This is On Trial, a special series from Dateline True Crime Weekly, bringing you daily coverage from the Sean Combs racketeering trial.

He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him. I'm Andrea Canning, and it's Tuesday, June 24th.

Just a heads up, in this episode, we're going to be talking about some graphic details and harrowing subject matter.

Today, at 1.30, after calling 34 witnesses over six weeks, federal prosecutors rested their case.

After that, the defense put on their case. It took them only a half an hour. They called no witnesses.

What the defense did do is argue something called

Rule 29, which is pretty common in federal trials. They asked the judge to dismiss the case

on the grounds that the prosecution's evidence isn't strong enough to merit a conviction.

NBC news correspondent Chloe Malas was in the courthouse for all the back and forth. And again, rather than stand on the sidewalk and a heat wave, she is in an air-conditioned office to give us the latest. Hey, Chloe.

Hey, Andrea. That is right. The sweat is a real thing. It's like 100 degrees in New York City. So I'm very glad you are inside. Absolutely. Chloe, this morning,

the defense continued to cross-examine the prosecution's last witness, the Homeland Security

agent we told you about yesterday. During this cross-examination, the defense pulled up more texts

between Jane, pseudonym Jane, and Sean Combs. How are these different from the texts that

we've already seen? The defense is now shifted from pointing out Jane's actions, right, that she

initiated some of these hotel nights, that she was affectionate with some of the escorts,

that she handled some of the logistics for their travel. Instead, they're

asking the jury to look at Combs' state of mind, right? Because if someone is telling you,

I love you, I had such a great night, but that's not really how they're feeling. Well, I'm not a

mind reader. So how did I know you didn't want to do those things? How could I know you were upset

if you didn't tell me? And that is something that we've heard a little bit during cross-examination,

but really today, the defense, they were trying to hammer that point home. We should remind

everyone, Jane is Combs' former girlfriend. That's right. And the argument is that Jane was so positive about the sex that they were having at these hotel nights,

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