speaker 1: The closing arguments were when I tell y'all, they put
Speaker 1: on a show. They cut up in there. You know,
Speaker 1: you be out a show, neighbor, like you better go off,
Speaker 1: you cutting up in here. It was literally given that.
Speaker 1: So Mark Agnefilio, who was Diddy's lead defense attorney, baby,
Speaker 1: when I tell you he was reading those he was
Speaker 1: reading the girls for filth okay all, and it put
Speaker 1: a bad taste in a lot of you know, I
Speaker 1: was in one of the overflow rooms. It put a
Speaker 1: bad taste in the mouth of a lot of the
Speaker 1: people watching. So I you know, again the jury are
Speaker 1: regular people as well too, So I don't know how
Speaker 1: they're interpreting it. But if I'm just talking from just
Speaker 1: you know, people who are actually there and hearing it,
Speaker 1: people were like, what the hell is going on right now? Uh?
Speaker 1: He did everything but called them women. Uh, the women
Speaker 1: that decided to testify against Diddy. He did everything but
Speaker 1: called them a child of God. In his closing arguments,
Speaker 1: he made it very clear that they felt like these
Speaker 1: women were there because of their own personal gain. Uh.
Speaker 1: He made it very clear that, you know, Diddy and
Speaker 1: his team felt like these women wanted what happened to them,
Speaker 1: wanted these various sexual encounters. They made it very clear
Speaker 1: that the government was again they used the word targeting.
Speaker 1: He and Mark Agnifilio did. He's attorney actually got in
Speaker 1: trouble for this because he said that the government was
Speaker 1: targeting Sean Combs. And what he did was Mark Agnofilio
Speaker 1: laid out a bunch of missteps or what he called
Speaker 1: missteps in the procuring of evidence by that the prosecution presented.
Speaker 1: So he went back to the Homeland Security investigators their
Speaker 1: raid on Ditty's homes, right, and while they they were
Speaker 1: cross examining those investigators who actually, you know, executed the
Speaker 1: warrants at the homes in Miami, in LA and then
Speaker 1: also in Ddy's hotel room here in New York right
Speaker 1: before he was arrested. There were a few things that
Speaker 1: they pointed out that even when it was happening on
Speaker 1: the stand, I was in the actual courtroom for these testimonies.
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, how y'all mess up on that?
Speaker 1: So Mark Agnofilio pointed out the fact that that prosecutors
Speaker 1: put witness on the stand from Homeland Security investigator from
Speaker 1: Homeland Security. Mark Anifilio pointed out that did he that
Speaker 1: the government put investigators from Homeland Security on the stand
Speaker 1: who testify that there were guns that they included in
Speaker 1: their evidence. They didn't even have recorded where they pulled
Speaker 1: the guns from. There was, you know, various things in
Speaker 1: their warrant that they you know, documented that they received,
Speaker 1: but they couldn't even tell you where it was from.
Speaker 1: They didn't even picture it in the actual place before
Speaker 1: it was moved or taken or put around. And those
Speaker 1: small little things like that matter because the depending on
Speaker 1: where you find it at, you know, you're trying to
Speaker 1: if you're trying to point ownership of these drugs and
Speaker 1: these guns and the money and these different things that
Speaker 1: you guys are finding depending on where you find it at.
Speaker 1: You know, Diddy's team can argue, how do you even
Speaker 1: know that that is his? Like, for instance, a lot
Speaker 1: of the guns that they're having conversations about were found
Speaker 1: in a security house, but there was a lot of
Speaker 1: back and forth about where they were found and how
Speaker 1: they were found. Were they locked up, were they not
Speaker 1: locked up? And you couldn't indefinitely answer that because some
Speaker 1: of the agents were saying on the stand that they
Speaker 1: they couldn't tell you where they were originally found because
Speaker 1: where they were pictured and where they were document was
Speaker 1: not where they were found. So things like that, And
Speaker 1: then they pointed out a lot of inconsistencies in you know,
Speaker 1: just different testimonies from various people that took the stand,
Speaker 1: Don Rochard, Cassie, Jane Though and Mia, and their whole
Speaker 1: point was you're supposed to be able to trust the government,
Speaker 1: but you can't and here's why. And then they broke
Speaker 1: down all those things. And I thought that this was
Speaker 1: a very it was it was very subtle, but I
Speaker 1: was like, I see the point that they're driving here,
Speaker 1: and if the jury really believes this narrative, they're doing
Speaker 1: well at continuing to paint it. So after saying that
Speaker 1: did he was targeted by the government, after showing all
Speaker 1: these different missteps in evidence, according to Diddy's team, Right,
Speaker 1: Diddy's attorney Mark Agnofilio then comes in and he says,
Speaker 1: and then when they talk to you about the guns,
Speaker 1: they make it they talk to you about this angry
Speaker 1: man with these guns, but they can't even provide for
Speaker 1: you correct information on where or how the guns were found.
Speaker 1: And I'm in my mind like, okay, after you tell
Speaker 1: a jury, right that this man is being targeted because
Speaker 1: he's a black powerful man by the government and that
Speaker 1: they can't trust the government, and then you paint the
Speaker 1: picture of them painting Didd he as this angry black
Speaker 1: man who has all these guns and all this rage.
Speaker 1: Y'all know what argument he going for. Y'all know where
Speaker 1: he going with this. It's very much given, y'all Just
Speaker 1: do y'all. This is a takedown of the black man,
Speaker 1: and you're trying to make him out to be this angry,
Speaker 1: overly aggressive black man. Now here's a thing though, It's
Speaker 1: like it's hard to use that to his defense because
Speaker 1: you do have that Cassi tape, which the government has
Speaker 1: shown over and over and over again in this case.
Speaker 1: But Agniphilia got in a lot of trouble for that
Speaker 1: because the prosecution stood up to strike all of that conversation,
Speaker 1: and by striking it, they basically want the judge to
Speaker 1: come in and tell the jury you can't consider that
Speaker 1: when you make your decision, because before this trial started
Speaker 1: there was a conversation about that whole the government is
Speaker 1: not trustworth and they're just trying to take down a
Speaker 1: black man narrative. And it was ruled then that that
Speaker 1: wasn't allowed to enter into court unless there was substantial
Speaker 1: evidence that showed that. Mark Agnifilio argued that the missteps
Speaker 1: in the prosecutor's evidence that they presented, some of what
Speaker 1: I just mentioned to you guys was exactly that. But
Speaker 1: the judge ultimately, and he did a good job because
Speaker 1: he allowed you know, Mark in Afilio to present his
Speaker 1: side for Diddy, He allowed the government to get their
Speaker 1: side out. He took some time to actually consider it,
Speaker 1: like we literally sat in silence for a good five
Speaker 1: to ten minutes as he thought it through. Then when
Speaker 1: he came back and then he took a little second.
Speaker 1: Then we came back and he said he basically told
Speaker 1: Mark Agnefilio, you know you weren't supposed to do that.
Speaker 1: That was ruled before this even started. So I'm not
Speaker 1: going to allow that. So now I have to reinstruct
Speaker 1: the jury. And that's what he did. When the jury
Speaker 1: was brought back in. He told the jury, first thing,
Speaker 1: you are not allowed to consider that. That should not
Speaker 1: have been said to you. But here's my thing, and
Speaker 1: here's what I'm learning about watching this in real time.
Speaker 1: It's different when you reported on the case and you're
Speaker 1: not in the courtroom. But being in the courtroom, it's like,
Speaker 1: even if you strike that right from like wherever it's
Speaker 1: written down in the court records that are supposed to
Speaker 1: be stricken, you tell the jury that there's still human beings.
Speaker 1: They heard it. The narrative is now planted in their
Speaker 1: mind if they want to believe it. So I already
Speaker 1: know that Diddy's team, you threw that shot up on
Speaker 1: the board, and you didn't care about whether it landed
Speaker 1: or not. He didn't care about getting in trouble because
Speaker 1: once it's out there, it's out there. The government did
Speaker 1: a good job, though everyboddle to the defensive closing arguments
Speaker 1: by bringing Kony on. Comy is the lead prosecutor in
Speaker 1: this case, and she is amazing at closing argument. She
Speaker 1: didn't lead the closing arguments for the government the whole time,
Speaker 1: know and a lot of people were trying to figure
Speaker 1: out why because she's notoriously known for being really good
Speaker 1: at closing arguments. But when she came up, she did
Speaker 1: exactly what she needed to do. She had the durors laughing.
Speaker 1: A lot of things that she brought up was very
Speaker 1: like common sense. Like listen, they want to tell you
Speaker 1: that these women wanted what happened to them. Do you
Speaker 1: think a woman wants to be peed on by an escort?
Speaker 1: Do you think a woman wants to continue to have
Speaker 1: sex with a uti and being pain over and over
Speaker 1: and over again for hours. Do you think a woman
Speaker 1: wants to have her financial stability hung over her head
Speaker 1: to be beaten like the way she made it? So okay,
Speaker 1: they're saying all this, but if we just use our
Speaker 1: common sense here, what do y'all think? And she was
Speaker 1: very good at because these closing arguments in this whole case,
Speaker 1: it gets long, it gets drawn out, and that's where
Speaker 1: I think a lot of the confusion comes in, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, will come in for the jury because it's
Speaker 1: so much the government gives you so much information and
Speaker 1: so much testimony, and then you got to like streamline
Speaker 1: it at the end, and it's confusing. The letter about
Speaker 1: streamlining confused the world. People thought that Diddy had charges
Speaker 1: drop that he didn't. That was just the government making
Speaker 1: it clear, Okay, we've given you one hundred things, and
Speaker 1: now we're streamlining it and we're focusing on a strong
Speaker 1: four to five because this is what we need to
Speaker 1: make you understand exactly why we're here. But she did
Speaker 1: a really good job of taking you know, the full
Speaker 1: defense closing argument, and focusing on several key things and
Speaker 1: bringing them like when she landed the like she made
Speaker 1: it so matter of fact. So if we just use
Speaker 1: our common sense, we don't got to use all the
Speaker 1: court jargon, all the legalese terms. Let's just use our
Speaker 1: common sense as people here. And she used words like
Speaker 1: laughable and the jury was laughing. There were certain things
Speaker 1: that have Oh my god, y'all, she said, let me
Speaker 1: tell y'all, lowriders, listen, y'all know I love talking to
Speaker 1: you guys because I can talk to you guys like
Speaker 1: I'm talking to my friends, because y'all know we have
Speaker 1: a community here. So look, Comy says while she's in rebuttal,
Speaker 1: she says, look, they want to make it seem like,
Speaker 1: you know, this man didn't walk around with guns and
Speaker 1: he's a because they actually said Diddy's team said in
Speaker 1: their closing arguments, he's a hands to fist kind of guy.
Speaker 1: He's not walking around with guns. He has security for that.
Speaker 1: She said, Yeah, he's a hands to fist kind of guy,
Speaker 1: but only with the women in his life. When I
Speaker 1: tell y'all, all of us were like, ooh, clocked it.
Speaker 1: Like she did an amazing job. She brought it home.
Speaker 1: So right now, the judge, it's been happening for hours.
Speaker 1: It's been happening for about three hours of the judge
Speaker 1: going through all of the here's the rules, here's exactly
Speaker 1: what he's been charged with, here's exactly what you need
Speaker 1: to consider, here's your instruction, and here's this here's how
Speaker 1: this is going to go. So at this point, we
Speaker 1: are officially on we're on verdict watch. So what I
Speaker 1: plan to do is is just be in the area
Speaker 1: of the courthouse this week until that verdict comes in.
Speaker 1: I will be in and out of the courthouse because
Speaker 1: a lot of it you're just sitting there. But I
Speaker 1: do want to be in the area just in case
Speaker 1: the verdict comes down. I'm able to get there easily,
Speaker 1: getting in that the courtroom, like the actual courtroom itself,
Speaker 1: this week is going to be so challenging because people
Speaker 1: are literally lining up the night before and I ain't
Speaker 1: sleeping outside of no courthouse not happening. Uh uh, that
Speaker 1: do not go on my outfit. But I will bring
Speaker 1: you guys as much as I can. But all of
Speaker 1: this conversation and all the hype around this, and the
Speaker 1: fluctuating of people care, and you know, at one point
Speaker 1: courthouse is packed, and then the next week no one's
Speaker 1: even there, and then the next like if you've been
Speaker 1: there every day and every week, I've really been able
Speaker 1: to see how people only care about certain things at
Speaker 1: certain points. And it's made me think, after this ruling
Speaker 1: comes down, right, no matter whether Diddy is going to
Speaker 1: walk free, which again I don't believe will happen, or
Speaker 1: if he will be spending time in jail, what does
Speaker 1: this look like now? Like, what's next? Is this the
Speaker 1: end of Diddy's like media storm? Do people care after this?
Speaker 1: I really want to know what you guys think, because
Speaker 1: I was thinking about it right like, this is ending
Speaker 1: for him, right court is about to end for Diddy.
Speaker 1: He will get the verdict and we will have to
Speaker 1: see what happens next. But at the same time, there
Speaker 1: are so many other things beginning for other people. The
Speaker 1: world is still going on. Jeff Bezos got married this
Speaker 1: weekend in Venice and fifty million dollar wedding. Right in
Speaker 1: the world is out here protesting about it, like people
Speaker 1: are moving on from things they are right now. People
Speaker 1: care because they want to know the verdict. But when
Speaker 1: people move on, what does that look like? And when
Speaker 1: I say fifty million dollars for Jeff Bezos, I mean
Speaker 1: fifty million dollar wedding for Jeff Bezos. I mean the
Speaker 1: people popped out. You had Kim Kardashianior, Chloe Kylie, Chris
Speaker 1: Jenner and her boyfriend Corey Gamble, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: Orlando Bloom minus Katy Perr because y'all know they're not
Speaker 1: together anymore. Ivanka Trump, Like there were so many people
Speaker 1: there at one point, it felt like the world was
Speaker 1: stopping for this Diddy trial. That doesn't feel like that
Speaker 1: anymore at all. People are literally out here protesting this
Speaker 1: fifty million dollar wedding. They don't, they're not, they don't.
Speaker 1: The free people don't care anymore as much. I want
Speaker 1: to know, what do you guys think happens next? Will
Speaker 1: people still stay invested in Sean Diddy Combs and what
Speaker 1: happens next for him? Or will they not? We're on
Speaker 1: verdict watch. I will keep you guys updated every single day.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be getting some content from outside of the
Speaker 1: courthouse as well too, and you know, just getting out
Speaker 1: there on the streets and seeing how people feel and
Speaker 1: what they're caring about if they didn't care anymore at
Speaker 1: this point, I'm Laurence Rosa. This is the Latest with
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