Later thanks so much for joining us today. The lead with Jake Pper starts right now combs in court facing horrendous her refik charges just moments ago, the lead starts right now once a celebrated Hip Hop mogul, now a criminal defendant, Sean Diddy combs, charged in a sweeping federal Sex Crimes case, accused of Sex Trafficking, forced labour, kidnapping even arson. After years of rumours and allegations and then civil lawsuits. Did the law finally catch up with him and a deadly coordinated attack nine people killed, reportedly nearly 3,000 injured were told when pagers exploded, pagers simultaneously detonated ones being held in the hands of members of the iranbacked Terrorist Group, has bola who could pull off such a coordinated attack and how less brand new details about the man the fbi says wanted to assassinate Donald Trump over the weekend, the new Search Warrant executed today while weve learned of explosives discovered in a prior arrest lead. Im Jake Tapper and leading this hour in our Law And Justice lead a Music Mogul Sean diddy combs, whose work is credited with growing Hip Hop was in court just moments ago. He has been charged today with Racketeering Conspiracy, Sex Trafficking by force fraud, coercion, and transportation to engage in prostitution. Each one of them is an extremely serious federal charge. The evidence laid out in a newly unsealed Indictment Today against the threetime Grammy Winner is disturbing prosecutors are alleging that for decades, Quote Combs engaged in a persistent and pervasive pattern of abuse toward women and other individuals. This abuse was at times verbal, emotional, physical, and sexual unquote. Combs allegedly quote manipulated women to participate in highly orchestrated performances of sexual activity with male commercial Sex Workers and quoted unquote and combs allegedly made these women do this by Quote Distributing narcotics to them, controlling their careers leveraging his financial support, and threatening to cut off the same and using violence on quote, this is just a sliver have what is in the skating 14 Page Indictment. Cnns Elizabeth Wagmeister brings us up to speed now on combs alleged crimes and an investigation that were told is still ongoing Sean Diddy combs arrested Monday Night in New York in taken into custody, charged with Racketeering Conspiracy Sex Trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution. The grand Jury Indictment charges the Music Mogul with running a criminal enterprise over decades between at least 2008 and the president combs abused, threatened, and coerce victims to fulfil his sexual desires protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct comes with seen dining out in manhattan before his arrest. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges but according to the u. S attorney, Prosecuting The Case combs allegedly planned and control the Sex Hormone says, which he called free gauffs and he often electronically recorded them, Hotel Surveillance Footage obtained exclusively by cnn back in may appears to corroborate some of the charges of abuse against the rapper. Now cited in the new indictment, the video captured on multiple cameras shows combs wearing only a towel, assaulting his then girlfriend, cassie i see ventura at a Los Angeles Hotel in march 2016, combs has repeatedly denied multiple allegations against him, saying that his accusers are looking for money, but he issued an apology only after the video came to light my behaviour on that video is inexcusable i take full responsibility for my actions in that video disgusted i was disgusted and when i did it, im disgusted now, his attorney responding to the charges, hes going to fight this with all of his energy and all his might and the full confidence of his lawyer and i expect a long battle with a good result for mr. Combs. Combs faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison. Men and could face life in prison if convicted in addition to the violence the indictment alleges that combs threatened and coerce victims to get them to participate in the Freak Offs he used the embarrassing and sensitive recordings he made of the Freak Offs as collateral against the victims. The criminal charges come as combs faces, ten civil lawsuits all filed over the last year nine of which accused him of sexual assault. He has previously denied the accusations of abuse. In march, authorities searched combs his homes in Los Angeles and miami as part of a months long federal investigation by a team that specialises in Human Trafficking crime that led to Todays Indictment. Statement among the items seized, firearms, including Three Ar 15s ammunition, more than 1,000 bottles of personal lubricants such as baby oil. In Video Evidence of Freak Offs, according to the indictment now, Jake Literally right now, as we are speaking, Combss Attorney is fighting for his freedom in a courtroom he could be in prison just moments from now, prosecutors say that not only is he a flight risk, but that he is a danger to society its it they say that he has been in touch with witnesses in recent days. Now, combss side, they say that hes not a flight risk, hes not a danger to society that he has been cooperating and heres a direct quote from his attorney, just moments ago, jake, he says, quote, the government never says anybody did then consent in the indictment. So again, fighting for his freedom, but we will see the result of that in just moments. All right, Elizabeth Wagmeister, thanks so much. Lets bring in criminal Defence Attorney Stacy schneider and stacy, you say Todays Indictment reads like a mob indictment. What was most shocking to you have all these allegations yeah, the fact, jake, that the government in this indictment presented evidence alleging that sean combs was running a criminal enterprise and they actually named it in the indictment. The combs enterprise. And they said that this Entered Surprise consisted of him as the alleged leader. His Employees Assistance Staff allegedly that were able to Procure Women and alleged male Sex Workers to engage in performances for his own Sexual Gratification where it differs from a mob indictment. It has all the elements of putting together this Racketeering Allegation of all these moving pieces using resources from his businesses. But the fact that this is about an allegation of Sexual Gratification being accomplished by alleged Human Trafficking. Its one of the most unique indictments ive ever seen in this area and the area of Sex Crimes because theyre not, the Government Isnt actually prosecuting the Sex Crimes other than the Human Trafficking or the Sex Trafficking theyre not prosecuting any type of alleged sexual abuse to woman women, although Thats Part of this racketeering scheme. But the actual charges are Racketeering Conspiracy, Sex Trafficking, and transporting individuals over State Lines to engage in prostitution the reasoning around all of this, his alleged motivation as presented in that indictment by the government is for his own personal gratification. And thats just the strangest type of indictment ive ever seen, but i agree with you this indictment reads its very disturbing. The facts presented are out of a very bad Hollywood Story and a lot of the evidence alleged evidence thats been gathered in this case was from those two raids that were conducted on his personal homes in miami and Los Angeles and the indictment names that things sees that that he allegedly made videos of these sexual performances that have been named Freak Offs. And theres seems to be a tonne of evidence allegedly tying this scheme together. So its an interesting way of prosecuting it. But i youre stand why they did it that way. So what did you make of what Elizabeth Wagmeister just reported and obviously, Sean Diddy combs and his attorneys arent going to theyre going to get their day in court. But the idea that the government in their characterization does not say that anybody did any of these things non consensually. What do you make of that . I make of that as being a big flaw already in the governments case, which the defence was quick to point out even if he was engaging in this alleged conduct there was no allegation or no statement in that indictment saying that any of these alleged victims or alleged witnesses willingly participated in some of these acts that people find offensive that are sound to be offensive. And thats a very important part of the case. What was the consent . But there are enough charges which is here where outside of what the alleged victims are going to say about how he was using the resources allegedly from his enterprises, his businesses, his wellknown bad boy entertainment, his Clothing Line resources, his Liquor Line resources. Allegedly, there were funds us from that resources to engage in this alleged Prosecutor Prostitution Activity across State Lines. And thats why its a federal case. Because its across straight lines. So there are some problems that are the defence has brought up originally, but it seems like just from reading this 14 Page Indictment that there is enough physical evidence to perhaps get a conviction in this case. We shall see these are allegations. So the office of the southern district of New York seems awfully confident about their ability to handle the Scope And Complexity of the case. But still, why do you think it took them so long for them to go after combs considering the alleged crimes have been going on for more than a decade my theory is that the government had an easy time putting together this final prosecution because of all the civil actions existing against sean combs, right now, the case with cas i see which which that video was shown, his former girlfriend where he was seen assaulting her. It looked like certainly that he was assaulting her on video i think the government and investigators were able to accumulate all this easy evidence that was just handed to them from the attorneys who prepared the civil cases that are now pending again, lets tim, i think things just started piling up and piling up. And eventually sean combs got to a place where his luck ran out and therefore, he was indicted and arraigned stacy schneider. Thanks so much. Appreciate it next to the deadly attacks across lebanon, pager devices in the hands of members of the iranian backed Group Hezbollah detonated at the same time, the blame for this attack is ahead, plus the new Statelevel Investigation launched to the apparent Assassination Attempt of former President Trump. Okay. Why a State Probe when a federal probe is already underway, well explain thank you have i got news for you saturday at nine on cnn trains painted fence. 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So the sheer volume of Emergency Vehicles could get to hospital nearly 3,000 patients, at least 170 critical easily, the most widespread moment of violence did across lebanons since the 2006 war with israel, who hezbollah is now firmly blaming for these new attacks on their Tv Channels allowed do while israel, we blame the israeli enemy with full responsibility and a Tv Anchor said that this criminal attack but also harm civilians israel themselves declined to claim the attack to blame. Perhaps these tiny devices, according to posts on Social Media, Cnn Cant verify the race now, to work out how was it just one type of device, a cyber attack, the Battery Bomb that they just hit hezbollah areas it comes at yet another critical time monday, israels Defence Minister hinted meeting the u. S. Envoy that the time for a diplomatic solution of how to get Tens Of Thousands of israelis home to the War Plague North but mostly past that a Military Option is all that remains the hope had been for calm after the death of Hezbollah Commander Fuad shukr also killed and a violation of Hezbollah Stronghold in Southern Beirut lead to great fury minimal fire with hezbollah as retaliation restrained, perhaps by preemptive israeli strikes. Many felt the moment of conflagration had passed. Now, it seems back again with hezbollah once more under pressure to hit back hard but only because another sophisticated he did attack has made them look weak and lebanese Security Source saying that these devices were purchased by hezbollah in recent months. So this suggests very extensive, lengthy operation here, and i should point out it does appear to have hurt some civilians as well. But the question is, why, why now is this a prelude to something larger . Whoever was behind this, have they sought to create utter chaos in hezbollahs ranks. Remember, theyre going to be members of that militant group onshore whos unharmed onshore, who they can ring safely. Now, to even think about some kind of retaliate is this a prelude to something larger or is the strength of that disruption now, violation of their most secure communications is that the message whoever was behind this wanted to send. And thats simply enough, jake, we have to see in the days ahead, alright, Cnns Nick Paton Walsh In London for us. Thank you so much. Next is disturbing explosive Device Length of the man whom authorities say wanted to kill former President Donald Trump. What Court Documents from a prior arrest reveal plus the state of political violence in this 2024 race, a former House Republican will join us to discuss next has come out reaction to the birth One On one episode was overwhelming. The most emotional scene they Decision Murphy may to not get an abortion. 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