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🗓️ 21 June 2025
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0:00.0 | This is On Trial, a special series from Dateline True Crime Weekly, bringing you daily coverage from the Sean Combs racketeering trial. |
0:08.5 | He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him. I'm Andrea Canning, and it's Friday, June 20th. |
0:16.4 | Wednesday, court was canceled when one of the jurors got sick, and yesterday, court was dark for the |
0:21.4 | holiday. Today, the prosecution resumed its case calling Brendan Paul, another Combs assistant. |
0:28.0 | He was arrested last spring when federal agents raided Combs' Miami and L.A. properties. |
0:33.7 | Brendan is one of the last prosecution witnesses, so we have asked Celebr celebrity defense attorney Joe Tacapina to give us his assessment of the prosecution's case, how the defense has responded, and what to look out for as the defense takes over next week. |
0:48.5 | That's coming up. |
0:49.6 | But first, NBC News correspondent Chloe Malas was in the courthouse this morning for Brendan's very revealing testimony about Combs' day-to-day life in the past couple of years. |
1:01.5 | Hey, Chloe. |
1:03.1 | Hey, Andrea. |
1:04.3 | So, Chloe, when these raids happened last March, federal agents searched two of Sean Combs' homes, and they stopped him at a private airport in Miami. |
1:12.8 | What happened there? |
1:14.6 | So they went to go seize phones and other devices from Combs, his chief of staff, KK, and other employees. |
1:21.8 | And that's when they arrested Brendan Paul, who was one of Combs' assistants. |
1:26.3 | He had cocaine on him. So, Chloe, he testified that the cocaine |
1:30.1 | belonged to Combs? So yes, what we learned today during Brendan Paul's testimony is that he had found |
1:36.4 | some white powder in Combs's hotel room. And so he put it in his bag and then he went to the airport. |
1:42.9 | And he forgot, he says, that he had it on him and that when the feds showed up and they went through his bag, he testified that his stomach dropped when they found the drugs. |
1:54.1 | But he did not throw combs under the bus in that moment. He said, this all is mine. |
1:59.5 | Chloe, the seizure of the phones and devices you talked about, it's really important because |
2:04.4 | it's a big reason we've seen so many text messages and voicemails and emails in this case. |
2:10.4 | What was on Brendan Paul's phone that the prosecution particularly wanted to focus on? |
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