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Speaker 1: Hey, they're folks. It is Thursday, July seventeenth, and the

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Speaker 1: lead prosecutor who brought the case against Sean Ditty Combs

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Speaker 1: to do with the fact that she essentially lost that case.

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Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes

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Speaker 1: have been We followed that case so closely, the Ditty trial.

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Speaker 1: We wake up, see the headlines Marine Komi has been fired,

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Speaker 1: so we automatically obviously she's been top of mind for

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Speaker 1: three months now with this case. But it has nothing

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Speaker 2: They're arguing, right, Well, it's funny because obviously that's where

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Speaker 2: we've heard her name most recently, most often. And yes,

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Speaker 2: Diddy was acquitted of the most serious charges. So my mind,

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Speaker 2: fresh on top of my mind, was that she must

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Speaker 2: have been fired because of that. But when you look

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Speaker 2: at the headlines every single news outlet, they don't even

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Speaker 2: mention Didty. In the headlines they mentioned her father, who

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Speaker 2: I actually, I'm going to admit I did not know.

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Speaker 2: But now it makes a lot of sense that the

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Speaker 2: former FBI director James Comy is her father. Yes, that

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Speaker 2: same former FBI director who Trump cannot stand and who

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Speaker 2: cannot stand Trump. Do you think, well, maybe just you know,

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Speaker 2: a few writings in the sand might have just illustrated

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Speaker 2: perhaps we can get into that there beef that has continued,

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Speaker 2: and now he's actually being investigated, So we digress. But yes,

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Speaker 2: the Epstein, the Epstein case. She was a lead prosecutor

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Speaker 2: in the Jeffrey Epstein case and the Gallaine Maxwell case.

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Speaker 1: And she won the Glaine Maxwell case. We don't know

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Speaker 1: what would have happened with Epstein. Of course, he died

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Speaker 1: in prison by suicide, but the did He trial?

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Speaker 3: Did he?

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Speaker 2: Though? Did he?

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Speaker 1: I'm kidding, don't you start that stuff now?

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Speaker 3: Sorry, I was just turning the pot. Sturn the pot.

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Speaker 1: They said he died by suicide. Okay, but the did

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Speaker 1: He trial? This was a stinging defeat for that office,

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Speaker 1: very high profile loss for them. Loss meaning he got

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Speaker 1: They looked bad. So when you think, like wow, it

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Speaker 1: almost made sense. Take away the Glain Maxwell, excuse me,

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Speaker 1: take away the Epstein and the Komi stuff. But her Dad,

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Speaker 1: is that it's not supposed to be a fireable offense

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Speaker 2: Well, yes, I mean, if you're a prosecutor and you

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Speaker 2: have to fear losing your job each and every time

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Speaker 2: you lose a case, that would be an untenable position

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Speaker 2: to hold because you'd be in constant worry and under

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Speaker 3: So that can't be the case.

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Speaker 2: Also, of note, which was confusing when we first heard

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Speaker 2: a lot of work to be done in the prosecutor's office.

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Speaker 3: This case is not over.

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Speaker 2: Sentencing still has to take place, and then of course

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Speaker 2: there is going to be an appeal. So why not

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Speaker 2: have your prosecutor, you're one of your lead prosecutors, who

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Speaker 2: knows the case backwards and forwards, continue to see it through,

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Speaker 2: appeals that are absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Sure to come.

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Speaker 1: We know as recently as a couple I mean, who

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Speaker 1: knows how many days it's been, as of a couple

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Speaker 1: paperwork having to do with ditty. She was very much

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Speaker 1: Now what that does to that case, I don't know

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Speaker 1: what impact that could have. But for us to have

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Speaker 1: that the person who has been leading this charge and

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Speaker 1: But all of that said, so, I don't see anywhere

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Speaker 2: No. In fact, I haven't seen one or heard one

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Speaker 3: It was not at the top.

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Speaker 2: imply so there was a memo, according to sources, that

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Speaker 2: she was being dismissed pursuant to Article two of the

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Speaker 2: US Constitution. Article two of the US Constitution is the

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Speaker 2: portion of the Constitution that lays out the president's powers.

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Speaker 2: So one could infer people have been inferring that perhaps

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Speaker 2: this goes all the way up to President Trump.

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Speaker 1: And look, the President has been on a firing spree

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Speaker 1: because so many the folks there was named Jack Smith,

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Speaker 1: Justice Department. However, who this woman is, Maureen Comy. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you maybe only got to know her because of the

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Speaker 1: Diddy trial, But folks, we assure you this woman is

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Speaker 1: a stud in that office. She is a top prosecutor.

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Speaker 1: You don't get plucked and selected to try Diddy to

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Speaker 1: try Epstein and to try Gallaine Maxwell. If you don't

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Speaker 1: know what you're doing. She got those rolls. Those she

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Speaker 1: knows what she's doing, and they have a stellar record,

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Speaker 1: they say, winning record at the Southern District where she works.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, for ten years she's been working there. Harvard

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Speaker 2: Law graduate, obviously knows what she's doing. Comes from a

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Speaker 2: family who is very well entrenched in politics and big

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Speaker 1: This is a capable lady. Yes, this is a very

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Speaker 2: She was up there longer than Cassi, even Toura fine

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Speaker 1: So she handled some of that questioning and Rose is

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Speaker 1: not I mean, I don't want to say they put

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Speaker 1: deliberations Maureen Comy, because she handled the closing rebuttal. She

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Speaker 2: She actually took on a little bit of the snark

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Speaker 2: that we saw from the defense team, because yes, Mark Agnifhillo, Yes,

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Speaker 2: nailed his name finally after weeks and weeks of saying it.

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Speaker 1: Who's the guy that plays with Oklahoma City.

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Speaker 3: Thunder Shae.

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Speaker 2: Shae something with gorgeous Shay.

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Speaker 1: I can't sorry for the folks, but if you've kept

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Speaker 1: up with us, Robes has been working all season on

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Speaker 1: Shay Gildos Alexander Alexander.

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Speaker 2: I just won the tongue yet, No, I got Shay

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Speaker 2: right because I was calling him shy first, So Shae

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Speaker 2: gilgis Alexander. But yes, we digress talking about Mark agn

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Speaker 2: So anyway, Mark Agnifillo in his closing arguments, if you remember,

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Speaker 3: She came up.

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Speaker 3: So she knew what to do and she brought it home.

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Speaker 2: They always say you save your best for last right,

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Speaker 2: so she yes, she was the final voice of the

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Speaker 1: And here we are. I don't think anyone was calling

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Speaker 1: for dating. Nobody was saying that. However, people have Rob's

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Speaker 1: been calling for her to be fired for a different reason,

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Speaker 1: and that is because she handled the Jeffrey Epstein case.

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Speaker 1: She just happens to be tied up now in what

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Speaker 1: So they're saying her connection to Epstein is one of

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Speaker 2: So earlier this week, Politico actually referenced her in their

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Speaker 2: They believe there's a cover up. They believe that he

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Speaker 2: by suicide. But Maureen Comy had argued and has argued

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Speaker 2: the court but are sealed documents. Of course, the MAGA

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Speaker 2: believe there's a lot of information in there, and of

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Speaker 2: course there is a lot of information in there that

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Speaker 2: should be private. We're talking about sexual assault victims, we're

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Speaker 2: So that is standard operating procedure. It's not about some

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Speaker 2: what's inside these cases. They're actually trying to protect victims.

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Speaker 2: And so they also said also of note, and why

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Speaker 2: she another reason why she might not want any of

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Speaker 2: these records being released is because Galainne Maxwell is likely

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Speaker 1: Everything you said makes sense from a prosecutor standpoint, that's

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Speaker 1: going to impact my case. If I release all these

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Speaker 1: documents unseal them. That actually makes sense. Nobody's going to

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Speaker 1: buy that. No, No, okay, I say conspiracy theorists. They

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Speaker 1: call themselves truth seekers, fine, and nobody is ever going

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Speaker 1: to believe. I really do think you could open the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we have to say that as of this recording,

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Speaker 2: And it only got worse back in May when her father,

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Speaker 2: Still he Trump, and he's arranging seashells. And he didn't

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Speaker 1: Did he say that he found him the way he said?

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Speaker 2: He just he was just saying, I want look what

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Speaker 2: But still, I mean, we all know he put those

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Speaker 2: The eighty six something is to kill something and forty seven,

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Speaker 3: So, yes, he is currently under investigation by the Trump

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Speaker 3: Now his daughter just got fired.

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Speaker 1: He said it was mad, that was med. So that

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Speaker 1: What are we These two don't like each Other's what

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Speaker 1: And we all know he's not funny. I'm sorry, I

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Speaker 3: So you know, we shall see.

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Speaker 2: I'll be curious to see if the defense, if anyone

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Speaker 2: may mean for the ditty trial going forward, but we

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Speaker 2: will of course continue to cover all the ins and

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Speaker 2: outs leading up to sentencing and beyond, So thank you

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Speaker 2: for listening to us. As always, I'm Amy roboch On,

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Speaker 2: behalf of my partner t J. Holmes.

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Speaker 3: Have a great day, everybody,