What to know about the first days of the Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial

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🗓️ 13 May 2025

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The trial of Sean Combs, the media mogul known as Diddy, is underway. Claudia Rosenbaum, a freelance writer for Vulture who is covering the proceedings, joins us. Then, dozens of white South Africans landed outside of Washington on Monday after the Trump administration granted them refugee status. Journalist Kate Bartlett tells us why President Trump is welcoming them into the U.S. And, a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that fewer than half of Americans trust the government to respond to disease outbreaks, act independently, or ensure the safety of drugs and vaccines. For more on the state of public health, we speak to Dr. Katherine O'Brien, the director of the immunization, vaccines and biologicals department at the World Health Organization

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0:23.2	What he's effectively looking at, if he's found guilty, is the rest of his life behind bars.
0:28.3	The stakes for him could not be higher.
0:30.8	The sex trafficking trial of Sean Diddy Combs is underway in New York.
0:38.4	It's Tuesday, May 13th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR. I'm Chris Bentley.
1:01.7	Today on the show, the Trump administration largely stopped admitting migrants seeking asylum from wars,
1:06.4	but it is welcoming dozens of white South Africans as refugees.
1:13.7	A lot of South Africans, black and white, are simply incredulous, and a lot of people are quite hurt and angry.
1:22.0	Also, an official with the World Health Organization says Trump's withdrawal from the WHO is undermining global public health.
1:28.4	What I most worry about is that we're going to go backwards, that we're going to be in a sicker, more deadly world.
1:39.8	That's coming up at about 15 minutes. But first, Sean Combs, the media mogul known as Diddy,
1:46.9	is on trial facing federal charges of racketeering and sex trafficking. Today, his ex-girlfriend and the trial's star witness, Cassie Ventura, testified. Diddy is also fighting a mountain of
1:53.3	civil lawsuits alleging rape and sexual assault. Claudia Rosenbaum is covering the trial for
2:00.1	Vulture, and she told Usma Khalid,
2:02.4	Cassie Ventura's testimony comes a day after the jury watched video of Diddy beating her in a hotel
2:08.7	in 2016. Well, so far, yeah, Cassie is eight and a half months pregnant. Her husband is in the
2:15.3	courtroom watching her testify. And, you know, she's his
2:20.0	former girlfriend and she testified she met him when she was 19. And she was very much in love with
2:25.6	him at the time. He signed her to a 10 record deal. And she wanted to please him. She wanted, you know,
2:32.0	to make him happy. And one of the things that he wanted
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