Welcome to the global phenomenon, Surviving the Survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

Here's your host, Emmy Award winning journalist Joel Waldman.

Live from New York, it is Surviving the Survivor, the show that brings you the very best guests in all of true crime and no different tonight as we are here in lower Manhattan

covering the Sean Diddy Combs trial where the star government witness is his former girlfriend,

model and singer Cassandra Cassie Ventura. Now, I was coming back from Federal Court and all you hear is noise in New York City.

You hear sirens, police, fire, whatever pigeons, whatever noise they make.

You hear that too.

I had to walk through about 10,000 people.

There's a race down here.

But there's also plenty of noise in the federal courthouse,

every which way I turn. Someone's got an opinion about how this is going or which way it is going

to turn either in favor for the government or the defense. But really, it comes down to three

important things. So if you are removing the noise from all of this, it comes down to

force, fraud, coercion. Are we seeing that is the government able to prove that beyond a reasonable

doubt? Today, I have to say, was a good day for the defense. They cross-examined the star witness.

They had Cassie admit to some things and also brought up evidence that plays in the favor

of the defense. So without further ado, let me introduce the best guests today coming to us also

from New York City. He is a partner in the firm,

Tartner, Krinsky, and Drogan. He's also chair of the firm's litigation practice and a member

of the firm's executive committee. He's a trial lawyer who's handled civil disputes for more

than 30 years. And he's done so also in federal

court in New York City. Dr. Joni Johnston. You know her well. She's been on the show a lot of

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