Hey everyone, Andrea Canning here with a bonus drop from the Dateline True Crime Weekly team.

For the next eight weeks or so, we'll be bringing you daily updates from the trial of Sean Diddy Combs.

I'll be talking to NBC News correspondent Chloe Malas every day after court about what she's seeing inside,

the witnesses, the evidence, and what it all means.

Starting tomorrow, episodes will drop in the Dateline True Crime Weekly feed. This is On Trial, a special podcast from Dateline True

Crime Weekly, bringing you daily coverage from the Sean Combs trial. I'm Andrea Canning. Today is May 13th.

In this episode, we're going to be talking about some graphic details and harrowing subject

matter. Sean Combs is facing charges of racketeering, sex trafficking, and transportation

for the purposes of prostitution, all of which he has denied. The second day of testimony began with his defense team's vigorous cross-examination of a man

who says that he was paid to have sex with Combs' then-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura,

and that he also saw Combs behave violently toward Cassie.

Then, just after 11 a.m., the prosecution called Cassie Ventura herself. She is their

star witness, and NBC news correspondent Chloe Malas was in the courtroom when Cassie made her way to

the stand. She joins me now from just outside the courthouse to tell us what happened next.

She's eight months pregnant and walks into this courtroom wearing this fitted brown dress, this long brown overcoat.

Her husband was sitting right in front of me and you could hear a pin drop.

This has been the most anticipated testimony for over a year.

Before we get to Cassie's actual testimony,

let's talk about this other witness who started the day off.

He is the man who says that in 2012 and 2013,

he met Cassie and Sean Combs at hotels around New York City

and at both of their homes.

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